Gender Cluster and Global Women’s Studies Public Lecture Series, 2009-2010

The Gender Research Cluster and the Global Women’s Studies Programme of the School of Political Science and Sociology are pleased to announce the following speakers for 2009-2010.

Lori Heise

Topic: "Shaping Gender Violence and HIV Policy: Dispatches from the Frontline of the Global Women's Movement"
Date: Thurs 19th November, 6-8 pm
Venue: Aras Moyola

Lori Heise is a long-time women's health advocate in the areas of gender, sexuality and power. She has been instrumental in getting two critical issues onto the world agendas: violence against women and the need to expand woman's options for HIV protection. Heise co-founded the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), an NGO focused on the effects of U.S. international policies on the health and rights of women and girls in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In 2001, she initiated the Global Campaign for Microbicides and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Gender, Violence and Health Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London.

Nira Yuval-Davis

Topic: ’Intersectionality in transversal politics’
Date: Friday, 12 March 2010, 2:30 pm
Venue: MY129 Aras Moyola

Nira Yuval-Davis is the Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London. She has been the President of the Research Committee 05 (on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, a member of the Sociology sub-panel of the British Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of 2008 and is an editor of the book series ’the Politics of Intersectionality’ at Palgrave MacMillan. She is one of the founder members of the international research network of Women In Militarized Conflict Zones and of Women Against Fundamentalism and has served as an expert and consultant to various international organizations such as Amnesty International, the UNDP and the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. In her recent major ESRC research project she used participatory theatre techniques as a research methodology working with refugees in East London.

Nira Yuval-Davis has written extensively on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and gender relations in Britain & Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies. Among her written and edited books are Woman - Nation - State (Macmillan, 1989); Racialized Boundaries (Routledge, 1992); Unsettling Settler Societies (Sage, 1995); Gender and Nation (1997, Sage); Women, Citizenship & Difference (Zed Books, 1999); Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms (WLUML, 2004); and The Situated Politics of Belonging (Sage, 2006). Her works have been translated by now to more than ten different languages. At the moment she is working on her forthcoming monograph for Sage on the Intersectional Politics of Belonging.

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Naila Kabeer

Topic: 'Marriage, motherhood and masculinity in the global economy: a crisis in social reproduction'
Date: Thursday, 18th of March 2010, 6pm.
Location: Lecture Theatre, Aras Moyola

Professor Naila Kabeer is a social economist, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and a collaborating researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Specialising in gender, poverty, and social policy issues, she has authored numerous books, research reports and articles including Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (Vero 1994) and The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka (Verso 2000).

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Naomi Goldenberg

Topic: ’Gender and the Vestigial State of Religion’
Date: Wednesday, 14th April 2010, 6pm.
Location: Lecture Theatre, Aras Moyola

Naomi Goldenberg is Professor at the Department of Classics and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of The Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religion (1979) and Resurrecting the Body: Feminism, Religion, and Psychoanalysis (1993). She has a particular interest in the intersection of religion and psychoanalytic theory, gender, and popular culture. Her recent work seeks to bridge the religious/secular divide in social theory.

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