CGS Faculty member, Dr. Rahul Rao, was awarded the LGBTQA Caucus Scholar Award at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in Atlanta in March 2016.
On 12 March, 2016, Professor Nadje Al-Ali gave a talk on academic freedom at the Turkish-Kurdish Daymer community centre in Haringey, London. On March 3, 2016, Professor Nadje Al-Ali gave a talk at the University of Kent on Feminism and the New Iraq: Between Imperialism and Religious Fundamentalism.’ Find out more here. On March 4, 2016, Professor Nadje Al-Ali gave a talk titled “Women for Peace: Kurdish and Turkish women’s rights activists and academics struggling
Skin lightening: contempt, hatred, fear 17 March 2016 5 PM, DLT, SOAS Skin lightening: contempt, hatred, fear Shirley Anne Tate, (University of Leeds) Branding skin lightening ‘anti-Black spectacle’ undermines its decolonization of colourism. Through lightening the Black woman’s body becomes the Sable-Saffron Venus alter/native of normative beauty based on white/ light-skin and reveals the colourism of the Black Atlantic. The lightened body refuses the white or light ideal in favour
Professor Nadje Al-Ali speaks at SOAS on International Women’s Day
On March 8, 2016, Dr. Caitlin Ryan, talked to MA and PhD students at CGS about her recent book – Bodies, Power and Resistance in the Middle East: Experiences of Subjectification and Resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
From February to March 2016, PhD student Mary Austin, was in Indonesia researching links between the anti-Suharto student movement, feminist NGOs and trade unions in the movement for an Indonesian domestic workers’ law. She was greatly assisted by a Language Acquisition grant of £640 from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences which helped her improve her interviewing and transcription/translating skills.
The Political Economy of Marriage in a segregated society. Palestinians in Israel 3 March 2016 4 PM, 449, SOAS This study focuses on the link between education and the chances of the Palestinian women in Israel to marry a partner with similar level of education. Most of the theoretical discussion focus on structural changes and on shifts in the desirable characteristics of a marriage partner. But most of the existing
In March 2016, Professor Nadje Al-Ali, published an article titled – Sexual violence in Iraq: Challenges for transnational feminist politics in the European Journal of Women’s Studies. Abstract: The article discusses sexual violence by ISIS against women in Iraq, particularly Yezidi women, against the historical background of broader sexual and gender-based violence. It intervenes in feminist debates about how to approach and analyse sexual and wider gender-based violence in Iraq specifically and the Middle