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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Please join us for an informational talk by Kamran Ali reading of Pakistan culture, family and Western tourism.
Theme: Postcolonalism, Gender Studies, Dwelling Studies
Dr. Ali works on issues of medicine, gender and colonialism in Egypt. His book Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves (2002) has been well received as a crucial anthropological and cultural studies investigation. His work covers a number of interdisciplinary fields: Family planning programs in Egypt, Egyptian masculinity and male involvement in family planning decision making; the history of the labor movement in Pakistan; gender relations in Pakistan; social movements in Pakistan; tourism in the Middle East.; development; health; political economy; post-colonialism; Middle East; Egypt; South Asia. He has a joint appointment in Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology at UT Austin.
