28 Abr 8ª edición del Mediterranean Women Forum
La 8ª edición del Mediterranean Women Forum se celebrará los días 5, 6 y 7 de mayo en Fez (Marruecos) bajo el tema “Women’s Voices in the Mediterranean and Africa: Movements, Feminisms, and Resistance to Extremisms”.
El evento, que está organizado por la Universidad Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah de Fez y la Penn State University (EEUU), pretende luchar contra el extremismo y la radicalización, construir iniciativas de paz, proteger los derechos de las mujeres y fomentar su empoderamiento. Para ello, en el foro se tratarán los siguientes temas:
- La contextualización de los extremismos y las resistencias de las mujeres.
- Ideologías radicales en el Magreb.
- Ideologías radicales en África.
- Islam y feminismo/ feminismo islámico- estrategias de resistencia.
PROGRAMA
Friday 5 May
9:00 h Arrival of participants
9: 30 h Opening Session: Welcoming Speeches
Keynote Speech Women’s Fight Against Extremisms: From Resistance to Bold Action
Assia BENSALAH ALAOUI, Ambassador at large for His Majesty Mohamed VI, King of Morocco
10:30 Reception
11:00 h Inaugural Lecture
Moderator: Moha ENNAJI, President, International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fez
The Place of Religion in Delivery and Reception Discourses
Driss FASSI FIHRI, Professor and Imam, Al-Qarawiyyin University, Fez
1st Session: Contextualisation of Extremisms and Resistances I
Moderator: Shirin EDWIN, Houston State University, USA
11:30 h Dissident Women: Authoritarianism, Feminism, and the State in Africa
Alicia DECKER, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA
11:45 h Radicalization and Youth in North Africa
Moha ENNAJI, President, International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fez
12:00 h – 12.30 h: Discussion
2nd Session: Contextualisation of Extremisms and Resistances II
Moderator: Adryan WALLACE, University of Hartford, USA
15:00 h Religious Extremism and Transformation in South African Universities: a Feminist Perspective
Mary HAMES, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
15:15 h Algerian Women and their Anti-Terrorist Struggle
Zahia SMAIL SALHI, University of Manchester, England
15:30 h Contextualisation of Extremisms and Resistance in Egypt
Sarah FARAG, University of Zurich, Switzerland
15:45 h Discussion
16:15 h Coffee Break
3rd Session: Radicalist Ideologies in the Maghrib
Moderator: Kébir SANDY, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez
16:30 h Le rôle de la société civile dans la lutte contre l’extrémisme
Khaled MEHIZ, Président, Bureau d’Alger de l’Association Nationale De Volontariat, Algérie
16:45 h Femmes Jihadistes, actrices à part entière ou simples victimes?
Nabila HAMZA, sociologue, activiste et experte en genre
17:00 h Preventing Women‘s Radicalisation through Empowerment and Inclusion in Morocco
Mohamed MOUBTASSIME, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez
17:15 h Discussion
Saturday 6 May
4th Session: Radicalist Ideologies in Africa
Moderator: Tushabe wa TUSHABE, Kansas State University, USA
9:30 h Contextualising Gendered Dimensions of the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria
Charmaine, PEREIRA, Chair of the Board of Trustees, the Legislative Advocacy Coalition on Violence Against Women (LACVAW), Abuja, Nigeria
9:45 h Border Anxieties and Gender Identity in Post West Gate Kenya
Awino OKECH, University of London, England
10:00 h Imagining Change: Women in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
Kum-Kum BHAVNANI, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
10: 15 h Discussion
10:30 h Coffee Break
5th Session: Ways of Resisting Radicalization: Looking Back
Moderator: Lisa ARMSTRONG, Smith College, USA
10:15 h When History Is Written, the Cameroonian Women Will Have an Honorable Place in its Pages” : Writing Anglophone Cameroonian Women’s Activism
Jacqueline-Bethel TCHOUTA MOUGOUE , Baylor University, Texas, USA
11:30 h Millenial Feminism in Ghana
Akosua ADOMAKO AMPOFO, University of Ghana, Ghana
11:45 h Alice Lakwena, Founder of the Holy Spirit Mobile Forces
Helma PASCH, University of Koln, Germany
12:00 h – 12: 30 h: Discussion
6th Session: Ways of Resisting Radicalization: Reconceptualizations I
Moderator: Karima BELGHITI, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez
15:00 h The Category of Religion as Substitute for Race and Culture. A Sociopolitical Phenomenon as Cause and Effect of Islamophobia and Extremism
