Events
2012
January
12/01/12
- Marriage, motherhood and masculinity in the global economy: an emerging crisis in social reproduction?
Professor Naila Kabeer, Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Abstract: “Marriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy: an Emerging Crisis in Social Reproduction?
26/01/12
- Whiteness and the General Will: Diversity Work as Wilful Work
Professor Sara Ahmed, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Abstract: “Whiteness and the General Will: Diversity Work as Wilful Work
February
02/02/12
- Gender Perspectives in Peacekeeping Law and Practice: Perspectives from the Pacific
Dr Gina Heathcote, School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Abstract: Gender Perspectives in Peacekeeping Law and Practice: Perspectives from the Pacific
09/02/12
- Anti-Militarism: A Feminist Agenda
Professor Cynthia Cockburn, Department of Sociology, City University, London
Abstract: Anti-Militarism: A Feminist Agenda
09/02/12
- Book Launch: Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India (Princeton University Press)
Dr Prabha Kotiswaran, School of Law, SOAS
09/02/12
- Illusion of Inclusion: Women and the Law
Baroness Helena Kennedy
09/02/12
23/02/12
- Violence Against Women: the Devastating Legacy and the Transforming Struggle
Professor Gill Hague, School for Policy Studies, Bristol University
Abstract: Violence Against Women: the Devastating Legacy and the Transforming Struggle
March
01/03/12
- Gender and the practice of politics: comparing local and regional government in Wales
Professor Nickie Charles, University of Warwick
Abstract: Gender and the practice of politics: comparing local and regional government in Wales
08/03/12
08/03/12
- Afghan Women and their Quest for Justice
Mandana Hendessi OBE
15/03/12
19/03/12
- Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Belonging
Rabab Abdulhadi
22/03/12
- Daughters/Soldiers and Redundant Mothers: Literary Representations of Military Service in Israeli Women's Writing
Dr Tsila Ratner, Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London, University of London
24/03/12
- Gender and Identity in Muslim Contexts
Short course
May
02/05/12
- Sending the Zanana on a Railway Journey: Ismat Chughtai, Gender in Space, Time and Visuality
Geeta Patel (University of Virginia)
03/05/12
- Gender, Transgender and South Asia
Geeta Patel (University of Virginia)
03/05/12
- Literary Activism and Feminist Methodology: Black Women's Voices in Britain
Professor Joan Anim-Addo, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London
17/05/12
- Suad Amiry and Palestinian Life Writing
Professor Bart Moore-Gilbert, Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London
24/05/12
- The Crisis of Masculinity and the Presentation of Gendered Selfhood during the Palestinian Second Intifada in the Gaza Strip
Aitemad Muhanna, Independent Researcher
Abstract: The Crisis of Masculinity and the Presentation of Gendered Selfhood during the Palestinian Second Intifada in the Gaza Strip
31/05/12
- When 'Love' Meets Islamic Reformism: Shifting Currents in Marriage, Family and Intimacy in an Indian Ocean Matrilneal Muslim Society
Dr Caroline Osella, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
October
11/10/12
- Gendering (Counter) Revolutions in the Middle East
Professor Nadje Al-Ali
Does gender matter in revolutionary times? Is democracy bad for women? How do authoritarian regimes instrumentalize women and men? This talk addresses the gendered implications of recent political developments in the Middle East and North Africa.
20/10/12
- Gendered Horizons in the Middle East and Central Asia - A Day in Honour of Professor Deniz Kandiyoti
We would like to invite you to a special event to honour Professor Deniz Kandiyoti and her work on 20 October, 2012 from 9:30am to 7pm.
As we expect this event to be very popular, you are requested to register for this event by 10 October. We are charging for lunch, tea & coffee as well as a drinks reception (£5 students & unwaged ; £10 for waged).
November
15/11/12
- Palestinian Women's Life-Writing: Colonialism, Patriarchy and Beyond
Professor Bart Moore- Gilbert, Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London
This paper will discuss five Palestinian women life-writers - Leila Khaled, Fadwa Tuqan, Hanan Ashrawi, Ghada Karmi and Suad Amiry - in the light of their representations of a variety of colonial histories.
22/11/12
- Re-membering Mwanga: Queer Memory and Belonging in Postcolonial Uganda'
Dr. Rahul Rao, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London
In 2009, Uganda shot to infamy when a little-known parliamentarian named David Bahati introduced an 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill', which proposed enhancing punishments for consensual same-sex conduct, mandating the death penalty for certain classes of offences. This talk explores the 19th century antecedents of this production of homophobia in an earlier encounter between British and French colonial missionaries and elites of the powerful Baganda tribe.
29/11/12
- Gender Subjectivity under the Situation of Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip: Contradictory but Self-Respected
Dr. Aitemad Muhanna, Research Fellow, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics.
The prolonged closure imposed over Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupation during the period 2007-2010 generated profound gender changes, which considerably dislocating the structural basis of the ideology of male domination and patriarchy in the Palestinian society. In this paper, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork among women and men in poor households in diverse locations in Gaza, I focus on how poor men and women responded to the crisis of gendered selfhood.
December
06/12/12
- Cha-cha heels, strapless lurex gowns and Swaroski abayas: on Glamour and Glitz in a south Indian urban Muslim trading community.
Caroline Osella
Calicut (Kozhikode) Muslims have been engaged in modernist projects of rational self-improvement since the 1930s. But the 19th and 20th centuries also saw a heyday of trade, wealth accumulation and frantic spending and hospitality, as the community thrived from its Indian ocean business links. Memories of Calicut’s past of ‘luxury living’ bleed into contemporary dreams of Gulfie excess and the lifestyle opportunities of post 1980s India.
08/12/12
- Women and the Arab Spring
Nadje Al Ali, Sami Zubaida, Mariz Tadros, and others
13/12/12
- New Logics of Popular Sovereignty and Subaltern Alternatives to Egypt’s “Thug State”
Paul Amar, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
This paper will aim to articulate subaltern forms of sovereignty -- social banditry, vigilantism, community self-policing, and football-fan militancy -- that have emerged in Egypt following the uprising of 25 January 2011.
