Professor Nadia Kiwan

Biography

2021-present: Head of the Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting Cluster (LLMVC).

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.

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 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.