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Centre for Research on Culture and Gender

The Centre for Research on Culture and Gender at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, supports research and scholarly exchange on questions of identity, difference and diversity in a globalized world from the perspective of critical inquiry, qualitative and interdisciplinary research methodologies.

The Centre brings together scholars and students from the arts, humanities and social sciences, in collaboration with other disciplines, interested in the study of culture in intersection with gender and/or other identity markers such as sexuality, ethnicity, class, nation and religion.

 

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  • Tue
    29
    Apr
    2025

    Quest for Love in Central Morocco - Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives - Laura Menin

    16-18 PMAuditorium 1 Jan Broeckx, Faculty of Arts & Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2 9000 Gent
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    Laura Menin’s ethnography focuses on young women living in the low-income and lower-middle-class neighborhoods of a midsized town in Central Morocco, far from the overt influence of city life. At the heart of the book, Menin draws upon ideas of “love” as an ethnographic object and source of theoretical examination.

    She demonstrates that love, as a complex cultural and historical phenomenon shaped through intersecting socioeconomic and political developments, is crucial in thinking through generational changes and debates in Morocco and the Middle East more broadly. What is at stake in the quest for love, she argues, is not only the making of gendered selves and intimate relationships, but also the imagination of social and political life. Read more

    About the speaker
    Laura Menin is a research associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. She has published numerous articles in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Contemporary Levant, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

    29 April 2025
    16h00 - 18h00 (GMT +1)

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    Auditorium 1 Jan Broeckx
    Faculty of Arts
    Blandijnberg 2
    9000 Gent
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    This book presentation is part of the Middle East Studies Research Seminar Series
    Organised by
    Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies Middle East Studies at Ghent University
    Co-organised by
    CARAM - Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality
    CRCG - Centre for Research on Culture and Gender

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  • Wed
    30
    Apr
    2025

    “Between revolution and capitulation: an ethnography of everyday queer worldmaking in the Chinese city Hangzhou” captures the everyday lives of queer people and their organizing practices in contemporary mainland China". By Haiyan Huang.

    10:30 - 13:30Aud. Vandenhove Pavilion Charles Vandenhove (Campus Boekentoren) Rozier 1 9000 Gent
    PhD defense

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