Past activities

RHEA Research Seminars 

• 16/10/2017: A  Critique  Towards  Art  History:    Looking  at  artworks  by  Louise  Lawler  and  Joëlle  Tuerlinckx By  Lisa  Heinis,  PhD  Candidate  at  VUB  and  Visiting  Student  Scholar  at  UC  Berkeley      

• 27/11/2017: Substantive Women Representation and Arab States: Democratization as a Requisite for Gender Political Equality by Ari Baghdassar Tatian, PhD Candidate, VUB 

• 4/12/2017 - Presentation of the Academic Programme on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) By Els Leye 

• 12/2/2018: The ‘constrained’ or ‘self-limiting patriarchy’. Wives, household authority and law in sixteenth-century Antwerp By Kaat Capelle, PhD Candidate (FWO) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

• 12/3/2018: Eating the Adoptee: Cultural commodification, whiteness and adoptees’ resistance in Bolivian-Belgian adoption By Christof Bex, PhD Candidate (FWO), Ghent University 

• 23/4/2018: Representing women? A locally situated interpretation of the ACWF By JiahuI Shan, PhD Candidate at Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

• 7/5/2018: Converting care to politics. An ethnographic inquiry about health rights for precarious status immigrants in Belgium. By Dirk Lafaut, PhD Candidate (FWO) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

Fatima Mernissi-chair 

• 30/11/2017: Hommage Fatima Mernissi: Talks + concert 

• 1/6/2018 : Fatima Mernissi boekenkaravaan met Nadia Dala en Rachida Lamrabet 

Colors of Rebellion: Art by Dalit Artists from India 

• 23/4/2018 Opening evening of the Exposition with Karen Celis, Chris Verschooten and Swati Kamble 

• Art exhibition in building D starting from 23rd April (two weeks) 

17/5/2018: LGBTQ activism in 2018; On the occasion of the Belgian Pride event we organised a panel/Facebook live debate with Kasha Nabagesera, David Paternotte, Gily Coene and Jad Zeitouni. (the VUB’s International Relations office in collaboration with UCOS and RHEA) 

4/6/2018: Workshop ‘Perilous knowledge, Gender & sexuality scholars at risk in Europe’ (ULB) 

RHEA Research Seminars 

• 7/11/2016: The Politics of Recognition in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands (Laura Westerveen, IES/RHEA) 

• 5/12/2016: 'Black Pete' and 'Fat Maggie': Cases of Contested Symbolic Representation (Ilke Adam, Soumai Akacher, Karen Celis, Serena D’Agostino & Eline Severs, RHEA/POLI/IES – presented by Soumia Akachar & Karen Celis) 

• 13/01/2017: ‘Resilience. Gendered  Subjects in Times of Neoliberalism’ (Sarah Bracke) 

• 13/02/2017: ‘Gender, Sexuality and Discourses of Harm and the Moral Body: A Study among Women in Iran and Iranian Diaspora in Belgium’ (Ladan Rahbari, RHEA/CRCG) 

• 24/03/2017: Research Seminar in collaboration with MAM (ULB) (Djordje Sredanovic, Antoine Roblain, Sarah Ganty, Serena D’Agostino, Soumia Akachar, Susan Dierickx) 

• 24/04/2017: ‘Violence, Islam and Gender in Brussles’ (Iman Lechkar) 

• 15/05/2017: ‘The Role of Intersectionality and Emotions for Radical Right Support and Engagement (Josefine Landberg) 

Fatima Mernissi Chair: 

• 28/3/2017:  breakfast and opening lecture “Moeten moslimvrouwen gered worden” (in Dutch) by Iman Lechkar in co-production with Citizenne, Wijkacademie Molenbeek, Femma, GC De Markten, GC De Vaartkapoen, GC De Kriekelaar. From 9 till 12.30h in De Markten. 

• 11/05/2017 evening lecture on Islam, rap and role models (in English) by Jeannette Jouilli (University of Pittsburgh) + documentary on ex-rapper Napoleon Beale with after talk. In co-production with KVS. 

• 28/09/2017 Salon Talk “Sharia, Seksisme en het schrikbeeld van de Arabische man” (in Dutch/English) by Sarah Bracke (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and Zakia Salime (Rutgers University, US). In co-production with Kaaitheater. 

17/11/2015: “A woman speaks: Audre Lorde. Uses of Archive and Transnational Feminism” -  Belgian Renaissance, in collaboration with RHEA. Guest speakers were Chandra Frank (Goldsmith’s College, London), Joëlle Sambi Nzeba (Festival Massimadi) and Warrior Poets (Arts Collective, 

30/11/2015: PhD-seminar on “Doing Qualitative Research” with Rik Pinxten 

3/12/2015 Machteld de Metsenaere lecture - December 3 2015: “Carrying as a feminist method” (Nirmal Puwar) 

3/12/2015: masterclass Nirmal Puwar 

RHEA Research Seminars: 

• 6/10/2015:  Sarah Bracke - “Topless Jihad. Embodiment, Politics, Agency”

• 10/11/2015: Heleen Huysentruyt – “Sex in the City. A comparative study of policy subjects and lived experiences of (un)safety at the crossroad of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in the streets of Brussels”.  

• 15/12/2016: (Early) Marriage Dynamics and Socio-‐Economic Factors in the context of Ethiopian culture: the case of Arsi and Gojjam Areas (Els Leye - RHEA, 15/12/2016) 

• 26/01/2016 “I took back my right”: revisiting agency in the life story of a female Palestinian offender (Sophie Withaeckx, Ineke Casier & Sabah Ikhmayes - RHEA/Research Group Crime and Society, SCRI) 

• 16/02/2016: “More than just a game? The potential of sport to foster positive youth development among disadvantaged girls”  (Dra. Hebe Schaillée) + discussion on possible areas of collaborative reserch (Dra. Hebe Schaillée, Dr. Rein Haudenhuyse, Prof. dr. Veerle De Bosscher, Pieter Smets - Sport and Society Research Unit, SASO)  

• 15/03/2016: “The Three ‘i’s of Workplace Religious Accommodation for Muslims in Europe: instrumental, internal and informal’ (Prof. Ilke Adam - Institute for European Studies, IES; RHEA)