News on CMRB EUBorderscapes Project

EUBorderscapes

Bordering, Political Landscapes and Social Arenas: Potentials and Challenges of

Evolving Border Concepts in a post-Cold War World

EUBorderscapes, financed though the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, is a new international research project that tracks and interprets conceptual change in the study of borders. It is a large-scale project with a consortium that includes 22 partner institutions from 17 different states, including several non-EU countries. The EUBorderscapes project will study conceptual change in relation to fundamental social, economic, cultural and geopolitical transformations that have taken place in the past decades. In addition, major paradigmatic shifts in scientific debate, and in the social sciences in particular, will also be considered. State borders are the frame of reference, rather than ethnographic/anthropological boundaries. However, this approach emphasises the social significance and subjectivities of state borders while critically interrogating “objective” categories of state territoriality and international relations. The research proposed here will, furthermore, not only be focused at the more general, at times highly abstract, level of conceptual change. This project will also compare and contrast how different and often contested conceptualisations of state borders (in terms of their political, social, cultural and symbolic significance) resonate in concrete contexts at the level of everyday life.

CMRB’s Role

CMRB’s Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis is co-ordinating work package 9 of the project – Borders, Intersectionality and the Everyday. The central objective of the work package is to promote hitherto neglected areas of border research agendas that address lived, experienced and intersectional (e.g. gender, age, ethnicity) aspects of state borders. The bordering perspective will thus be developed in terms of discursive, practical and interpretational categories that reflect issues of citizenship, identity and transnational migration. This work package will also explore how borders affect groups with regard to gender, race, citizenship, socio-economic status and sexuality. The comparative perspective will encompass in-depth case studies that involve internal Schengen borders (UK/France) and the external EU border (Finland/Russia). In addition, an urban case study (London) of intersectionality and bordering will be carried out.

Full details via Contact – Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB).

Reminder CMRB Event: Book Launch for ‘Refugee Women: Beyond gender versus culture’ by Leah Bassel

CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) is delighted to invite you to the book launch for

Refugee Women: Beyond gender versus culture

by

Leah Bassel

which will take place in

EB.G.05 Docklands Campus, University of East London, E16 2RD, nearest tube: Cyprus DLR

(www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/)

Monday 18^th March, 4-6pm

Discussant: Prof. Maleiha Malik

Leah Bassel is New Blood Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester.  Her research focuses on the political sociology of gender, migration, race and citizenship.  Her work has also been published in journals including Politics & Gender, Ethnicities, Government and Opposition and French Politics. She is an Assistant Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies.

Maleiha Malik is Professor in Law at King’s College London. She is a barrister and a member and fellow of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. Her research focuses on the theory and practice of discrimination law. She is the co-author of Discrimination Law: Theory and Practice which was published in 2008.

Refugee Women: Beyond Gender Versus Culture

Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate.  It contrasts debates in France over the headscarf and in Canada over religious arbitration with the lived experience of a specific group of Muslim women: Somali refugee women. The challenges these women eloquently describe first-hand demonstrate that the fray over accommodating culture and religion neglects other needs and engenders a democratic deficit.

In Refugee Women: Beyond Gender versus Culture, new theoretical perspectives recast both the story told and who tells the tale. By focusing on the politics underlying how these debates are framed and the experiences of women at the heart of these controversies, women are considered first and foremost as democratic agents rather than actors in the ‘culture versus gender’ script. Crucially, the institutions and processes created to address women’s needs are critically assessed from this perspective.

Breaking from scholarship that focuses on whether the accommodation of culture and religion harms women, Bassel argues that this debate ignores the realities of the women at its heart. In these debates, Muslim women are constructed as silent victims. Bassel pleads compellingly for a consideration of women in all their complexity, as active participants in democratic life.

For more information on this book:  www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415603607/

 

Reminder – CMRB Event: Women, Sexuality and Christian Fundamentalism

CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) would like to invite you to a symposium on the question of:

WOMEN, SEXUALITY AND

CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM

which will take place at the Khalili Lecture Theatre in SOAS (www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/)

Saturday 9^th March, 2-5pm

Confirmed Speakers:

Dr. Ann Rossiter

‘The role of the Catholic Church in the making of a London-Irish abortion underground trail’

Dr. Carmen Sepulveda, UCL

‘Religion and feminism “face to face”: institutions and the roll back of reproductive rights in Latin America’

Dr. Rahul Rao, SOAS

‘The international relations of homophobia’

Dr. Sukhwant Dhaliwal, Goldsmiths

‘The Christian Peoples Alliance: race, regeneration and reproductive

rights’.

Natalie Bennett

‘Women and Christian Fundamentalism in the UK’

Chair: Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS

Discussant: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, UEL

The event is free but places are limited so please RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk).

Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS  www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies/

Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB UEL Director
www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/

Ann Rossiter is a long-standing Irish feminist activist who has lived in London for more than half a century.  For twenty years she was a member of the London Irish Women’s Abortion Support Group, set up to support abortion seekers with information, money, accommodation, and not least, a sympathetic ear.  She published the history of the group and its experiences in Ireland’s Hidden Diaspora in 2009.

