Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Theory and practice through the prism of women’s rights Bahçeşehir University, March 18-19, 2013 Çırağan Caddesi, Beşiktaş Conference Program
March 18:
12:45-13:15 Welcome (Fazıl Say Conference room)
Nora Fisher Onar and Hande Paker
13:15-14:45 Panel 1: Cosmopolitan and Colonial I: Between European and local readings of women’s rights (Fazıl Say Conference room)
Susan C. Pearce, ‘Colonization Light? Southeast Europe meets transnational gender regimes’
Carolyn J. Eichner, ‘French Women’s Rights in Colonial Algeria: Roots of cosmopolitanism?’
Kennan Ferguson, ‘Are Cosmopolitans Free?’ Chaired by Ayşe Kadıoğlu
15:00-16-:45 Panel 2: Cosmopolitan and Colonial II: Between European and local readings of women’s rights (Fazıl Say Conference room)
Val Vojdik, ‘Beyond Intersectionality: Cosmopolitanism, human rights, and the elimination of violence against women’
Karina Eileraas, Sex(t)ing the Revolution?: Sexuality, cyberspace, & the politics of transnational feminist solidarity
Ayşe Gül Altınay and Begüm Başdaş, ‘2. wave feminist movement, sexuality and interactions between the LBGT and feminist movements in Turkey’ Chaired by Çiğdem Balım Harding
17:00-18:00 Break-out sessions (simultaneously)
1.National stories (D 401) Daniela Antonovska (Macedonia) Ana Rajkovic (SBWA, Montenegro) Senka Sekulic Rebic (B.a.B.e, Croatia) Nigar Göksel (Turkish Policy Quarterly, Turkey)
2.Mobilization across boundaries (D 402) Zlatiborka Popov Momcinovic, ‘Women’s Movement in BIH: Building bridges, requestioning the strategies’ Zozan Özgökçe (VAKAD, Turkey)
March 19:
8:45-10:45 Panel 3: Action-oriented Cosmopolitanism: negotiating solidarity and difference I
(Fazıl Say Conference room)
Ina Merdjanova, ‘Grounding Interreligious Dialogue for Peacebuilding: A gender perspective from the Balkans’ Fotini Tsibiridou, ‘From Cosmopolitanism to Cosmopolitics: gender and religious trouble in female activism’
Begüm Başdaş, ‘Cosmopolitanism and Indifference: women’s everyday narratives on sexuality and gender in Beyoglu, Istanbul’ Yeşim Arat, ‘KAMER in Turkey and cosmopolitanism’ Chaired by Ayşe Gül Altınay
11:00-12:30 Panel 4: Action-oriented Cosmopolitanism: negotiating solidarity and difference II
(Fazıl Say Conference room) Nelia N. Hyndman-Rizk, ‘
Chaired by Nadje Al-ali
12:30-13:30 Lunch- speaker: Nebahat Akkoç (KAMER)
(D terrace)
13:30-16:30 World cafe (moderated exercise for exchange of ideas- D terrace)
17:00-18:30 Keynote speech (Fazıl Say Conference room)
Nadje Al-ali ‘A space for Cosmopolitanism in Imperalism? Transnational feminism during war & occupation in Iraq’
Chaired by Fuat Keyman
Nora Fisher Onar and Hande Paker (organizers, Bahcesehir University)
Civil Marriage, not Civil War: The Lebanese women’s movement and the search for a secular citizenship’
Giulia Daniele, ‘Internal Uprisings among Israeli Women Activists: Heterogeneity and struggle from Within’
Josephine Ulrich, ‘Negotiating Cosmopolitanism: networking in Berlin’s Neukölln District’, (CSO perspective)