Date: 7 June 2022, 10:00 – 11:30am (CEST)
Throughout the past three decades, demands to increase women’s political representation across the African continent have sprouted up in the context of broader constitutional reform and the aftermath of civil conflict.
Following the publication of Diana Højlund Madsen’s highly praised ‘Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa‘, the FIIN Network is proud to host this webinar examining the study of women’s political representation in Malawi, Ghana and South Africa.
Chaired by Professor Georgina Waylen (University of Manchester), the webinar will centre on the methods adopted by scholars in Africa, the usefulness of FI and what we can learn from its adaptation to different political contexts.
Speaker profiles:
Diana Højlund Madsen is Senior Gender Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala Sweden and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She holds a PhD from Roskilde University in Denmark on gender mainstreaming processes in Ghana. Her specialization is on women’s political representation, gender and democratization, gender mainstreaming and gender and conflict, especially with a focus on Ghana and Rwanda. She is the coordinator of the projects: Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa and Global Talk Local Walk – the Translation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda into Practice in Africa.
Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza is Associate Professor in Public Administration in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at Chancellor College, University of Malawi. Her main research interests are in gender, local governance, development and political economy analysis. Dr Chiweza has been the principal researcher and coordinator of several international collaborative research programmes, including the following: Democratisation, Political Participation and Gender in Malawi (2014 – 2016). She is currently working on a collaborative project with University of Bergen on Money Talks: Gendered Electoral Financing in Democratic and Democratising States.
Amanda Gouws is Professor of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in the USA. Her specialization is South African politics and gender politics. Her research focuses on women and citizenship, the national gender machinery and women’s representation, and she has published widely in these areas. She has an edited book forthcoming in 2022 “Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa: Designing for Equality” with Rowman and Littlefield. She was a Commissioner for the South African Commission for Gender Equality from 2012 to 2014. She is currently a Distinguished Professor, holding a National Research Foundation Chair in Gender Politics.
This webinar will be chaired by FIIN Co-Director Georgina Waylen, who is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.
Access details:
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Meeting ID: 836 0184 9323