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INVITED LECTURE by Dr. Amal Elsana When: Thu, Apr 16, 2020 @ 1-2 pm Where: Via Zoom Meeng hps:// mcgill.zoom.us/ j/125382467 RSVP: to Yong Hong Feng @ [email protected] Dr. Amal Elsana Alhjooj is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Women and Public Policy Program and the Execuve Director of ICAN-McGill. Dr Elsana obtained her PhD and MSW from McGill Universi- ty and has a BSW from Ben Gurion University. Dr. Elsana has spent over twenty-five years working with indigenous and minority communies to organise against and challenge exclusionary policies and to implement sustainable soluons for social change. This rich praccal experience fed into her Ph.D. research where she explored the tensions that indigenous social change organisaons face when combining service and advocacy, for which she received the Director’s Prize for Out- standing Doctoral Research. She is the recipient of many addional awards including the Genius 100 Visionaries of the Future (2017), the New Israel Fund’s Human Rights Award (2013) and was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize (2006). For the last five years Dr. Elsana has been dedicated to unpacking indigenous social work knowledge, research, and pracce. Her research seeks to contribute to a body of knowledge on indigenous and minority civil society organisaons and their role in promong social change and commu- nity development in the Middle East. Dr. Elsana is currently the Principal Invesgator of a SSHRC Partnership Engage grant which explores women’s economic empowerment program- ming in the context of polical conflict and patriarchal pracces in Pales- ne. Through her post-doctorate at Harvard she is conducng research fo- cused on the challenges facing Bedouin Palesnian women’s organisaons in promong public policy to combat gender-based violence in Israel. Dr. Elsana will present the preliminary findings from her postdoctoral research and share her teaching approach and research program. Like leaving footprints in the desert: Unpacking the challenges of Indigenous Bedouin Women Ac- tivists in combating GBV in the Naqab, Israel
