Feminism, Islam and Humanism: Reflections on the Post-Secular Turn in Feminist Theory
Thursday, December 4, 2014, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Women and Gender Studies Assistant Professor Evren Savci discusses post-secular changes in feminist theory. Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, Room 108
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Sponsor:
Women and Gender Studies Department
Contact:
Women and Gender Studies Department
Phone:
415-338-1388
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Savcı completed her Ph.D. at University of Southern California in sociology and gender studies in 2011. She joined SF State in 2013 after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Sexualities Project at Northwestern University. Her areas of interest include gender; sexualities; queer, feminist and social theory; globalization and transnationality; cultural sociology and epistemology. Savcı’s book, Queer in Translation: Paradoxes of Westernization and Sexual Others in the Turkish Nation, traces the travel and translation of Western concepts that surround discourses on non-normative genders and sexualities such as gender identity, sexual orientation, hate crimes and LGBT rights to the context of contemporary Turkey.