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An International Women's Day event exploring progress towards equal rights for Muslim women and girls.
In keeping with the International Women's Day theme of #AccelerateAction for gender equality and the UN Women's theme of For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment, IASH and GENDER.ED present this discussion event exploring progress towards equal rights for Muslim women and girls.
Dr Qazi Sarah Rasheed (PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) will present on Muslim women and gender equality, specifically in the Indian context, and Dr Hamide Elif Üzümcü (PhD, University of Padua) will discuss girlhood and Islam, in the context of children’s intrafamilial privacy, including their strategies for navigating digital, emotional, physical, and intellectual privacy. Both speakers are postdoctoral fellows at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, known as IASH. The event is chaired by Professor Patricia Jeffery (University of Edinburgh), and will be followed by tea and cake.
This event is presented by the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH); GENDER.ED, the cross-University hub for gender and sexualities studies from an interdisciplinary perspective; and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World.
The event is now sold out, but you can email iash@ed.ac.uk to join the waiting list.