The Syrian Ala'a Basatneh is a 21 engagement old learner pursuing her Unattached Amount in embassy sciences at the Loyola Speculative of Chicago. Approaching to her abstract activities, she is as well a human position and embassy futuristic, playing an tall role in the Syrian Rebuilding. From listed her computer, she has been put a ceiling on coordinating the amendment oversee diverse forms of social media. And with 1,200 Facebook friends and 2,000 associates on Peep, she has built up an desire mess. She posts demonstrations as Facebook activities, plots discharge routes using Google Maps and uploads tape bang into by demonstrators. She as well ensures that all kinds of televise resources get to her friends, whilst ordinary students who now want to overthrow the rule by nightmare of Beginning Bashar al-Assad.
Arrived the speech, Ala'a will talk about her personal experiences and explain how she organizes this amendment using social media. She will commenton the on the rise limitation of women's position by Syrian extremists in the north of Syria and grant social media as a new form of activism.
Inna Shevchenko will as well grant new forms of activism in her speech. Inna is a advocate of the Ukrainian feminist protest group FEMEN (founded in 2008), which evenly makes headline news tangentially the world for mobile topless against what they observation as manifestations of patriarchy, particularly repression, religion, and the sex industry. Shevchenko has a higher-ranking profile than the extra members of the group. She was the leader of the three FEMEN activists reputedly kidnapped and threatened by the Belarus KGB in 2011. She achieved attention in Ukraine by cutting with a chainsaw and then bringing down a 13 feet high Christian shelter erected in bulwark of the millions of fatalities of the Holodomor (the man-made long for in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932 and 1933) in highest Kyiv in 2012.
FEMEN describes itself as "nervousness patriarchy in its three manifestations - sexual treat of women, repression and religion" and has certain that its goal is "sextremism serving to check out women's position". FEMEN activists identifiable been customarily apprehended by legalize in answer to their protests. The FEMEN section in their intrinsic Kiev was blocked and the organization's leadership moved out Ukraine ("Fearing for their lives and pass") in Admired 2013. In 2013, Shevchenko was granted embassy retreat in France, and now continues her activism by leading FEMEN France from a training unhealthy she has resolute in Paris.
* TUESDAY March 25, 2014: ALA'A BASATNEH(LOYOLA Speculative OF CHICAGO) AND INNA SHEVCHENKO (FEMEN)
* LECTURE: "How to direct a Revolution?"
* TIME: 16.00 - 17.30 hrs
* LOCATION: Utrecht
* CHAIR: Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Buikema
* IN Aid with Movies THAT Reckoning
In the arise of 2014 the Netherlands Test Direct of Gender Studies (NOG) in maintain with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht Speculative organises the twelfth close to of the Feat Gender Scold Run. These lectures stress the pursuit of action gender work repellent with an active input in the practice of gender theory and research. The universe of Feat Gender chains a sensible approach to gender issues in the concept of social and embassy court case with the new forms of gender inequalities that are embezzle fashion in the world today. The speech coagulate wants to give locate to the new generations of gender theorists and practitioners and to perspectives that innovate the field and do gender in new ways. Key is the dint of action gender: what is the toss of the art definition of gender? How do latest scholars and activists utilise this definition?
The Feat Gender Scold Run takes place in Utrecht and is free of subtract.
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