Carmen Sepúlveda Zelaya is a PhD candidate at the Institute of the Americas, at UCL. She holds a BA in Political Science from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She earned her MPhil degree in Development Studies from the Institute for Development Studies, at the University of Sussex. She has also worked in the development sector within international NGOs, focusing on women’s rights and sexual and reproductive rights at both national and international level. Her current PhD research focuses on the legal and political battles behind the distribution of emergency contraception in Chile under the governments of Ricardo Lagos (2000-2005) and Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010). Her research interests include the role and interaction of institutions and actors in the policy process, gender and development, feminism, women’s movements, sexual and reproductive health and rights, religion, gender and health, abortion, public health, democratisation and judicialisation processes.

Rahul Rao is a Lecturer in Politics at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. He has a law degree from the National Law School of India University (Bangalore) and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford. His research interests encompass International Relations, political theory and queer studies, with an area focus on South Asia and East Africa. He is the author of Third World Protest: Between Home and the World (Oxford University Press, 2010), as well as of numerous articles. He blogs occasionally at ‘The Disorder of Things’.

Sukhwant Dhaliwal grew up in Southall in the shadow of an emergent anti-racist and Black feminist movement but also during one of the earliest diasporic fundamentalist mobilisations – that of the Khalistani movement – which called for secession from the Indian state and the establishment of a Sikh theocracy. In her 20s she moved to east London and engaged with anti-racist politics, challenging racist mobilisations of the British National Party and the daily racial harassment of black residents. Overshadowed by male voices, she sought empowerment in women’s organisations speaking out against domestic violence. Attending a WAF meeting in Conway Hall in the mid-1990s was an important marker for understanding how these various issues could fit together and she joined WAF in 1995. Two years later she went to India to learn more about the roots of diasporic fundamentalisms and enrolled for a course at Delhi School of Economics. Sukhwant has recently completed a PhD entitled ‘Religion, Moral Hegemony and Local Cartographies of Power: Feminist Reflections on Local Politics’ from the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Natalie Bennett is the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Natalie is a journalist by profession and between 2007 and 2012 she was the editor of The Guardian Weekly. She blogs regularly for The Guardian’s Comment is Free and on The Huffington Post. She has two bachelors degrees, one in Agricultural Science and one in Asian Studies and holds a Masters Degree in Mass Communication from the University of Leicester. Natalie has also edited Thailand Country Study: Best Practice Guide on Sustainable Action Against Child Labour and Women’s Health and Development, Country Profile Thailand.

Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her main research interests revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora mobilization; war, conflict and reconstruction. Nadje is a feminist, peace activist and academic who co-founded Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq in the late 90s. During this period she also started to get involved with Women in Black UK. Her feminist activism started in Egypt during the early 1990s. Her involvement in a leftist secular women’s organization triggered her interest to study secularism in the context of the Egyptian women’s movement. She joined WAF while working on her PhD at SOAS. Nadje is currently President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) and a member of the Feminist Review Collective.

Nira Yuval-Davis is the Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London. She has been the President of the Research Committee 05 (on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, a founder member of Women Against Fundamentalism and the international research network of Women In Militarized Conflict Zones. Nira Yuval-Davis has written extensively on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and gender relations in Britain & Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies. Among her written and edited books are: Racialized Boundaries, 1992; Gender and Nation, 1997; Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms, 2004; The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations, 2011.

CMRB – Book Launch for ‘Refugee Women: Beyond gender versus culture’ by Leah Bassel

CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) is delighted to invite you to the book launch for

Refugee Women: Beyond gender versus culture

by

Leah Bassel

 which will take place in

EB.G.05 Docklands Campus, University of East London, E16 2RD, nearest tube: Cyprus DLR

(www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/)

Monday 18^th March, 4-6pm

Discussant: Prof. Maleiha Malik

Leah Bassel is New Blood Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester.  Her research focuses on the political sociology of gender, migration, race and citizenship.  Her work has also been published in journals including Politics & Gender, Ethnicities, Government and Opposition and French Politics. She is an Assistant Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies.

Maleiha Malik is Professor in Law at King’s College London. She is a barrister and a member and fellow of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. Her research focuses on the theory and practice of discrimination law. She is the co-author of Discrimination Law: Theory and Practice which was published in 2008.

Refugee Women: Beyond Gender Versus Culture

Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female
Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North
America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam
violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate.
It contrasts debates in France over the headscarf and in Canada over
religious arbitration with the lived experience of a specific group of Muslim
women: Somali refugee women. The challenges these women eloquently describe first-hand demonstrate that the fray over accommodating culture and religion neglects other needs and engenders a democratic deficit.

In Refugee Women: Beyond Gender versus Culture, new theoretical perspectives recast both the story told and who tells the tale. By focusing on the politics underlying how these debates are framed and the experiences of women at the heart of these controversies, women are considered first and foremost as democratic agents rather than actors in the ‘culture versus gender’
script. Crucially, the institutions and processes created to address women’s
needs are critically assessed from this perspective.

Breaking from scholarship that focuses on whether the accommodation of
culture and religion harms women, Bassel argues that this debate ignores the
realities of the women at its heart. In these debates, Muslim women are
constructed as silent victims. Bassel pleads compellingly for a consideration
of women in all their complexity, as active participants in democratic life.

