UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Anthropologist Lila Abu- Lughod delivers the JMEWS Distinguished Lecture at UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at 4:00 pm. Abu-Lughod is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, where she teaches in the Anthropology Department and at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. The theme she has chosen for her remarks is “The Social Life of Muslim Women’s Rights.”