Dr. Layal Ftouni

Dr. Layal Ftouni

Gender Studies
Assistant Professor
Gender Studies
l.ftouni@uu.nl

Activities

2024

Invited Public Lecture: 'Sperm Smuggling and The Right to Life in Palestine (Centre for Gender Studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)Ftouni, L. (Speaker)
16 Dec 2024
, Gender in Palestine lecture series
Keynote lecture: 'Affirming Life in Colonial Death-Worlds in Palestine' (ASCA conference 2024, University of Amsterdam, NL)Ftouni, L. (Speaker)
Jun 2024
, ASCA conference 2024: Resistance Refusal Fugitivity

2020

Beyond Taxonomies: The (Un)translatability of Gender in Ethnographic Collections (Un/Engendering the Collections seminar)Ftouni, L. (Invited speaker)
1 Oct 2020
Decolonising the Curriculum? Which Curriculum? How? and by Whom?Ftouni, L. (Invited speaker)
Oct 2020
Decolonial Aesthetics: Feminist Responses to OccupationFtouni, L. (Invited speaker)
4 Mar 2020

2018

'Oppositional or Affirmative? On the Political Potentiality of Art as/beyond Activism' - at the Institute of Contemporary Art (London- UK)Ftouni, L. (Invited speaker)
10 Jul 2018
, Feminist Visual Activism (Symposium)
Feminist Theories of Vulnerability and the Manifesto Form- research workshop delivered with Professor Kay Dickinson (Concordia University)at the Feminist Forum, Universität Konstanz, (Konstanz- Germany)Ftouni, L. (Invited speaker)
11 Jun 2018
'Vulnerability, Resilience and the Processing of Trauma through Art' - Intergender Intensive Phd course: Politics of Vulnerability, Utrecht University (Utrecht- Netherlands)Ftouni, L. (Invited speaker)
20 Feb 201823 Feb 2018
, InterGender Intensive PhD course

2017

NOISE Summer School (25th edition - Utrecht University)Ftouni, L. (Organiser)
28 Aug 20171 Sept 2017
, NOISE Summer School (25th edition - Utrecht University)
Academic organiser of the 25th edition of the NOISE Summer School 'Reclaiming Critique in Times of Crisis: Feminist, Queer and Postcolonial Interventions', Utrecht University (with Gianmaria Colpani and Jamila Mascat)Ftouni, L. (Speaker)
28 Aug 20171 Sept 2017
, NOISE Summer School (25th edition - Utrecht University)

2016

'Traumatic Encounters and After-Affects in the work of Mona Hatoum' - at Tate Modern gallery in conjunction with Mona Hatoum's solo exhibition (London- U.K.).Ftouni, L. (Invited speaker)
1 Jun 2016
, Piercing the Object, Inventing the self

2013

'The Trouble with Research' - Stuart Hall Library Symposium (London-U.K)Invited Roundtable DiscussionFtouni, L. (Invited speaker)
Jun 2013

2010

'Neo-Orientalism in Visual Arts' - Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (Oxford- UK)Ftouni, L. (Invited speaker)
Mar 2010

2009

'The Quest for the Authenticity in Contemporary Arts from the Middle East' presented at 'Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam' conference, Copenhagen University (Copenhagen - Denmark)Ftouni, L. (Invited speaker)
21 Mar 200923 Mar 2009

8

'Affirmations of Life at the frontiers of survival: settler colonial violence and the question of Palestine' delivered at 16th Historical Materialism Conference entitled; Claps of Thunder: Disaster Communism, Extinction Capitalism and How to Survive Tomorrow (SOAS, University of London)Ftouni, L. (Invited speaker)
30 Nov 0008
, Historical Materialism