“Varieties of Emirati Womanhood: Subjectivities, Creativities, and Confines”

Workshop

WHEN March 28-29, 2018
WHERE Conference Center WHO NYU Abu Dhabi By Invitation Interested scholars please contact lp75@nyu.edu

This workshop addresses Emirati womanhood from multiple perspectives, involving topics such as women's leadership and empowerment, past and contemporary socio-economic livelihoods, women's (self) representations in history and heritage, family and marriage laws, women's health, as well as the various artistic fields in which Emirati women have come to express themselves.

The workshop also discusses confines and problems that Emirati women are facing in their everyday lives and sheds light on the various ways in which the established discourses and iconographies on gender and womanhood are contested and reinterpreted.

Agenda

Day 1
Day 2

9:30am
Welcoming Remarks
Reindert Falkenburg/Martin Klimke/Laila Prager

9:45-11:30am
Panel 1: Empowering Emirati Women: Perspectives on Politics, Economics, and Health
Chair: Hannah Brueckner

9:45am
Problematizing Femininity: The Economics of Women’s Empowerment in the United Arab Emirates (Nawar Al Hassan Golley)

10:15am
The Politics of Women’s Empowerment: Gender Parity in the UAE (Rama Abdulkadir and Henriette Müller)

10:45am
Motherhood and the willingness to compete among Emiratis (Aurelie Dariel and Nikos Nikiforakis)

11:15am
Q&A

11:30am
Break

11:45am-1:30pm
Panel 2: Impediments, Laws, and Resistance
Chair: Nawar Al Hassan Golley

11:45am
Emirati Women and the Codification of Family Law (Lena Maria Möller)

12:15pm
"The Day I Told My Father" — Stories of Female Social Resistance from the Arab Gulf (Rana Al Mutawa)

12:45pm
Mirror Past the Eye: An Emirati Feminine Perspectives (Tara Aldughaither)

1:15pm
Q&A

1:30pm
Break

2:30-4:45pm
Panel 3: Avenues of Change: Creativities, Subjectivities, and the Arts
Chair: Anke Reichenbach

2:30pm
Women in the United Arab Emirates: A Portrait of Progress in Art and the Cultural Sector (Mona al Ali)

3pm
Drama Provoking Change: Emirati Women on Stage (Omnia Amin)

3:30pm
Showing and Seeing the Body in Emirati Contemporary Art (Sabrina DeTurk)

4pm
Q&A

4:15pm
Break

4:30-5:45pm
Panel 4: Women’s Lives in Peripheral and Transnational Spaces Chair: Laila Prager

4:30pm
Glimpses of Emirati Bedouin Female Learners in the Heart of the Western Region Desert: An Ethnographic Case Study (Thivashni Naidu)

5pm
Transnational Women's Lives between Oman and the UAE (Dawn Chatty)

5:30pm
Q&A
9:30-11:15am
Panel 5: Tracing Women’s Voices in History and Heritage
Chair: Dawn Chatty

9:30am
Women in Oral History (Aisha Bilkhair)

10am
Life Histories and Shared Platters: Emirati Women and the Creation of a National Cuisine (Ayesha Al Khansaheb)

10:30am
At the Margins of History: Women and Heritage in the UAE (Laila Prager)

11am
Q&A

11:15am
Break

11:30am-1:30pm
Panel 6: Young Emirati Women, Consumerism, and New Lifestyles
Chair: Marzia Barzani

11:30am Becoming a Woman, Becoming an Adult in a Transforming Society: Young Emirati Women in the Face of Social Change (Laure Assaf)

12pm
A Ladies' Paradise? Reflections on the Shopping Mall as a Place for Female flânerie (Anke Reichenbach)

12:30pm
Al-Mar’ah Nesf Al-Mujtamma‘: Life Coaching, Social Media, and the New Emirati Woman (Deina Rabi)

1pm
Q&A

1:15pm
Final Remarks

1:30pm
Break

6:30pm
Public Panel Discussion: Empowerment on Trial: Encountering Emirati Women’s Voices (Moderator: Laila Prager; Participants: Mona Al Ali, Maitha al Khayat, Rana Al Mutawa)

8pm
Dinner Buffet

Hosted by

Laila Prager, Visiting Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi

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