Camouflage by Chandragupta Thenuwera

The Faculty of Education, in partnership with the Department of Women’s Studies and the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, is sponsoring a unique colloquium series titled “Women, War and Peace”, situated in the armed conflict in Sri Lanka. Organized by the Education Graduate Students’ Association the series features eminent South-Asian feminist scholar Dr. Neloufer de Mel, who will give two talks, one on peace pedagogy, and the other on the female suicide bomber. She will also screen a short documentary film, Women by the Sea, on the impact of the catastrophic 2004 tsunami for women in the affected areas.

Dr. de Mel is professor of English, and a faculty member of the postgraduate program in Women’s Studies at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is currently a Ford Global Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Yale University.

Colloquium Series:

Monday, November 20, 2006 – Images Theatre at 4:30 pm
Allegorical Futures: The Politics of Childhood and Peace Pedagogy in the Butterfly Peace Garden, Batticoloa and Women by the Sea (short documentary film).

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 – Maggie Benston 2290/2292 at 3:30 pm
Figure of Speech: The Female Suicide Bomber, Censorship and the Performativities of Security.

For more information, please refer to the abstract.

Click here to see the event poster.

For more information, contact Kumari Beck at kumari_beck@telus.net.