SEMINAR.What role do women play in democratisation processes? Can the fight for an equal society take different forms? Welcome to a morning about gender relations, resistance and organisation in sensitive areas in the Middle East. 2016 is the fourth year that International Women’s Day will be manifested with a day of seminars at the University of Gothenburg. ONe of the three lectures will be held in English.
In order to attain a socially sustainable environment, the University actively applies a policy of equal treatment and diversity and regularly follows up gender equality issues. This is part of the University of Gothenburg’s Vision 2020.
Programme
10.00 What role do women play in democratisation processes?
(Lecture in Swedish)
A brief overlook of women’s movements during democratisation processes.
Aksel Sundström, researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, V-Dem Institute.
10.15 The ‘New PKK’ and its Experiments with Democratic Autonomy in Bakur Kurdistan: Women, Freedom and Radical Democracy.
(Lecture in English.)
Since 2005, the Kurdish movement in Southeastern Turkey, also known as ‘Bakur Kurdistan’, has been experimenting with building up an alternative political, confederal system in opposition to the idea of the ‘nation-state’. This lecture deals with the role of women in this prefiguration of Kurdish ‘democratic autonomy’ in the region.
Minoo Koefoed, Doctoral Student, Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Gender relations in occupied Palestinian areas: stagnation and change
(Lecture in Swedish)
About how men and women suffer from violence, both from Israeli military and internal Palestinian violence in different ways and what cultural conceptions there are about the role of men and women in society and politics.
Nina Gren, researcher at the Sociological department, Lund University.
