STRAND 3: REPRESENTATION, DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM

Panel 1:

Intersectionality and the state

Chair: Sevil Sümer

Room: Dræggen 8

Time slot: Day 1, 1145-1315

Cathrine Egeland

Politics of equality: state feminist power play in an age of uncertainty?

Christine Jacobsen

Gendered Citizenship Seen Through French Legal Bans on Muslim Women’s Coverings.

Synnøve Bendixsen

The irregular body: biopolitics and subjectification in the inclusive-exclusive welfare state

Panel 2: Between Sharia and Human Rights: Sudanese Women’s Strategies for Legal Reform 

Chair:  Liv Tønnessen

Room: Kongesal 5

Time slot: Day 1, 1145-1315 

Samia al-Nagar

Governmentalization of women’s rights in Sudan: Emerging reforms from within

Akram Abbas

Muslim Family law reform in Sudan: Women’s right to divorce between ideal and practice

Lamya Badri

Shifting Gender Relations at the Local Level in East Sudan:  Women Rejecting the Decision of Traditional Courts

Panel 3: Women, conflict and representations

Chair:
Torunn Wimpelmann

Room: Kongesal 5

Time slot: Day 1, 1515-1645

Loretto Linusson

To be or not to be legit – representations of exile and oppressions in post-dictatorship Chile

Beatrice Sjöström

Gender, race and class in interwar Swedish Fascism 

Panel 4: Gender quotas

Chair: Vibeke Wang

Room: Kongesal 1-2

Time slot: Day 1, 1515-1645 

Henry Allen

 ‘Quotas are the last option.’ Understanding the politics of quotas in the UK.

Siri Øyslebø Sørensen

Action Theory approach to State Feminism: taking the practices of policy-making into account

Ragnhild L. Muriaas

Alternatives to gender quotas? The public funding of women candidates experiment in the 2009 Malawian elections in comparison

Panel 5: Women in the legislature

Chair: Ragnhild Muriaas

Room: Dræggen 8

Time slot: Day 2, 1100-1230

Dorota Opyd

What are the foundations of difficulties responsible for women’s underrepresentation in the House of Commons and The Sejm of the Republic of Poland?

Erkka Railo

Transformations of the female subject in Finnish Parliament 1973-2013

Syeda Lasna Kabir
Hasan Muhammad Baniamin

Panel 6: Space, place and representations 

Chair: Hilde Danielsen

Room: Kongesal 5

Time slot: Day 2, 1100-1230

Sailaja Joshi

An Appropriate Assimilation: Exploring Narratives of Body, Beauty and Citizenship in the Asian-Indian Diaspora

Mahalakshimi Mahadevan

Engendering Familial citizens: Television, gender and civic engagement in urban India

Bodil Pedersen

Symbolic violence and gendered sexualised violence

Panel 7: Inclusion and exclusion in transnational settings

Chair: Cathrine Egeland

Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe

Contemporary perceptions and practices of ‘citizenship’ among Palestinian feminists in Israel: a challenge to existing citizenship discourses in Israel?

Room: Dræggen 8

Torunn Wimpelmann

Transnational Feminist Sociology and the State. Some Reflections through the Case of Afganistan

Time slot: Day 2, 1330-1500

Sevil Sümer and Beatrice Halsaa

Lived Citizenship: Insights from a multi-dimensional approach

Panel 8: Tracing gender in Aid and Development: Global – local dynamics

Astrid Blystad

Mediators of development? Experiences with gender and aid among gender experts in Ethiopia

Chair: Haldis Haukanes

Room: Kongesal 5

Siri Lange

Gender and Governance: The role of NGOs in Tanzanian policy making

Time slot: Day 2, 1330-1500

Thera Mjaaland

Maernet biqalsi, equality through struggle: some notes on the Tigrayan context, Ethiopia

Panel 9: Universal suffrage

Chair: Cathrine Holst

Fia Sundevall

‘One man, one rifle, one vote’: gender, military obigations and political rights

Room: Kongesal 1-2

Eirinn Larsen

From economic to political citizenship. The history of women’s vote in Norway.

Time slot: Day 2, 1330-1500

Tone Brekke

”History of Women Suffrage (1881- 1922): women’s suffrage as a transatlantic, rhetorical project.