Som en del i satsningen på islamologi anställer Lunds universitet en gästprofessor under 2022:
Yafa Shanneik will join the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University as a Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies from March 2022. She brings twelve years of teaching and research experiences on gender and religion related to Muslim women in both minority contexts in Europe and majority contexts in the Middle East. Since 2017, she has been leading two major research projects funded by the UK Government’s Global Challenges Research Fund on Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Europe and the Middle East. The aim of these two British Academy funded projects is to shed new light on gendered power dynamics within conflict-induced displacement. It thereby contributes to debates about humanitarian and state interventions on displaced people from the Middle East. Through these projects, Yafa has also paved the way for new research methodologies in Islamic and Migration Studies by using innovative multi-disciplinary research methods such as digital art in form of immersive virtual reality experiences. A new approach to researching gender agency within contemporary Islamic movements, which uses sensory experiences articulated through aesthetics, is the focus of Yafa’s new monograph The Art of Resistance in Islam: The Performance of Politics among Shi‘i Women in the Middle East and Beyond, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
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