Ort: Centro Incontri Umani (Ascona, Switzerland)
Zeit: 8-10 June 2007
Conference and Film Projections

8 June
Welcome: Prof. Dr Angela Hobart, (Lugano University and London University Goldsmiths College and UCL); Director Centro Incontri Umani, Switzerland
Film Projection (Monte Verita) (21.00)
Standard bearers of Hussein, Women commemorating Karbala
A film by Ingvild Flaskerud, 2003, 35 min
9 June
First Panel
(Chair : Angela Hobart)
Mary Elaine Hegland (Santa Clara University, USA) (9.30-10.30)
(Women’s Moharram Practices: Expanding Opportunities in an Iranian Village)
Faegheh Shirazi (University of Texas at Austin, USA) (10.30-11.30)
(The Sofreh: Comfort and Community Among Women in Iran)
Sabine Kalinock (University of Frankfurt, Germany) (11.45-12.45)
(‚Arus-e Qoraysh Ritual of Iranian Women: Fieldwork on Women’s Ritual in Iran)
Second Panel:
(Chair: Mary Elaine Hegland)
Sawsan Karimi (Kingdom of Bahrain) (14.30-15.30)
(Home-ethnography of Women’s Death Rituals in Bahrain)
Su Min (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) (15.30-16.30)
(Remaking Pure Muslim Women: The Choice of lamentation and the Representation of Filial Piety After the Religious Reform of Islam)
Pedram Khosronejad (University of Oxford, UK) (16.45-17.45)
(The Missing: Spiritual and Personal Loss in Bakhtiari Female Lamentation)
10 June
Third Panel
(Chair: Prof. Ellen Hertz, Directrice Institut d’ethnologie Universite de Neuchetel)
Patricia Kelly Spurles (Mount Allison University, Canada) (9.30-10.30)
(Henna practices, gender and Islam in the life course in Marrakesh)
Ingvild Flaskerud (University of Troms?, Norway) (10.30-11.30)
(Negotiating Ritual Participation and Performance ? A Multicultural Experience)
Anna Neubauer (University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland) (11.45-12.45)
(Methodological implications of the Researcher’s Gender and Religion: Reflexions on Fieldwork with Sufi Women in Istanbul)
Miriam Ali De Unzaga (University of Oxford, UK) (12.45-13.45)
(Female weaving Rituals in Morroco)
Conclusion of Conference
(Centro Incontri Umani) (16.00)
Film Projection (Monte Verita) (18.00)
The Procession of the Captives: a Shiite Tragedy
A film by Sabrina Mervin, 2006, 54 min
For more information regarding this program, please visit this websites
http://www.ciu-ascona.org/a-eng/Activities/Actual.html
http://www.anthropology-iran.org/forumsource/genderstudies/default.aspx
For participating at this event, please contact: Laura Simona: giovanni.simona@asp.ti-edu.ch
Centro Incontri Umani: http://www.monteverita.org/splash.cfm
Monte Verita
Convenor
Dr.Pedram KHOSRONEJAD, Junior Research Fellow at The Middle East Centre St.Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Oxford OX2 6JF UK.
Tel: + 44 (0) 07981690906
Fax: + 44 (0)1865-278190
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~orin0179/
CfP – Quelle: Newsletter des AKHFG Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Universität Flensburg