WORCESTER, Mass. – Two lectures at the College of the Holy Cross this spring will explore politics, women’s issues and the role of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The following Monday, April 12 at 4:30 p.m., Patricia A. Omidian, an applied anthropologist in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 1997, will lecture on “Women in Afghanistan, from the Taliban Until Today.” Both lectures will be held in the Rehm Library at the College and are free and open to the public.
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Omidian has done extended fieldwork as a civilian anthropologist in Afghanistan both under the Taliban and under U.S. and NATO regimes. She served as children and war advisor for Save the Children United States. In 2001 and 2002, she developed the first community mental health program in Afghanistan. She has also worked with the Afghan Women’s Network, the International Rescue Committee, and UNIFEM, as well as other organizations.
She is currently associate professor and the head of social sciences for the Aga Khan University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Pakistan.
http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/press_releases/2009-2010/afghan_crec
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