ONDERZOEKSCENTRUM VOOR CULTUUR EN GENDER
Het Onderzoekscentrum voor Cultuur en Gender van de Vakgroep Talen en Culturen, Universiteit Gent, ondersteunt onderzoek naar en wetenschappelijke uitwisseling omtrent vraagstukken over identiteit, verschil en ongelijkheid in een geglobaliseerde wereld, en dit vanuit het perspectief van kritische theorie en met kwalitatieve onderzoeksmethodes (etnografie, levensverhaal analyse, discours analyse, literaire analyse, etc.).
Het centrum brengt onderzoekers samen uit de menswetenschappen en de sociale wetenschappen die geïnteresseerd zijn in de studie van cultuur op het kruispunt met gender en andere identiteitscategorieën zoals seksualiteit, etniciteit, klasse, natie, leeftijd, religie,….
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Din29Apr202516-18 PMAuditorium 1 Jan Broeckx, Faculty of Arts & Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2 9000 Gent
Quest for Love in Central Morocco - Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives - Laura Menin
Book presentationShow contentLaura 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)Join us in person
Auditorium 1 Jan Broeckx
Faculty of Arts
Blandijnberg 2
9000 Gent
DirectionsThis 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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Woe30Apr202510:30 - 13:30Aud. Vandenhove Pavilion Charles Vandenhove (Campus Boekentoren) Rozier 1 9000 Gent
“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.
PhD defense
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