Past Events
Explore our past events, many of which you can watch recordings of with closed captions
Film Screenings, Lectures & Panels Mother, Daughter, Sister Film Screening 17:30-19:00
The International Human Rights Clinic hosts a screening of Mother, Daughter, Sister, a half-hour documentary about ethnic women affected by rape as a weapon of war in Myanmar.
Film Screenings, Lectures & Panels The Judge – film and discussion 17:00-19:00
Kholoud Al-Faqih became the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a (Islamic law) courts. The Judge follows her journey. Film screening and discussion with the film’s Director, Erika Cohn, and Palestine legal historian Elizabeth Brownson.
Lectures & Panels, Workshops Disrupting Assumptions: Veil, Divorce, and Women’s Agency in Islam 12:00-13:00
Diane L. Moore, Founding Director of the Religious Literacy Project at the Harvard Divinity School, will lead this discussion on veil, divorce, and women’s agency in Islam.
Lectures & Panels The Women’s Movement, Animal Welfare, and Islamic Law: Constitutional Animal Protection in Egypt 12-1PM
Professor Kristen Stilt of Harvard Law School, and Faculty Director of the Animal Law & Policy Program and the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change, discusses her experiences in Egypt.