Speaking

Booking for 2022, Lectures, seminars, and workshops

I have over twenty years of experience giving customized lectures and seminars on university campuses and for non-profit organizations, libraries, schools, community organizations, social movements, and more.

My lectures cover topics like: Racial Justice, Gender Justice, Women of Color Feminisms, Anti-imperialist Abolitionist Feminism, Ending Violence against Women of Color, Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, Middle East Feminisms, Queer and Feminist Social Movements, Arab and Muslim Feminisms, Feminist anti-Militarism, Transnational Feminist Solidarity, Radical Mothering, Radical Coalition Feminisms.

I have shared several stages with Dr. Naber. She is changing the way people see the world, opening up new possibilities for anyone interested in building a world without oppression.

| Angela Davis
Activist, Author, Distinguished Professor

Speaking Testimonials

Nadine is one of the most thought-provoking lecturers and teachers I have ever encountered. Every time I attend one of Nadine's events, my brain is on overdrive after learning so much. Nadine quickly takes her audience to a space of learning and challenges her audience to rethink what they've been told and what they've previously understood. Through her work, she offers her audience multifaceted perspectives to consider and presents layers of views and experiences for people to digest at their own pace. Her work digs into topics of racism, sexism, politics, gender, the Middle East, and so much more. She guides her learners through historical events and perspectives, cultural revolutions, and current events in a way I've never experienced before.

| Katherine Murray-Liebl

Videos

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Arab Feminism is Not an Oxymoron | TedxOakParkWomen | December 12, 2019

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Nadine Naber's Talk illustrates how stereotypical understandings of the concepts of both “Arab culture” and “feminism” lead many people to believe that Arab feminism is an oxymoron. Naber reframes this limiting belief to offer a new framework that allows people not only to understand that Arab feminism exists, but also that there are in fact, many different kinds of “Arab feminism.”

Ultimately, this Talk inspires us to imagine what Arab feminism can offer to anyone interested in achieving gender and social justice globally and locally.

2022 Spring YWomen Film

6-minute segment in the 2022 Spring YWomen Film, produced by Susan Hope Engel as part of the YWCA YWomen Leadership Celebration. Nadine Naber is a 2022 Recipient of the YWomen Leadership Award.

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Arab American Report Launch Event | University of Illinois Chicago Institute for Research on Race & Public Policy and Moraine Valley Community College Library | February 13, 2023

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Join UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and co-sponsor Moraine Valley Community College for an event launching the latest report by IRRPP that captures the conditions and experiences of Arab Americans in the Chicagoland area. The report uses demographic research, surveys, focus group data, as well as expert commentaries by organizers and academics to analyze how systemic inequities and anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism affect the lives of Arab Americans in employment, education, health care, housing, and policing. The report engages with the diversity of experiences among Arab American communities and their common challenge in navigating being at once hypervisible as a result of commonplace stereotypes as well as invisible due to being classified as white by government agencies and due to the general lack of knowledge about Arab Americans in our society.

This report was created with funding support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and a UIC Award for Creative Activity and produced in partnership with several Chicagoland Arab American community organizations: UIC's Arab American Cultural Center, Arab American Action Network, Arab American Family Services, Middle Eastern Immigrant and Refugee Alliance, Sanad Social Services, and the Syrian Community Network. By mapping the challenges facing these communities and making proposals for change, the report will be used as a resource for advocates working to build strong and vibrant Arab American communities.

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International Women’s Day – A Feminist Look at Uprisings in the Middle East | Moraine Valley Community College Library | March 8, 2023

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Dr. Nadine Naber, associate professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at University of Illinois at Chicago, will illustrate how forms of state violence that currently shape the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are feminist concerns and how feminist movements have helped expand the possibility of building alternative futures. Drawing on examples from Egypt, Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, she will focus on activist frameworks such as radical mothering, activism and coalitional consciousness.

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Seminar 5: Protocols of Revolutionary Feminisms to Re/make the World | Vera List Center | March 8, 2021

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For International Women’s Day, the fifth As for Protocols seminar explores the theme of revolutionary feminisms, and the multi-scalar and trans-historical practices they embody. In doing so, we examine what protocols we want and need for remaking the world, especially in the context of social reproduction, gendered labor, care and kinship, solidarity, and internationalism. We pay special attention to how revolutionary feminist protocols work across space and time through political education, forms of organizing, movement history, gender representation, and collaborative creativity.

