03.12.2015

Departmental Seminar/Institutskolloquium: Developments of civil society in Morocco after 2011: feedback effects of the “Democratic Spring”?

Dr Dörthe Engelcke at Wednesday, 9th December 2015 · 16:00 c.t. · Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Melanchthonstr. 36

Departmental Seminar

Wednesday, 9^th December 2015 · 16:00 c.t. · Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Melanchthonstr. 36.

Speaker: Dr Dörthe Engelcke, University of Göttingen

Developments of civil society in Morocco after 2011: feedback effects of the “Democratic Spring”?

<link http: www.uni-goettingen.de de external-link-new-window external link in new>Dörthe Engelcke is an early career fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for advanced Study at the University of Göttingen since October 2015. For the academic year 2014/2015, she was a visiting fellow at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Engelcke received her PhD from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in 2015. Her dissertation examines legal reform processes in the MENA region with specific focus on family law reform in Morocco and Jordan. During her PhD,

She has taught Middle East Politics at Oxford, and was a visiting fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. Her research focuses on the interaction of law and society in the MENA region as well as questions of gender, authoritarianism, and the rule of law. She is a member of the Max Planck research group on child law in Muslim countries.