 

CMRB Event: Women, Sexuality and Christian Fundamentalism

CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) would like to invite you to a symposium on the question of:

WOMEN, SEXUALITY AND

CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM

which will take place at the Khalili Lecture Theatre in SOAS (www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/)

Saturday 9^th March, 2-5pm

Confirmed Speakers:

Dr. Ann Rossiter

‘The role of the Catholic Church in the making of a London-Irish abortion underground trail’

Dr. Carmen Sepulveda, UCL

‘Religion and feminism “face to face”: institutions and the roll back of reproductive rights in Latin America’

Dr. Rahul Rao, SOAS

‘The international relations of homophobia’

Dr. Sukhwant Dhaliwal, Goldsmiths

‘The Christian Peoples Alliance: race, regeneration and reproductive

rights’.

Natalie Bennett

‘Women and Christian Fundamentalism in the UK’

Chair: Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS

Discussant: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, UEL

The event is free but places are limited so please RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk).

Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS  www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies/

Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB UEL Director
www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/

Ann Rossiter is a long-standing Irish feminist activist who has lived in London for more than half a century.  For twenty years she was a member of the London Irish Women’s Abortion Support Group, set up to support abortion seekers with information, money, accommodation, and not least, a sympathetic ear.  She published the history of the group and its experiences in Ireland’s Hidden Diaspora in 2009.

Carmen Sepúlveda Zelaya is a PhD candidate at the Institute of the Americas, at UCL. She holds a BA in Political Science from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She earned her MPhil degree in Development Studies from the Institute for Development Studies, at the University of Sussex. She has also worked in the development sector within international NGOs, focusing on women’s rights and sexual and reproductive rights at both national and international level. Her current PhD research focuses on the legal and political battles behind the distribution of emergency contraception in Chile under the governments of Ricardo Lagos (2000-2005) and Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010). Her research interests include the role and interaction of institutions and actors in the policy process, gender and development, feminism, women’s movements, sexual and reproductive health and rights, religion, gender and health, abortion, public health, democratisation and judicialisation processes.

Rahul Rao is a Lecturer in Politics at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. He has a law degree from the National Law School of India University (Bangalore) and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford. His research interests encompass International Relations, political theory and queer studies, with an area focus on South Asia and East Africa. He is the author of Third World Protest: Between Home and the World (Oxford University Press, 2010), as well as of numerous articles. He blogs occasionally at ‘The Disorder of Things’.

Sukhwant Dhaliwal grew up in Southall in the shadow of an emergent anti-racist and Black feminist movement but also during one of the earliest diasporic fundamentalist mobilisations – that of the Khalistani movement – which called for secession from the Indian state and the establishment of a Sikh theocracy. In her 20s she moved to east London and engaged with anti-racist politics, challenging racist mobilisations of the British National Party and the daily racial harassment of black residents. Overshadowed by male voices, she sought empowerment in women’s organisations speaking out against domestic violence. Attending a WAF meeting in Conway Hall in the mid-1990s was an important marker for understanding how these various issues could fit together and she joined WAF in 1995. Two years later she went to India to learn more about the roots of diasporic fundamentalisms and enrolled for a course at Delhi School of Economics. Sukhwant has recently completed a PhD entitled ‘Religion, Moral Hegemony and Local Cartographies of Power: Feminist Reflections on Local Politics’ from the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Natalie Bennett is the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Natalie is a journalist by profession and between 2007 and 2012 she was the editor of The Guardian Weekly. She blogs regularly for The Guardian’s Comment is Free and on The Huffington Post. She has two bachelors degrees, one in Agricultural Science and one in Asian Studies and holds a Masters Degree in Mass Communication from the University of Leicester. Natalie has also edited Thailand Country Study: Best Practice Guide on Sustainable Action Against Child Labour and Women’s Health and Development, Country Profile Thailand.

Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her main research interests revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora mobilization; war, conflict and reconstruction. Nadje is a feminist, peace activist and academic who co-founded Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq in the late 90s. During this period she also started to get involved with Women in Black UK. Her feminist activism started in Egypt during the early 1990s. Her involvement in a leftist secular women’s organization triggered her interest to study secularism in the context of the Egyptian women’s movement. She joined WAF while working on her PhD at SOAS. Nadje is currently President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) and a member of the Feminist Review Collective.

Nira Yuval-Davis is the Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London. She has been the President of the Research Committee 05 (on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, a founder member of Women Against Fundamentalism and the international research network of Women In Militarized Conflict Zones. Nira Yuval-Davis has written extensively on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and gender relations in Britain & Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies. Among her written and edited books are: Racialized Boundaries, 1992; Gender and Nation, 1997; Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms, 2004; The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations, 2011.

 

Reminder – CMRB Event: Gender, Migration and Space: A memorial symposium for Tijen Uguris

Please find attached information (see below) for the following CMRB/CCIG event – Gender, Migration and Space: A memorial symposium for Tijen Uguris.

It will take place at the Open University, Camden office, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, NW1 8NP (http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/maps.aspx?contactid=1) between 2-6pm on Friday 8th March 2013.