Mothering is Radical: A Coalitional Feminist Approach to Anti-Imperialism, Abolition, and Immigrant Justice | UC Santa Barbara Multicultural Center | October 22, 2021

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NEW YORK, November 18, 2020 — Dr. Nadine Naber delivers the lecture The Radical Potential of Mothering for Abolition, Anti-Militarism, and Transnational Feminist Solidarity as part of Hacking the Syllabus: Critical Solidarities. Following the lecture, she appeared in conversation with Dr. Alisa Bierria. The three-part series Hacking the Syllabus: Critical Solidarities shares powerful perspectives of educator-activists and resources they’ve created, syllabi, to equalize access to knowledge and disseminate paths for learning. Dr. Naber is a professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Dr. Bierria is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. (1 hr., 17 min.)

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Joint Struggle: A Decolonial, Abolitionist approach to Middle East Studies | Center for Middle East Studies, UW—Madison | March 8, 2021

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In this talk, Professor Naber will analyze the limits and possibilities of coalitional BIPOC movements in the U.S. that have strived to end anti-Blackness and U.S. imperialism simultaneously. Professor Naber will develop her analysis through the lens of decolonial feminisms while focusing on the significance of coalitional politics, or “joint struggle,” to the field of Middle East Studies.

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Anti-Black Racism in Southwest Asia/North Africa and Diaspora | Mizna, ITSRC, and AROC | July 19, 2020

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Following a statement made after the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, between July 10th and July 24th, 2020, Mizna with the US-based organizations including the Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle at the University of Minnesota, and Arab Resource and Organizing Center will host a series of online panels in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Panels in Arabic, English, and Farsi will address the history, present, and future of joint struggles between Black and non-Black South West Asian and North African communities, as well as solidarities and coalitions between SWANA communities and Black American communities in the United States. The series will also interrogate anti-Black racism in the SWANA region and its diasporas, and acknowledges the ways in which the SWANA communities have contributed to, profited from, and perpetuated forms of anti-Black racism and violence, while being subjected to anti-Arab, anti-Iranian, and anti-Muslim violence both locally and globally.

PANELISTS: Moustafa Bayoumi, Ramla Bile, Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda, Lara Kiswani, Nadine Naber, Ash Stephens
MODERATORS: Sima Shaksari, Farid Matuk

For bios and more information on panelists and moderator, check out Mizna

This project is co-sponsored by AGITATE!, Arab American Cultural Center, New Arab American Theater Works, Arab American Action Network, US Palestinian Community Network and Radius of Arab American Writers.

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Teach-In: Abolition at UIC | July 9, 2020

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This event will feature a panel conversation among scholars from UIC on broader contexts of police brutality, state violence, and abolition. Join us to learn and build a mass movement for abolition! The speakers are:

Dr. Barbara Ransby, Professor of History, Gender and Women’s Studies & African American Studies

Dr. Nadine Naber, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies & Global Asian Studies

Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice

Dr. Susila Gurusami, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice

Dr. Ronak Kapadia, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies

Dr. Rahim Kurwa, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice

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Abolition Feminism: Celebrating 20 Years of INCITE! | Barnard Center for Research on Women | April 30, 2020

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Listen to Dr. Naber speak at 0:45 to 0:55, and again at 1:30 to 1:35.

INCITE!, a national radical feminist of color organization, was founded in 2000. Over its two decade history, INCITE! has envisioned, articulated, and promoted what Angela Y. Davis has described as abolition feminism, a liberatory vision of a world free from all forms of violence, including those produced by carceral logics and systems of surveillance, policing, punishment, and exile. Abolition feminism envisions “a society based on radical freedom, mutual accountability, and passionate reciprocity. In this society, safety and security will not be premised on violence or the threat of violence. It will be based on a collective commitment to guaranteeing the survival and care of all people” (from the 2002 INCITE!-Critical Resistance Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex).

Abolition feminism, and its roots in grassroots anti-violence organizing by women, trans and gender nonconforming people of color, is particularly relevant in this moment of heightened attention on movements advocating abolition and resisting incarceration of our communities–and of backlash rooted in carceral feminism.

Join founders and generations of leaders of INCITE! and Angela Y. Davis for a discussion of the origins, genealogies, and futures of abolition feminism on April 30th, the 20th anniversary of INCITE!’s founding, from 6 – 9 pm ET.

Speakers include:
Beth Richie
Mimi Kim
Nadine Naber
Cara Page
Shana M. Griffin
Kiri Sailiata
Angela Y. Davis

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Nadine Naber on Orientalism, Arab Struggle, and our Histories within Asian-Am Studies | AROC | February 2, 2021

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Changing the Narrative: Event #1 | National Network for Arab American Communities | October 12, 2021

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Hacking the Syllabus: Critical Solidarities with Nadine Naber and Alisa Bierria | Asia Society | November 18, 2020

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