Plenary Round Table on "Feminist Futures in Precarious Times: Emerging and Transformative Visions in South Asia"
Moderator

PROF. DIANA J. FOX
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Anthropology
Journal of International Women’s Studies
Bridgewater State University
USA.
Plenary Speakers

Prof. Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Professor, Department of English
University Distinguished Scholar (2009)
Director, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program (2009-15)
Fulbright Specialist (2015-2022)

Prof. Dr. Sailaja Nandigama
Associate Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences Department
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)
India.

Prof. Nilanjana Paul
Assistant Professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
United States.

Prof. Namita Goswami
Indiana State University
USA

Prof. Gowri Parameswaran
School of Education, SUNY at New Paltz
USA
Panel Discussion on "Feminist Voices From Asia, Africa, and The Middle East: Listening to Our Global Sisters"
Panel Speakers

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Meltem INCE-YENILMEZ
Izmir Democracy University,
Turkey.
Profile
Meltem İNCE YENİLMEZ is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Izmir Democracy University. She is also a Research Assistant at Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Massachusetts Amherst University, USA, Visiting Associate Professor at Tohoku University Institute of Economics and Management, Japan, and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at UC Berkeley. In addition to her academic positions, Meltem’s career includes studies on the impact of various forces of economic and social change on the formation of gender relations and women’s empowerment. Her expertise covers cyclical patterns of women’s employment and gender and development-related issues, from discrimination to care work and employment patterns in developing countries. In addition to the four books she has published, she also covers women in sports, occupational discrimination and the gender pay gap. She currently works on Population Aging and Its Impact on Society, cyberfeminism and economic sustainability.

Dr. Catherine Ndinda
Human Science Research Council
Cape Town,
South Africa.
Profile
Dr. Ndinda is a Research Director within the Human and Social Capabilities (HSC) division of the HSRC. She has a PhD Social Science (UKZN) and an MSc Urban and Regional Planning (UKZN). In 2013 she was the recipient of a research fellowship awarded by the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) and funded by the IDRC. She has been the recipient of 18 grants and authored 19 research reports. Her authorship includes papers in peer reviewed international journals, book chapters, conference papers and policy brief.
In 2016 she was the principal investigator in the Department of Human Settlements Study, Baseline assessment for the future impact evaluation of informal settlements targeted for upgrading, which was also presented the UN Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador. The study developed baseline indicators for the both effectiveness and impact evaluation of informal settlements. Her research interests are in human settlements research, monitoring and evaluation and policy analysis.

Dr. Wafaa A. Abdulaali
University of Mosul,
Iraq.
Profile
Wafaa Abdullatif Abdulaali is an assistant professor of English literature and language at the University of Mosul in Iraq. Her interests lie in cross-cultural gender and women’s studies, women’s creativity, and poetry. She recently presented a paper, “The Failure of the National/Personal Dream in Times of War: A Study of Poems (Written 1991) by Arab and American Women Poets,” at the 2007 MELUS-India/MELOW conference, “Literature in Times of Violence,” in Chandigarh, India. At Radcliffe, Abdulaali will research and write about war poetry by Arab and American woman poets. She will study poetry written across four decades, from the Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Wars (1967) to the present-day Iraq War. Using certain feminist, historicist, and cross-cultural approaches, she will arrive at women’s rhetoric of war beyond cultural bounds. Abdulaali earned her BA in translation and MA in English literature and language from the University of Mosul and her PhD from the University of Baghdad. Her PhD thesis, on the cultural achievements of poets Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Nazil Al-Mala’ika, was a pioneering work in gender and women’s studies in Iraq. She frequently publishes translations in Iraqi and Arab periodicals, and recently published a book of fifty modern English poems translated into Arabic (now out of print). Abdulaali is currently coauthoring a book on an Iraqi woman poet, Andalusian Songs for the Wounds of Iraq: A Face-Page Translation of Bushra Al-Bustani’s Poetry (Mellen Press, forthcoming), and was recently selected as a member of the advisory board of a new Oxford journal, Contemporary Women’s Writing.

Dr. Sharifah Nurul Huda Alkaff
Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD),
Brunei.
Profile
Wafaa Abdullatif Abdulaali is an assistant professor of English literature and language at the University of Mosul in Iraq. Her interests lie in cross-cultural gender and women’s studies, women’s creativity, and poetry. She recently presented a paper, “The Failure of the National/Personal Dream in Times of War: A Study of Poems (Written 1991) by Arab and American Women Poets,” at the 2007 MELUS-India/MELOW conference, “Literature in Times of Violence,” in Chandigarh, India. At Radcliffe, Abdulaali will research and write about war poetry by Arab and American woman poets. She will study poetry written across four decades, from the Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Wars (1967) to the present-day Iraq War. Using certain feminist, historicist, and cross-cultural approaches, she will arrive at women’s rhetoric of war beyond cultural bounds. Abdulaali earned her BA in translation and MA in English literature and language from the University of Mosul and her PhD from the University of Baghdad. Her PhD thesis, on the cultural achievements of poets Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Nazil Al-Mala’ika, was a pioneering work in gender and women’s studies in Iraq. She frequently publishes translations in Iraqi and Arab periodicals, and recently published a book of fifty modern English poems translated into Arabic (now out of print). Abdulaali is currently coauthoring a book on an Iraqi woman poet, Andalusian Songs for the Wounds of Iraq: A Face-Page Translation of Bushra Al-Bustani’s Poetry (Mellen Press, forthcoming), and was recently selected as a member of the advisory board of a new Oxford journal, Contemporary Women’s Writing.
Publication Workshop on "Publishing with the Journal of International Women’s Studies"

Prof. Diana J Fox
Chairperson Department of Anthropology
Bridgewater State University, USA

Dr. Madhavi Venkatesan
Northeastern University
USA

Dr. Sayan Dey
University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg
South Africa

Asst. Prof. Goutam Karmakar
Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College
India
Publication Workshop
Free Workshop on “WCWS 2022” Publication Opportunities”
Moderator

Mr. Isanka P. Gamage
Managing Director &
Co-Founder of TIIKM