Author Archives: Akanksha Mehta

About Akanksha Mehta

I am a final year PhD student at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS.

0104, 2016

Our Work – Conference Presentation by PhD Candidate Magdalena Suerbaum

By Akanksha Mehta|April 1, 2016|Lectures/Talks/Conferences, Our Work, PhD Students|0 comments

In March 2016, CGS PhD candidate, Magdalena Suerbaum, was one of the directors of the panel : “Faces of displacement. Constructions of the Self and Discourses about Refugeeness across the Mediterranean Region”, at XIII SeSaMO (Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies) Conference “Migrants: Communities, Borders, Memories, Conflict” in Catania, Italy. The paper she presented is entitled “Making gendered sense of refugeeness among Syrians living in Cairo.” Access the Programme here

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1703, 2016

Our Work – Lectures/Talks by Professor Nadje Al-Ali

By Akanksha Mehta|March 17, 2016|Faculty, Lectures/Talks/Conferences, Our Work|0 comments

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

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1703, 2016

Event – CGS Seminar Series – Skin lightening: contempt, hatred, fear

By Akanksha Mehta|March 17, 2016|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

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

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0703, 2016

Our Work – Research – PhD Candidate Mary Austin

By Akanksha Mehta|March 7, 2016|Awards, Our Work, PhD Students, Publications|0 comments

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.

0303, 2016

Event – CGS Seminar Series – The Political Economy of Marriage in a segregated society. Palestinians in Israel

By Akanksha Mehta|March 3, 2016|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

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

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0203, 2016

Our Work – Publication by Professor Nadje Al-Ali

By Akanksha Mehta|March 2, 2016|Faculty, Our Work, Publications|0 comments

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

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2902, 2016

Our Work – Lecture by PhD Candidate Paniz Musawi Natanzi

By Akanksha Mehta|February 29, 2016|Creative Projects, Lectures/Talks/Conferences, Our Work, PhD Students|0 comments

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/