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24 Oct
2022


  • Research
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Civil and political rights
  • - Euro-Mediterranean region

The EU Parliament holds its 3rd Gender Equality Week

The European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) is organising the third European Gender Equality Week at the end of October 2022. Events on the agenda cover gender inequality within different policy...

18 Oct
2022


  • Research
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Civil and political rights
  • - Euro-Mediterranean region

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - AWARENESS RAISING CAMPAIGNS ON GENDERED ISLAMOPHOBIA

This call is launched in the framework of the project MAGIC (Muslim women and communities Against Gender Islamophobia in society), which aims to prevent gendered Islamophobia in Spain and Belgium, particularly in media outlets, and to draw lessons...

06 May
2021


  • Research
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Miscellaneous
  • - International

Women gender experts: the challenge of making gender visible and mediatising it as an expertise in its own right

On the occasion of the launch of the Gender Experts platform, the project is organising the webinar"Women Gender Experts: the challenge of making gender visible and mediatising it as an expertise in its own right". The webinar will take place on T...

23 Apr
2021


  • Research
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Civil and political rights
  • Morocco

Conference by Soraya al-Kahlaoui on women's land rights in Morocco

On April 23, 2021 (10h - 12h CET), Soraya al-Kahlaoui will be giving a talk entitled "Droits à la terre des femmes au Maroc, entre colonialité et état néolibéral".  Al-Kahlaoui holds a PhD in sociology. Her...

08 Apr
2021


  • Research
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Miscellaneous
  • - International

Gender and the Margins: A Webinar with Lila Abu-Lughod

This Theory from the Margins event will discuss a forthcoming work by Lila Abu-Lughod. More details and zoom link to be announced later. The event will also be live-streamed.  Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of So...

07 Apr
2021


  • Research
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Types of Violence
  • - MENA region

Feminist Anti-Racist Activisms: Intersections of Feminist and Anti-Racist Activisms in the MENA

This webinar will explore the intersections of feminist and anti-racist activism in the Middle East and North Africa. Professor Nadje Al-Ali will be in conversation with Maie Panaga, Menna Agha, Nabila Moussaoui, and Khawla Ksiki - four pro...

17 Mar
2021


  • Research
  • Scientific meeting
  • Miscellaneous
  • - MENA region

International conference: Masculinities and feminisms in the Arab-Muslim world

Masculinities and Feminisms in the Arab-Muslim WorldIn recent years, several studies speak of a "crisis" of so-called Arabo-Muslim masculinity. Is it really a crisis or an evolution of this kind of masculinity? Critical material discussing the...

27 Aug
2018


  • Research
  • Scientific meeting
  • Miscellaneous
  • - Euro-Mediterranean region

Conference: Stories and woes of women in the Euro-Mediterranean region

The Euro-Mediterranean Academic and Scientific Network on Gender and Women (RUSEMEG) is organizing a conference titled "Stories and woes of women in the Euro-Mediterranean region: accounts, bodies, violence, money" on the occasion of the...

14 May
2018


  • Research
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Types of Violence
  • Lebanon

Seminar on Women's experience in cities in conflict

 In recent years, conflicts and wars have continued to drag the civilian population into the most extreme forms of violence, and women are directly affected by these human tragedies. "Traditionally, war is seen as an event that concerns only...

16 Feb
2018


  • Research
  • Scientific meeting
  • Education / Professional training
  • - MENA region

Researchers and Civil Society to Discuss Migrant Women in the Mediterranean

What are the possible bridges between the work of gender specialists and that of associations? How can we envisage the articulation between research and active fieldwork? These are some of the questions that the seminar "Promoting Dialogue between...

29 Jun
2017


  • Research
  • Conference / Debate / Forum
  • Miscellaneous
  • France

Masculinities in the Euro-Mediterranean area

Masculinities in the Euro-Mediterranean area is the topic of the next research seminar of RUSEMENG. Male chauvinism does not only provide stereotyped roles for women. Men are also the object of a gender-based categorization, which indicates what...

12 Jan
2017


  • Research
  • Training
  • Education / Professional training
  • Morocco

Seminar The “making” of bodies and producing gender inequalities

Women’s bodies is at the heart of the changes in the Mediterranean societies. This is a major challenge from the democracy’s point of view as the recent debates on sexual harassment, freedom of dress, women's access to public space,...