Best regards,

Jamie Hakim, Research Administrator (CMRB) Nira Yuval-Davis, Director, (CMRB)

CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) and the CCIG (Centre for Citizenship, Identities, Governance) (Open University) are pleased to announce the following event:

Gender, Migration and Space:

A memorial symposium for Tijen Uguris

It will take place at the Open University, Camden office, 1-11 Hawley Crescent,

Camden Town, NW1 8NP

(For map and directions: http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/maps.aspx?contactid=1)

2-6pm Friday 8th March 2013

Chair: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis

Speakers:

Prof. Floya Anthias (Roehampton University)

‘Transnational Mobilities and Social Locations: a translocational framing’

 Prof. Heaven Crawley (Swansea University)

‘[En]gendering international protection: refugee women, men and the politics of asylum’

Prof. Randi Gressgard (Bergen University)

‘Cosmopolitanism and containment: Neoliberal governance and instrumentalisation of urban sexual diversity’

Prof. Eleonore Kofman Erel (Middlesex University)

Title tbc

Dr. Jon Binnie & Dr. Christian Klesse (Manchester Metropolitan)

‘Discourses on Migration and Transnational Activism around Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland’

Dr. Niloufar Pourzand (UN)

‘Gender and Migration in War and Peace: Women’s Personal and Collective Journeys and Struggles in Central Asia, the Caribbean and South East Asia’

 Dr. Mastoureh Fathi (Birkbeck University)

‘We are middle class in English standards’: spatial belonging and classed identities of Iranian women migrants in Britain’

 Dr. Necla Acik (Manchester University)

‘Gender and National Liberation in Kurdistan’

This event is free but places are limited so book your place asap. RSVP to Jamie Hakim (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk)

Nira Yuval-Davis Director, CMRB (UEL)

Umut Erel, CCIG (OU)

Speaker Biographies:

Floya Anthias is currently Professor of Sociology and Social Justice (Emeritus) at Roehampton University and Visiting Professor In Sociology at City University. Her main academic writings have been devoted to exploring different forms of stratification, social hierarchy and inequality, and how they interconnect. Her work has also been characterised by an interest in the Southern Mediterranean and she has undertaken a range of research on Cyprus and Cypriot migration and settlement. Her most recent work has been developing the concept of translocational positionality as a way of addressing some of the difficulties identified with concepts of hybridity, identity and intersectionality.

Jon Binnie is Reader in Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests focus on the geographies of sexualities in the urban and transnational context. He is the author of The Globalization of Sexuality (Sage, 2004), The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond (with David Bell; Polity, 2000) and Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces (with David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Robyn Longhurst and Robin Peace; Syracuse University Press, 2001). He is currently completing a monograph on transnational activism and sexual politics in Central and Eastern Europe with Christian Klesse for Manchester University Press

Professor Heaven Crawley AcSS is Professor of International Migration and Director of the Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University. Heaven has undertaken research on asylum policy and practice in the UK and Europe since 1994, initially as part of a PhD at the University of Oxford and subsequently as head of asylum and immigration research at the UK Home Office and as Associate Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). She is a founding member of the Refugee Women’s Legal Group which produced the gender guidelines which were adopted by the UK Home Office in 2004 and author of Refugees and Gender: Law and Process (2001).

Umut Erel is lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. Her research interests are in migration, ethnicity, gender and class, culture and representation empirically and theoretically. Recent publications include: Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship. (2012); ‘Reframing Migrant Mothers as Citizens’, Citizenship Studies (Nov. 2011) and Complex belongings: Racialization and migration in a small English city, Ethnic and Racial Studies (Dec 2012).

Randi Gressgård is Associate Professor of gender studies, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen. She is also affiliated with the research unit International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in Bergen. Her research interests include migration & minority studies, gender & sexuality studies and urban studies. Among her publications is Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts (2010/2012).

Christian Klesse is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). He has published widely on sexuality, intimacy, body modification, sexual politics and research methodology. He is author of The Spectre of Promiscuity. Gay Male and Bisexual Non-monogamies and Polyamories (Ashgate, 2007 ). He is co-editor of a special issue on Polyamory of Sexualities (9(5), December 2006).

Niloufar Pourzand has a PhD from the University of Greenwich in Sociology, Gender and Ethnic Studies. She has worked with the UN for over 30 years in a number of regions and countries on issues of children, women and refugee rights, as well as education, child protection and policy. Niloufar met and grew to deeply admire Tijen in 1995 when she began her MA at the U. of Greenwich when both were students of Prof Nira Yuval-Davis. Tijen certainly remains one of the inspirations of Niloufar’s life – whom she will always love, remember and highly respect.

Mastoureh Fathi is currently a research assistant in Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London on a project called, ‘Mediated Humanitarian Knowledge: Audiences’ responses and moral actions’. Her research interests include migrants’ narratives, class and belonging stories and women’s social and political engagements in Iran. She was awarded her PhD, entitled ‘Classed Pathways: Narratives of Iranian Women Migrants’ in 2011.

 

CMRB Event: Youth Work, Critical Inclusion and Transversal Dialogue

CMRB (Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) is pleased to announce the following event:

Youth Work, Critical Inclusion and Transversal Dialogue

It will take place in EB.G.10, East Building, Docklands Campus, University of East London (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/)

Wednesday 13^th February 2013, 2-4pm

The workshop will host a delegation from the EU ‘Youth in Action – Democracy Project’ led by Bengt Persson from the municipality of Lund, Sweden. It will provide an opportunity for scholars, activists and members of statuary and voluntary organizations engaged in similar activities to discuss the project’s results and their political and policy implications.

