Events archive
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Nadia Aghtai (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Violence, University of Bristol)
26 February 2020 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, UWE and Cardiff in the UK conducted a 30 month Economic and Social Research Council-funded project to explore how 'justice' (in its wider sense) is... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Professor Hilary Burrage (Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics)
5 February 2020 - 2:15pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract: Serious attention to the influence and understandings of men regarding FGM is long over-due. Men may find it convenient not to know much about the practice, and women may not welcome ‘... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Hilary Kalmbach (University of Sussex)
20 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Dr Hilary Kalmbach is a cultural and social historian based at the University of Sussex. She is the founding director of MENACS, the Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex and Past President... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Lea Taragin-Zeller (Woolf Institute)
30 October 2019 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Sisterhood, an important feminist strategy of female solidarity, was deeply critiqued during the late 1970’s for the racist and classist assumptions underlying white women’s liberation (Lorde &... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Tomoko Yamagishi (St Antony's College)
5 June 2019 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the seminar: National women’s futsal team of Iran won a championship held by the Asian Futsal Confederation in 2015. To put their achievement in the context of gender studies, this presentation... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Behnaz Hosseini (University of Vienna)
15 May 2019 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the seminar: Sinjar became the center of the world’s attention when one of the most horrifying cases of genocide took place, and also due to women who suffered from acts of violence,... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Kamiar Alaei (Co-president, Institute for International Health and Education)
12 November 2018 - 2:00pm
Fellows Dining Room, Hilda Besse building, St Antony's College
Apologies for the change in the programme but our first speaker was not able to come due to visa issues About the seminar: Dr Kamiar Alaei’s academic, medical and international public health project... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University)
24 October 2018 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the speaker: Dr Naysan Adlparvar is an Academic Visitor and Senior Member at St. Antony’s College. He holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University’s Department of Anthropology. Naysan has... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Deena Al Asfoor (St Catherine's College)
30 May 2018 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract: Oman is a small quite country at the south eastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. Omani’s lives are heavily influenced by tradition and religion, but education that was mandatory since... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Shahla Tizro (York St John University)
23 May 2018 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract: This paper is based on a qualitative study conducted in Iran with 62 men, women and judicial officials in relation to domestic violence against women in Iran mainly in Gilan province... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Mariam Memarsadeghi (Tavaana)
21 February 2018 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College
About the speaker: Mariam Memarsadeghi is co-founder and co-director of Tavaana: E-Learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society. Launched in 2010, the virtual institute offers secure democracy and... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Elife Biçer-Deveci(St Antony’s)
14 February 2018 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College
About the speaker: Dr. Elife Biçer-Deveci is postdoctoral fellow of Swiss National Science Foundation and academic visitor at the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College. Biçer-Deveci is specialised... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Joanna De Groot (University of York)
15 November 2017 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
About the speaker: Joanna de Groot has interests in three main areas. Her initial research into the social history of Iran in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has led to work on various aspects... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Basma Al Mutlaq (School of Oriental and African Studies)
25 October 2017 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract: As in other parts of the world, women’s empowerment has gained prominence in today’s Saudi Arabia, with a surge in initiatives and leadership projects – all seeking to address the themes of... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Zep Kalb (Oriental Institute)
29 May 2017 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Iran and the wider Middle East are often blamed for harbouring patriarchal labour markets that inhibit women from exiting the household and taking up independent employment opportunities. This paper... Read more