5th International Conference on Gender/Women’s Studies, Neoliberal Discourse, and Gender Equality

Eastern Mediterranean University Center for Women’s Studies (CWS) invites papers, panel and event proposals addressing various themes on women/gender studies.

Invited Speaker: Nancy Lindisfarne
Nancy Lindisfarne taught social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London for many years. She has done anthropological fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, in a Turkish town, and among the urban bourgeoisie in Syria. Her publications include Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies (co-edited with Andrea Cornwall, Routledge, 1994) which, twenty years on, has been celebrated in the symposium ‘Revisiting Dislocating Masculinity’, held at the University of Sussex in July, 2014. Other publications include Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society (Cambridge, 1991), and a book of short stories... Learn more

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Center for Women’s Studies
Eastern Mediterranean University
Faculty of Business and Economics – BE159
Famagusta Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) Via Mersin 10, Turkey
Phone : 00 – 90 392 630 2269 – 630 4023
Fax: 00 – 90 392 365 1017

Conference Chair: 
Assist. Prof. Seda Orbay Yücel, seda.orbay@emu.edu.tr

Conference Co-Chair: 
Assoc. Prof. Süheyla Üçışık Erbilen, suheyla.ucisik@emu.edu.tr

Conference Secreteriat: 
Pembe Yıldırım, İlke Gürdal,
Ikechukwu Darlington Nwaka: ndge2015@emu.edu.tr