Nordic-Arab Network of Research on Women's Empowerment, Gender and Politics

The first seminar of the WEP network will take place at Aalborg University, Denmark, 1-3 November 2010. Please see www.womendialogue.org for further details including the call for papers.

The aim of this network is to provide young Arab and Nordic scholars in the field of gender and politics with the opportunity to establish intra-regional as well as cross-regional contacts with other PhD students and senior researchers in the same field and to provide additional academic supervision within the following research areas:

Women's political empowerment (political representation, social movements)

Policy changes and gendered rights (civil, political and social citizenship and violence against women)

Labour market (gender segregation, equal pay, unemployment)

Migration (including migrating care workers)

Media, communication and cultural debates

Religion

The purpose of the network is three-fold:

to contribute to the development of research in the field of women in political life

to facilitate the exchange of theories, methodological approaches and empirical findings between young Arab and Nordic scholars.

to facilitate contacts between senior and junior researchers in the field. Thus, the network will be of vital help to young scholars who are looking for international research contacts and who are in want of additional external supervision capacity

For further details please see the attached document