BA Hons (Bristol), PhD (Bristol), Doctorat (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), FHEA
Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- n.kiwan@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274201
- Office Address
Department of French School of Language & Literature University of Aberdeen Taylor Building Old Aberdeen AB24 3UB
- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
2024 - present: Programme Coordinator, French and Francophone Studies
2021-2024: Head of the Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting Cluster (LLMVC).
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Director, Centre for Modern Languages Research
- External Memberships
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Member of the AHRC Peer Review College
Member of Advisory Group, British Council Scotland Language Trends Survey
Co-Chair, Head of Languages Special Interest Group, University Council for Languages (September 2024-)
External Examining:
Heriot-Watt University (Languages and Intercultural Studies: 2016-2020)
University of Bristol (School of Modern Languages: 2017-2021)
University of Sheffield (School of Languages and Cultures: 2021-)
University of Southampton (Languages, Cultures and Linguistics: 2022-)
Latest Publications
Confronting the politics of denial
Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 139-146Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2195622
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Interview: Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 2022
Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 277-293Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesDecolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia
Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 147-164Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSchooling in Citizenship and Political Community
Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community. Stack, T., Luminiello, R. (eds.). 1 edition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 79-100, 22 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersCreative Coexistence or Creative Co-resistance?: Transcultural Complexity in the Work of Street Artist ‘Combo’
Jewish-Muslim Interactions: Performing Cultures between North Africa and France. Everett, S. S., Vince, R. (eds.). Liverpool University Press, pp. 253-272, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
- Research
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Research Overview
My research interests focus on contemporary French and Francophone cultures and societies. I am particularly interested in public discourses about postcolonial migration, secularism and Islam as well as decolonial and intersectional social movements. I would be keen to supervise postgraduate students in any of these areas.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in French and Francophone Studies.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
French and Francophone Studies
Accepting PhDsSupervision
I currently supervise doctoral students on secularism and Christian privilege, utopia and intersectional feminisms and Orientalist photography.
Funding and Grants
2021-2022 Fondation Maison Sciences de l'Homme, Invited Researcher of DEA Programme : 'Intersectional Feminist Social Movements in Contemporary France' https://www.fmsh.fr/en/chercheur/nadia-kiwan
EU Marie Curie COFUND grant(2018-22) Political Concepts in the World (POLITICO) Co-applicant
The POLITICO PhD programme builds on the success of the interdisciplinary training provided by the University of Aberdeen’s Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and the Rule of Law (CISRUL), which specializes in the global application of political ideas.
Diaspora as Social and Cultural practice: a Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa
(with Professor Ulrike H. Meinhof, University of Southampton)
Awarded by: AHRC programme 'Diaspora, Migration and Identity'
Duration: 1st November 2006-2010
Summary: This project focused on the ways in which (post-)migrant cultural practitioners, performers, and musicians originating from North-Africa and Madagascar are able to use multiple translocal and transnational networks across African, European and wider global spaces. It suggests that artists who create or enter such networks make use of, but go far beyond the traditional 'bi-focal', ethnically and spatially defined communities that link originating and sending countries, as studied in much Diaspora research. Our research marks a key development in the empirical study of networks, by investigating links between migrant cultural practitioners which develop outside of established cultural/historical ties. http://www.tnmundi.soton.ac.uk - Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
At undergraduate level, I coordinate FR2015/FR2515 'French Culture, Politics and Society' and Honours options 'The Politics of Difference in Contemporary France', 'Paris: Transnational City of Culture', 'Francophone Women's Voices' and the Undergraduate Dissertation in French.
- Publications
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Confronting the politics of denial
Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 139-146Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2195622
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Interview: Nacira Guénif, Nadia Kiwan and Jim Wolfreys, 13 September 2022
Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 277-293Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesDecolonial approaches to laïcité as a mode to re-think contemporary Islamophobia
Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 147-164Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSchooling in Citizenship and Political Community
Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community. Stack, T., Luminiello, R. (eds.). 1 edition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. 79-100, 22 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersCreative Coexistence or Creative Co-resistance?: Transcultural Complexity in the Work of Street Artist ‘Combo’
Jewish-Muslim Interactions: Performing Cultures between North Africa and France. Everett, S. S., Vince, R. (eds.). Liverpool University Press, pp. 253-272, 19 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSecularism, Islam and public intellectuals in contemporary France
Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. 182 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksRemembering on the City’s Margins: The Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 426-440Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTransformer les perceptions de l'islam ?: Le cas de l’intellectuel musulman laïque Abdelwahhab Meddeb
Subjectivation et désubjectivation Penser le sujet dans la globalisation. Boucher, M., Pleyers, G., Rebughini, P. (eds.). Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, pp. 263-273, 11 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersFreedom of thought in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks
French Cultural Studies, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 233-244Contributions to Journals: ArticlesArtistic Identities and Professional Strategies: Francophone Musicians in France and Britain
Modern and Contemporary France, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 253-269Contributions to Journals: Articles
