ESF-LiU Conference
Religion, Gender and Human Rights: Challenges for Multicultural and Democratic Societies
21-25 June 2011
Final Programme |
| TUESDAY 21 June |
17:00 onwards: Registration at the ESF desk
19:30: Welcome Drink
20:00: Dinner
| WEDNESDAY 22 June |
9.00-9.15: ESF Presentation & Chair’s Introduction
Alison Woodward, Free University of Brussels,
(VUB), BE
Niamh Reilly, NUI Galway. Conference Chair
09.15-11.00: PANEL I: Overview of themes – Identities, immigration and multiculture; contesting religious subjectivities; Religion, rights and politics
Chair: Niamh Reilly
Sawitri Saharso, University of Twente, NL, Cultural Agency
Critical Agency: Multicultural feminist perspectives
Stephanie Mitchem, University of South Carolina, US
Religious Intimacies, Threatening Subjectivities
Nira Yuval Davis, University of East London, UK
Multiculturalism, multifaithism and autochthonic ‘muscular multiculturalism’
Titia Loenen, Utrecht University, NL
Balancing religious freedoms and gender equality concerns in the workplace: The case for and against uniform European human rights standards
11.00: COFFEE BREAK
Strand 1: Identity, migration and multiculture
11.15-13.00: ROUNDTABLE I - Migration, integration and multiculturalism
Chair: Nira Yuval Davis
Breda Gray, University of Limerick, IE
Faith-based organisations in migrant integration: Gender politics and the shifting scope of religious authority
Elif Medeni, University of Vienna, AT
The Role of Imams and Chaplains in the Process of Muslim Integration in Europe and the special role of Women – The current situation in Austria
Catarina Kinnvall, Lund University, SE
Gender and the Securitization of Religion: Postcolonial and socio-psychological dimensions
Sara Silvestri, City University London, UK
Europe’s Muslim women beyond the veil debate: questioning the ‘integration’ question
13.00-14.30: LUNCH
14.30-15.45: SHORT TALK PANEL I: Religion, sexualities and gender identities
Chair: Stacey Scriver
Mieke Verloo, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
Religion, church, intimate citizenship and gender equality: an analysis of differences in gender equality policies in European Catholic countries
Sebnem Kenis, Koc University, TK
(In)compatibility of LGBT Rights and Islam in Turkey: Revisiting the Debate Over Universal Human Rights and Cultural Diversity
Elina Vuola, University of Helsinki, FI
Study of religion and feminist theory: The cult of the Virgin Mary
Ibrahim Tevfik Karatop, Sabanci University, TK
New Forms of Muslim Man: Discourses of masculinity in the Hizmet movement
15.45: COFFEE BREAK
16.00-17.30: POSTER SESSION
Judges: Sawitri Saharso, University of Twente, Netherlands
Daniel Mekonnen, National University of Ireland, Galway, IR
Tina Beattie, Roehampton University, UK
20.00: DINNER
| THURSDAY 23 June |
Strand 2: Contesting religious subjectivities
09.00-10.30: PANEL II – Contesting religious subjectivities
Chair: Naomi Goldenberg
Anka Grzywacz, Catholics for Choice, PL
Pro-choice Catholic – a contradiction in terms? Defending sexual and reproductive rights limited by strong Roman Catholic Church influence on state policies
Eoin Daly, Dublin City University, IE
Laïcité and gender equality: Between state neutrality and non-domination
Nida Kirmani, Lahore University of Management Sciences, PK
Comparing the Approaches of the Indian and Pakistani Women’s Movements vis-à-vis Islam
Duncan Dormor, Director of Studies for Theology, St John's College, Cambridge, UK
Rebellious bodies and disordered desires: The challenge of transsexuality to some influential Christian theologies of Creation
10.30: COFFEE BREAK & GROUP PHOTO
10.45-12.30: ROUNDTABLE II - ‘Religion’ in the academy through a gender lens: challenges in theory, methods and practice
Chair: Stephanie Mitchem
Tina Beattie, Roehampton University, UK
The End of ‘Woman’ and the Ends of Women: Postmodern perspectives on religion and women’s rights
Naomi Goldenberg, University of Ottawa, CA
Contemporary Statecraft, Gender and the Construction of Religion: Understanding religions as vestigial states
Vesna Malesevic, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Religion and Sex from Sociological Perspective
Rubya Mehdi, University of Copenhagen, DK
Co-existence of Religious laws with other laws?
