Decolonial Criticism, Islamic Feminisms and Education (EN)

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Paths: Decolonial Criticism, Islamic Feminisms and Education. Lana Sirri, [Shenila Khoja-Moolji], Asma Aiad. Mi. 21.07.2021

Lana Sirri

Dr. Lana Sirri is an assistant professor in Gender and Religion at the Centre for Gender and Diversity (CGD) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She completed her Ph.D. studies at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2017. Her research lies at the intersection of religion and gender and critically explores Islamic feminist thought, emphasizing its historical development and its diverse theoretical frameworks and methodologies. Lana has published articles on the topic of Islamic feminism and Muslim feminist thought. She also completed a book titled “Einführung in den Islamischen Feminismus” (2017, 2020) which introduces Islamic feminism to a non-academic audience of German-speaking activists. Lana is an associated expert of the Centre for Intersectional Justice and is a co-founder of the Berlin Muslim Feminist Group and the Black and PoC Academic Network in Germany. 
 

• Islamic Feminism: challenges, contestations and decoloniality.
  Islamischer Feminismus: Herausforderungen, Anfechtungen und Dekolonialität
  
  Islamic feminism is a field of study that has been marginalized both in contemporary Islamic discourse and in feminist discourse. This lecture counters this marginalization by presenting the diversity of approaches used in Islamic feminist scholarship. It takes a decolonial intersectional perspective to examine the different strategies Muslim and Islamic feminists have developed to challenge constellations of power, such as sexism, religious extremism, and the growing anti-Muslim racism in Europe.

Shenila Khoja-Moolji (nicht in der Aufnahme)
 

Asma Aiad (Moderation)

Asma Aiad ist Künstlerin, Aktivistin, Jugendarbeiterin & Sprecherin des Black Voices Volksbegehren. Ihren Bachelor absolvierte sie in Politikwissenschaft. Zurzeit studiert sie an der Akademie für bildende Künste und schließt ihren Master in Gender Studies mit dem Schwerpunkt Islamischer Feminismus ab. In ihrer aktivistischen und künstlerischen Arbeit beschäftigt sie sich mit Antirassismus, Feminismus und der Dekonstruktion von Stereotypen.