Ulrike LINGEN-ALI, University of Oldenbourg, Germany
15:15 h Global Campaigns Against Gender-based Violence as Transcultural Learning Experiences? Reflections on the Ambivalences of Activist Networks
Lydia POTTS, University of Oldenbourg, Germany
15:30 h Funding Transnational Feminist Research: Learning from Case 173 in Egypt
Ebony COLETU, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA
15:45: Discussion
16:15 h Coffee Break
7th Session: Ways of Resisting Radicalization: Reconceptualizations II
Moderator: Khalid BEKKAOUI, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez
16 :30 h Sufi Epistemologies and Feminist Critique: The Short Stories of Alifa Rifaat
Hoda El SHAKRY, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA
16 : 45 h Conceptualising Migration and Family
Zaheera JINNAH, University of Witwaterstarnd, Johanesbourg, South Africa
17: 00 h The Missing Link: Women as Care-Provider and Countering Violent Extremisms
Fatma OSMAN IBNOUF, University of Khartoum, Sudan
17: 15 h Discussion
8th Session: Layla – Film (98 mns – Director – Mijke de Jong)
Moderator: Lenie BROUWER, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18 : 00 h: Dutch-Moroccan Women’s Multiple Voices
Karen VINTGES, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18 : 00: Women and Radicalisation: Agents or Victims?
Edien BARTELS, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18: 15: Film Screening
Sunday 7 May
9th Session: Islam and Feminism/Islamic Feminism I
Moderator: Gabeba BADEROON, Penn State University, Pennsylvania
9:00 h The Empowering Legacy of Women Saints
Aziza OUGUIR, International Association of Religion and Gender, The Netherlands
9: 15 h Gold Poured Off of her Hair: Interrogating Sudan’s Decolonial, Opposition Discourses from a Feminist Perspective
Nada MUSTAPHA ALI, University of Massachusetts Bosto, USA
9: 30 h Gender, Ethics and Islam
Sadiyya SHAIKH, University of Capetown, South Africa
9:45 h Discussion
10:00 h Coffee Break
10th Session: Islam and Feminism/Islamic Feminism II
Moderator: Maha MAROUAN, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA
10:45 h A Curious Correspondence: Parallels between Roman and Islamic Marriage Law
Marjorie LIGHTMAN, Senior Fellow, Women’s Research and Educational Institute, Washington DC, USA
11:00 Islamic Women’s Political Activism: A Bulwark Against Islamist Extremism
Hanane DARHOUR, Ibn Zohr University, Ouarzazate, Morocco
11:15 h Islam, Urban Poverty and Gender-based Violence: A Case Study of the City of Fez
Souad SLAOUI & Hassan EL HAJJAMI, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez
11:45h Discussion
12:15 h Poetry Reading: Gabeba BADEROON (English) and Fatima-Zahra ALAOUI (French)
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12: 45 h Recommendations and Closure
Moderator: Fatima SADIQI (Director of the Forum)
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13: 00 h End of the Forum
15:00-17:00 Guided Tour to the Medina (Old city) and Ville Nouvelle (New City)
21: 00: Farewell Party: Local Women’s Music
Decarga aquí el Programa-Forum en pdf
Información original
International Forum:Women’s Voices in the Mediterranean and Africa:
Movements, Feminisms, and Resistance to Extremisms
Dates : 5,6, & 7 May, 2017
Venue: Hôtel Les Mérinides, Fès
Contacts:
Dr Fatima Sadiqi, Director of the Forum
sadiqi_fatima@yahoo.fr
Ms Abir Ibourk (KAS), Director of Logistics
Abir.Ibourl@kas.de
Languages of the Forum: Arabic, French, English (with simultaneous translation)
Women’s voices in the Mediterranean and Africa are increasingly rising against mounting gender-based violence in the name of radical Islam. Academics and activists of both sexes are concerned about the fate of hard-won rights and seek solutions beyond the victimization of women. Through feminist discourses and activism, women and men are denouncing biases, asking for justice, reclaiming rights in public spaces of authority, and reconciling older and newer generations of feminists in the Mediterranean and Africa. Such creative resistance constitutes the focus of this 8th edition of the “Mediterranean Women” Forum. Four major themes are addressed:
*The contextualisation of extremisms and women’s resistances
*Radicalized ideologies in the Maghrib
*Radicalized ideologies in Africa
*Islam and feminism/Islamic feminisms – Strategies of resistance
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