Linköping: Research conference Religion, Gender and Human Rights: Challenges for Multicultural and Democratic Societies (21-25 june 2011) (Deadline for application 29 march 2011)
EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY OF LINKOPING
RESEARCH CONFERENCES
ESF-LiU Conference
Religion, Gender and Human Rights: Challenges for Multicultural and Democratic Societies
Scandic Linköping Vast, Sweden
21-25 June 2011
Chairs: Niamh Reilly, National University of Ireland, IE; Stacey Scriver, National University of Ireland, IE & Sara Silvestri, City University London, UK
This conference will examine the nexus of religion, gender, identity, human rights and politics with a particular focus on Europe in a context of globalisation.
It will fill a gap in current literature on religion, politics and society, which tends to ignore or treat as secondary the gendered dimensions of these developments.
Toward this end, the conference seeks to advance knowledge and understanding, and to build a coherent research network, around the following core goals to:
1) Move gender from the periphery to the centre of
contemporary debates about the role of religion in public and political life;
2) Stimulate new feminist and gender scholarship concerned with the critical (re)interpretation of religions and gendered faith-based practices across different religious traditions;
3) Foreground and apply an ‘intersectional’ lens to issues of religion, gender and women’s human rights, and bring into dialogue feminist theorizing on gender and religion across global ‘South’ and global ‘North’ perspectives;
4) Expand the horizon of gender-focused human rights analysis at the nexus of religion, gender, citizenship and rights.
The conference will bring together senior and emerging scholars across a range of relevant disciplines including, but not limited to, political science and international relations, sociology,
gender and women’s studies, human rights and sociolegal studies, development, anthropology, European studies, and religious studies.
PROGRAM:
TUESDAY 21 June
17:00 onwards: Registration at the ESF desk
19:00: Welcome Drink
20:00: Dinner
WEDNESDAY 22 June
Strand 1: Identity, representation and multiculturalism
09.00-10.45: Panel I – Gender and religion: identity, religious subjectivities and law and politics
Overview of conference themes
Sawitri Saharso, University of Twente, NL
Stephanie Mitchem, University of South Carolina, US
Nira Yuval Davis, University of East London, UK
Titia Loenen, Utrecht University, NL
10.45-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-12.45: Discussion group session
Facilitated small group sessions to identify major research challenges/questions in each conference strand: identity, religious subjectivities and critiques; law, rights, states and politics.
Followed by plenary feedback
12.45-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.45: Roundtable I – Gender, religion and identity: immigration, integration and multiculturalism
Breda Gray, University of Limerick, IE
Elif Medina, University of Vienna, AT
Andrew Yip, University of Nottingham, UK
Catarina Kinnvall, Lund University, SE
15.45-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.45: Poster presentations
20.00: Dinner
THURSDAY 23 June
Strand 2: Religious subjectivities and critiques
09.00-10.45: Panel II – Religious subjectivities and gender critiques of religions Foregrounding feminist and gender studies in religion across different traditions
Anka Grzywacz, Catholics for Choice, PL
Charlotte Fonrobert, Stanford University, US
Harriet Harris, University of Edinburgh, UK
10.45-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-12.45: Roundtable II – ‘Religion’ in the academy through a gender lens: challenges in theory, methods and practice.
A conversation between scholars working ‘in religion’ and ‘on religion’
Tina Beattie, Roehampton University, UK
Naomi Goldenberg, University of Ottawa, CA
Vesna Malesevic, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE
Rubya Mehdi, University of Copenhagen, DK
12.45-2.00: Lunch
14.30: Excursion
19.00: Dinner
FRIDAY 24 June
Strand 3: Law, rights, states and politics
9.00-10.45: Roundtable III – Gender, religion, human rights and the state
Focus on the role of law and state in regulating and/or accommodating ‘religion’, religious expression and balancing ‘rights’
Jeff Redding, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FR / St. Louis University, US
Valerie Amiraux, University of Montreal, CA
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, University of Massachusetts, Boston, US
10.45-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-12.45: Panel III – Secularization, secularism and the public sphere: engendering debates.
Exploring competing ideas about ‘secularization’ and the principle of secularism in multicultural democracies
Sarah Bracke, Catholic University Leuven, BE
Geraldine Finn, Carleton University, CA
Fadwa Al-Labadi, Al-Quds University, IL
Jawad Syed, University of Kent, UK
12.45-2.00: Lunch
14.00-15.45: Panel IV – Gender and religion in international/transnational politics and global issues.
Religion in national/transnational politics and policy making; religious identity/religious actors in conflict/post-conflict contexts
Naveed Sheikh, Keele University, UK
Sara Silvestri, City University London, UK
Anne Jenichen, University of Bremen, DE
15.45-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.45: Forward Look Session
Panel – TBA
19.30: Conference Dinner and Poster Prize Giving
SATURDAY 25 June
Breakfast and Departure
More information available from: http://www.esf.org/conferences/11352
Closing date for applications: 29 March 2011
Support grants available for early-stage researchers.
For application form: http://www2.esf.org/asp/esfrcaf.asp?confcode=352&meetno=1
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