Chia Longman, Ghent University, BE
Gender Studies of Religion in Secular Locations: Beyond androcentric scholarship or patriarchal religion?
12.30-13.30 LUNCH
13.30-14.45: SHORT TALKS II: Nation, migration, border crossings
Chair: Breda Gray
Stacey Scriver, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Masculinised ethno-nationalism, public religion and the role of autonomy: Explaining the absence of a veil debate in Ireland
Alessia Belli, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, IT
She Who Disputes. Multiculturalism and Muslim Women in Italy and the UK
Anitta Kynsilehto, University of Tampere, FI
Exploring multivocality: Maghrebi women narrate gender, religion and human rights
Sam Wong, University of Liverpool, UK
Gendering religious capital: A case study of poor Mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong
Bernadetta Siara, City University London, UK
Religion, gender and sexuality within recent migration of Poles to the United Kingdom
15.00-18.00: EXCURSION
20.00: DINNER + POSTER PRIZE PRESENTATION
| FRIDAY 24 June |
Strand 3: Human Rights, Religion and the State
9.00-10.30: PANEL III: Religions, rights, public spheres
Chair: Titia Loenen
Valerie Amiraux, University of Montreal, CA
The racialization process of European Muslims
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, University of Massachusetts, Boston, US
Religion, Gender Policy, and “State Feminism” in Iran
Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago, US
Modalities of Vatican Opposition to the "Gender Agenda” in Europe
10.30: COFFEE BREAK
10.45-12.30: ROUNDTABLE IV - Secularization, secularism and the public sphere
Chair: Tina Beattie
Sarah Bracke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE
How Gender Matters to the Secular
Geraldine Finn, Carleton University, CA
Plus Ça Change Plus C'est La Même Chose: On the secular-religious distinction and the maintenance of patriarchal power
Fadwa Al-Labadi, Al-Quds University, Palestine
Secular and Islamist Women Debate in Palestinian Society
Niamh Reilly, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Secularisms and Feminisms in a Neo-secular age
Jawad Syed, University of Kent, UK
The False Dichotomy of Islam and Secularism
12.30-14.00: LUNCH
14.00-15.15: SHORT TALKS III: Regulating religions and rights
Chair: (TBC)
Peggy Schmeiser, University of Saskatchewan, CA
So Help You God? The Strange Case of Religion and Law in Canada
Esra Demir Gursel, Marmara University, TK
Regulating Women's Bodies in the Name of Secular/Religious Sensibilities of others in the Jurisprudence of the ECtHR
Yafa Shanneik, University College Cork, IE
Arab Muslim Women in Ireland: Gender, nationality and religion in the formation of Arab diaspora identities in Europe
Emanuela Dalmasso, University of Turin, IT
Which universal human rights?
15.15-15.30: COFFEE BREAK
15.30-17.00: PANEL IV - Gender and religion in transnational politics
Chair: Sara Silvestri
Naveed Sheikh, Keele University, UK
Gender, Religion and Radicalism: The fourth wave and the compounded complexity of studying religio-politics from a gender(ed) perspective
Anne Jenichen, University of Bremen, DE
Religion as an obstacle to the diffusion of women's rights norms?
Daniel Mekonnen, NUI Galway, IE
Religious Persecution in Eritrea and the Role of the European Union in Tackling the Challenge
17.00: SHORT BREAK
17.00-18.30: Forward Look Session:
Chairs: Niamh Reilly & Alison Woodward
‘Discussion of medium to long-term views regarding future research developments in the field of religion, gender and human rights.’
20:00: CONFERENCE DINNER
| SATURDAY 25 June |
Breakfast and Departure
