Gender and Islam

Venue: Seminar room, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,
Nygårdsgaten 5, 5015 Bergen.

• 4 September 13.15-15.00,
  Meyda Yegenoglu (ass. Professor, Middle East Technical University): "Feminism and Orientalism: Why Save Women from Islam?"
• 30 September: 12.15-14.00
  Munzoul A. M. Assal (Dr. Polit Candidate, University of Bergen): "Islam and Gender in the context of Migration."
• 7 October: 12.15-14.00
  Gilbert Taguem Fah (University of N’Gaoundére, Cameroon): "Power of Knowledge, Islamic Revivalism and New Perspective on Gender Relation in Cameroon"
• 14 October: 12.15-14.00
  Thomas Walle (dr. polit candidate, NOVA): "Pakistanske menn: kjønn, religion og mannlig praksis i Pakistan og Norge"
• 21 October: 14.15-16.00
  Sevil Sümer (Post doc, Institute of Sociology, University of Bergen): "The Kemalist Project of Secularization and Gender Relations in Turkey"
• 3 November 10-15-12.00
  Bjørn Olav Utvik (Dept. of East European and Oriental Studies, University of Oslo): "Kvinnefrigjering i den islamske republikken?"
• 10 November 13.15-15.00
  Judith Mabro (Gender studies, University of Oxford): "Veiled half truths: Western travellers' perceptions of Middle Eastern women"
• 12 november 12.15-14.00
  Aud Talle (Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo): "The pain and the veil: Somali refugee women in London"