Mendelog

Thursday, March 15, 2007
Mendel Art Gallery Auditorium
7:00 p.m.

Reception to follow. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Ameera Javeria is PEN Canada’s Writer in Exile at the University of Saskatchewan and is a journalist from Pakistan who focused extensively on women’s rights in Islamic societies. In 2005, she received the Helman Hammet award from the Human Rights Watch for her courageous work in Pakistan. While at the university, Ms. Javeria is writing In the Line of Fire, a book examining crimes committed against women in Pakistan and teaching courses in Women’s and Gender Studies and English.

PEN Canada is a non-profit organization that works on behalf of writers, at home and abroad, who have been forced into silence for writing the truth as they see it. The Writer-In-Exile position is funded by the Royal Bank of Canada with additional contributions from the University President’s office, the College of Arts and Science, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. This is the first PEN Canada placement at the University of Saskatchewan.

Sponsors:
U of S President’s Advisory Council on the Status of Women
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Services
USSU Women’s Centre
The Mendel Art Gallery