A personal reflection
The Gendered Transnational Texts and Communities Network invites you to a conference on the theme “Decolonising Identity”.
The conference aims at questioning misrepresentations of various marginalised minority groups: immigrants, refugees, Arab women, Muslim Australians, as well as the women, feminists and academics who live in the Global South. This conference is also an open invitation to anyone interested in broadening their horizons and learning more about the need to decolonise academia.
Two important keynote speakers will honour us with their presence.
Professor Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Professor Al-Hassan Golley teaches literary theory and gender and women's studies at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. Prof. Al-Hassan Golley is the author of Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies: Shahrazad Tells her Story (Texas UP 2003), editor of Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity through Writing (Syracuse UP 2007), Mapping Arab Women’s Movements: A Century of Transformations from Within (AUC Press 2012), and Guest Editor of HAWWA: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World’s “Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Arab Women’s Autobiographical Narratives.” In both her research and teaching, Al-Hassan Golley adopts an interdisciplinary approach drawing on her research in Literary Theory, Autobiography Theory, Post-Colonial Literatures and Discourses, Feminism, and Arab Women’s Movements.
Professor Fatima Sadiqi
Professor Fatima Sadiqi is a UN gender expert. She teaches Linguistics and Gender Studies at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University in Morocco. Prof. Sadiqi is author and editor of, among other works, Moroccan Feminist Discourses (2014), Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco (Brill, 2003), Gender and Violence in the Middle East (Routledge 2011), and Women Writing Africa: The Northern Region (The Feminist Press, 2009). Sadiqi is an international speaker on various topics dealing with Moroccan (and North African) women and languages. She was Director General of the Spirit of Fez Foundation, a member of the Board of Administration of the Royal Institute of the Amazigh Culture, and a Harvard University Fellow. Sadiqi founded the first Moroccan Centre for Studies and Research on Women in 1998 and the first Graduate Program on Gender Studies in 2000 at the University of Fez. In 2006, she founded Isis Centre for Women and Development.
Undergraduate students together with Dr. Kebsi have organized this conference and are very happy because these two famous scholars and feminists will give the keynote speeches. Students will present, run and chair the entire event.