Professor Nira Yuval-Davis
Speech Title: Education, Identities and Intersectional Social Inequalities
Professor Nira Yuval-Davis is the Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London, established in September 2009. She has been the President of the Research Committee 05 (on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, a founder member of Women Against Fundamentalism and the international research network of Women In Militarized Conflict Zones, a member of the Sociology Panel of the UK 2008 RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) and on the 2014 REF (Research Excellence Framework) Sociology sub-panels and since September 2001, an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences. She has acted as a consultant to various NGOs and Human Rights organizations such as the UNDP, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Amnesty International, AWID and the International Investigative Women’s Delegation ‘Justice in the Gujarat’. She is also an editor of the book series The Politics of Intersectionality of Palgrave Macmilan.
Nira has written extensively on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and gender relations in Britain & Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies. Among her written and edited books are Woman-Nation-State, 1989, Racialized Boundaries, 1992, Unsettling Settler Societies, 1995, Gender and Nation, 1997, Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms, 2004, The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations, 2011, Women Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity ,2014 and the forthcoming Bordering (2017). Her works have been translated into more than ten languages.
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Professor Jan Masschelein
Speech Title: Addressing Societal Challenges: Making and Decolonizing School Today
Jan Masschelein is head of the Laboratory for Education and Society, and of the research group Education, Culture and Society. He studied educational sciences and philosophy at the K.U.Leuven and at the Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main and is as well Fellow of the Alexander Von Humboldt-Stiftung. His research can be situated in the broad domain of the formation of educational theory, critical theory, social philosophy and governmentality studies. More concretely it concerns the public and societal role of education and schooling, the role of the university, the changing experiences of time and space in the age of the network, the educational meaning of cinema and camera, the architecture of schools and architecture of the learning environment, a pedagogy of attention, the notion of 'pedagogy', the pedagogical role of teachers and social workers. A lot of attention is directed towards experimental educational practices and towards new forms of documentary and exploratory research.
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Professor Gil Anidjar
Speech Title: Toward a Critique of Secularism
Gil Anidjar is Professor in the Departments of Religion, the Department
of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), and the
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) at Columbia
University New York.
He is the author of :
‘Our Place in al-Andalus’: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters(Stanford UP, 2002);
The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford UP, 2003)
Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Stanford UP, 2008)
Blood: a Critique of Christianity (Columbia UP, 2014)
Edited
Jacques Derrida, Acts of Religion (Routledge, 2002)
Translated
Marc Nichanian, The Historiographic Perversion (Columbia UP, 2009)
Peter Szendy, Prophecies of Leviathan. Reading Past Melville (Fordham UP, 2010
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