Events

Prof. Roja Fazeali will present at the International Congress Human Rights & Women, 20th Anniversary of Organic Law 1/2004 in Spain. The Congress is organised by Universidad de Salamanca, and it will take place from 3rd to 5th December 2024. Roja's presentation will be in the subject of "Human Rights, Islam and Debates around CEDAW".

The BILQIS ERC Project, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway will host the following two events on 5th December 2024 with Dr. Chowra Makaremi, CNRS Chowra Makaremi is a CNRS tenured researcher in the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Politique at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. She leads the ERC research program OFF-SITE: Violence, State formation and memory politics: an off-site ethnography of post-revolution Iran. 1. Lecture and Q&A: The Counter-Archives of the Long Iranian Revolution1:00 – 2.30pm This is a hybrid event, please register here for Zoom access. How can we rethink and adapt the production of empirical knowledge in contexts of violence and impunity, by unfolding the multi-faceted relationship between archives and power? The circulation of people, data, forms of knowledge (investigative forensics, cartography, oral history projects), and actions (people’s tribunals, missing people databases, universal jurisdiction) challenge the relations between power and knowledge when it comes to archives. Notably, various transnational forms of activism have the purpose or effect of producing scattered, incomplete documentation that subvert or challenge knowledge and narratives constructed within nation-state borders and power politics. However, engaging in this counter-hegemonic archival resistance comes at the risk of being reshaped by standardized legal, epistemic, moral grammars and norms. The presentation explores the world of, and the worlds narrated by, these counter-archives through the case of post-revolutionary Iran, and the “long” Iranian revolution (1979-1989). 2. Film Screening: Hitch. An Iranian Story at 5:00 PM A documentary film by Chowra Makaremi / 71 min /  2019 (Photo by Alfred Yaghobzadeh) Hitch : An Iranian Story intertwines history with family stories after the Iranian revolution of 1979, its betrayals and its consequences. The film is an insider look into the experience of political violence, and how it feeds representations, images, speeches and the things unsaid. The daughter of an opponent to the Islamic Republic who was imprisoned, tortured and killed, the filmmaker resists political negationism by bringing out the extermination of Iranian opponents through the presence of objects and the persistence of memory. Both events will take place in Room AMB-G065 Training Room 1, Arts Millennium Building, University of Galway All are welcome. For any queries, please email bilqis@universityofgalway.ie.

Dr Nazife Kosukoğlu will be participating in a workshop titled 'Everyday Questions. Gender, Economic, and Cultural Practices in Maritime Early Modern and Modern Everyday Life (17th–20th centuries).'  Nazife will present a paper titled 'Harbor of Change: Rewriting Women's Property Rights and Islamic Family Law in Thessaloniki.'  The workshop will be held on 5th and 6th December 2024 in Naples and the organizers are NextGenerationEU Project ‘Ondine’ (Dep. History, Humanities and Society – Tor Vergata University of Rome) and the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe of the Italian National Research Council (ISEM-CNR).                                               

  Join us for the talk by Dr Nazife Kosukoğlu on "Women against Authority. Religion, Law and Gender in the Ottoman Empire". The event will take place at 4.00pm, on Wednesday, 20 November 2024in the Bridge Seminar Room (Room 1001), first floor, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway This is a hybrid event, click here for Zoom registration. This talk is organised in collaboration with theERC-funded BILQIS project and the Irish Centre for Human Rights. For further details, please contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan at kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie  

Prof. Roja Fazeali, Dr. Joel Hanisek and Dr. Nazife Kosukoğlu took part in the Third International Conference on Contemporary Iranian Studies. The event was organised by Iran Academia University (Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities) and took place at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, between 22nd and 23rd August 2024.  Roja moderated a panel discussion on "Contemporary Analysis on Fatwas in Europe in relation to socio-religious practice and national policies", in which Joel and Nazife also took part. You can view the panel discussion here. Nazife presented a paper titled ''Resisting Impunity: Honor Killings and Ottoman Judicial Decision-Making in the Second Constitutional Period'', while Joel presented a paper titled "International Arbitration Councils and The Development and Consolidation of Socio-religious Authority". Please visit their website for more information on the ICCI 2024.        

The BILQIS ERC Project team at the Irish Centre for Human Rights,School of Law, University of Galway, will host its Colloquium on Agency and Authority in Islam on Monday 17th June 2024 from 9:30am to 5:30pm in the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University Road, Galway, H91 5H96. If you wish to attend the event please RSVP via email to bilqis@universityofgalway.ie

The Irish Centre for Human Rights at University of Galway School of Law, was delighted to host the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Roja Fazaeli, Established Professor of Law and Islamic Studies. "Interrogating Gender, Agency and Authority in Law and Society" Date & Time: Tuesday 5th March at 4.30pmLocation: Aula Maxima, Quadrangle at University of Galway The event was followed by a reception and the launch of the European Research Council project led byProfessor Fazaeli BILQIS: Building Conceptual and Methodological Expertise for the Study of Gender, Agency, and Authority in Islam