Radcliffe Launches New Lecture Series

Islah Jad, chair of the Women's Studies Program at Birzeit University, will inaugurate the Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Lecture Series at Radcliffe on Thursday, Oct. 22, with a talk entitled, "Palestine: Women Between Patriarchy and New State Formation."

The new series is a collaborative effort between the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe and the Program in Women's Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was made possible by a generous gift from Geneviève McMillan of Cambridge.

Jad will share insights gained through her work with women administrators who are shaping the legal and institutional structures of the emerging Palestine state. She will comment on the dynamics influencing which gender issues have been taken up and which ignored during the process of new state formation. Specifically, she will discuss the tactics and strategies employed by Palestinian women's organizations shaping the new laws of citizenship and nationality.

Jad's remarks will begin at 4 p.m. in Room 111 of Radcliffe's Fay House, 10 Garden St., Cambridge. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by an informal reception.

Founded in 1992, the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe College is a collaborative effort among seven Boston-area academic institutions including Boston College, Brandeis University, Harvard University, M.I.T., Northeastern University and Tufts University. The consortium sponsors programs, panels, and interdisciplinary team-taught graduate seminars that explore feminist thinking and scholarship.