The event is free but places are limited, so reserve your place as soon as possible. RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk)

A description of the project:

Bangol Including Festigress is an EU “Youth in Action – democracy project” for counties in the Baltic Sea Region. The purpose was to bring young people together from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Germany and Sweden to discuss and explore inclusion and border crossing (transversal) dialogues. The project motto was: Youngsters, who learn together, learn to live together.

Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB Director

http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/

 

CMRB: Gender, Migration and Space: A memorial symposium for Tijen Uguris

Please find attached information (see below) for the following CMRB/CCIG event – Gender, Migration and Space: A memorial symposium for Tijen Uguris.

It will take place at the Open University, Camden office, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, NW1 8NP (http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/maps.aspx?contactid=1) between 2-6pm on Friday 8th March 2013.

Best regards,

Jamie Hakim, Research Administrator (CMRB) Nira Yuval-Davis, Director, (CMRB)

CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) and the CCIG (Centre for Citizenship, Identities, Governance) (Open University) are pleased to announce the following event:

Gender, Migration and Space:

A memorial symposium for Tijen Uguris

It will take place at the Open University, Camden office, 1-11 Hawley Crescent,

Camden Town, NW1 8NP

(For map and directions: http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/maps.aspx?contactid=1)

2-6pm Friday 8th March 2013

Chair: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis

Speakers:

Prof. Floya Anthias (Roehampton University)

‘Transnational Mobilities and Social Locations: a translocational framing’

 Prof. Heaven Crawley (Swansea University)

‘[En]gendering international protection: refugee women, men and the politics of asylum’

Prof. Randi Gressgard (Bergen University)

‘Cosmopolitanism and containment: Neoliberal governance and instrumentalisation of urban sexual diversity’

Prof. Eleonore Kofman Erel (Middlesex University)

Title tbc

Dr. Jon Binnie & Dr. Christian Klesse (Manchester Metropolitan)

‘Discourses on Migration and Transnational Activism around Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Politics in Poland’

Dr. Niloufar Pourzand (UN)

‘Gender and Migration in War and Peace: Women’s Personal and Collective Journeys and Struggles in Central Asia, the Caribbean and South East Asia’

 Dr. Mastoureh Fathi (Birkbeck University)

‘We are middle class in English standards’: spatial belonging and classed identities of Iranian women migrants in Britain’

 Dr. Necla Acik (Manchester University)

‘Gender and National Liberation in Kurdistan’

This event is free but places are limited so book your place asap. RSVP to Jamie Hakim (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk)

Nira Yuval-Davis Director, CMRB (UEL)

Umut Erel, CCIG (OU)

Speaker Biographies:

Floya Anthias is currently Professor of Sociology and Social Justice (Emeritus) at Roehampton University and Visiting Professor In Sociology at City University. Her main academic writings have been devoted to exploring different forms of stratification, social hierarchy and inequality, and how they interconnect. Her work has also been characterised by an interest in the Southern Mediterranean and she has undertaken a range of research on Cyprus and Cypriot migration and settlement. Her most recent work has been developing the concept of translocational positionality as a way of addressing some of the difficulties identified with concepts of hybridity, identity and intersectionality.

Jon Binnie is Reader in Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests focus on the geographies of sexualities in the urban and transnational context. He is the author of The Globalization of Sexuality (Sage, 2004), The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond (with David Bell; Polity, 2000) and Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces (with David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Robyn Longhurst and Robin Peace; Syracuse University Press, 2001). He is currently completing a monograph on transnational activism and sexual politics in Central and Eastern Europe with Christian Klesse for Manchester University Press

Professor Heaven Crawley AcSS is Professor of International Migration and Director of the Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University. Heaven has undertaken research on asylum policy and practice in the UK and Europe since 1994, initially as part of a PhD at the University of Oxford and subsequently as head of asylum and immigration research at the UK Home Office and as Associate Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). She is a founding member of the Refugee Women’s Legal Group which produced the gender guidelines which were adopted by the UK Home Office in 2004 and author of Refugees and Gender: Law and Process (2001).

Umut Erel is lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. Her research interests are in migration, ethnicity, gender and class, culture and representation empirically and theoretically. Recent publications include: Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship. (2012); ‘Reframing Migrant Mothers as Citizens’, Citizenship Studies (Nov. 2011) and Complex belongings: Racialization and migration in a small English city, Ethnic and Racial Studies (Dec 2012).

Randi Gressgård is Associate Professor of gender studies, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen. She is also affiliated with the research unit International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in Bergen. Her research interests include migration & minority studies, gender & sexuality studies and urban studies. Among her publications is Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts (2010/2012).

Christian Klesse is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). He has published widely on sexuality, intimacy, body modification, sexual politics and research methodology. He is author of The Spectre of Promiscuity. Gay Male and Bisexual Non-monogamies and Polyamories (Ashgate, 2007 ). He is co-editor of a special issue on Polyamory of Sexualities (9(5), December 2006).

