RECENT PRESENTATIONS



2006 Invited Paper: “Reading the Qur’an in Bangladesh: ‘Belief’ and ‘Hypocrisy’ among Islamic Activist Women in Bangladesh,” at the panel “Islamic and Politics,” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (San Jose, CA), November 15-18.

2006 Research Workshop Paper: “The Politics of Subject Formation among Islamic Activist Women in Bangladesh,” International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University (New York, NY), December 2.

2006 Lecture: “Pursuing Peace in Both Worlds: Women’s Islamic Activism in Bangladesh,” Co-Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Center for South Asia Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), October 13.

2006 Invited Paper: “Cultivating and Contesting Piety in Bangladesh: The Polyphony of Religious Commitment among Islamic Activist Women” at the conference “Ink and Blood: Textuality and the Human in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,” Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), July 9-11.

2006 Lecture: “The Everyday of Women’s Islamic Activism in Bangladesh,” Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Islamic Cultural Studies Program, The University of South Carolina, January 12.

2005 Lecture: “Religiosity, Empowerment, and Romance among Islamist Women in Bangladesh,” Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Baruch College (New York, NY), December 14.

2005 Invited Presentation: “Feminist Scholarship in Islamic Studies: The Case of Islamic Movements” at the International Summer Institute “Gendered Intersections: Feminist Scholarship in Islamic and Judaic Studies,” Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), August 7-10.

2005 Invited Paper: “The Spatial Production of a Women’s Islamic Vanguard in Bangladesh,” Workshop “Islamic Reform Movements in South Asia,” School of Oriental and African Studies (London, UK), May 26-27.

2005 Lecture: “In the Pursuit of a ‘Good Life’: Piety and Subjectivity among Islamic Activist Women in Bangladesh,” Social Anthropology Event Lecture, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), May 2.