Friday 27 February 2026, 5pm - 7pm
Online - please email hannah.wood@linacre.ox.ac.uk to receive the joining link
Stella Nyanzi is a fellow of the Philipp Schwarz Initiative for researchers-at-risk, based at the Institut für Medienwissenschaft of Ruhr Universität Bochum in Germany. Her doctorate in Medical Anthropology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was based on ethnography of youth sexualities in The Gambia. She has 25 years of social scientific research experience at the intersections of gender, culture, health and sexualities in Uganda, The Gambia and Tanzania. She is also a dissident poet, social justice activist for free expression and digital rights, and a human rights defender for the rights of women, girls, LGBTIQA+ people, political prisoners and members of opposition political parties specifically in Uganda. She lives in Germany as a refugee with her three children.
Dalia Elsayed is a PhD candidate in Concordia’s Department of Education. She received her Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar, with a focus on Middle Eastern and African studies. Dalia completed her master’s degree in Qatar University’s Gulf Studies Program where her research focused on power structures under Sharia law, non-western forms of feminist discourses and Islamic feminist resistance in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Dalia’s PhD research focuses on race, critical theory, intersectionality and feminist epistemology. Her scholarship seeks to understand blackness in a global perspective focusing particularly on the experiences of the Black African in the diaspora. In doing so, Dalia is interested in understanding the different narratives and frameworks that contribute to the formation and the articulation of Black identity/identities globally.
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