{"id":68400,"date":"2013-09-05T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=68400"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:09:20","slug":"oie-speaker-series-opens-with-activist-who-defied-saudi-ban-on-women-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/05\/oie-speaker-series-opens-with-activist-who-defied-saudi-ban-on-women-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"OIE Speaker Series opens with activist who defied Saudi ban on women driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_68403\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/OIE13-Manal_al-Shraif-H.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68403\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68403 \" alt=\"Saudi women's rights advocate Manal Alsharif.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/OIE13-Manal_al-Shraif-H-600x430.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/OIE13-Manal_al-Shraif-H-600x430.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/OIE13-Manal_al-Shraif-H-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/OIE13-Manal_al-Shraif-H.jpg 1506w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saudi women&#8217;s rights advocate Manal Alsharif.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Manal Alsharif, an advocate for women&#8217;s rights in Saudi Arabia known for filming herself as she broke that nation&#8217;s law against women driving, launches a series of events at Bates exploring human diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Alsharif describes her life and work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. The opening event in the fall 2013 Office of Intercultural Education Speaker Series at Bates, Alsharif&#8217;s lecture is presented jointly with the Harward Center for Community Partnerships&#8217; Civic Forum Series. It&#8217;s open to the public at no cost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/womens-rights-advocate-known-for-breaking-saudi-driving-ban-launches-oie-speaker-series\/\"><strong>Read more about Manal Alsharif<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following Alsharif in the OIE Speaker Series:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photographer Jeff Sheng, whose exhibition <em>The Fearless Project: Photographs of LGBT Athletes <\/em>opens with a reception at 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23, on the second floor of Bates Commons, 136 Central Ave., and who discusses his work at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, in Commons Room 221-222. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/jeff-shengs-fearless-project-photos-to-showcase-lgbt-athletes\/\"><strong>Read more about Jeff Sheng<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And spoken-word poets Alix Olson and B Yung, appearing at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, in the Benjamin Mays Center, 95 Russell St.\u00a0<b>Readers, please note<\/b>: Some listings indicate an incorrect date for this event, but Oct. 23 is correct. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/68414-2\/\"><strong>Learn more about Alix Olson and B Yung<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about these events, please call 207-786-8303.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZA90LuN_ifQ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manal Alsharif, an advocate for women&#8217;s rights in Saudi Arabia, launches a series of events at Bates exploring human diversity on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":68403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11009],"tags":[11014,5288,6590,9798,9511],"class_list":["post-68400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-the-college","tag-international","tag-lgbt","tag-office-of-intercultural-education","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-spoken-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68400"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76127,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68400\/revisions\/76127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}