Invitation to the Eclectic Tech Carnival in May

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Administrator

Inviting All Women

The seventh Eclectic Tech Carnival will be held from Sunday the 25th until Saturday the 31st of May in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The /ETC is a unique tech skill-share that has been held annually since 2002. The emphasis has always been women sharing their experiences, knowledge and skills around free software, open hardware and universal interoperability of systems in a fun way.

We are calling all women who are interested in the Eclectic Tech Carnival to register via the following form: https://eclectictechcarnival.org/register

Registration closes at 23:59 on 1 April 2008.
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CfP for fellows and affiliated scholars on gender at University of California

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Administrator

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2008-2009 ACADEMIC YEAR

BEATRICE BAIN RESEARCH GROUP (BBRG) – UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY

SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM and AFFILIATED SCHOLARS PROGRAM

The Beatrice Bain Research Group (BBRG) is the University of California at Berkeley’s center for research on gender and women. This announcement concerns two of its programs:
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call for artists : queer zagreb festival 2008

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Administrator

http:// www.queerzagreb.org
Zagreb, Croatia

Crime, Sexuality and Gender – Queer Zagreb, October 2008.

Queer Zagreb is an international festival which has been taking place in Croatia since 2003 and has been presenting international and local artists, academics and activists to an audience of cca 3000 – 5000 per year. Queer Zagreb festival constructs its programme each year around a certain theme which is presented throughout its programme. So far we have touched such issues as -postsocialist queer identity-, -heteronormativity of childhoods-, -transgression of private into public- and -Balkans queer-. For our 2008 edition the main topic of interest is -Crime, sexuality and gender- to be presented in different forms during the event – visual arts, performance, film and an academic conference.
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n.paradoxa vol 21 and call for papers for vol 22

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Administrator

n.paradoxa invites feminist scholars, artists and curators working on contemporary art by women to contribute to future issues of its bi-annual publication.
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Fw: Education For Choice screening and panel discussion – 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days

Posted on December 21, 2007 by Administrator

Invites you to a special screening
of the Palm D’Or award winning film

“This is an exceptional, masterful piece of film-making that combines social realism, political comment and nail-biting tension” Times Online

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=cannes2007…

To celebrate Education For Choice‘s 16th Anniversary we are holding a screening and panel discussion at The Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Place, WC2 on

Thursday 24th January 2008 at 6.30pm

(Details of panel members tbc)
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call for papers: GENDER & BORDERS/BOUNDARIES

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Administrator

Call for papers:
Please distribute widely

GENDER AND BORDERS/BOUNDARIES
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
At Manchester University
June 27, 2008

In association with Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies/ University of Leeds Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network
Department of Theology and Religious Studies/University of Leeds Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies/University of Manchester

This one day postgraduate conference seeks to examine issues of gender and borders/boundaries across a range of critical perspectives. We want to encourage innovative and interdisciplinary dialogues and welcome postgraduate students from a variety of disciplines, such as anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, religion, sociology, psychology, politics, geography and social
work.
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Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Administrator

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

FIVE COLLEGE WOMEN’S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER
A collaborative project of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The Center invites applications for its RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIPS for 2008-2009 from scholars and teachers at all levels of the educational system, as well as from artists, community organizers and political activists, both local and international. Associates are provided with offices in our spacious facility, library privileges, and the collegiality of a diverse community of feminists. Research Associate applications are accepted for either a semester or the academic year. The Center supports projects in all disciplines so long as they focus centrally on women or gender. Regular Research Associateships are non-stipendiary. We accept about 15-18 Research Associates per year.
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Call for participation in European female photo exhibition

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Administrator

Tracing love 24/7 engagement
Belgrade, Serbia, June 2008

Exhibition is open for all female photographers.

Send us, please:
• your photos, digital, by e-mail and printed, by mail.
• we need up to 3 photos (in e-mail form, 300 pixels/inch resolution),
• your CV (up to 150 words), and
• your contact (address and phone number).

Photos will be selected by Cultural Centre DEVE, Belgrade, Serbia, and consultants, Ms Marian Bakker and Ms Ditte Wessels from Holland.

Application dead-line is April 1, 2008

All the works that will take part in exhibition will be published in monography Tracing love 24/7 engagement

Our contact:
devebgd@yahoo.com

DEVE
Katiceva 2
11 000 Beograd
Serbia

Bataia e rupta din rai?

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Administrator

de Doina

Spuneam zilele trecute ca violenta culturala determina prejudecati. “Unde loveste parintele creste carne. Femeia trebuie batuta, daca tu nu stii de ce, stie ea. Bataia e rupta din rai.” Sunt numai cateva exemple de exprimari ale “culturii populare “ romanesti. Grav este ca aceasta “cultura populara” violenta legitimeaza si perpetueaza niste comportamente, reactii si moduri de viata. Legitimeaza si perpetueaza violenta impotriva femeii si a copilului.

Hai sa presupunem ca aveti un copil. Are cinci ani si a disparut din fata blocului. E intuneric de doua ore, si ati alarmat vecinii, rudele, politia, salvarea si pompierii.
Si il gasiti, sau apare singur… intr-un tarziu. Rudele alarmate se intorc pe la casele lor. Sunteti, stresati, obositi, nervosi si vreti sa nu se mai intample asa ceva. Si incepeti sa va loviti copilul strigand: Sa nu mai faci asta! Niciodata! Ma auzi? Niciodata! Nu e voie. Ne-ai speriat pe toti. Nu. Mai. Face. Asta. Ai inteles?

Apoi va linistiti, dar vreti sa fiti sigur ca nu se mai intampla si – didactic – incercati sa recapitulati problema cu copilul si sa trageti o concluzie. “Bun, si acuma spune-mi, de ce te-am batut?” Si el isi ridica spre dumneavoastra ochisorii inca inlacrimati si va raspunde: “Pentru ca esti mai mare si mai tare decat mine”.
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