12 March 6:00pm
Public lecture
LSE Department of Gender Studies
Speaker Professor Valentine M. Moghadam is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs Program at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Previously she has been a section chief at UNESCO in Paris, where she led policy-oriented research on gender
equality and development in the Social and Human Sciences Sector; and a senior researcher at the United Nations University's WIDER Institute in Helsinki, Finland, where she coordinated the research program on women and development. Born in Tehran, Iran, Professor
Moghadam received her higher education in Canada and the U.S. Her areas of research include globalization, transnational social movements and networks, economic citizenship, and gender, development, and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa.
She is the author of many journal articles and books, including Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993, 2003, 2013), Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (2005, which won the American Political Science Association's
Victoria Schuck award for best book on women and politics for 2005), and Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement (2009, 2013), currently being updated for a third edition. She has edited or co-edited eight books,
including Social Policy in the Middle East: Economic, Political, and Gender Dynamics (2006, with Massoud Karshenas) and Empowering Women after the Arab Spring (2016, with Marwa Shalaby).
The Respondent is Dr. Hannah Bargawi, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and
The Chair is Dr Ece Kocabiçak, LSE Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at London School of Economics and Political Science.
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