OSUN Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice Workshop
Monday, March 14, 2022 – Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm CET/GMT+1On behalf of OSUN’s Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice project we would like to warmly invite all OSUN students and faculty to a two-part workshop on collaborative research and teaching.
On Day One, we will hear three research presentations by OSUN faculty: Aysuda Kölemen (Bard College Berlin) will unpack the discourse and practice of everyday motherhood in contemporary Turkey, Elena Kim (American University of Central Asia) will share her research on child marriage, and Allison McKim (Bard College) will reflect on the workings of race, gender, and drugs in the era of mass incarceration. After the presentations, we will split into break-out rooms to discuss our colleagues' work in more detail and explore how these individual research projects can be enriched by questions from different disciplines and geographical locations. After a short break, we will hear from two academic teams who are recipients of OSUN collaborative research grants: Angela Serrano (Universidad de los Andes), Magda Hinojosa and Camila Páez (both Arizona State University) will present their project titled “Tackling Gendered Labor Exploitation: Splits and Paths for Labor Unions and Feminist Movements in Latin America” and Haley McEwen (University of the Witwatersrand), Aiko Holvikivi and Tomás Ojeda Güemes (both London School of Economics) in collaboration with Billy Holzberg (King’s College London) will share their plans for an upcoming roundtable on “Transnational Anti-Gender Politics”. These two presentation will likewise be followed by discussion in break-out rooms.
Day Two will focus on teaching practices. We will kick off the workshop with three presentations on selected texts we are considering to assign in our network collaborative courses next academic year: Srila Roy (University of the Witwatersrand) will present on Angela Davis' Women, Race, and Class and Sara Salem's On Transnational Feminist Solidarity: The Case of Angela Davis in Egypt, Alys Moody (Bard College) on He-Yin Zhen’s “On the Question of Women’s Liberation” and her other selected writings, and Elena Kim (American University of Central Asia) and Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin) on Audre Lorde's Notes from a Trip to Russia. After discussing these readings in detail, we will move on to a more general discussion on possible texts, assignments, approaches, tools, connections, formats, and more that could help us to engage collaboratively with feminism, the arts, and social justice.
Workshop will be hosted on Zoom.
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