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Books:
Moghadam, Valentine M. Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
Articles:
McBride, William L. "Taking a Distance: Exploring Some Points of Divergence between Beauvoir and Sartre," pp. 189-202 in Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence, eds. Christine Daigle and Jacob Golomb, IU Press, 2009.
Moghadam, Valentine M. “The Status of Women”, pp. 514-21 in Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic, Vol. II, eds. Mehran Kamrava and Manochehr Dorraj (Greenwood Press, 2009).
—-. “Where Are Iran’s Working Women?” Middle East Institute, Viewpoints: Special Issue on the Iranian Revolution at 30, January 2009. www.mideasti.org/
Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures:
Decker, Alicia. "Intimate Nationalisms: Musings on the Five Wives of Idi Amin," African Studies Association 51st Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2008
—-. "Survival on the Frontlines: Women as Warriors in Idi Amin's 'Economic War,'" Labor Crossings: World, Work, and History Conference, University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), September 2008.
Moghadam, Valentine M. “States and Social Rights: Negotiating Women’s Economic Citizenship in the Maghreb.” Yale University, 30 Jan. – 1 Feb. 2009. Part of World Bank/Yale University project on Social Transformation and Governance: Africa and the Middle East.
Moghadam, Valentine M. “Between Globalization and Family Law: Women and Economic Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa.” Seminar on “The Global Middle East: Islam, Capitalism, and the Global Economy”, Feb. 20-21, 2009, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
—-. “From Islamic Revolution to Feminist Transformation? The Past and Future of Revolution in Iran.” Conference on The Past and Futures(s) of Revolution, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, 12 March 2009.
—-. “Comparing Women’s Movements in Iran and Morocco”, Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture, Northeastern University, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology and International Studies Program, 16-17 March 2008.
—-. “Women and Extreme Violence”, annual meetings of the French Sociological Association, Paris, panel on the sociology of violence, 16 April 2009.
Patton, Venetria K. "The Child Figure as a Means to Ancestral Knowledge in Daughters of the Dust" the National Council for Black Studies Conference, March 2009.
Other News:
Dr. Anne Fliotsos' book, American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century (U of Illinois P, 2008) was named a Choice Oustanding Academic Title.
Dr. Farris also worked as a consultant for the National Museum of the American Indian's traveling exhibit, "IndiVisible: African-Native Shared Heritages". Her essay, "Red, Black and Brown: Artists and the Aesthetics of Race" focused on the lives and works of five women artists of mixed heritage.