Women’s Rights Guest Speakers
Our Previous Guest Speakers
Previous WRRS guest speakers are listed here together with their chosen seminar topic.
- Tahereh Hadian (University of Oxford), 2009: Women’s identity as reflected in Iranian films
- Anna Enayat (University of Oxford), 2010: Domestic violence in Iran: seriously battered refugees and the debate over the status of Iranian women in the British legal system
- Soraya Tremayne (University of Oxford), 2009: Population and reproductive health policies and women’s rights in Iran
- Binesh Hass (University of Oxford), 2010: Brainquake, boobquake
- Nargess Tavassolian (SOAS), 2010: The paradox of the Iranian woman in law and society: the clash of rules and customs
- Farhang Jahanpour (University of Oxford), 2011: The Green Movement, women, and the impact of the Arab uprisings on Iran
- Tariq Ramadan (University of Oxford), 2011: Women in Islamic law and jurisprudence
- Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law (University of Oxford), 2011: Art Exhibition
- Ann Harrison (Amnesty International UK), 2011: The family protection plan in Iran: a step backward for women
- Shirin Saeidi (Centre for Gender Excellence, Sweden), 2012: Reconsidering categories of analysis: possibilities for feminist studies of conflict
- Nadia Aghtaei (University of Bristol), 2012: The transgression of the rules of patriarchy by Iranian women through cyberspace
- Katja Zvan Elliot (University of Oxford), 2012: Morocco and its women’s rights discourse: between amelioration and the status quo
- Farniyaz Zaker (University of Oxford), 2012: The veil as architecture: conceptualisation and genderisation of the private and public space in Iran
- Dörthe Engelcke (University of Oxford), 2012: Family law reform in Morocco and Jordan: a comparative approach
- Parinaz Raisi (King’s College London), 2012: Islamic jurisprudence and the internal sources of women’s rights in Iran
- Zahra Tizro (York St John University), 2013: The archaeology of experience of domestic violence against women in Iran
- Nazila Ghanea (University of Oxford) & Sultana Afdhal, 2013: Women’s Rights in the GCC: a dialogue
- Nazila Ghanea (University of Oxford): Human rights and minorities in Iran: a focus on the Baha’is
- Marwa Daoudy (University of Oxford): Reflections on women in and after the Arab Spring
- Mishana Hosseinioun (University of Oxford): The globalisation of universal human rights norms: implications for women’s rights reform in the Middle East
- Mezna Qato: Women’s legal rights in Qatar
- Zahra Tizro (St John University of York): Sexual violence and marriage contract in Iran
- Marzieh Kaivanara (University of Bristol): Rhinoplasty and modernity in Iran
- Henriette Dahan (Ben Gurion University): Palestinian activism in Israel: a Bedouin women leader in a changing Middle East
- Mastoureh Fathi (University of Southampton): ‘We are middle class in English standards’: spatial belonging and classed identities of Iranian women migrants in Britain
- Monireh Mohammadi (University of Oxford): The paradoxes of representation and Iranian women
- Nadia Aghtai (Bristol University): Patriarchy and digital technologies
- Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University of Oxford): Gender, Islam and the Sahrawi politics of survival
- Iris Egmon, Israeli Visiting Scholar
- Atlas Torbati (University of Southampton): Perception of Iranian men towards sexual violence with intersection of religion/culture, sexuality, gender and immigration status
- Helen Lackner (Consultant in social development): Gender issues in Yemen: women’s choices
- Kat Eghdamian (University of Oxford): Religion, gender and the experiences of displacement: insights from Syrian Christian refugees in Jordan
- Leila Alikarami (Lawyer and legal advisor in human rights): Women and equality in Iran: society and activism
- Mehri Zarifi-Kolyane (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies): Women, peace-building and digital technologies
- Zahra Maranlou (University of Oxford): Iranian women’s rights
- Sachiko Hoyosa (University of Oxford)
- Mona Tajali (University of Oxford): Iranian women’s politicians and the elections
- Abouali Vedadhir (University of Tehran): Women and medical education: is gender discrimination a myth or a reality in contemporary Iran?
