General Director
Curriculum Vitae
Dalenda Bouzgarou Largueche
Contact
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Academic Status
University Professor of History and Women's Studies.
Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities - University of Manouba.
Current Position
- Chargé de mission: Ministry of Women, Family and Childhood;
-Director-General of the Centre for Research, Studies, Documentation and Information on Women (CREDIF);
- University Professor of History and Women's Studies.
Former Administrative Responsibilities:
- Director-General of the Centre for Research, Studies, Documentation and Information on Women (CREDIF): October 2011-September 2013.
Scientific Responsibilities:
1999-2001: Member of the Scientific Board- University of Tunis;
2010: Member of the Scientific Board- University of Manouba;
Since 2002: Member of the Scientific Board- Laboratory of Regions and Heritage-Tunis;
- Research Team Lead on "Gender, Women, society and culture- Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities, Manouba;
2011: Member of the Scientific Board- The American Institute for Maghreb Studies (CEMAT);
2013: Member of the RUSEMEG Committee- University Network on Women and Gender in the Mediterranean;
Since 2001: Member of the Master Degree Graduation Committee (Specialty of History and Civilization of the Mediterranean Region) The Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities Manouba;
Member of the National Committee for University Qualification in History- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tunis;
2003 - 2009: Member of the Master Degree Graduation (Specialty of Women's Studies) The Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis.
Overseas Scientific Visits
1995: Visiting Professor: University of Arizona / the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), University of California, Berkeley.
1997: Visiting Professor:School for High Studies in the Social Sciences, (EHESS) Paris.
2000: Visiting Professor: University of Toulouse 2, Le Mirail.
2009-2010, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, the Faculty of Social Sciences, Princeton, New Jersey, the United States of America.
Awards
2001: Zoubeida B’chir Award for Tunisian Women’s Writings in Scientific Research accorded by CREDIF for the book entitled “Smuggling Networks in Tunisia in the Nineteenth Century”.
2007: the Arab Maghreb Union Award for the book entitled: “The History of Maghreb Through its Sources”.
2011: Zoubeida B’chir Award for Tunisian Women’s Writings in Scientific Research on the theme of Women and Gender accorded by CREDIF for the book entitled “Monogamy in Islam, the Kairouanese Exception).
Main Publications
- Marginalized in the Land of Islam, CERES, Tunisia 1993.
- The Women’s Memory: Tunisian Women in Public Life, 1920-1960, (edit.) CREDIF, Tunisia 1994.
- Earth without Borders, Smuggling Networks in Tunisia in the Nineteenth Century, Tunisia 2001.
- Women’s History in the Arab Maghreb: Material Culture and Everyday Life, Tunisia 2000.
- Women in the City in the Mediterranean Region: Past and Present, Tunisia 2005.
- Monogamy in Islam, the Kairouanese Exception, Laboratory of Regions and Heritage in Tunis, Tunisia in 2011.
Main Articles
-“Crisis, Women and Violence in Tunisia Pre-Colonial Era "Humanities and Social Science Journal”, issue 28, Paris, 1990.
-“ Dar Al-Jouad or Forgetting in Memory, to be marginalized in the Arab Maghreb”, published by the National Center for Scientific Research, France 1994.
- "Confined, Battered and Repudiated Women in Tunisia: The 19th and 20th Centuries”, in Women, the Family and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, Edited by Amira El Azhary Sonbol, Syracuse University Press, 1996.
- “Women and Medical Expertise and Knowledge of the Body, in the Traditional Tunisian Society”, Women’s History in the Arab Maghreb, Tunisia 2000.
- “Tunisia in the Twenties and the Emergence of the Feminist Awareness”, The Arab Women in the Twenties, gathered female researchers, Beirut 2002.
- “Women’s Daily Life through Implications’ Inventory: Life, Appearance and Challenge”, "Eve: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Muslim world, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2005.
- “Reading in Radhia’s Haddad Memory”, Arab Women Contemporary Researchers, Beirut, 2006.
- “Women’s Songs, Women are writing Africa”, Volume 4, the Northern Region, Florence, Feminist Press at Coney, New York, 2009.
- “Beautiful Women of Tunisia: Covered Body, Spoiled Body”, Beauty through the Ages, Babylon, Paris 2009.
- “Women, Family Affairs and Justice: Tunisia in the 19th century, The History of the Family, special issue: Daily Life and Family in an Ottoman Urban Context, Volume 16, Number 2, 2011, Editorial Nora Lafi and Ulrike Freitag,
- "Women and Democracy in the Arab World: The Tunisian Paradigm" (in Arabic), Women of the Arab World and Democracy, publications of the Arab Women Organization, Cairo 2012.
- "Bourguiba, Women and School": Bourguiba Returns Today in Monastir, Seminar at the Laboratory of Regions and Heritage in Tunis, Tunisia August 2013 (in press).
Participation in International Conferences and Seminars
1995: presenting series of lectures on “Women’s History” at American universities: Arizona State University, Georgetown University and California University.
1997: a conference in St. Antony's College at Oxford: "Women and Marginalization in the Traditional Arab Society."
1992: International Seminar held in Morocco (Fez) on the Maghreb in the Ottoman era.
1996: International Conference on the Ottoman Studies, Heidelberg.
1997: International Seminar in Morocco (Quneitra): Responses to the Exclusion of Women.
1997 : International Seminar IREMAM: coffee Trade before the Era of Colonial Farms.
1999 : International Seminar in Constantinople: Groups of Women in Arab Maghreb
Lecture on The Centenary of Qasim Amin, organized by the Supreme Council for Culture, Cairo.
2001: International Conference held in Toulouse.
2002: International Conference held in Beirut on Arab Women during the Twenties.
2003: International Seminar held in Athens on the Mediterranean Heritage.
2004: International Seminar held in Cairo on “Risks and Borders”.
2005: International Conference organized by the Qatar Foundation, in cooperation with Georgetown University in Doha on “Arab Women, Participation and Democracy”.
2006: Study Days organized UMR-TELEMME University of Aix-en-Provence on: Women of the Mediterranean Region.
International Seminar organized by the Institute of Contemporary Maghreb Research on "Areas of Research in the Social Sciences, Morocco, held in Hammamet, Tunisia.
2007: International Conference organized by the Laboratory of Regions and Heritage in Tunis “Olive Tree between History and Heritage, held in Sousse, Tunisia.
2014: "Women's Associations after the Revolution, the Battle to Achieve Equality and Gender-Equal Opportunities”, Current Challenges and Dilemmas for Feminists in the Middle East, Indiana University, USA (April 3-5).
2014: International Seminar "Bourguiba, Women and School": organized by the Laboratory of Regions and Heritage in Tunisia: Bourguiba Returns Today in Monastir.
2014: " The Declining Parental Roles in Tunisia after the Independence: Women's Labors from the Private Space to the Public Space and the Emergence of New Roles Between the Sexes" the Influence of the family and the demographic increase on work around the world 1500-2000 International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (December)
Field Experience in Civil Society on Women's Rights
- President and Founder of Women's Association for Culture and Democracy.
- Former Vice-President of the Association of Tunisian Women for Research and Development.
Expertise and Consulting
- 2004: Expert in Strategic Studies “Tracking the Natural and Cultural Heritage to the Tunisian Horizons 2030" Tunisia - (Studies on the Tunisian Handicrafts).
- 2011: Expert in Studies "Arab Women and Democracy, the Arab Women Organization (Arab Union Publications, 2012).
- Expert / United Nations Entity for Gender and Women's Empowerment.
- Expert / the European Academy for Women in Politics and Business Berlin (EAF).
