Events

Varieties of Feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa

Hosted by the Department of Gender Studies

Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building , United Kingdom

Speakers

Valentine M. Moghadam

Valentine M. Moghadam

Professor of Sociology and International Affairs Program at Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Dr. Hannah Bargawi

Dr. Hannah Bargawi

Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS

Chair

Ece Kocabiçak

LSE Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies

Speaker Professor Valentine M. Moghadam is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs Program at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Previously she has been a section chief at UNESCO in Paris, where she led policy-oriented research on gender equality and development in the Social and Human Sciences Sector; and a senior researcher at the United Nations University's WIDER Institute in Helsinki, Finland, where she coordinated the research program on women and development. Born in Tehran, Iran, Professor Moghadam received her higher education in Canada and the U.S. Her areas of research include globalization, transnational social movements and networks, economic citizenship, and gender, development, and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of many journal articles and books, including Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003, 2013), Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (2005, which won the American Political Science Association's Victoria Schuck award for best book on women and politics for 2005), and Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement (2009, 2013), currently being updated for a third edition. She has edited or co-edited eight books, including Social Policy in the Middle East: Economic, Political, and Gender Dynamics (2006, with Massoud Karshenas) and Empowering Women after the Arab Spring (2016, with Marwa Shalaby).

Respondent Dr. Hannah Bargawi is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. As well as convening courses in Gender Economics and Development Economics, Dr. Bargawi is also responsible for PhD researchers in the Department of Economics at SOAS in her role as Research Tutor. Dr. Bargawi’s research spans macroeconomic policies and employment as well as gender and labour market issues, such as the links between paid and unpaid work. Her research is focused on East Africa and the Middle East as well as Europe. Dr. Bargawi has been involved in numerous research and consultancy projects for international agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, the International Labour Organisation, UNDP and UN Women. Dr. Bargawi recently completed an Employment Diagnostic Assessment for the International Labour Organisation and the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in Uganda. Recent research on macroeconomic policies and gender in Europe has been published by Routledge as a co-edited volume entitled Economics and Austerity in Europe: Gendered Impacts and Sustainable Alternatives.

Chair Dr Ece Kocabiçak is currently working as an LSE Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at London School of Economics and Political Science (2017-current). Prior to this position, she taught on the undergraduate programme in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University (2013-2017). Her teaching and research engage with the contemporary debates in comparative political economy, international development, political sociology, and social inequalities. Her research examines trajectories of capitalist development; varieties of gender regimes; state-formation; the relationship between gender, class, race-ethnicity, and sexuality based inequalities; and the significance of political collective subjects for social change. She further focuses on the processes and factors that sustain gender-based exclusionary strategies in property ownership, labour market, education, and political decision making in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Ece is currently working as a member of the ESRC funded Global Challenges Network (led from SOAS) on the dynamics of gender inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.

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