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Saptamana Refugiatilor din Romania
mai sunt cateva zile:
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Consiliul National pentru Combaterea Discriminarii impreuna cu Inaltul Comisariat al Natiunilor Unite pentru Refugiati – UNHCR – Reprezentanta din Romania si Organizatia Femeilor Refugiate din Romania
Va invita sa fiti alaturi de refugiatii recunoscuti in Romania la urmatoarele evenimente prilejuite de Ziua Mondiala a Refugiatului
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20 Iunie.:
18 iunie, orele 13:00
Jocuri de societate din Congo, Irak si Iran la Organizatia Femeilor Refugiate in Romania.
Locatie: Bd. Regina Maria nr. 88, sector 4.
19 – 23 iunie in Bucuresti Mall
Bazar de obiecte traditionale din Senegal, Camerun, Iran si Irak.
Produsele sunt confectionate de copii si femei refugiate.
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avem sigla pentru festivalul de anul asta!
ladyfest bucuresti ’07 logo
thanx, marine! and everyone else who submitted entries!
marsul gay si gayfest 2007
Nu uitati ca saptamana asta suntem in plin Gayfest (intrarea la toate evenimentele este gratis): mai multe detalii si program la: http://www.accept-romania.ro/fest/
…Si nu uitati marsul gay!! Sambata, 9 iunie, ora 17:00. Traseul va fi ca anul trecut (Bd. Unirii – Piata Unirii – Piata Constitutiei) ne strangem tot la Nerva Traian doar ca pe partea cealalta ca o sa mergem pe contrasens sa nu ne mai arunce oua un cap :P
Pai sper sa ne vedem acolo :):):)
Call for Papers : heterosexuality
HETEROSEXUALITY
Editor: Yasco Horsman
Book Series: Thamyris / Intersecting: Place, Sex, and ‘Race’
Publisher: Rodopi (Amsterdam / New York)
Series Editor: Ernst van Alphen
Deadline for Proposals: July 1, 2007
“Thamyris / Intersecting,” a book series on place, sex and ‘race’ seeks contributions to an upcoming volume on heterosexuality.
Heterosexuality has long been considered the norm, the unmarked category from which all ‘perversions’ deviate – in short, something that is in itself not in need of an explanation. With the emergence of queer theory in the 1990’s, and its insistence on the constructed and flux nature of all sexual identities, straightness itself was shown to be neither as monolithic nor as stable as had once been assumed. This opened the doors for a project that Calvin Thomas has recently dubbed ‘straight queer theory,’ a rigorous analysis of the cultural and social construction of heterosexuality that refuses to take sexual identity as fixed.
Radical cheerleaders need your help: fwd widely
Dearest Ladyfest,
Radical Cheerleading is often a part of workshops and performances at Ladyfests across the world and we were hoping for some help through your vast networks to get the word out about our project to document the last 10 years of Radical Cheerleading. Could you please post the following information on your myspace and/or pass the “call for submissions for the Radical Cheerleading Anthology” on to all those that you may think would be interested. Our first deadline for submissions is June 1st and is approaching fast.
If you have any suggestions on how to get more publicity and involvement in our book through feminist networks we would most appreciate your advice. look fwd to your response.
thanks so much.
cheers, brackin firecracker, jeanne vaccaro, aimee and cara jennings
please fwd/ post the following:
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zine symposium in warsaw
– announcement via chaosXgrrlz zine –
Grrrlz and boyz!
On 19th of May we organize first zine symposium in Warsaw, and we wanna invite you for that event.
Basically, a zine (pronounced “zeen”) is a publication that is created by someone – or a group of like-minded people – who wants to express themselves in a cheap, personal, DIY format. As a zine editor (or “zinester”), you have complete control over the production, design, and content of your zine. It’s pretty fun. It may surprise you, but in Poland zine culture is quite strong, and the symposium will be a great chance to get know about it a little bit more.
On the whole world there are regular meetings of zine makers and zine lovers. Our zine symposium will be a party by which we wanna present the zine culture, independent book and comic publishings, distributions and zine makers and other paper-art creators. Also it which be a chance to get to know lots of independent initiatives and political, non commercial ideas.
We plan a whole day, free entrance party, during which there will be some workshops, lectures, presentations, as well as exhibitions, film presentations, freeshop, zine reading room and, last but maybe most important, zine and book fair
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international summer school “Human trafficking”, Iasi, Ro
The European Law Students’ Association ELSA Iasi is proud to invite you to the international summer school “Human trafficking”
The event has its location in the city of Iasi, Romania (an old and beautiful city situated in the north-east of the country) and is scheduled between 19 to 26 August, 2007.
By organizing an International Summer School on this topic, ELSA Iasi is intending to treat in an academical manner the international impact problem that is human trafficking, in order to increase the degree of knowledge that students in general possess now. This happens in the context of Romania as a country with difficult issues to face in this domain, and we are willing to create a basis for future project of international cooperation. The project has as target group students both from faculties in Romania and the whole world and it contains 5 days of classes, presentations, workshops, trainings (about 6 hours per day).
The workshops will deal with:
– Definition (sociological, legal) and history of human trafficking
– Ways of trafficking
– Children trafficking
– The international adoptions’ phenomenon in Romania
– Human trafficking relating to the phenomenon of poverty in undeveloped and developing countries
– Prostitution: in countries where it is legalized (study case: Holland ) and in countries where it is illegal (study case: Romania )
– Institutions and other activities of fighting against human trafficking, both national and international
– Ways of financing youth programs (with emphasis on “Youth in Action”)
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call for submissions : women’s lives & gender relations in Eastern Europe
Collected Volume on Women’s Lives, Gender Relations and State Policy in Central and Eastern Europe under State Socialism
Deadline: June 15, 2007
Scholars working on gender and socialism in Central and Eastern Europe are invited to submit a 500-word abstract of an essay for a collected volume examining post-89 approaches to the study, research and analysis of women’s lives and issues of gender under state socialism.
The wealth of human and archival sources that have become available since the collapse of communism, combined with the increased use of cultural, social, gender, and oral history in studies of socialism, have provided crucial insight into gender in socialist societies — both as it was discursively represented and lived on an everyday level. This in turn has facilitated a more nuanced and complex understanding of women under socialism that challenges the bleak and homogenized portraits of women that were produced — in both feminist and non-feminist scholarship–prior to and immediately after 1989.
Blogging Feminism: Websites of Resistance
You can check the S&F issue here!!!
About the issue
As blogging has more widespread interest, especially vis-รก-vis electoral politics, feminist activity on the internet has remained marginal to the mainstream. Thus, we were thrilled when Gwendolyn Beetham and Jessica Valenti proposed “Blogging Feminism: (Web)sites of Resistance” as a Scholar and Feminist Online journal topic, as well as a theme for a Barnard Center for Research on Women panel discussion. As Beetham and Valenti point out in their introduction, all too much feminist activity exists in the blogosphere invisibly. This theme runs through many of this journal’s contributions, and is taken up directly by Clancy Ratliff and Tedra Osell in the section entitled “Women and Politics in the Blogosphere.”