The Department of Gender Studies will be hosting a Public Lecture entitled 'Women against Fundamentalism'.
Speaker: Prof. Nira Yuval Davis
Venue: Room 101, Dar Ġużeppi Zahra (DGZ101), University of Malta Msida Campus
Date: Tuesday 5 December 2017
Time: from 16.00 to 19:00
In the book 'Women Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity' Prof. Yuval-Davis promotes
an anti-racist and anti-fundamentalist feminist politics. With the xenophobic far right rising and communalism turning beliefs and cultures into identity politics' weapons, women's rights, citizenship and secular traditions are at stake. This book gives a powerful analyses and reflections of a number of women in the UK fighting authoritarian religious movements. In a turbulent and complex period global religious atrocities, military invasions, and a brutal war against the dignity and personhood of women - this book shows us that we can and must face many ways at once if progressive global politics is to have a future. This book promotes a feminist, anti-racist politics which supports religious freedom and expression but which challenges fundamentalism in all its forms, combined with compelling testaments to the intermingling of the personal and the political in private and public life.
The general public is cordially invited to attend this public lecture.
RSVP Ms Marica Galea on +356 2340 3956 or send an email to marica.galea@um.edu.mt.
Nira Yuval-Davis is Professor Emeritus, Honorary 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, Indigeneity and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, a founder member of Women Against Fundamentalism and the international research network on Women In Militarized Conflict Zones. She has acted as a consultant, among others, for UNDP and the UN Special Rapporteurs on Violence Against Women and Cultural Rights, Amnesty International and
AWID.
Nira Yuval-Davis has written widely on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected gendered nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and everyday bordering in Britain & Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies. Among her books are Woman-Nation-State, 1989, Racialized Boundaries, 1992, Refusing Holy Orders 1992, Unsettling Settler Societies, 1995, Gender and Nation,1997, The Warning Signs of Fundamentalism, 2004, The Politics of Belonging, 2011, Women Against Fundamentalism, 2014 and Bordering (Forthcoming). Her works have been translated into more than ten languages.
Nira Yuval-Davis has been selected to receive in the next ISA Congress the International Sociological Association second ever award in excellence in research and practice.
Nira Yuval-Davis has written widely on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected gendered nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and everyday bordering in Britain & Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies. Among her books are Woman-Nation-State, 1989, Racialized Boundaries, 1992, Refusing Holy Orders 1992, Unsettling Settler Societies, 1995, Gender and Nation,1997, The Warning Signs of Fundamentalism, 2004, The Politics of Belonging, 2011, Women Against Fundamentalism, 2014 and Bordering (Forthcoming). Her works have been translated into more than ten languages.
Nira Yuval-Davis has been selected to receive in the next ISA Congress the International Sociological Association second ever award in excellence in research and practice.