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Apologies for Cross Posting, but this one-day conference may be of interest.
Best wishes, Sarah
Convenor
British Sociological Association Human Reproduction Study Group
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> Subject: Gender and Cultural Diversity: European Perspectives
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> > Gender Institute
> > London School of Economics and Political Science
> > 0207 955 7602
> >
> > Gender and Cultural Diversity: European Perspectives
> > One-day conference at the London School of Economics and Political
Science
> > Friday 17 October 2003
> >
> > While the multicultural nature of western European societies is
> increasingly taken for granted, the extent to which cultural diversity
> should inform state policy, and the nature of any such policy, continue to
> be hotly debated issues. There is growing recognition of the cultural
> dimension to human rights abuses perpetrated against vulnerable members of
> various cultural, ethnic or religious communities, particularly women.
Over
> the past decade, the UK has taken initiatives on a range of issues
> concerning women who are members of such communities, including: forced
> marriages; female genital cutting/surgery; > '> honour crimes> '> ; and
> miscellaneous privatised forms of regulation which occur within these
> communities, notably in the regulation of divorce. It may be true, as Mike
> O> '> Brien argues, that > '> multicultural sensitivity is no excuse for
> official silence or moral blindness> '> , but are policies of recognition
to
> be regarded as a retrogressive force in women> '> s struggles against
> gender-based hierarchies, or can multicultural accommodation be viewed as
in
> some way part of those struggles? How is the relationship between
> multiculturalism and feminism to be struck in these circumstances?
> >
> > The Gender Institute at the LSE is inviting academics, activists and
> policy-makers to a one-day conference to discuss the policy implications
of
> the relationship between gender and cultural diversity. The conference
will
> look beyond the UK to include perspectives from other Western European
> countries, in the hope of laying the ground for future cross-European
> communication and research.
> >
> > A booking form is attached. Please return this form as soon as possible
> if you wish to attend, as places are limited.
> >
> >
> > Conference Papers and Speakers
> >
> > Shari> '> a Courts in relation to Divorce within Muslim Communities in
the
> UK (title to be confirmed)
> > Samia Bano is currently conducting doctoral research on Muslim family
law
> at the University of Warwick. She was researcher for the CIMEL/INTERIGHTS
>
> '> Honour Crimes> '> Project between 1999-2001, and is on the management
> committee of Southall Black Sisters.
> >
> > UK Initiatives on Forced Marriage: Assessing the Exit Option
> > Anne Phillips has been Professor of Gender Theory at LSE Gender
Institute
> since 1999. For the last two years she has been engaged on a research
> project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, on Sexual and Cultural
Equality.
> >
> > Female Genital Cutting/Surgery and the Limits of National Law
> > Oonagh Reitman is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the LSE Gender
> Institute. Her current research is on cultural diversity and
> transnationalism, with a focus on the regulation of gender within
religious
> minorities/diasporas.
> >
> > Dutch Design: Gender, Culture and Public Policy in the Netherlands
> > Sawitri Saharso works in the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of
> Social Sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam. She is currently
> engaged in a study of gender, ethnicity, and public morality.
> >
> > Ethnicity and Gender in Denmark (title to be confirmed)
> > Birte Siim is Professor of Politics at Aalborg University, and has been
> working on a research project for the Danish Power Commission, addressing
> barriers to the empowerment of ethnic minority women in Denmark.
> >
> > > <<bookingform.doc>> > > <<conferenceagenda.doc>>
> > .
>
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