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This talk will explore the gendered nature of domestic work in Beirut in its spatial manifestation. When live-in workers are not able to experience private life in the house of their employers, what potential does public space offer? And what does this inversion say about our understanding of gender and urban space?

About the speaker

Dalia Zein is a 4th year PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Having been educated in both landscape design and social sciences, her research interests lie at the intersection of both, namely in anthropology of space and place and urban theory with a focus on gender. She has an MA degree in urban studies from an Erasmus Mundus joint program between Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and EHESS, Paris. A second MA degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Central European University, Budapest. Outside academia Dalia has experience in the field of urban development working with the Community Projects and Development Unit at the American University of Beirut and UN-Habitat Beirut.

WITHIN THE GENDER SEMINAR SERIES

The purpose of this seminar is to offer a platform of exchange for students, doctoral students in particular, ans researchers whose work includes a gender perspective. During this monthly series, students will have the opportunity to discuss their work, meet peers from different disciplines at the Graduate Institute, as well as interact with guest speakers and faculty members.