Creative Archives: Gender, Memory and Affect

LAU Beirut Campus, AKSOB 903

As part of the Dr. Suad Joseph Distinguished Lecture Series

LAU’s Arab Institute for Women (AiW)
cordially invites you to a lecture on 

Creative Archives: Gender, Memory and Affect

by Dr. Hoda Elsadda

Speaker’s Biography

Hoda Elsadda is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University, a feminist and an activist for women’s rights. She co-founded in 1995 the Women and Memory Forum, a research organization that focuses on the production and dissemination of alternative knowledge on women and gender studies (www.wmf.org.eg). Her research interests are in the areas of gender studies, comparative literature and oral history. She is the author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008 (Edinburgh UP and Syracuse UP, 2012); and the co-editor of “Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives” (Cairo Papers in Social Science, 35:1, 2018).