June 17-21, 2008

The South-South Exchange Programme “Woman and Public Sphere” for research to be conducted in partnership with Khazar University (Azerbaijan) and SEPHIS –the Institute of Social History (the Netherlands)

SEPHIS and Khazar University

Workshop

Women and the Public Sphere

Baku, Azerbaijan

17-22 June 2008

                                                     Khazar University Conference Center

Preliminary Programme

Tuesday June 17       Arrival of participants

Wednesday June 18

9.00 – 9.30      Registration and coffee

9.30 – 10.15    Welcoming speeches

1. Hamlet Isaxanli, Founder and Rector of Khazar University, Azerbaijan

2. Ferda Asadov, Director of SOROS Azerbaijan

3. Hijran Huseynova, Chairwoman of the State Committee of the   Republic of Azerbaijan for Women, Children and Family Affairs

4. Shamil Jeppie, Co-chair of SEPHIS, University of Cape Town, South-Africa

10.15 – 11.00 Samita Sen (Centre for Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, india)

                          Women and the Public Sphere: Perspectives from the South

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 12.00  Discussion

12.00 -14.00    Lunch

14.00 - 16.00   Session 1

Chair: Michiel Baud (Centre for Latin America Research and Documentation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Discussant:  Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Alisa Tolstokorova (International School for Equal Opportunities Kyiv, Ukraine)

Women’s Entry into Public Space in Ukraine: A Historical Perspective

Rolando Rojas Rojas (Institute of Peruvian Studies, Peru)

Women and the Conquest of Educational Sphere in Peru (1900-1930)

Ali Abbasov (National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan)

Women Problems in the Project of the Sovietization of the Azerbaijan

(1920-1930)

16.00 – 16.15  Tea break

16.15 – 18.15  Session 2

                        Chair: Hamlet Isaxanli (Khazar University, Azerbaijan)

Discussant: Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Enna Sukuti Gudhlanga (Zimbabwe Open University, Zimbabwe)

Shutting them Out: Opportunities and Challenges of Female Participation in Zimbabwean Politics: A Gendered Perspective                       

Eno Ikpe (University of Lagos, Nigeria)

Akwa Ibom Women and the Public Sphere: A Historical Study

Aghayeva Kifayat (Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan)

Women, Democracy and Power

Dinner hosted by the SOROS Azerbaijan

Thursday June 19

9.00 – 11.00    Session 2

Chair: Verene Shepherd (University of the West Indies, Jamaica)

Discussant: M.S.S. Pandian (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India)

Ganieva Gulnora (Institute of History at the Academy of Science, Republic of Uzbekistan)

Gender Problems: A Retrospective Show and the Analysis of a Modern Position of Women in Uzbekistan

Tsetsegjargal Tseden (National University of Mongolia)

Mongolian Women in the Twentieth Century

Rena Mirzazadeh (National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan)

The Women’s Movement of Modern Azerbaijan

11.00 – 11.15  Coffee break

11.15 – 13.15  Session 3

Chair: Solmaz Rustamova (National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan)

Discussant: Carlos Degregori (Institute of Peruvian Studies, Peru)

Shoba Venkatesh Ghosh (College of Arts, Science and College,

Mumbai, India)

Apportioning the Private and the Public: Gendered Spaces in Mainstream Indian Cinema

Rosmery Machicado de Urquizu (Gabriel René Moreno University, Santa Cruz, Bolivia)

Media Representation of Silvia Lazarte, leader of the New Political Constitution of Bolivia

Elena Kasumova (Academy of Management, Azerbaijan)

Tradition of the Women Activity in Azerbaijan in the 19^th of 20^th century.

13.15 – 15.00  Lunch

15.00 – 17.00  “Histories Contested”: A Debate about Colonial and Post-colonial Historiography

Facilitator:                 Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Panel members:

      1. Eldar Ismailov (State University of Baku)

      2. Dilarom Alimova (Institute of History, Uzbekistan)

      3. Carlos Ivan Degregori (Institute of Peruvian  Studies , Peru)

      4. M.S.S. Pandian (Centre for the Study of  Developing Societies, India)

      5. Verene Shepherd (University of the West Indies,  Jamaica)

Dinner hosted by the Khazar University, Azerbaijan                

Friday June 20

9.00 – 11.00    Session 5

Chair: Marina de Regt (SEPHIS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Discussant: Asef Bayat (International Institute of the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Shilpa Phadke (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India)

Reinterpreting Public Safety, Risk and Violence: A Gendered Analysis

Yilmaz Çolak (Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, Turkey)

The Headscarf Issue and the Public Sphere in Turkey

Leyla Melikova (National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan)

The Influence of the Religious Factor on the State of Women in Azerbaijan in the end of the 19^th and the beginning of the 20^th centuries.

11.00 – 11.15  Coffee break

11.15 – 13.15  Session 6

Chair:  Ali Abassov (National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan)

Discussant: Maris Diokno (University of Diliman, The Philippines)

Ana Lopez Molina (Association for the Advancement of Social

Sciences, Guatemala)

Memory and Identity in organizations conformed by rural women

Elisa Guarana da Castro (Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil)

Social Hierarchy and Intersectionality: Gender and Generation in Social Rural Movements in Brazil

Jesmael Mataga (National University of Lesotho, Lesotho)

Are We Also Not Women? Women, Culture and the Public Sphere in

Lesotho

13.15 – 15.00  Lunch

15.00 – 17.00  Public Forum: “Women’s Activism in the South Today”

Chair: Samita Sen (Jadavpur University, India)

Panel members:       

-          Rena Mirzazadeh, Azerbaijan

-          Ana Lopez Molina, Guatemala

-          Enna Gudhlanga, Zimbabwe

-          Tsetsegjargal Tseden, Mongolia

Dinner hosted by SEPHIS

Saturday June 21

Excursion

Sunday June 22

Departure