Since the invasion by NATO and American troops, life in Afghanistan has become intolerable, particularly for women. The rhetoric given at the time to explain the invasion was the ‘liberation of women’ and ‘the establishment of a democratic, socially improved Afghanistan’. But seven years down the track, lack of security, poverty, an ever increasing number of civilian deaths and injuries caused by both insurgent and western forces and the rise of corrupt and powerful warlords is commonplace. For women and girls, life is hardest. Early forced marriage, rape, the increasing number of destitute widows, common and extreme domestic violence and stark gender inequality, are part of everyday life.
To be delivered by Najia, from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), www.rawa.org.
W710 (ECPS Library) 7th Floor, Menzies Building Clayton Campus Monash University Victoria3800 Australia
Matthew Ryan lectures in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. His publications include Imagining the Future (2006) and Demanding the Impossible (2008). He is an editor of Arena Magazine.
W710 (ECPS Library) 7th Floor, Menzies Building Clayton Campus Monash University Victoria3800 Australia
Research Seminar: Future Narrative: Interactivity, computer games and the authorship of fantasy.
Chris Worth is Director of the Centre. His publications include Postmodern Conditions (1990), Discourse and Difference (1990) and Literature and Opposition (1994).
W710 (ECPS Library) 7th Floor, Menzies Building Clayton Campus Monash University Victoria3800 Australia
Gloria Davies is Associate Professor in Chinese. Her publications include Voicing Concerns (2001), Globalization in the Asian Region (2004), Worrying About China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (2007) and Profiles in Courage (2008).
The first presentation under the “Portraits of Self and Other” rubric will be delivered by Teresa Tufano on Italian filmmaker Alina Marazzi, whose remarkable collage/archive/essay films imaginatively explore the traces of the feminist generation of the director’s mother. Do not miss this opportunity to be introduced to an extremely important and too-little-known contemporary filmmaker’s work!
W710 (ECPS Library) 7th Floor, Menzies Building Clayton Campus Monash University Victoria3800 Australia
‘Come Forth Into The Light Of Things’: Material Spirit And Negative Ecopoetics
Kate Rigby is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature. Her publications include Out of the Shadows: Contemporary German Feminist Theory (1996), Transgressions of the Feminine (1996) and Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004).
