Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum
Complexities of Change and Cultural Diversity-Haideh Moghissi in Augsburg
In the summer semester of 2017, the Iranian-Canadian sociologist Prof. em. Haideh Moghissi (York University, Toronto), a world-renowned expert on human rights issues, culture and politics in the Middle East, and ethnicity and migration in a global context, came to the University of Augsburg.
Haideh Moghissi discussed the challenges facing modern societies in the light of migration, integration, Islamism and Islamophobia. She also addressed the issues of equal rights for women and the women's rights movement in Islamic contexts as well as on a global level.
Haideh Moghissi has Iranian roots and is professor emeritus of sociology at York University in Toronto. Before she left Iran in 1984, she was a co-founder and board member of the National Iranian Women's Union. Her English language publications include 7 monographs and anthologies as well as numerous contributions to books and scientific journals. Her book Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2000 and Zed Press, 1999) won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award and has been translated into several languages. Haideh Moghissi was the director of several international research projects. In 2011, she was awarded a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Research Fellowship and in 2015, she received the Status of Women Award of Distinction from the Ontario Confederation of Faculty Associations.
26.06.2017, 18:00 pm
Islamism, Islamophobia, feminism: Challenges of 21st century
Lecture by Haideh Moghissi
Universität Augsburg, Hörsaal 1009, Gebäude H (Jura)
28.06.2017, 14:00 pm
Research as a Democratic Process
Workshop held by Haideh Moghissi for master and doctoral students
Universität Augsburg, innocube, Gebäude U
29.06.2017, 18:00 pm
Migration, Integration and Belonging at the Age of Globalization
Lecture by Haideh Moghissi
Universität Augsburg, Hörsaal 1009, Gebäude H (Jura)
03.07.2017, 18:00 pm
Gender Equality and the Challenges of a Globalized World
Panel discussion in German (English contributions will be interpreted). Haideh Moghissi in conversation with
Prof. em. Dr. Leonie Herwartz-Emden, ehem. former chair of pedagogy for childhood and youth (University of Augsburg), und
Prof. Dr. Angelika Poferl, Chair of General Sociology (TU Dortmund University).
Host: Prof. Dr. Reiner Keller, Direktorium des Jakob-Fugger-Zentrums
Rokokosaal der Regierung von Schwaben, Fronhof 10, 81652 Augsburg