Sondra Hale, an emerita professor in the departments of anthropology and gender studies and affiliated faculty member of UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, delivered the keynote address at the Congress of the International Comparative Education conference. The conference was organized by the World Council of Comparative Education Studies and the Argentinian Society on Comparative Education Studies, and was held in Buenos Aires.
Hale's areas of interest range from gender and social movements to Islam and Africa. She has focused particularly in the region of Sudan, where she taught at the University of Khartoum, and Eritrea, where she researched the plight of women who were former guerrillas of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front. As an activist, her efforts have focused on human and civil rights in conflict, including work with organizations such as Feminists in Support of Palestinian Women and the Darfur Task Force.
