Decolonizing Research/Politicizing Ethics with Prof. Lila Abu-Lughod

Name: Decolonizing Research/Politicizing Ethics with Prof. Lila Abu-Lughod
Start: 2024-10-23T10:15:00+02:00
Location: Helga Engs hus, Auditorium 2

Schedule

Wed Oct 23 2024 at 10:15 am

UTC+02:00

Location

Helga Engs hus, Auditorium 2 | Oslo, OS

The Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies (CIMS) at the University of Oslo is proud to welcome the anthropologist Professor Lila Abu-Lughod from Columbia University on Wednesday, 23 October 2024. Location on campus TBA.
Prof. Abu-Lughod will hold a seminar entitled, “Decolonizing Research/Politicizing Ethics: What Middle East Studies Can Learn from the Indigenous Turn in Anthropology,” discussing her reflections from debates about social research in indigenous societies including in New Zealand, Hawaii, and Bolivia.
Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University where she teaches anthropology and gender studies. A leading voice in the debates about culture, gender, Islam, and global feminist politics, her award-winning books and articles have been translated into 14 languages. The books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society; Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories; Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt; Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory; and Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Abu-Lughod’s scholarship, mostly ethnographic and based on long-term fieldwork in Egypt, has focused on the power of cultural forms, from poetry to television soap operas; the politics and ethics of knowledge and representations of cultural “others”; violence and memory; and questions of liberalism and the global projects of women’s and human rights. Her latest book is The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism (Duke University Press 2023) co-edited with Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian out of a collaborative international project on “Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence.”