Public Lecture on "A Womanist Perspective on Development"
January 29, 2015 | 13:30 h - 14:30 h
ZEF, in cooperation with the US Embassy in Berlin (Public Affairs Section) and the Wellesley Centers for Women, would like to invite you to a public lecture on
“A Womanist Perspective on Development”, as part of the ZEF Senior Researcher Seminar Series.
Speaker: Dr. Layli Maparyan, Executive Director of the <link http: www.wcwonline.org>Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College, USA
Date & time: Thursday, January 29, 1.30 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Venue: ZEF, Walter-Flex-Straße 3, 53113 Bonn, right conference room
Background:
Womanism is a social and ecological change perspective pioneered by African-descent women, anchored in Africana and other indigenous cosmologies, cultures, and histories, and applied to contemporary world problems. In this talk, Dr. Maparyan will explore three questions: 1) What is womanism? 2) How does womanism challenge prevalent theories and models of development? And 3) What might a womanist model of development look like? Moving beyond notions of race as difference/deficit to culture as wealth, and incorporating a women-gendered lens on Africanity, Dr. Maparyan will reflect on the ends and methods of social and economic development vis-a-vis womanist commitments to human and ecological vitality in a spiritually alive cosmos.
About the speaker:
<link http: www.wcwonline.org active-researchers layli-philips-maparyan-phd>Dr. Layli Maparyan’s scholar-activist work interweaves threads from the social sciences and the critical disciplines, incorporating basic and applied platforms around a common theme of integrating identities and communities in peaceable, ecologically sound, and self-actualizing ways. She is best known for her scholarship on womanism, a philosophy that women’s day-to-day experiences can help them solve broader social problems. Dr. Maparyan has written two books on womanism, including <link http: www.wcwonline.org publications the-womanist-idea>The Womanist Idea (Routledge, 2012), which is a comprehensive treatment of womanist worldview and activist methodology. Dr. Maparyan has also published significantly in the areas of adolescent development, social identities (including biracial/biethnic identity and the intersections of racial/ethnic, sexual, spiritual/religious, and gender identities), Black LGBTQ studies, Hip Hop studies, and history of psychology. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology.
For further information on this presentation, please feel free to contact the organizers: Dr. Epifania Amoo-Adare (<link>eamooada@uni-bonn.de) or Dr. Habil. Anna-Katharina Hornidge (<link>hornidge@uni-bonn.de).
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