Feminism and Multiculturalism in Europe

The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies and the University of Nicosia invite you to the lecture entitled:

From Headscarves to Forced Marriages: Feminism and Multiculturalism in Europe

By Dr. Chia Longman, Lecturer in Gender and Diversity Studies at Ghent University, Belgium.

Date: 25 May 2011
Time: 18:00- 19:30
Location: M115, 1st Floor, Millennium Building, University of Nicosia

Lecturer’s Biography:
Dr. Chia Longman is Lecturer in Gender and Diversity Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research is in the anthropology of gender, ethnicty and religion and she has studied women's identity politics in minority religious communities in Western Europe, including Orthodox Jewish and Muslim women. She has published widely in journals including the European Journals of Women's Studies, Ethnicities, Social Compass and Social Anthropology. In 2010 with G. Coene she edited Féminisme et multiculturalisme. Les paradoxes du debat (Brussels: Peter Lang) and a book in Dutch Women Differ: Gender and Cultural Diversity is forthcoming (LannooCampus). She was chief editor of the Dutch Journal of Gender Studies until 2010 and is currently Executive Editor of the new international journal Religion & Gender. The lecture will be followed by discussion.

*The lecture will take place in English.

Please RSVP until 25 May 2011 at josie@medinstenderstudies.org or at 22352311 ext. 114/115.