On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we gather scholars and activists whose work contributes to the knowledge of women’s history and feminisms.

Fighting Discrimination, Contrasting Violence, Empowering People

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Sara Delmedico (Università degli Studi di Bologna) and Giulia Strippoli (IHC, NOVA University Lisbon) organise an afternoon with scholars and activists whose work contributes to the knowledge of women’s history and feminisms, to the unmasking of patriarchy, to the self-determination of people through art, thought and activism.

Please, register to listen to:

• Bonnie Smith — Locations of Feminism in the Post-World War II and De-colonizing World
• Nina Volz — AWARE – Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions – Rethinking Art History from a Gender Perspective
• Rebecca Amsellen — Challenging Patriarchy in the Media Industry by Creating a New Narrative for Women – One Newsletter at a Time

Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History Emerita and the author, co-author or editor of two dozen books in Women’s and Gender, European, and World History. Her works include the co-edited Routledge Global History of Feminism (2023), Women in World History, 1450 to the Present (Bloomsbury 2020), and Women in World History, Beginnings to 1450 (forthcoming).

Nina Volz is Head of International Development at AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. She has conducted numerous international projects at the intersection of research, education and the arts for the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC), the French Embassy in Mexico and UNESCO, among others. She holds a Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication.

Rebecca Amsellen, PhD, is a researcher, an activist and an entrepreneur. She is the founder of French newsletter Les Glorieuses and of Gloria Media, a bilingual feminist media company. She also launched non-partisan feminist political campaigns in France such as the #8Novembre16h48, the campaign for equal pay. Rebecca Amsellem is the author of Les Glorieuses: Chronicles of a Feminist (Hoëbeke, 2018) and Museums Go International. New Strategies, New Business Models (Peter Lang, 2019).

Attendance is FREE, but registration mandatory: 🔗 register here

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