Events / Mieke Verloo

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Emma Goldman Awards 2023	Fri, 08.09.2023	Other	Mieke Verloo Misha GlennyStefanie Claudine Boulila, Susan Zimmermann	Emma Goldman Awards 2023 Fri, 08.09.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Misha GlennyStefanie Claudine Boulila, Susan Zimmermann Series: Other The FLAX Foundation awards the Emma Goldman Awards and Emma Goldman Snowball Awards to talented and engaged scholars working on feminist and inequality issues in Europe since 2020. Read more

	Elusive Transformations	Wed, 14.06.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Mieke Verloo Toni Haastrup	Elusive Transformations Wed, 14.06.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Toni Haastrup Series: Seminars and Colloquia Toni Haastrup critically scrutinized the EU’s claims to feminist actorship by introducing the analytical concept of “Feminist Power Europe.” In employing FPE as a lens, she examined whether the EU can adopt an FFP and if such an approach upholds the transformative potential of feminism. She demonstrated that the EU’s propensity for a transformative feminist foreign policy is limited by the setup of global politics, which continues to be situated in a traditionally masculine environment with prevailing hierarchies as a result of colonialism and racism. Read more
Elusive Transformations Wed, 14.06.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Toni Haastrup Series: Seminars and Colloquia Toni Haastrup critically scrutinized the EU’s claims to feminist actorship by introducing the analytical concept of “Feminist Power Europe.” In employing FPE as a lens, she examined whether the EU can adopt an FFP and if such an approach upholds the transformative potential of feminism. She demonstrated that the EU’s propensity for a transformative feminist foreign policy is limited by the setup of global politics, which continues to be situated in a traditionally masculine environment with prevailing hierarchies as a result of colonialism and racism. Read more
	Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next?	Mon, 06.03.2023	Seminars and Colloquia	Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan	Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next? Mon, 06.03.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan Series: Seminars and Colloquia Over the past 20 years, anti-democratic transnational movements against women’s rights and gender equality have grown in strength across Europe. In this talk, Tatev Hovhannisyan presented a number of openDemocracy’s investigations, according to which the backlash in Europe is well-organized and extensively funded by transnational actors, including US Christian conservatives. Read more
Following Anti-Gender Movements in Europe: What’s Next? Mon, 06.03.2023 Speakers: Mieke Verloo Tatev Hovhannisyan Series: Seminars and Colloquia Over the past 20 years, anti-democratic transnational movements against women’s rights and gender equality have grown in strength across Europe. In this talk, Tatev Hovhannisyan presented a number of openDemocracy’s investigations, according to which the backlash in Europe is well-organized and extensively funded by transnational actors, including US Christian conservatives. Read more
	Denial, Ignorance and Wilful Unknowing: The Episteme of the Israeli Occupation	Mon, 11.04.2022	Seminars and Colloquia	Merav Amir Mieke Verloo	Denial, Ignorance and Wilful Unknowing: The Episteme of the Israeli Occupation Mon, 11.04.2022 Speakers: Merav Amir Mieke Verloo Series: Seminars and Colloquia To the external onlooker, a puzzling predicament plagues Israeli politics. While the majority of Jewish-Israelis state that they support reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians abiding by the two-state solution, this public still has been repeatedly electing leaders who oppose reaching such an agreement for over two decades to date. Most often, this apparent anomaly is explained through the disillusion of Jewish-Israelis from the peace process, which has swayed the Israeli electoral power towards nationalistic hardliners. However, a more fundamental change has occurred in this period, rendering the question of the position of the Jewish-Israeli electorate towards peace obsolete. Accordingly, Jewish-Israelis are increasingly becoming ignorant regarding the causes fueling regional hostilities: that Israel maintains an occupation, and that Israel is holding millions of Palestinians as occupied subjects under a military rule. This talk explored the political technologies and discursive strategies through which this ignorance has been induced, and how the politico-spatiality of the occupied Palestinian territory has so successfully been eradicated from the collective Israeli consciousness. Through this analysis Merav Amir demonstrated that this epistemic reshaping has not only reconfigured the geography of the Israeli polity for this public, but has also warped the region’s political time, and disrupted the State’s own political trajectory, as it bestows the (presumed) future eventuality onto the present. Read more
Denial, Ignorance and Wilful Unknowing: The Episteme of the Israeli Occupation Mon, 11.04.2022 Speakers: Merav Amir Mieke Verloo Series: Seminars and Colloquia To the external onlooker, a puzzling predicament plagues Israeli politics. While the majority of Jewish-Israelis state that they support reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians abiding by the two-state solution, this public still has been repeatedly electing leaders who oppose reaching such an agreement for over two decades to date. Most often, this apparent anomaly is explained through the disillusion of Jewish-Israelis from the peace process, which has swayed the Israeli electoral power towards nationalistic hardliners. However, a more fundamental change has occurred in this period, rendering the question of the position of the Jewish-Israeli electorate towards peace obsolete. Accordingly, Jewish-Israelis are increasingly becoming ignorant regarding the causes fueling regional hostilities: that Israel maintains an occupation, and that Israel is holding millions of Palestinians as occupied subjects under a military rule. This talk explored the political technologies and discursive strategies through which this ignorance has been induced, and how the politico-spatiality of the occupied Palestinian territory has so successfully been eradicated from the collective Israeli consciousness. Through this analysis Merav Amir demonstrated that this epistemic reshaping has not only reconfigured the geography of the Israeli polity for this public, but has also warped the region’s political time, and disrupted the State’s own political trajectory, as it bestows the (presumed) future eventuality onto the present. Read more
	Beach Encounters	Tue, 13.10.2020	Lecture	Amade M'charek Mieke Verloo Shalini Randeria	Beach Encounters Tue, 13.10.2020 Speakers: Amade M'charek Mieke Verloo Shalini Randeria Series: Lecture Her talk told a story about forensics as an art of paying attention. It offered some of the ingredients of the book that Mohsen Lihidheb and Amade M'Charek are currently working on in the context of the Emma Goldman Award. Read more

	Award Ceremony for the Inaugural Emma Goldman Awards	Thu, 13.02.2020	Visual and Performing Arts	Cornelia Klinger Mieke Verloo Shalini RanderiaFlorian Duijsens	Award Ceremony for the Inaugural Emma Goldman Awards Thu, 13.02.2020 Speakers: Cornelia Klinger Mieke Verloo Shalini RanderiaFlorian Duijsens Series: Visual and Performing Arts The IWM is pleased to announce a collaboration with the FLAX Foundation, a newly founded independent foundation. Starting in 2020, the FLAX Foundation will issue awards to talented and engaged scholars of feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. The IWM will host two Emma Goldman Fellows each year, beginning in 2020, until 2025, funded by the FLAX Foundation. Read more
Award Ceremony for the Inaugural Emma Goldman Awards Thu, 13.02.2020 Speakers: Cornelia Klinger Mieke Verloo Shalini RanderiaFlorian Duijsens Series: Visual and Performing Arts The IWM is pleased to announce a collaboration with the FLAX Foundation, a newly founded independent foundation. Starting in 2020, the FLAX Foundation will issue awards to talented and engaged scholars of feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development. The IWM will host two Emma Goldman Fellows each year, beginning in 2020, until 2025, funded by the FLAX Foundation. Read more