BRISMES Annual Lecture
2020 BRISMES Annual Lecture
Recovering Gender Equality in Islam: Conversations with Reformist Thinkers
Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Date: Wednesday 21 October 2020
Time: 5:30pm (BST)
Location: Online via Zoom
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About the speaker:
Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a legal anthropologist, specializing in Islamic law, gender and Islamic feminism, and a founding member of the Musawah Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family. She has published books on Islamic family law in Iran and Morocco, Iranian clerical discourses on gender, Islamic reformist thinkers, and the revival of zina laws, and most recently the co-edited Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law (2013) and Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition (2015). She has co-directed two award-winning feature-length documentary films on Iran: Divorce Iranian Style (1998) and Runaway (2001). In 2015 she received the American Academy of Religion's Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understaning of Religion. She has held numerous research fellowships and visiting professorships (most recently at NYU Law School); currently she is Professional Research Associate at the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS, University of London.
Past Lectures
2019
Laleh Khalili
The Corporeal Life of Commerce at Sea (listen to a recording of the lecture here)
2018
Khaled Fahmy
Shari'a, dissection and justice in modern Egypt
2017 (joint lecture with BRAIS)
Olivier Roy
Speaking of jihad, what do we mean by ‘religious radicalisation’?
2016
Hisham Matar
After the Revolutions: Arab Memory and Bewilderment
2015
Eugene Rogan
Beirut on the Stage: The Ottoman Great War in Four Acts
2014
Jack Straw
The Future of British Foreign Policy in the Middle East
2014
Sami Zubaida
The Quest for Cultural Authenticity and the Politics of Identity (listen to a recording of the lecture here)
2013
Haleh Afshar
Islam and the Politics of Resistance: The Case of Women in Iran.
2011
Baghat Kourani
Middle East Exceptionalism: Ended or Dented? Joint lecture with CASAW.
2010
Patrick Seale
America’s War Against Islam
2009
Roger Owen
British and French Military Intelligence in Syria and Palestine, 1914-18
2008
Yasir Suleiman
Arabic and I
2007
Clive Holes
From Suez to Iraq via Jimmy and Diga: Arabic Popular Poetry as a Form of Free Speech
2007
Ruud Peters
Shari’a Criminal Law and Human Rights: Can They Be Reconciled? Special summer lecture.
2006
Carole Hillenbrand
Images of Saladin, Past and Present
2005
Charles Tripp
Show Trials in Iraq: Theatres of Power
2004
Philip Robins
Top Hat and Crescent: Dualism Reconciled in Turkey’s Foreign Relations
2003
Roger Owen
Biography and Empire: Lord Cromer (1841-1917) Then and Now
2002
Tony Allan
Water, Food and Trade in the Middle East: Virtual Water Eliminates Water Wars?
2001
Fred Halliday
11 September 2001 and the Study of International Relations
2000
James Craig
A Life with the Arabs