Niloufar Pourzand has a PhD from the University of Greenwich in Sociology, Gender and Ethnic Studies. She has worked with the UN for over 30 years in a number of regions and countries on issues of children, women and refugee rights, as well as education, child protection and policy. Niloufar met and grew to deeply admire Tijen in 1995 when she began her MA at the U. of Greenwich when both were students of Prof Nira Yuval-Davis. Tijen certainly remains one of the inspirations of Niloufar’s life – whom she will always love, remember and highly respect.

Mastoureh Fathi is currently a research assistant in Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London on a project called, ‘Mediated Humanitarian Knowledge: Audiences’ responses and moral actions’. Her research interests include migrants’ narratives, class and belonging stories and women’s social and political engagements in Iran. She was awarded her PhD, entitled ‘Classed Pathways: Narratives of Iranian Women Migrants’ in 2011.

 

CMRB – Youth Work, Critical Inclusion and Transversal Dialogue

Please find attached information (see below) for the following CMRB event: Youth Work, Critical Inclusion and Transversal Dialogue.

Please note the following correction – this event will take place on Wednesday 13th February 2013 NOT 4th February as previously advertised

The event will take place in EB.G.10, East Building, Docklands Campus, University of East London (www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/) between 2-4pm (Wednesday 13th February 2013).

Please RSVP to j.hakim@uel.ac.uk if you wish to attend.

Best regards,

Jamie Hakim, Research Administrator (CMRB) Nira Yuval-Davis, Director, Director (CMRB)

CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) is pleased to announce the following event:

Youth Work, Critical Inclusion and Transversal Dialogue

It will take place in EB.G.10, East Building, Docklands Campus, University of East London (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/)

Wednesday 13^th February 2013, 2-4pm

The workshop will host a delegation from the EU ‘Youth in Action – Democracy Project’ led by Bengt Persson from the municipality of Lund, Sweden. It will provide an opportunity for scholars, activists and members of statuary and voluntary organizations engaged in similar activities to discuss the project’s results and their political and policy implications.

The event is free but places are limited, so reserve your place as soon as possible. RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk)

A description of the project:

Bangol Including Festigress is an EU “Youth in Action – democracy project” for counties in the Baltic Sea Region. The purpose was to bring young people together from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Germany and Sweden to discuss and explore inclusion and border crossing (transversal) dialogues. The project motto was: Youngsters, who learn together, learn to live together.

Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB Director

http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/

 

REMINDER: CMRB – Contesting senses of belongingness in the making of a diaspora: The case of Chinese migrants’ political mobilisation in Paris

CMRB is delighted to invite you to the following research seminar:

‘Contesting senses of belongingness in the making of a diaspora: The case of Chinese migrants’ political mobilisation in Paris’, delivered by Ya-Han Chuang.

The seminar takes place 14:00–16:00, Wednesday 30th January 2013 in EB 1 40, Docklands Campus, University of East London. (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/).

More information is included in the flyer detailed below.

ALL WELCOME!

CMRB would like to invite you to the following research seminar:

Contesting senses of belongingness in the making of a diaspora: The case of Chinese migrants’ political mobilisation in Paris

Ya-Han Chuang

Time: 14:00–16:00, Wednesday 30^th January 2013

Place: EB 1 40, Docklands Campus, University of East London (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/)

 

Contemporary studies on overseas Chinese consider them to be the agent of a “Chinese transnationalism” based on a flexible labour/capital regime and a diasporic identity (Ong and Nonini 1996, Lee 2007). How does such a form of identification interact with European societies that favour the “integration” and even the return of “assimilation” of migrant communities (Brubaker 2001)? This presentation seeks to explore such an interaction by examining the case of the Chinese community in Paris. This paper will analyze two types of mobilisation: the demonstrations “against insecurity” in 2010 and 2011, and the hesitant political mobilisation during the 2012 presidential campaign in France. Although each mobilisation was organized by actors of different social status and ideologies, all of them attempted to define the “Chinese community in France” by incorporating “the value of work” and “the right to be free from insecurity”, thus creating an exclusionary distinction and strengthening the image of the Chinese as the “model minority.” The continuum and the contrast through the two mobilisations will allow an identification of three dimensions that shape the Chinese community’s politics of belonging: the attempt of re-diasporalisation from China; the desire for recognition from French society; and the interdependence and tension between transnational entrepreneurs and the precarious young migrant workers. The seminar will conclude with a reflection on the contradictory intersection of these dimensions and its implication on migration policy.

Ya-Han Chuang is PhD Candidate in Sociology at Paris-IV Sorbonne University. She is the author of “Problematizing Chinatown : Conflits and Narratives surrounding Chinese Quarter in and around Paris” (co-author with Anne-Christine Trémon), in Tan Chee-Beng, Bernard Wong (eds.) Chinatowns. Brill and several other articles in French about new Chinese migrants’ migration process and identity configuration in Paris.

ALL WELCOME

Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of CMRB

CMRB Event Reminder: Women and the Arab Spring

*** Apologies for Cross Posting ***

Please find details below for the following CMRB/Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) event: Women & The Arab Spring.

It takes place 8th December, 2-5pm at SOAS’ Khalili Theatre.

All details in the attached poster and are reproduced below:

CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) would like to invite you to a symposium on the question of

WOMEN AND THE ARAB SPRING

Which will take place at the Khalili Lecture Theatre in SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/)

Saturday 8^th December, 2-5pm

Confirmed Speakers:

Prof. Nadje Al Ali, SOAS

Layla El-Wafi, Women4Lybia

Afaf Jabiri, SOAS

Dr. Mariz Tadros, IDS

Prof. Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck

Chair: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, UEL

Discussant: Dr. Ruba Salih, SOAS

The event is free but places are limited so please RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk).

