Women and Islam: Agency in Francophone and Italophone Autobiography
- Event type
- Conference / Symposium
- Address
- Online
- Speakers
- Maria Morelli (ILCS, UoL), Oliver Brett (University of Nottingham), Simone Brioni (Stony Brook University), Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (), Francesca Calamita (University of Virginia), Beatrice Basile (University of Pennsylvania), Hamoudi Abdellaoui (University of Algiers), Mehrnoosh Arzaghi (Independent Scholar), Farzaneh Mollazadeh Igdir Independent Scholar (Independent Scholar)
- Event dates
- Contact
- jenny.stubbs@sas.ac.uk 020 7862 8832
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing (CCWW)
Organizers: Maria Morelli (ILCS, London) & Oliver Brett (University of Nottingham)
Author Conversation: Simone Brioni (Stony Brook University), in conversation with author Shirin Ramzanali Fazel: “Collaboration as a Decolonial Practice”
In the past few decades, different voices have emerged across Europe challenging the colonizing gaze that has traditionally been used to scrutinize Muslim women. Focusing on the Francophone and Italophone context, this one-day event looks at how such voices contribute to the debate on Muslim women’s identity and agency in contemporary Europe, and invite us to rethink traditional analyses that position the ‘non-Western’ as backwards and restrictive. The event features an Author Talk with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (Lontano da Mogadiscio, 1994).
All times in BST
12:00 – 14:00Panel 1: Women and Islam: the Italophone Context
Francesca Calamita (University of Virginia): “Walking into a Minefield: The Hijab Controversy in 2023”
Maria Morelli (ILCS): “The Colour of My Skin. Negotiating Italianness in Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s Lontano da Mogadiscio”
Simone Brioni (Stony Brook University), in conversation with author Shirin Ramzanali Fazel: “Collaboration as a Decolonial Practice” (Moderator: Maria Morelli, ILCS)
Beatrice Basile (University of Pennsylvania): “Body, Identity and Symbols in Igiaba Scego’s La Linea del colore”
14:00 – 14:30: Break
14.30 – 16:30Panel 2: Women and Islam: the Francophone Context
Oliver Brett (University of Nottingham): “Translating the Body: La Petite Dernière, Fatima Daas”
Hamoudi Abdellaoui (University of Algiers): “Feminism or Feminisms? Algerian Women Authors in Dialogue"
Mehrnoosh Arzaghi (Independent Scholar): “Assia Djebar's Portrayal of Women in Les femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement and Femme sans sépulture: Navigating Paradoxes of Language, Identity, and Women's Voices”
Farzaneh Mollazadeh Igdir (Independent Scholar): “The presence of the powerful feminine Other against the oppressed silent feminine Self, in Assia Djebar’s autobiographical work l’Amour, la Fantasia”
Supported by the Cassal Endowment Fund.
All are welcome to attend this free conference, which will be held online via zoom. Please register in advance by clicking Book Now at the top of the page and you will receive the zoom joining link.
