Center for Gender Studies invites to “Resistance, identity, representation”
European Humanities University’s (EHU) Center for Gender Studies invites everyone to attend series of public events “Resistance, identity, representation” on March 30-31.
These events aim to encourage a discussion with EHU students and academic community about the issues of representation and power, potential of visual activism in fighting various forms of discrimination, combination of activism and academic practice, exploration of ways to increase the visibility of marginalized social groups in order to strengthen their opportunities and rights, representation of feminist resistance in contemporary art, especially in the post-socialist countries. These issues will be scrutinized together with female researchers and activists, working in Belarus, Russia, Lithuania and South Africa.
Agenda:
March 30 (Wednesday)
17:30 – Opening of Nadzeya Husakouskaya’s (Belarus/Norway) exhibition “OPPOSITE: reflecting in Maricana women”, EHU library, Valakupių g. 5.
18:00 – Nadezhda Plungian’s (Russia) public lecture “Feminist art of the 2010s in Russia and “forbidden” topics”, EHU campus room 302, Valakupių g. 5.
March 31 (Thursday)
16:00 – Round table discussion “Resistance of representation/Representation of resistance”, EHU campus room 108, Valakupių g. 5
Speakers: Laima Kreivytė (Lithuania), Nadezhda Plungian (Russia), Prof. Almira Ousmanova (Belarus/Lithuania)
Moderator: Aliaksandra Ihnatovich (Belarus/Lithuania)
18:00 – Belarusian feminist film screening and discussion “Feminist cinema of resistance/cinema resistance”, EHU campus room 112, Valakupių g. 5.
Film selection and moderation – Aliaksandra Ihnatovich (Belarus/Lithuania)
Photo credit: film “Tomorrow Comes Today” screenshot (Lithuania, 2015, 12 min.)