Panel discussion during Bergen’s International Music Festival: Hijab: requirement, duty or right?
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In what ways does the relationship between art, the hijab and feminism represent conflict lines in motion?
Panel participants will discuss this question starting with the dance performance Manta as their point of departure. The purpose of this discussion is not to debate the pros and cons of the use of the hijab, but rather to place this dance performance into a larger context. How do political and aesthetic devises come together in art, and in what ways do art projects highlight feminist issues? We also draw in historical and comparative lines in the discussion of the use, decrees and prohibition of the hijab within different societies in the world today.
Panel participants:
Ilham Hassan (Lawyer, former Chairman of the Somalian Student
Association, Writer for Morgenbladet and Hijab-brigaden.net)
Sigrun Åsebø (Lecturer, Art History, University of Bergen)
Christine M. Jacobsen (Post-doctor, Social Anthropology, IMER, University of Bergen)
Marianne Bøe (Research Fellow, Religion and SKOK, University of Bergen)
Nefissa Naguib (Researcher, Anthropologist, CMI)
Panel leader:
Professor and academic director Ellen Mortensen, SKOK
Organiser: SKOK, IMER/Uni Rokkansenteret and Bergen’s International Music Festival
