TRANSBORDER FEMINIST ENCOUNTERS

Finally Transborder Feminist Encounters is happening!

The conference will take place next weekend on the 26th and 27th of May in Taksim Hill Hotel.

As the capacity of the workshops is limited, registration is required (please send a mail to: Amargi_staj@yahoo.com). Both panels are open to all women and trans. We invite you all to join us and be part of it!

The general outline of the program is as following:

First Day

09:30 – 11:00 Panel: “Current Feminist Approaches against War” Speakers:  Nükhet Sirman; Cynthia Cockburn; Pınar Selek (video recording); Parvin Ardalan 11:15 – 13.30 Regional Presentations Tunisia, India; Egypt; Turkey; Lebanon; Iraq; Iraqi Kurdistan

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:30 Regional Presentations Turkey; Cyprus; Armenia; Iran; Libya; Israel; Palestine 16:45 – 18:00 Simultaneous Workshop Sessions Proposed Titles of the Workshops: * Constitutions * Violence and Conflicts * Representation * Organizational Issues, Networking, Strategizing

 

Second Day

9:30 – 13:15 Simultaneous Workshop Sessions (continued) * Constitutions * Violence and Conflicts * Representation * Organizational Issues, Networking, Strategizing

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:15 Presentations on workshop outcomes. General Evaluation 15:30-17:00 Panel: “New Feminist Tactics for Peace” Speakers: Karen Gabriel; Seda Altuğ

TRANSBORDER FEMINIST ENCOUNTERS

Transborder Feminist Encounters is a meeting of feminists from middle eastern countries to share feminist knowlegdes and experiences across borders. It is organized by Amargi on the 26th and th 27th of may and is located in Taksim Hill Hotel.

Our aim is to reflect upon common peacefull feminist politics in the workshops and to make future plans together.

TRANSBORDERS FEMINIST MEETING IN ISTANBUL

Transborder Feminist Encounters, which will be organized by Amargi on the 26-27^th of May, 2012, aims to bring together the different types of knowledge and experience of people living in different parts of the world in order to enable a sharing of feminist knowledge across borders and boundaries.

Amargi took the first steps towards Transborder Feminist Encounters by inviting feminists who lived in different parts of the world in 2009-2010. What was experienced at that time demonstrated the need for such moments of meeting and sharing in order to expand the area of feminist analysis.

The aim is to meet with feminists who have been a part of, or are currently a part of, feminist organizations in countries to the east and south of Turkey, and examine issues regarding sexism everyone has faced in their own localities together.

More information will be announced…

Middle Eastern Women’s Meeting

We are organizing a Middle Eastern Women’s Meeting which will be held in May 2012 in Istanbul.  We had our first organizational meeting on 2 December 2011.  We are now collecting contact information of feminist activists and organizations from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Israel, Jordan, etc.  Some topics to be discussed are “The Resistance of Women to the Militarism of the Middle East” and “Local Methods and Solutions in Feminist Organizations.”  The second organizational meeting will be on 18 December 2011.  If you would like to attend the Middle Eastern Women’s Meeting or have related contacts, please contact us.