International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Ending violence against women was espoused formally as goal by the United Nations, so what is it that's not working? This conference, organized by students at the Department of Gender Studies in honor of the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, offers a three-part conference to discuss the laws, politics, cultural aspects of violence against women. From battlefields to the bedroom, women are targets of violence. This conference is dedicated to understanding the issues at stake and discussing what can be done to struggle against gendered violence.

Program:

3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Case studies: Presentations on domestic violence and law in Hungary and Turkey. Discussion to follow.
Dorottya Redai (PhD Gender Studies) and Selin Cagatay (PhD Gender Studies)
Location: Nador u. 11, Toth Istvan Gyorgy Room

4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Coffee break

4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Women in conflict: Reading fiction on Palestine
Gendering the Infrastructure of the Occupation
Yana Ziferblat (former Head of the Coalition of Women for Peace, Israel/Palestine, Gender Studies MA)

Sejla Sehabovic (Bosnian writer, Gender Studies PhD)
Excerpt from her short story Ruvejda:
“In my interpretation, it is a story of how does it feel to be replaceable (in a sense that human being, a woman, is (or is not, or what if is) replaceable by other(s)). On a referential level, it speaks of mass graves and the concept of missing persons. And of the concepts of blood and blood line.”

Location: Nador u. 11, Toth Istvan Gyorgy Room

5:30 p.m. HRSI photo exhibition: Gender-based Violence in Iran
Location: Nador u. 9, Monument Building, Student Cafe

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. "Grbavica" film screening, with an introduction by Jasmina Lukic, Head of Department Gender Studies. Discussion to follow.
Location: Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower, Auditorium