Upcoming Event: Weaponizing Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones ( a discussion by Dr. Nada Elia and Dr. Tina Beyene)

On behalf of the Departments of Sociology, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Political Science, Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literature, and the Global Middle East Studies Program invites you and your students are invited to a talk by Western Washington University Associate Professor Dr. Nada Elias and CSUN Assistant Professor Dr. Tina Beyene, titled: Weaponizing Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones on March 20th, 11am-12:30pm @ AS-119.

What: Weaponizing Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones (a talk by Dr. Nada Elias and Dr. Tina Beyene)

When: March 20th 11am-12:30pm

Where: AS-119/ CSULB

Dr. Nada Elia is a Visiting Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Western Washington University, where she is also affiliated with the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. A scholar activist, she served on the steering collectives of AWSA, RAWAN (Radical Arab Women’s Activist Network), INCITE! Feminists of Color Against Violence, and is currently on the Coordinating Committee of the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Nada is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine (Pluto 2023) and is currently working on “Falastinuyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms,” forthcoming from Verso in 2025.

Dr. Tina Beyene is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at California State University, Northridge. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of transnational feminism; gender and conflict zones; African feminist movements; and imperial foreign policy. She was a former publisher and editor at South End Press, a progressive publishing collective based on a participatory economics model, where she worked on topics such as the global water rights; advanced capitalism and inequality; the prison industrial complex.