Congratulations to Jana Cattien – CGS doctoral student who won the article prize in the Journal of International Women’s Studies! Check out her article here! http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/
CGS PhD student, Emily Jones, along with Dr Yoriko Otomo (SOAS) and Dr Sara Kendall (Kent), has released a Call for Papers for a Special Issue with the Australian Feminist Law Journal on ‘Gender, War and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the 21st Century.’ Abstract due 17th March 2017 Further details can be found here
Former PhD student at CGS Zahra Ali writes about her recent trip to Iraq – Young grassroots activism on the rise in Iraq: voices from Baghdad and Najaf – for Open Democracy. Through banners and slogans, grassroots groups find new, inclusive ways of being Iraqi in a country traumatised by authoritarianism, occupation and sectarian war. Tahrir Square, April 2016. Image: Zahra Ali. All rights reserved.Last month, I returned to Iraq to both
Former MA student and research associate at CGS, Isabel Marler, has co-authored a piece – ‘The Devil is in the Details’: development, women’s rights and religious fundamentalisms – for Open Democracy. Dealing with the escalation of violence against women across the world requires a wider adoption of a feminist approach to working at the nexus of development, religious fundamentalisms and women’s rights. Kurdish women march against “ISIS” in London on International Women’s
On April 28, 2016, CGS was proud to host the book launch of our former PhD student and Senior Teaching Fellow, Dr Katherine Natanel. The event was introduced by the Chair of the centre, Dr Gina Heathcote. The evening was chaired by Katie’s PhD supervisor, Professor Nadje Al-Ali who was beaming with pride through the evening. Katie introduced the book and then engaged in an enriching conversation with Professor Clare
Book Launch: Sustaining Conflict: Apathy and Domination in Israel-Palestine 28 April 2016 5 PM, DLT, SOAS To celebrate the launch of her new book, Dr Katherine Natanel will discuss her work with Professor Clare Hemmings (LSE). Chair: Professor Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS) Abstract Sustaining Conflict develops a groundbreaking theory of political apathy, using a combination of ethnographic material, narrative, and political, cultural, and feminist theory. It examines how the status quo
PhD candidate Akanksha Mehta won the third prize in the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology awarded by Social Science Research Council (USA). The prize is given to students who incorporate visual analyses in the social sciences. She will be collecting her prize at the International Sociology Association’s Annual Conference in Vienna. Here entry can be accessed here. Between Home and Away – An Everyday Narrative of Migrant Communities in London [2016: Third
Forthcoming Publication – Postdoctoral Associate and former PhD student Dr Afaf Jabiri’s book – Gendered Politics and Law in Jordan: Guardianship over Women – will be published later this year. More details are here. This book analyzes how the state constructs and reproduces gender identities in the context and geopolitics of Jordan. It addresses the relevance of the state and its web of relations in understanding the politics of gender
In April 2016, PhD candidate Paniz Musawi Natanzi’s conversation on Art and Geopolitics was published in HAYP Pop Art Gallery Website based in Yerevan, Armenia, http://haypopup.com/2016/04/02/art-geopolitics-a-conversation-with-paniz-musawi-natanzi/ ART & GEOPOLITICS: A CONVERSATION WITH PANIZ MUSAWI April 2, 2016 by Gabriel Ouzounian HAYP’s newest exhibit Lips of Pride is coming up quickly, and our special guest speakers are starting to arrive. One of our most exciting visitors is Paniz Musawi Natanzi, a Researcher who
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