In February 2016, PhD student Paniz Musawi Natanzi, spoke at the Ab-Anbar Art Gallery in Tehran, Iran, on The Gendering Power of Disney from a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective: Deconstructing Gender Roles and Relations from Snow White to Robin Hood. Find the event on Facebook here – https://www.facebook.com/events/914048845330900/
This seminar titled “Racism and Migratism: The Relevance of a Critical Differentiation” was given by Dr Alyosxa Tudor, (Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London and Gender Institute, LSE) at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS University of London on 25 February 2016. My paper revisits (Western European) critical migration studies and feminist approaches to migration with the insights from postcolonial theories and transnational feminism. I suggest that a
Racism and Migratism: The Relevance of a Critical Differentiation 25 February, 2016 5 PM, DLT, SOAS Dr Alyosxa Tudor, (Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London and Gender Institute, LSE) My paper revisits (Western European) critical migration studies and feminist approaches to migration with the insights from postcolonial theories and transnational feminism. I suggest that a critical differentiation of racism and migratism is needed in postcolonial and transnational feminist
Gender, Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space: Lunchtime talk 22 February 2016 11:30 AM, SOAS Lunchtime talk with Dr Laura J Shepherd (UNSW, Australia) Proceeding from the assumption that discourse has constitutive effects, this research examines the ways in which gender and space manifest in peacebuilding discourse of various United Nations entities and associated organisations. Through the analysis of all publicly available documentation produced by the UN Peacebuilding Commission, and
CGS students, including MA students Niharika Pandit, Nandita Dutta, and Aapurv Jain, participated in a demonstration outside the Indian high commission in London. The protest was in solidarity with protestors in Indian universities. #STANDWITHJNU
Professor Nadje Al-Ali and Alumna Sahar Mandour spoke in a panel at The Gender and Sexuality Resource Center مركز الموارد الجندرية والجنسانية in Beirut, Lebanon. The panel was titled- Producing Feminist Knowledge: Queering the Challenges and Strategies in the Middle East and North Africa
PhD Candidate, Akanksha Mehta, along with several other PhD students in the UK formulated a solidarity statement to stand with students, faculty, and protestors at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Several PhD students, faculty members, and MA students signed the petition. The petition can be found at Kafila #StandWithJNU: Solidarity Statement by Academics in the UK This is a statement by over three hundred and fifty academics based in the UK. We,
Doctoral students and faculty at CGS have recently released a statement in solidarity with SOAS Justice For Cleaners campaign. The text is below: We, the undersigned at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS would like to express strong support for the Justice for Cleaners Campaign. More specifically we would like senior management to reconsider its position and to bring the cleaners in-house as soon as possible. As the recently
CGS PhD Student, Kim Zinngrebe reflects on the silence on sexual violence among Palestinian feminists in Israel in Feminist Review‘s latest issue (Issue 112 – a themed issue on violence) http://www.palgrave-journals.com/…/v112/n1/pdf/fr201558a.pdf
Former CGS PhD student, Dr Zahra Ali reviews Ayesha Chaudhry’s book – domestic violence and the Islamic tradition: ethics, law and the Muslim discourse on gender – for Feminist Review‘s latest issue (Issue 112- a themed issue on violence) http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v112/n1/pdf/fr201560a.pdf