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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000>The MIT Program in
Women's & Gender Studies <BR>and the Graduate Consortium in Women's and
Gender Studies<BR>present</FONT><FONT
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face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The McMillan-Stewart Lecture on <BR>Women
in the Developing World<BR></DIV></FONT>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"
color=#000000><BR><B><BIG><BIG>From Public Squares to Check-points:
</BIG></BIG><BR><BIG><BIG>Women of the Occupation in
Israel/Palestine</BIG></BIG><BR>A talk by Anat Biletzki.</B></FONT> </P>
<DIV align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000><FONT
color=#3333ff><BIG>Thursday, November 15th. 6:00PM.
</BIG></FONT><BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">MIT Building
56, Room 114.<BR>(MAP: <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=56&mapsearch=go">http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=56&mapsearch=go</A>)<BR>information:
<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
href="mailto:genderstudies@mit.edu">genderstudies@mit.edu</A><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
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face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000><I>Professor Anat
Biletzki</I></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000><I>
has been teaching at the philosophy department in Tel Aviv University since
1979. She has traveled widely, as a visiting scholar and fellow at, among
others, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Boston University, the
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Wittgenstein Archives in
Bergen, Norway. Her publications include Paradoxes (1996), Talking Wolves:
Thomas Hobbes on the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language (1997),
What Is Logic? (2002), (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein (2003), and articles on
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Hobbes, analytic philosophy, political thought,
digital culture, and human rights. She has served as chair of the Graduate
School of Cultural Studies and of the Philosophy Department at Tel Aviv
University and is a member of Israel’s Ministry of Education committee for
teaching philosophy in high-schools. </I></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><BR></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><BR></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#000000><I>Outside academia Biletzki
has been active in the peace movement and in several human rights projects
in Israel for over 25 years. During the first intifada she was one of the
founders of the peace movement “The Twenty-First Year” – a group devoted to
promoting civil objection to the occupation. In those same years she also worked
with the Beta Committee which attempted to coordinate rehabilitation efforts for
the West Bank village, Beta. In 1997-1998 Biletzki helped establish the human
rights movement “Open Doors” which worked on liberating Palestinian
administrative detainees in Israel – especially 11 detainees who had been
incarcerated, without trial or due process, for over five years. Since 1996
Biletzki has been active as one of the leaders of Hacampus Lo Shotek – The
Campus Is Not Silent – the most vociferous and influential campus group, made up
of faculty and students at Tel Aviv University. She is on the board of
FFIPP-Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, was chairperson of the board of
B’Tselem - the Israeli Information center for Human Rights in the Occupied
Territories (2001-2006), and is often invited abroad for public lecturing, for
seminars at human rights conferences, for interviews, and for meetings with
human rights counterparts. In 2005 she was chosen as one of “50 most influential
women in Israel” by Globes, the Israeli business monthly, and was nominated
among the “1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005”.She has presented the
issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with emphasis on the evils of
occupation, all over the world (Boston, Princeton, Atlanta, London, Oslo,
Bergen, Helsinki, Munich, Berlin, Istanbul); but it is in Israel – in the school
system, in youth movements, and in public arenas – that she invests most of her
efforts in public education for human rights and peace.
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