Dr. Ruba Salih, Director of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS  http://www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies/

Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB UEL Director
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/

Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS

Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her main research interests revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora moblization; war, conflict and reconstruction. Nadje is a feminist and peace activist–academic who co-founded Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq in the late 90s. During this period she also started to get involved with Women in Black UK. Nadje is currently President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS). And a member of the Feminist Review Collective.

Layla El-Wafi, Women4Lybia

Layla El-Wafi is an English qualified lawyer who also has experience working with international and local NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as in New York and London. She is of mixed Libyan and Egyptian heritage, speaks Arabic and regularly travels across the MENA region. Layla is a founding member of Women4Libya which is a priority initiative of the Libyan Civil Society Organisation (LSCO).

Afaf Jabiri, SOAS

Afaf Jabiri is a leading women’s rights activist in Jordan and across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Serving as a board member of the Jordanian Women’s Union (JWU) since the 1990s, she worked to establish its hotline and shelter for women survivors of violence, a first in Jordan and the Arab region. In the last four years, Ms. Jabiri served as an advisor on gender-based violence and women’s rights for various UN agencies. Ms. Jabiri is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Gender Studies/School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Dr. Mariz Tadros, IDS

Mariz Tadros is an Egyptian political scientist and research Fellow with the Participation, Power and Social Change team at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She is the author of Democracy redefined or confined?: The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt (Routledge 2012). Her contributions have featured in The Guardian, openDemocracy and The Middle East Report. Prior to joining IDS, she worked as an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, and has almost ten years of experience as a journalist working for Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper in Egypt.

Prof. Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck

Sami Zubaida is emeritus professor of politics and sociology at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East (IB Tauris, 2011). His earlier books include Islam, the People and the State: Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East (IB Tauris, 1993); A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (IB Tauris, 2001); and Law and Power in the Islamic World  (IB Tauris, 2005).

To download the poster in PDF format, click here: [Women and the Arab Spring].

 

CMRB – Contesting senses of belongingness in the making of a diaspora: The case of Chinese migrants’ political mobilisation in Paris

*** Apologies for Cross Posting ***

CMRB would like to invite you to the following research seminar:

Contesting senses of belongingness in the making of a diaspora: The case of Chinese migrants’ political mobilisation in Paris

Ya-Han Chuang

Time: 14:00–16:00, Wednesday 30^th January 2013

Place: EB 1 40, Docklands Campus, University of East London (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/)

CMRB is delighted to invite you to the following research seminar:

‘Contesting senses of belongingness in the making of a diaspora: The case of Chinese migrants’ political mobilisation in Paris’, delivered by Ya-Han Chuang.

The seminar takes place 14:00–16:00, Wednesday 30th January 2013 in EB 1 40, Docklands Campus, University of East London. (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/).

More information is included in the attached flyer.

ALL WELCOME!

Best regards,

Jamie Hakim, Research Administrator, CMRB Nira Yuval-Davis, Director, CMRB

Further details:

Contemporary studies on overseas Chinese consider them to be the agent of a “Chinese transnationalism” based on a flexible labour/capital regime and a diasporic identity (Ong and Nonini 1996, Lee 2007). How does such a form of identification interact with European societies that favour the “integration” and even the return of “assimilation” of migrant communities (Brubaker 2001)? This presentation seeks to explore such an interaction by examining the case of the Chinese community in Paris. This paper will analyze two types of mobilisation: the demonstrations “against insecurity” in 2010 and 2011, and the hesitant political mobilisation during the 2012 presidential campaign in France. Although each mobilisation was organized by actors of different social status and ideologies, all of them attempted to define the “Chinese community in France” by incorporating “the value of work” and “the right to be free from insecurity”, thus creating an exclusionary distinction and strengthening the image of the Chinese as the “model minority.” The continuum and the contrast through the two mobilisations will allow an identification of three dimensions that shape the Chinese community’s politics of belonging: the attempt of re-diasporalisation from China; the desire for recognition from French society; and the interdependence and tension between transnational entrepreneurs and the precarious young migrant workers. The seminar will conclude with a reflection on the contradictory intersection of these dimensions and its implication on migration policy.

Ya-Han Chuang is PhD Candidate in Sociology at Paris-IV Sorbonne University. She is the author of “Problematizing Chinatown : Conflits and Narratives surrounding Chinese Quarter in and around Paris” (co-author with Anne-Christine Trémon), in Tan Chee-Beng, Bernard Wong (eds.) Chinatowns. Brill and several other articles in French about new Chinese migrants’ migration process and identity configuration in Paris.

ALL WELCOME

Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of CMRB

Event: CMRB AGM + “‘Never Going Back – Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution’

*** Apologies for Cross Posting ***

Hi everyone,

CMRB has great pleasure in inviting you to its Annual General Meeting on Monday 26th November, 4-5pm, EB.1.07, Docklands Campus, University of East London (all details in the attached flyer).

