

MENA Women
From Street Protest to Online Activism
22-23 March 2018
First Day
Thursday, March 22, 2018
9:00 am-6:00 pm
William Doo Auditorium
New College, University of Toronto, St George Campus
45 Willcocks, Toronto, ON M5S 2H3
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Second Day
Friday, March 23, 2018
9:00 am-6:00 pm
The Council Chambers
(Room 3130 William G. Davis Building)
University of Toronto, Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
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Free - Open to the Public
Free - Open to the Public
ABOUT
In the last decade, and specially after Iran’s Green Movement and the Arab Uprisings, women in the Middle East and North African (MENA) have established extensive online networks of transnational advocacy as well as virtual “civil societies” in order to exchange ideas, share information, garner international grass roots support for their cause and to re-imagine and rebuild social movements in their respective countries.
By gathering leading international researchers, feminists, activists, gender rights advocates, artists, public intellectuals and media, this interdisciplinary conference will examine how MENA women are making use of the social web and explore new possibilities of mass networking, and meanwhile attend to increasing threats of surveillance and censorship. More
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