Friday, April 7, 2017
09.45-10.15 Welcome
10.15-11.00 Marnia Lazreg (City University of New York): “Overcoming Empiricism:
Groundwork for Theorizing Feminism in MENA”
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.15 Hoda El Sadda (Cairo University): “Traveling Concepts: Revisiting the Case of
Feminism and Gender in the Arab World”
12.15-14.15 Lunch Break
14.15-15.00 Lina Abirafeh (Lebanese American University): “Women’s and Gender Studies as
a Field in the Arab region: The Case of IWSAW”
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-16.00 Fatima Sadiqi (University of Fez): “The Politics of Terminology in Gender Studies:
A Linguistics Approach”
16.00-16.45 Moha Ennaji (University of Fez): “A Linguistic Reading of Existing Terminologies of Feminism, Women and Gender in North Africa”
16.45-17.15 Coffee break
17.15-19.00 Public Panel Discussion „Teaching Gender: Theory and Society in the
Classroom“
Discussants: Lina Abirafeh (Lebanese American University), Hoda El Sadda (Cairo
University), Moha Ennaji (University of Fez), Marnia Lazreg (City University of New
York), Marylène Lieber (University of Geneva)
Chair: Bettina Dennerlein (University of Zurich)

Saturday, April 8, 2017
10.15-11.00 Zeina Zaatari (Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Middle East and
Africa): “Heteronormativity, Sexuality, Queer and LGBTQI Identities: Between the
Hammer and the Anvil”
11.00-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.00 Bettina Dennerlein (University of Zurich): “The Politics of Women’s Rights in
Islamic Discourse”
12.00-14.15 Lunch Break
14.15-15.00 Doris Gray (Al-Akhawayn University): “New Conceptions of Gender and the Quest
of Global Equality”
15.00-15.45 Sarah Farag (University of Zurich): “The Social Life of Women’s Human Rights”
15.45-16.15 Coffee break
16.15-17.00 Yasmine Berriane (University of Zurich) and Aymon Kreil (University of Zurich):
“Women’s and Family Empowerment: Ethnographic Perspectives on a Contested
Term”
17.00-18.00 Final discussion
Discussant: Katrin Meyer (University of Basel)