{"id":1120,"date":"2018-10-01T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T02:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:54:14","slug":"1014-2","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/events\/1014-2\/","title":{"rendered":"14 OCT, Symposium \u201cArab Women and Transgression\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>International Symposium \u201cArab Women and Transgression: At the Boundary of Good and Bad\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date: Sunday, 14 October 2018 13:00-16:30
\nVenue: Room 304, Inter-Faculty Building 1, Ochanomizu University<\/a>
\nCoordinator: Jan Bardsley (Specially Appointed Professor, IGS\/Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. How do both intentional and unintentional transgressions illuminate the social and cultural constructs that define proper and improper behavior? How do they expose the social and political policing of gender, racial, and class divisions?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new book Bad Girls of the Arab World<\/em> engages these questions by examining the experiences of women from a range of ages, classes, and educational backgrounds who live in the Arab world and beyond. The book demonstrates that women\u2019s transgression is both an agent and a symptom of change, a site of both resistance and repression. Showing how transnational forces as well as the legacy of colonialism shape women\u2019s badness, Bad Girls of the Arab World<\/em> offers a rich portrait of women\u2019s varied experiences at the boundaries of propriety in the twenty-first century.\u00a0 At their presentations to the IGS Symposium Bad Girls of the Arab World co-editor Nadia Yaqub and contributor Diya Abdo continue this discussion, exploring the politics of women’s transgression, identity, and belonging in the Arab world and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Introductory Remarks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jan Bardsley<\/strong> (Specially Appointed Professor, IGS\/Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
\n“Bad Girls of Japan: Badness and Leadership”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Research Report<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

Nadia Yaqub<\/strong> (Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
\n“Bad Girls of the Arab World”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Diya Abdo<\/strong> (Associate Professor, Guilford College)
\n“Navigating love and badness in America and the Arab world: The Dilemma of the Cultural Transgressor”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Commentary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Yoko Totani<\/strong> (Professor, Ochanomizu University)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Simultaneous interpretation available (English-Japanese)
\nPrior registration required Registration\u00a0Form
\nAdmission Free
\nPost-symposium get-together: 16:30-17:30<\/p>\n

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Research Report Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBad Girls of the Arab World\u201d (Nadia Yaqub)<\/strong>
\nMy talk will focus on concepts that structure the book Bad Girls of the Arab World<\/em> that I edited with the late Dr. Rula Quawas, and the various approaches that our contributors have taken to those concepts. I will explain why we chose to focus on transgression, how transgression differs from resistance, and what insights can be achieved through a multi-disciplinary approach to transgression.\u00a0 I conclude by considering the implications of transgression: How does transgression alter the intimate social connections created and sustained by women’s traditional work?\u00a0 How do women’s care for the home, nurturing of people, and collective food rituals offer creative modes for resistance? While such work is fundamental to social relations and cultural transmission, it is always also fraught, encompassing coercion and constraint as well as love and connection. It is also a site of continued, if at times almost invisible, transgression.<\/p>\n

\u201cNavigating Love and Badness in America and the Arab World: The Dilemma of the Cultural Transgressor\u201d (Diya Abdo)<\/strong>
\nIn this creative nonfiction\/memoir piece, I detail my experiences in the U.S. and in Jordan as a western-trained academic who found it difficult to feel at home in either a post 9\/11 America or conservative Jordanian institutions. These two different contexts\u2019 various and competing expectations of Arab and Muslim women scholars and activists meant that I had to walk a constant tightrope lest I be considered anti-Arab and anti-Muslim in Jordan or anti-woman in the U.S. Even as I attempted to strategically navigate my feminism with my nationalism, my womanhood with my Arabness, my feminist longings with my postcolonial condition, it was impossible to be deemed \u201cgood\u201d in either location. This led to painful exile and erasure. Through my experiences with my students, my children and the refugees I support through my program Every Campus A Refuge<\/em>, I have found ways to make a home between cultures and to engage in these struggles in productive and meaningful ways.<\/p>\n

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Organizer: Institute for Gender Studies (IGS), Ochanomizu University<\/p>\n

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