Seminars / Workshops
Professor Sadiqi invites students, private individuals, and organizations
to attend 10 day workshops in the city of Fes, Morocco.
Click here for details.
International
Conferences:
Professor Sadiqi actively recruites western universities to develop
foreign exchange programs and frequently travels to the United States to attend conferences
and build awareness of her program. Here are some of her recent conferences:
Mediterranean
Women
Women and
Education
Women and
Development
Feminist Movements:
Origins and Orientations
Mediterranean
Women
April 24, 25, and 26,
2003
The September 11 events and their consequences
have demonstrated that danger does not reside in the clash between
civilizations and cultures, but between extremisms of all kinds in
various civilizations and cultures. The Mediterranean Sea, which has
always been a unifying factor between the peoples of various
cultures, has now become an economic, political, and religious
barrier opposing the northern part to the southern one. This state
of affairs has created an urgency: the need for a trans-cultural
dialogue between to the two sides of the Mediterranean
sea.
This
dialogue has constituted a priority on the agenda of civil society
which never ceased to promote a rapprochement between people of
different cultures by highlighting their historical and human common
heritage. The place and role of women in this trans-cultural
rapprochement is crucial in view of their role in social
development, as well as in the overall futurist vision of the world
in education, the family, etc. and, as such, determines the future
of individuals and societies in this region of the world, especially
with the continuous consolidation of
globalization.
A major objective of this conference is to promote
reflection on the importance of empowering women in the global
development of the Mediterranean region. The conference also aims at
debating the ways in which gender equality should be taken into
consideration not only in economical projects, but also in education
and decision-making. Another objective of the conference is to
highlight the main activities and means targeting the promotion of
women in the Mediterranean region in the areas of legislation,
administration, etc, and compare the various experiences in this
domain.
The conference is perceived as an opportunity to
underline the fundamental role of dialogue in raising the
consciousness of women as to their rights as full citizens without
whom democratization and development can never be achieved.
Scholars, writers, academics, university researchers, civil society
activists from the Mediterranean region or who are interested in
this region will debate issues and seek ways of establishing links
and partnerships between their various
institutions.
The major sub-themes of the conference are:
- Women and
Globalization
- Women and Migration
-Women and
Terrorism
-Women and
Violence
-Women and
Education
-Women and
Religion
-Women and
Culture
-Women and Civil
Society
-Women and
Politics
The conference
featured plenary sessions and workshops. The languages of the
conference were: Arabic, French and English.
Women and Education
April 11, 12, and 13,
2002
The major
axes of the conference are :
-Women and
illiteracy .
-Women and
knowledge.
-Female
knowledge .
-Gender
approaches to education.
-The
Moroccan Reform of education.
The languages of the conference are:
Arabic, French, and English.
Women and Development
November 10, 11, and
12, 2000
Synopsis
The conference on “Women and
Development” centers on the issue of development and the role of
women in this development. Being closely linked to the social, economic,
intellectual, political, civil, legal, administrative, and
organizational aspects of society, development can be dealt only
from an interdisciplinary perspective. If the 20th
century was based on the supremacy of economy, the 21st century is bound to take into
account humanism which guaranties the respect of human rights and
dignity. Women do not only constitute half of society, but they are
major economic, social, and intellectual agents that can no longer
be overlooked with the advent of globalization. The conferences
addresses the following issues:
-Gender and
development .
-Women and
development in the Maghreb, the Middle East, The Arab-Islamic
world, Europe, and the USA.
-Women and
politics.
-Women and
education.
-Women and
the media .
-Rural
women, literacy, and development.
The
languages of the conference are: Arabic, French, and
English.
Feminist Movements: Origins and
Orientations
May 13, 14, and 15, 1999
Synopsis
Through
the theme of the conference “Feminist Movements: origins and
orientations”, the organizers
aim to place the problem of origins and orientations of
feminist movements in a context wide but specific enough to foster a
real understanding of these movements at a
universal scale. With this aim in mind, the conference addresses
issues related to the historical, cultural, social, legal and
ideological dimensions:
-The historical
and cultural conditions which crystallized into feminist
movements worldwide.
-The cultural and
civilizational origins which have characterized these
movements since their
inception.
-The nature of interactions
between Western feminist movements and their Arab-Islamic
counterparts.
-The intellectual
orientations behind the evolution of feminist movements
throughout the
world.
-Futurist views
on feminist movements.
The
languages of the conference are: Arabic, French, and
English.
