Dr. Nayia Kamenou
“Anti-gender Politics in Cyprus: Discourses, Actors, and Resistances”: Most of the literature on anti-gender politics and anti-LGBTIQ+ campaigns tends to focus on the Anglo-American, Western European, and Central and Eastern European context. Furthermore, despite similarities, anti-gender and anti-LGBTIQ+ politics and mobilization differ from country to country, while resistance against these politics and mobilization has to date received less attention. Her presentation will be based on work in progress that aims to address these gaps in existing knowledge, by focusing on the case of Cyprus, providing a preliminary analysis of the ways in which anti-gender and anti-LGBTIQ+ discourses and politics are constructed, disseminated, and resisted, and the role of pro- and anti- gender and LGBTIQ+ actors in this process.
Nayia Kamenou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. She completed a joint BA (Hons) in Political Science at the City University of New York, an MSc in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Ph.D. in European Studies at King’s College London. Prior to joining the University of Cyprus as a Lecturer, she worked as a Senior Lecturer and the Deputy Director of the Media Discourse Centre at De Montfort University Leicester. She completed visiting research fellowships at the Centre for Hellenic Studies and King’s College London. She worked as an Adjunct Lecturer in the University of Cyprus, the European University Cyprus, the University of Nicosia and King's College London. In 2021, Dr Kamenou received the International Political Science Association "Wilma Rule" Award for the Best Research on Gender and Politics. Her work has appeared in European Journal of Women’s Studies, Sexualities, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Women's Studies International Forum, Social Sciences, European Journal of Politics and Gender and in edited volumes. She has also authored/co-authored several NGO publications.
