In-Conversation with Dr Awino Okech

In-Conversation with Dr Awino Okech

Friday 20 October 2023, 1pm

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities

Speaker: Professor Awino Okech

All welcome

Join us as we welcome Professor Awino Okech to Race & Resistance for a talk entitled Global Blackness and Transnational Solidarity.

Biography: 

Dr Awino Okech is a Professor of Feminist and Security Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS.

Professor Okech’s teaching and research sits at the nexus of gender, sexuality, conflict, and security studies. Alongside her teaching, Professor Okech also serves as the founding Director of the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice, focusing on the majority world as geographies from which to build feminist imaginaries of “race”.

Before joining SOAS, Professor Okech worked for over a decade in the African development sector, supporting women’s rights organisations and local movements at the intersection of gender and conflict. These themes remain central to her research, teaching, and public-facing work.

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