{"id":21363,"date":"2021-12-27T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T10:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=21363"},"modified":"2023-06-08T21:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:04:06","slug":"alka-kurian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/news\/2021\/12\/27\/alka-kurian","title":{"rendered":"Alka Kurian researches in Morocco on a Fulbright US Scholar award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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IAS faculty member Alka Kurian<\/a> spent five months (July \u2013 November 2021) as a Fulbright US Scholar in Morocco to conduct research on digital feminism in the country. She was associated with the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Fes and carried out several activities that included lectures, public talks, panel presentations, surveys, fieldwork, focus groups, and interviews with students, faculty, scholars, women\u2019s NGO directors, and feminist artivists across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurian’s extensive list of activities in Morocco included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. 10\/8\/21: Gave invited lecture on “Gender and Urban Spaces in India,” Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. 10\/13\/201: Gave invited talk on \u201cA New Protest Culture: Rise of Fourth-Wave Feminism in Morocco\u201d at the Al Akhwayn University, Ifrane.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. 10\/21\/21: Gave invited lecture on “足彩app哪个是正规的 Four Waves of Feminism in Morocco,” Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. 10\/27\/21: Attended the play \u201cLe Masque\u201d by Naima Zitane, Rabat<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. 10\/28\/201: Interviewed Naima Zitane about her 2012 play Dialy, Rabat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. 10\/28\/21: Interviewed Amina Lofti, director of the Association D\u00e9mocratique des Femmes du Maroc, Rabat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. 11\/5\/21: Interviewed Zainab Fasiki<\/a>, member of the \u201cMoroccan Outlaws\u201d and one of Morocco’s leading women’s rights activists and graphic artists, Mohhamedia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. 11\/5\/21: Released a podcast<\/a> based on a conversation with Zaineb Fasiki about her book Hshouma.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. 11\/6\/21: Interviewed Khadija Tnana, one of Morocco\u2019s most renowned Postwar and Contemporary feminist artists, Fnideq.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. 11\/9\/21: Interviewed Fathia Saidi (Vice Secretary General) and Hakima Cherkani (Treasurer) of the \u2018L’union de l’Action F\u00e9ministe, Tangiers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. 11\/10\/21: Gave an invited talk at the\u00a0School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane.\n