Event Date: November 6, 2008 - 1:00 pm
Location: room 4004, 120 University Private,Social Sciences Building,
A talk by Jennie E. Burnet, Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville.
Organized by the African Study and Research Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, with the support of CIPS and the School of Political Studie.
Registration is not required. This event will be in English.
Anthropologist Jennie E. Burnet explores the consequences of social classification in post-genocide Rwanda for three categories of women: raped “maidens,” Tutsi wives-of-prisoners, and Hutu widows-of-the-genocide. She documents the ways in which ethnic classifications prolong women’s suffering by making them invisible. For more information on this event, please contact Professor Éric Allina-Pisano at [email protected].