The meeting is open to everyone who is interested in CMRB and/or wants to become involved in its activities as well as initiate new ones. We will discuss CMRB in the previous year and our plans for the coming year.

CMRB’s Annual Review 2011/12 which can be found on the CMRB website: [direct link] .

The AGM will be followed by a CMRB seminar: “‘Never Going Back’ – Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution” presented by Phil Marfleet.

All welcome!

Best Regards,

Jamie Hakim, Research Administrator, CMRB Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB Director

 

Event Reminder: Women and the Arab Spring

Please find details below for the following CMRB/Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) event: Women & The Arab Spring.

It takes place 8th December, 2-5pm at SOAS’ Khalili Theatre.

All details in the attached poster and are reproduced below:

CMRB (Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging) (University of East London) and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS) would like to invite you to a symposium on the question of

WOMEN AND THE ARAB SPRING

Which will take place at the Khalili Lecture Theatre in SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/)

Saturday 8^th December, 2-5pm

Confirmed Speakers:

Prof. Nadje Al Ali, SOAS

Layla El-Wafi, Women4Lybia

Afaf Jabiri, SOAS

Dr. Mariz Tadros, IDS

Prof. Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck

Chair: Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, UEL

Discussant: Dr. Ruba Salih, SOAS

The event is free but places are limited so please RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk).

Dr. Ruba Salih, Director of the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS  http://www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies/

Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB UEL Director
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cmrb/

Prof. Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS

Nadje Al-Ali is Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her main research interests revolve around gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; transnational migration and diaspora moblization; war, conflict and reconstruction. Nadje is a feminist and peace activist–academic who co-founded Act Together: Women’s Action for Iraq in the late 90s. During this period she also started to get involved with Women in Black UK. Nadje is currently President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS). And a member of the Feminist Review Collective.

Layla El-Wafi, Women4Lybia

Layla El-Wafi is an English qualified lawyer who also has experience working with international and local NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as in New York and London. She is of mixed Libyan and Egyptian heritage, speaks Arabic and regularly travels across the MENA region. Layla is a founding member of Women4Libya which is a priority initiative of the Libyan Civil Society Organisation (LSCO).

Afaf Jabiri, SOAS

Afaf Jabiri is a leading women’s rights activist in Jordan and across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Serving as a board member of the Jordanian Women’s Union (JWU) since the 1990s, she worked to establish its hotline and shelter for women survivors of violence, a first in Jordan and the Arab region. In the last four years, Ms. Jabiri served as an advisor on gender-based violence and women’s rights for various UN agencies. Ms. Jabiri is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Gender Studies/School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Dr. Mariz Tadros, IDS

Mariz Tadros is an Egyptian political scientist and research Fellow with the Participation, Power and Social Change team at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She is the author of Democracy redefined or confined?: The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt (Routledge 2012). Her contributions have featured in The Guardian, openDemocracy and The Middle East Report. Prior to joining IDS, she worked as an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, and has almost ten years of experience as a journalist working for Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper in Egypt.

Prof. Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck

Sami Zubaida is emeritus professor of politics and sociology at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East (IB Tauris, 2011). His earlier books include Islam, the People and the State: Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East (IB Tauris, 1993); A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East (IB Tauris, 2001); and Law and Power in the Islamic World  (IB Tauris, 2005).

To download the poster in PDF format, click here: [Women and the Arab Spring].

Event Reminder: Haim Bresheeth and Yosefa Loshitzky Festschrift

Please find attached and reproduced below details for the following CMRB/CMFS event: Haim Bresheeth and Yosefa Loshitzky’s Festschrift.

It takes place on Friday 16th November, 16.00–18.30 at SOAS’ Vernon Square Campus, room V211.

All details in the attached poster: Haim Bresheeth Yosefa Loshitzky Festschrift (PDF format).

Haim Bresheeth and Yosefa Loshitzky Festschrift

CMRB– the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging

(University of East London) –and CMFS – the Centre for Media and Film Studies (School of Oriental and African Studies) – would like to invite you to a celebration of the contributions to the fields of cultural and film studies, Israel/Palestine and Holocaust studies, as well as the academic leadership achievements of Professsors Haim Bresheeth and Yosefa Loshitzky.

Time: 16.00–18.30, Friday 16^th November

Place: V211, Vernon Square Campus, SOAS http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/

We hope that many of you would also like to join us for dinner at 19.00 at a nearby restaurant

Rasa Maricham ,1 King’s Cross Road, WC1X 9HX 020 7833 9787 http://www.rasarestaurants.com/UserPages/Viewrestaurantdetails.aspx?restid=42

Confirmed speakers:

Prof. Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton

Prof. Michael Chanan, University of Roehampton

Dr. Nir Cohen, SOAS

Dr. Gali Gold, Curator and archivist, Barbican Cinemas

Prof. Ronit Lentin, Trinity College, Dublin

Prof. Phil Marfleet, University of East London

Prof. Nur Masalha, St. Mary’s University College

Dr. Anat Pick, Queen Mary’s College

Prof. Gavin Poynter, University of East London

The event is free but places are limited so please RSVP to Jamie Hakim, CMRB administrator (j.hakim@uel.ac.uk). Please mention whether you plan to join us for dinner.

Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis, CMRB Director (UEL)

Dr. Dina Matar, Director of Centre for Media and Film Studies (SOAS)