Mattson To Speak On Media & Muslim Women
Professor Ingrid Mattson will present a lecture, “Framing Muslim Women: Islam, Gender and Human Rights in the Global Media” on Tuesday, April 22 at 7p.m. in the Great Room, Seegers Union.Tuesday, April 15, 2008 01:59 PM
The event is free and open to the public. Mattson will discuss whether the media promotes or distorts stories of Muslim women. She will use the example of Pakistani rape-survivor Mukhtar Mai, and how her story was altered by Pakistani and international women’s groups, as well as international journalists, media and politicians.
Mattson is currently the Director of Islamic Chaplaincy and Professor at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Conn. She also is President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). She is the first female to head the organization after being elected to the position in 2006.
Born in Canada, Mattson attended the University of Waterloo, Ontario, where she earned a B.A. in Philosophy in 1987. After graduating, she spent 1987-1988 living in Pakistan working with Afghan refugee women. Mattson later earned a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago in 1999. Mattson’s research focuses primarily on Islamic law and society but she has also published articles on slavery, poverty, and Islamic legal theory. In 2001 she was elected Vice-President of ISNA before taking her current position of President five years later.
For more information on this program or other Center for Ethics programs, please visit www.muhlenberg.du/cultural/ethics.
Muhlenberg College gratefully acknowledges the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation’s support of the Center for Ethics.
