{"id":36520,"date":"2019-02-04T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=36520"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:24:15","slug":"asc-hosts-rodney-lecture-on-women-war-and-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2019\/02\/04\/asc-hosts-rodney-lecture-on-women-war-and-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"ASC Hosts Rodney Lecture on Women, War and Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36522\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/02\/ASC2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/02\/ASC2-1-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-36522 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/02\/ASC2-1-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/02\/ASC2-1-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/02\/ASC2-1-1024x595.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2019\/02\/ASC2-1.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Tim Longman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/\">African Studies Center<\/a><span>, an affiliated regional center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/span><span>\u00a0hosted a talk with\u00a0Hilary Matfess, PhD student at Yale University and author of\u00a0<em>Women and the War on Boko Haram<\/em>,\u00a0as part of their Walter Rodney lecture series on February 4, 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In her talk, entitled <\/span>\u201cWomen, War, and Agency: A Study of Boko Haram and Gender,&#8221;\u00a0<span>Matfess used the case of Boko Haram to explore women in conflict &#8212; arguing that framing women only as victims and peacemakers ignores the ways in which women exercise agency in times of conflict.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In her work, Matfess<span>\u00a0examines how insurgencies\u2019 internal organizational dynamics interact with external forces to shape conflict, with a focus on the use of atrocities like mass abductions and systemic sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, she conducted research on Boko Haram\u2019s gender dynamics, developmental authoritarianism in Ethiopia and Rwanda, and economic reform in Tanzania. She also worked on issues of transnational threats to global security at the National Defense University, contributed to reports linking the security of women to the security of states with Futures without Violence, and worked as a freelance journalist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/events\/rodney\/\">The Walter Rodney Seminar lecture series<\/a><span>\u00a0is interdisciplinary, and has included presentations by established and incipient scholars in all Africa-related disciplines, including history, anthropology, political science, economics, sociology, public health, literature, visual arts, musicology, religion, Islamic studies, international relations, and\u00a0public diplomacy. \u201cThe Rodneys,\u201d as they are often referred to, are a keystone of the weekly activities of the African Studies Center, and\u00a0regularly fill the room with faculty, students, and community members.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Studies Center hosted Hilary Matfess for a talk entitled \u201cWomen, War, and Agency: A Study of Boko Haram and Gender.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8431,8411],"tags":[11087,8692,11110,11109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36527,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520\/revisions\/36527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}