2611, 2015

Event – CGS Seminar Series – The Macabre Mode: Using Death to Make Gendered and Raced Morality Sensible

By Akanksha Mehta|November 26, 2015|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

The Macabre Mode: Using Death to Make Gendered and Raced Morality Sensible 26 November 2015 5 PM, DLT, SOAS In the immediate aftermath of the Chechen siege and hostage-taking of the Moscow theatre in 2002, photos of the dead hostage-takers emerged. The siege ended after Russian forces pumped (illegal) nerve gas into the theatre, killing 130 of 850 hostages and all 40 hostage-takers. The security forces then shot, post-mortem,

2411, 2015

Event – CGS Seminar Series – On the History of the History of Homosexuality: a Re-reading in the Lesbian Premodern

By Akanksha Mehta|November 24, 2015|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

Dr Samar Habib: On the History of the History of Homosexuality: a Re-reading in the Lesbian Premodern 24 November 2015 7 PM, 4429, SOAS Abstract: In conversation with the theoretical paradigms that have dominated the study of premodern sexuality in the Western canon, this paper explores what medieval homoeroticism in Arabic letters illuminates on the subject more broadly. Dr. Habib revisits the literature on same-sex desire among women and asks

1211, 2015

Event – CGS Seminar Series – Who Gets to Be at Home in Britain?: Attachment and disgust in narratives of UK family migration policy

By Akanksha Mehta|November 12, 2015|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

Who Gets to Be at Home in Britain?: Attachment and disgust in narratives of UK family migration policy 12 November 2015 5 PM, DLT, SOAS CGS Seminar presented by Irene Gedalof http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences-and-humanities/people/surnames-d-to-j/irene-gedalof/ In her latest policy statement on migration at the recent Conservative Party conference, Home Secretary Teresa May claimed that ‘when immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive

1510, 2015

Event – CGS Seminar Series – The Unhappy Marriage of Two UN Agendas: Women, Peace and security and the Protection of Civilians

By Akanksha Mehta|October 15, 2015|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

15 October 2015 5 PM, DLT, SOAS The Unhappy Marriage of Two UN Agendas: Women, Peace and security and the Protection of Civilians Dr Niamh Reilly, National University of Ireland, Galway Almost 15 years after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, the ‘women, peace, and security’ agenda has come to be synonymous with a particular interpretation of the protection aspect of the resolution; i.e., protecting women against conflict-related

0110, 2015

Event – CGS Seminar Series – Kurdish Women’s Movements between Conservatism and Radical Democracy

By Akanksha Mehta|October 1, 2015|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

1 October 2015 5 PM, DLT, SOAS Nadje Al-Ali and Houzan Mahmoud will give two presentations: #1 Kurdish women’s rights between rhetoric and reality in South Kurdistan Kurdish people have been in the forefront of fighting against ISIS. Kurdish women in particular have played an exemplary role in leading the struggle against ISIS while maintaining the demand for gender justice and equality. Surprisingly, in Iraqi Kurdistan which has been semi

0701, 2015

Event – CGS Seminar Series – Breaking nationalist frames. Palestinian refugee women and the politics of memory

By Akanksha Mehta|January 7, 2015|CGS Seminar Series, Events|0 comments

Breaking nationalist frames. Palestinian refugee women and the politics of memory 7 January 2016 5 PM, DLT, SOAS Dr Ruba Salih, Reader, CGS, SOAS The paper aims to foreground the question of the relationship between the ordinary and the eventful, and between the domestic and the political, through an analysis of Palestinian refugee women’s embodied memories and narratives. Palestinians, similar to other long term and destitute communities, have struggled to