[ycnews] FW: CREA's Sexuality, Gender and Rights, Institute - Istanbul, June 12-19, 2010
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Subject: CREA's Sexuality, Gender and Rights, Institute - Istanbul, June 12-19,
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CREA's Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute Istanbul, June 12-19, 2010
CREA's 4th Global Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute: Exploring Theory and
Practice
June 12-19, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
Applications are due on or before April 18, 2010. Please visit
www.creaworld.org for brochure and application form.
The Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute is an annual, week-long, residential
course that focuses on a conceptual study of sexuality. It examines the links
between sexuality, rights, gender, and health and their interface with
socio-cultural and legal issues. Participants will critically analyze policy,
research and program interventions using a rights-based approach.
Course Content
Sexuality is a complex field of study that spans multiple disciplines and areas
of work. Accordingly, the course content of the Sexuality, Gender and Rights
Institute will focus on a conceptual and theoretical study of sexuality drawing
from different social science disciplines and the intersections between them.
Activists and academics will teach the course using classroom instruction,
group work, case studies, simulation exercises, fiction
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* Sexuality theory
* Sexuality and human rights
* Sexuality and gender
* Sexuality and legal systems
* Sexual and reproductive health and rights
* Representation of sexuality
* Sexual diversities and rights
* Sexuality and disability
* Case studies of program interventions
Organizer
CREA is a feminist organization that promotes, protects and advances women's
human rights and the sexual rights of all people by building leadership
capacities, strengthening social movements and organizations, increasing access
to information, knowledge and resources, and creating enabling social and
policy environments. CREA is based in New Delhi, India and works locally,
regionally and internationally.
Participants
Individuals working on issues of sexuality, rights, HIV/AIDS, violence against
women, health or gender are eligible to apply. 25-30 participants will be
selected based on their application forms. Participants are required to stay
for the duration of the course. For application form, go to www.creaworld.org
Venue and Dates
The Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute will be held in Istanbul, Turkey
during June 12-19, 2010. (Begins 9 am on 12th; Ends 4 pm on 19th).
Participants will stay in double rooms.
Participating Faculty
Alice Miller, JD is Lecturer in Residence and Senior Fellow at the Miller
Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, University of California, Berkeley
Law School. Miller co-directed the human rights Center and master's program at
Columbia University and teaches in the areas of sexuality, rights, law, gender,
health, and humanitarian issues. She combines extensive advocacy experience
with her academic work. She specializes in developing a framework for human
rights claims in the context of contemporary understandings of sexuality and
globalized networks and advocacy work.
Carole S. Vance, Ph.D., M.P.H., teaches anthropology at the Mailman School of
Public Health and is Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality,
Gender, Health and Human Rights at Columbia University. She has written widely
about sexual theory; science, sexuality, gender, and health; and policy
controversies about sexual expression and imagery. She is editor of Pleasure
and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (1993). In 2005, she received the David
R. Kessler Award for lifetime contribution to the study of sexuality.
Geetanjali Misra is co-founder and Executive Director of CREA and co-Director
of the Sexuality and Rights Institute in India. She has worked at the activist,
grant making and policy levels on issues of sexuality, reproductive health,
gender, human rights and violence against women. She writes on issues of
sexuality, gender and rights and had co-edited Sexuality, Gender and Rights:
Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia (2005).
Irazca Geray is a program and publications officer at WWHR - New Ways, an
autonomous women's NGO founded in 1993, based in Turkey. She has co-coordinated
several advocacy campaigns for law reform and is the editor of a number of WWHR
publications including the Purple Newsletter, CSBR e-news and United Nations
CEDAW Process and Advocacy and Lobbying with Non-Governmental Organizations -
Shadow Reports from Turkey: 1997 & 2005 Experiences.
Janet Price is a feminist and disabled campaigner from Northern England who is
a member of the Gender and Health Group and an Honorary Research Fellow at
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She works on issues of sexuality,
disability and rights with organizations in India and UK and is on the Board of
DaDa (Disability and Deaf Arts) based in Liverpool. Her academic interests
include postmodern feminist perspectives on colonialism, disability and the
body and she has co-edited Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader (1999) with
Margrit Shildrick.
Mauro Cabral*, co-director of GATE (Global Trans Advocates for Trans Equality),
is a philosopher from Cordoba, Argentina who is involved with diverse academic
and political initiatives focused on bodily diversity and sexual rights. He
participated in the experts' seminar that proposed the Principles of Yogyakarta
on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Human Rights. Cabral has published
several articles on trans and intersex issues and edited Interdiciones.
Escrituras de la intersexualidad en castellano (Anarrés Editorial, 2009). *To
be confirmed.
Meena Seshu is the general secretary of SANGRAM, an organization that works on
the rights of sex workers and people living with HIV/AIDS. SANGRAM's Centre for
Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation (CASAM) advocates for the reduction of
stigma, violence and harassment of marginalized communities, especially those
who have challenged dominant norms. In 2002, Seshu was awarded the Human Rights
Defender Award from Human Rights Watch.
Radhika Chandiramani is Founder and Executive Director of TARSHI (Talking about
Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues), Director of the South and Southeast
Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality and co-Director of the Sexuality and Rights
Institute in India.She co-edited Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory
and Practice in South and South East Asia (2005) and authored Good Times for
Everyone: Sexuality Questions, Feminist Answers (2008).
Sealing Cheng, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies
Department, Wellesley College. Her research is focused on sexuality with
reference to sex work, human trafficking, women's activism, and policy-making.
Her book On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in
South Korea is published in 2010 with the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Shohini Ghosh is Sajjad Zaheer Professor of Video & TV Production at the AJK
Mass Communication Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia (India). She is co-founder
member of Mediastorm Collective, India's first all women documentary production
collective. Ghosh directed Tales of the Nightfairies (2002) a film about the
sex workers' struggle for rights in Calcutta. Currently, she is writing a book
on the film Fire for the Queer Classics Series (Arsenalpulp Press, Canada).
Svati P. Shah, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality
Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Shah's work has been
published in a range of scholarly and progressive journals, including Gender
and History, Cultural Dynamics, Rethinking Marxism, and SAMAR: South Asian
Magazine for Action and Reflection. She is currently working on a book on sex
work and migration in Mumbai's informal sector.
Applications are due on or before April 18, 2010. Applications received after
this date will not be considered.
For application form and Institute brochure, please visit www.creaworld.org
Contact Person: Sushma Luthra; E-mail: sluthra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
CREA, New Delhi: crea@xxxxxxxx
+91-11-2437-7707
CREA, New York: mailcrea@xxxxxxxxxxx +1-212-599-1071
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