- Sophie Chamas (University of Oxford): Demasculising Hezbollah: women of ‘The Resistance’
- Sara Bamdad (Warwick University): Infertility and gender in Iran
- Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford): The cyber-politics of Afghan women’s rights
- Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford): Cairo in Chicago, Chicago in Cairo, 1893: Arab women, Egyptian representations, and the World Columbian Exposition
- Marcia Inhorn (University of Yale): The ongoing Iraq war: impacts on gender, health, and society
- Basma Al-Motlaq (SOAS): Dancing with words: subverting the master narrative in Saudi women’s literature
- Joanna De Groot (University of York): Gender, space and women’s rights in 19th century Iran: some reflections and questions
- Stephanie Berry (University of Sussex): Securitization of Muslim women in the European Court of Human Rights
- Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford): Women in ‘new Turkey’: the story of how we lost ground
- Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick): Gendered paradoxes of socio-political transformations in the Arab World after 2011
- Zep Kalb (University of Oxford): Schooling society and state: women and the teachers movement in Iran
- Mariam Memarsadeghi, E-Collaborative for Civic Education: women and the struggle for democracy in Iran
- Deena Alasfoor (University of Oxford): Tale of two Omani women
- Elife Bicer-Deveci (University of Oxford): Women’s movement from late 19th century until 1930s in Istanbul
- Naysan Adlparvar (Universities of Yale): Between love and lineage: elopement, rights and violence in an Afghan valley
- Kamiar Alaei (Institute for International Health and Education): Between conservatism and pragmatism: crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS related services for women in the Middle East
- Shahla Tizro (York St John University): The archaeology of experience of domestic violence against women in Iran
- Marilyn Booth (University of Oxford): Jeanne d’Arc, Arab hero? Warrior women, gender confusion
- Ozlem Galip (University of Oxford): From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish literary, artistic and cultural activism by Kurdish women intellectuals
- Behnaz Hosseini (University of Vienna): Trafficking and slavery under ISIS: trauma and rehabilitation of Yezidi female survivors
- Tomoko Yamagishi (Meiji University): Women’s football and futsal in Iran: their challenges and struggles
- Lea Taragin-Zeller (Woolf Institute): Sisterhood revisited: Jewish-Muslim feminist alliances in the UK
- Hilary Kalmbach (University of Sussex): Where are the women? Education, authority and gender in Egypt 1870-1950
- Hilary Burrage (Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics), 2020: Patriarchs and proxy perpetrators? Men and female genital mutilation
- Nadia Aghtai (University of Bristol), 2020: Faith and the search for justice: Sharia councils and gender-based violence
- Mine Yildirim (Norwegian Helsinki Committee’s Freedom of Belief Initiative project), 2020: Challenging the limited view: the case of the Women in Mosques Movement
- Benjamin Dubreulle (Maison Française d’Oxford), 2020: ‘God does not Discriminate’: inclusive mosques politics in France and the United Kingdom
- Mawahib Abubakr (Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics), 2021: Qatari women and the labour market: towards an empowering alternative
- Irene Schneider (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), 2021: Debating the law, creating gender
- Marie Ladier-Fouladi (French National Center for Scientific Research / Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques), 2021: Women’s rights on the altar of a strategic stake: the new population policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Lina Tori Jan (University of Oxford), 2021: Exclusion and resistance: The betrayal of the Afghan peace process
- Maral Sahebjame (University of Washington), 2021: Social change through presence: white marriage in Iran
- Janet Afary (University of California Santa Barbara), 2022: Informal unions in MENASA: a new form of cohabitation?
- Esther Hertzog (Zefat Academic College), 2022: Threatened motherhood in the Israeli welfare state: the discourse and the practice behind the disqualification of disadvantaged women’s motherhood
- Nacim Pak-Shiraz (University of Edinburgh), 2022: The right to move: Gender and space in Iranian Cinema
- Ramina Sotoudeh (Yale University), 2022: A match made in heaven: love and piety in Iranian spousal selection
- Rosa Rahimi (University of Oxford), 2023: Deviant women: citizenship, political participation, and incarceration of the secular left in post-revolutionary Iran (1979-1990)
- Mona Tajali (Agnes Scott College), 2023: Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: undemocratic structures and feminist resistance
- Sahar Maranlou (Royal Holloway, London University), Naghmeh Sohrabi (Harvard University), Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi (City, University of London), 2023: MEC & OSGA present “Women, protests, revolutions: Iran uprising after five months”
- Sultan Doughan (Goldsmiths, University of London), 2023: Palestinian women on demonic grounds? When gender is undone by the German security discourse
- Roel Meijer (Radboud University), 2023: Women’s movements and citizenship in the Middle East
- Tugba Bozcaga (King’s College London), 2024: The gender effect in intra-party meritocracy
- Nermin Allam (Rutgers University), 2024: The afterlife goes on: the consequences of women’s participation in the 2011 Egyptian uprising
- Amal W Nazzal (Birzeit University), 2024: Feminism in Palestine
- Heba El-Shazli (George Mason University), 2024: Reflections on Tunisian women’s continued fight for respect, dignity and rights
- Sarah Bush (University of Pennsylvania), 2024: Economic diversification and climate change in the Middle East