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Women Power Strategies for female Leadership in Iran
Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict Brown Bag
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Metropolitan Building 5183
Why Iranian women are fighting for female leadership? How Iranian women have been fighting for their rights? What are the most challenging tasks for women's leadership in Iran?
Bio: Fariba Parsa
Fariba Parsa is a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict. She is working with a research project on Iranian Women's activism on the social media. Fariba Parsa came to the United States in 2010, when she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies. In 2012-2013, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland's Roshan Center for Persian studies and the Department of Women's Studies, conducting research on Iranian women's move¬ments for gender equality. She has her Master's Degree in political science and her PhD's in social sciences from University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University in Denmark. She was elected as a board member in a number of national and grassroots organizations in Denmark, such as the Danish National Women Council and the UN- Association of Denmark, where she served on the human rights committee. Fariba Parsa was born and raised in Iran.