Keynote Speakers
Conformed Keynote Speakers for Ida Blom Conference 2013: Ida Blom, Mounira Maya Charrad, Jasbir Puar, Birthe Siim, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Liesbet van Zoonen.
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Professor Emerita Ida Blom, University of Bergen.
As a pioneer within the field of gendered history, Professor Blom has contributed with ground-breaking research within several fields of gender history, such as sexuality and reproductive matters, gendered work, gender and nationalism, gendered global history, health history and the history of women鈥檚 political rights. Her fields of research over the past 40 years include international and comparative gender history, as well as welfare research and medical history. Her latest book 鈥滾egislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c.1870-c.1995 鈥� was published in 2012 .
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Associate Professor of Sociology Mounira Maya Charrad, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Associate Professor Charrad鈥檚 research focuses on politics, state formation, women鈥檚 rights, Islamic law and citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa. She is the award-winning author of States and Women鈥檚 Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco (2001). Her current studies of conceptions of modernity in legal discourses in the Middle East are grounded in analysis of social solidarities, such as in kinship and ethnicity.
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Professor of Women鈥檚 and Gender 大象传媒 Jasbir Puar,Rutgers University, USA.
Professor Puar鈥檚 research focuses on gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and diaspora studies; South Asian cultural studies; queer disability studies and theories of assemblage and affect. She is the author of the award-winning Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007). Professor Puar currently holds the Edward Said Chair of American 大象传媒 at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
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Professor in Gender Research in the Social Sciences 听Birthe Siim, the Department of Culture and Global 大象传媒 Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark.
Professor Siim is Research Director of the Knowledge Centre: Equality, Diversity and Gender (EDGE) and of FREIA, the Gender Research Centre, AAU. Her main areas of expertise are gender theory; comparative studies of citizenship, democracy, migration/multiculturalism and the welfare state. Her latest book is 听Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an emergent European Public Sphere (eds. with M. Mokre) (Palgrave 2012, fortc.) and she has contributed to the recent book Female Suffrage in Europe (Brill 2012).
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University Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, USA.
Professor Spivak is a literary critic, working within feminism, Marxism, deconstruction and globalization. As a leading postcolonial theorist over many years, she has published numerous books and articles, among them the seminal essay 鈥淐an the Subaltern Speak?鈥� (1988) and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999). Her latest book is An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization (2012). Professor Spivak is also an activist in rural education and feminist and ecological social movements.
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Professor of Communication and Media 大象传媒 Liesbet van Zoonen, Loughborough University and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Professor van Zoonen鈥檚 research concerns gender, media and politics, emphasizing the question of how popular culture might serve as a resource for citizenship, participation and civic engagement. Her most recent research projects have focused on multiculturalism, identity management and new media technologies. She has written several books including Feminist Media 大象传媒 and Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge.
