'Religion, gender and human rights: challenges for multicultural and democratic societies', Linköping, Sweden
21 June 2011 - 21 June 2011
Sweden
A conference entitled 'Religion, gender and human rights: challenges for multicultural and democratic societies' will take place from 21 to 25 June 2011 in Linköping, Sweden.
The event will examine the nexus of religion, gender, identity, human rights and politics with a particular focus on Europe in a context of globalisation. Four topics will be centre-stage:
- moving gender from the periphery to the centre of contemporary debates about the role of religion in public and political life;
- stimulating new feminist and gender scholarship concerned with the critical (re)interpretation of religions and gendered faith-based practices across different religious traditions;
- applying an 'intersectional' lens to issues of religion, gender and women's human rights, and bring into dialogue feminist theorising on gender and religion across global 'South' and global 'North' perspectives;
- expanding the horizon of gender-focused human rights analysis at the nexus of religion, gender, citizenship and rights.
Attendees are expected to include senior and emerging scholars across a range of relevant disciplines including political science and international relations, sociology, gender and women's studies, human rights and socio-legal studies, development, anthropology, European studies and religious studies.For further information, please visit: http://www.esf.org/conferences/11352(opens in new window)
The event will examine the nexus of religion, gender, identity, human rights and politics with a particular focus on Europe in a context of globalisation. Four topics will be centre-stage:
- moving gender from the periphery to the centre of contemporary debates about the role of religion in public and political life;
- stimulating new feminist and gender scholarship concerned with the critical (re)interpretation of religions and gendered faith-based practices across different religious traditions;
- applying an 'intersectional' lens to issues of religion, gender and women's human rights, and bring into dialogue feminist theorising on gender and religion across global 'South' and global 'North' perspectives;
- expanding the horizon of gender-focused human rights analysis at the nexus of religion, gender, citizenship and rights.
Attendees are expected to include senior and emerging scholars across a range of relevant disciplines including political science and international relations, sociology, gender and women's studies, human rights and socio-legal studies, development, anthropology, European studies and religious studies.For further information, please visit: http://www.esf.org/conferences/11352(opens in new window)