Description of The Author
Thanks to her critical global perspective, Mineke Schipper has given an important impulse to the field of literary studies. She is far from being an “ivory tower” scholar, but has succeeded in making her views accessible to both academic and non-academic audiences. She lectures not only at universities and scientific institutes (Berkeley, Beijing, Pretoria. Stockholm), but also to audiences outside the academy, such as policy makers in The Hague or Brussels.
She has also addressed a thousand rural women in the Amsterdam RAI congress centre; Jewish women in a synagogue in Leiden; a Muslim audience in a mosque in Nairobi; Egyptian folklorists in Cairo; Cultural Institutes from Curaçao to Cambodia.
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