Award ceremony BIGSAS honorary doctorate for Dr. Fatou Sow
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On 18 May the University of Bayreuth will festively present Dr. Fatou Sow with the BIGSAS Honorary Doctorate. With this award, the Senegalese sociologist Dr. Fatou Sow – based at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris – is recognised for her unwavering commitment to the cause of women and her outstanding scholarly achievements in feminist topics on the African continent. Sow is a veritable pioneer of gender studies and African feminism, who has worked at the forefront of women’s rights in West Africa and beyond for more than half a century.
The award was first announced during her keynote lecture at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence conference on 14 July 2021 and will now be festively celebrated on 18 May this year.
The ceremony will take place on campus, however may also be attended online. Please register for either event format by visiting https://bigsas-award-ceremony.wr-events.de/
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- Award ceremony BIGSAS honorary doctorate for Dr. Fatou Sow
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- English
- Date
- June 1, 2022
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- [Music] good evening distinguished ladies and gentlemen all protocols duty observed gooden amt manudam and good evening monica you look great tonight what's the occasion good evening ngozi thank you today the feminist scholar dr fartuso is being awarded an honorary doctorate by the university of byroid and by bexas our graduate school he said feminist scholar it's ironic because i don't consider myself feminist really i'd say that it's to the merit of feminism that we are both standing here tonight two women pursuing their phd in the framework of pixas the byroid international graduate school of african studies you and ngozi adagu are pursuing a phd on the topic writing back to empire newspapers non-elites and decolonizing in the global public sphere 1937-1957 exactly a significant part of your thesis interrogates women's actions and amplifies their voices in addition last year you co-edited a book on gender and patriarchy in africa and you published a paper questioning how an american scholarship program in the 1960s and 70s excluded nigerian women oh really okay but what about you monika roma you're pursuing a phd with a working title towards a fluid ecosystem conceptualizations of water at the senegalese coast and in december 2021 you traveled all the way to senegal to conduct research and interview women because they were underrepresented in your online research yes and furthermore you are developing a critique of wall of dictionaries which are influenced by the scholars gender so while you're right i'm all for women's rights but yet the concept of feminism is still alien to me and so i'm looking forward to hearing more about the concept this evening and dr fatusso is an outstanding advocate of feminism she's a pioneer in the fields of gender studies and african feminism and she has pushed for women's rights for more than 50 years however before she takes the floor we have a lineup of important speakers oh yes we have the great honor to welcome to the stage… Read the full text about 6,391 words
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