10:00 – 10:30
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Coffee and Welcome
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10:30 – 10:45
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Background: The ESRC Project and Conference
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10:45 – 12:15
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Panel 1 “Women from Muslim Communities: Beyond Europe”
(Chair: Daniele Joly)
- Cassandra Balchin (Researcher & activist; part of MWNUK, Musawah and WLULM, London)
Title: “Women’s transnational engagement for equality and justice in the Muslim Family”
- Afiya Zia (Independent researcher and activist, Karachi, Pakistan)
Title: “The politics of researching the organic Muslim woman”
- Nicola Pratt (Associate Professor in Politics & International Studies, University of Warwick)
Title: “Middle East women’s activism”
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12:15 – 13:30
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Lunch Break
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13:30 – 15:00
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Panel 2 “Women from Muslim Communities: Private and Public Spaces”
(Chair: Nicola Pratt)
- Amel Boubekeur (Associate Research Fellow, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Title: TBC
- Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (Associate Professor, University of Paris 13)
Title: “How can one be a female, French Muslim? On the invention of an oxymoron”
- Maleiha Malik (Professor in Law, Kings College London)
Title: “On headscarves: accommodating religious symbols in schools and the workplace”
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15:00 – 15:30
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Tea Break
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15:30 – 17:00
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Panel 3 “Local Perspectives: Building Political Engagement and Movements Around Political, Socio-Economic and Cultural Issues”
(Chair: Nacira Guénif-Souilamas)
- Nadia Falfoul (Local Councillor, Bobigny; Doctoral Candidate in Law, University of Paris 13)
Title: TBC
- Shaista Gohir (Director: Muslim Women’s Network UK, Birmingham)
Title: “Cultural taboos related to sexuality: getting difficult issues onto public agendas”
- Rokhaya Diallo (Director: Association Les Indivisibles, Paris)
Title: “Representing Muslim women in French public space”
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