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Women and War in Afghanistan
March 20, 2014 @ 6:00 am - 6:30 pm
Utopia/Dystopia: Creating the Worlds That We Want
Women and War in Afghanistan
Ann Jones, historian
The Forum, Allard Hall, 1822 East Mall, UBC [please note the new location]
Thursday, March 20, 5-6:30 pm, all welcome
Ann Jones (www.annjonesonline.com), historian and author of eight books including the feminist classic Women Who Kill, travelled to Afghanistan as a humanitarian volunteer after 9/11 to witness the effects of war on a society where 95 percent of women endure violence. Through acclaimed nonfiction books (Kabul in Winter, Looking for Lovedu, They Were Soldiers), reports for The Nation and TomDispatch.com, and humanitarian work in conflict and post-conflict countries in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, she brings the incisive analysis that garnered her Guggenheim and Radcliffe Institute fellowships to war and its consequences. She will discuss the shifting role of women and women’s rights in the course of the war in Afghanistan and what that tells us about the mistaken prosecution of the war and prospects for the future.
The Tyee on Ann Jones: http://www.thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2014/03/13/Ann-Jones-Interview/
