Israeli anthropologist, professor and author, Smadar Lavie has written and spoken widely about Middle-Eastern politics, feminism and society.  Her books include The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity (1990), Creativity/Anthropology (1993), and Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity (1996).  She earned both her Ph.D and M.A. from the University of California,Berkeley and has held teaching positions at  Diablo Valley College, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Davis, the School of Media Studies, Sapir College of Negev, and between 2001-2007 she was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Social Science Division at Beit Berl Teacher's College.   

Lavie will be visiting the College during the week of October 14-17, 2008.

Tuesday, Oct. 14
"Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine"
4pm; McDermott Conference Room, Donahue Building
Co-sponsored by the Women & Gender Studies Program & the Government Department.
41 Temple Street,
Boston, MA 02114

Wednesday, Oct. 15
"Crossing the Israel/Palestine Border ith Gloria Anzaldua"
5:30pm; Ridgeway 400
148 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114

Thursday, Oct. 16
"Lebanon 2, the One State Solution for Palestine/Israel and the Mizrahi Predicament"
1:00pm; Fenton 615
32 Derne Street
Boston, MA