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InsideSMCM for Parents and Families - January 26, 2023

Dear Parents & Families,

We trust your student had a wonderful holiday break and is re-energized for the spring semester. With this issue of the Parent & Family Newsletter, we’re introducing some new content in the hopes of better connecting you with the campus community. We include our first “Seahawk Spotlight” student profile and an update on a significant campus safety project. If you have any ideas for topics or features you’d like to see, please let us know at communication@smcm.edu - we’d love your feedback!

Intercultural Sexual Intimacy and Mixed Marriages

Submitted by Betul Basaran on
By Betul Basaran

Professor Betül Başaran was invited to attend the international conference on the Balance of Justice in the Ottoman Empire, where she talked about her research on intercultural sexual intimacy and mixed marriages among foreigners and Ottoman women in the early modern era. Her paper entitled "Actors and Agents in Murky Legal Waters" emphasized women's agency in such relationships, and their ability to bargain with patriarchy to attain short-term advantages.

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