Professor Shahrzad Mojab, author and scholar, presents her lecture “War, Women’s NGOs, and Education: The Perils of ‘Democracy Training'” as part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute spring 2011 film and lecture series at Scripps College’s Performing Arts Center, Boone Recital Hall, on Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at 5:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Professor Mojab, from the department of adult education and counseling psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, has conducted extensive research on immigrant women’s access to employment and training in Canada and the impact of war and violence on women’s learning in the diaspora, in particular, on women political prisoners of the Middle East. Mojab specializes in educational policy studies, comparative and international adult education policy, adult education, globalization and learning, and critical and feminist pedagogy.
Mojab won first prize in the 2003 Women’s World writing contest for her work, Women’s Voices in War Zones, organized by The Women’s World Organization for Rights, Literature and Development, a global network of feminist writers. She was the former director of the Women and Gender Institute at the University of Toronto from 2003-2008, and the past president of the Canadian Association for the Studies of Adult Education.
The Scripps College Humanities Institute spring 2011 program is “The Future of Higher Education: Gender, Geography, and the Humanities.” How can we address common goals of education towards global competency, leadership abilities, and critical thinking? The seminars explore these and other questions with educators, administrators, and activists in diverse fields through their lecture, film, and performance series. For more information, please contact the Humanities Institute at (909) 621-8237 or visit their website at scripps-staging.skybox0.com/hi .