International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month Public Lecture by Nira Yuval-Davis

To mark International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, The Global Women’s Studies Programme and the Gender Research Cluster in the School of Political Science and Sociology are delighted to host a public lecture by the internationally acclaimed academic and pioneer of the theory of ’intersectionality’ – Professor Nira Yuval-Davis.

Title: "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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