“Productive Exchanges: Experiences from the Gender and Emancipation Project”

Monday, May 18, 2009

3:00pm at the Smith Seminar Room (1080) in the Physics Research Building

Graduate Students across a variety of disciplines at OSU will share their experiences working in North/South collaborations with men and women from Germany, Sudan and Syria to develop transnational feminist awareness and alliances. Students will present on the Gender and Emancipation Project, from its initial stages of conceptualization and drawing together of collaborators, to the Spring quarter coursework that drew participants together online, and finally to the culminating ten-day summer school in Berlin that brought over forty participants together in the same space for the first time. Presenters will focus on the highlights and stumbling blocks that such collaborations engender, including the negotiation of difficult national, racial, class, gender and religious hierarchies that presented themselves in unexpected ways throughout the Project’s journey.

Refreshments will be served. Kindly RSVP to Christy Holmes (holmes.489@osu.edu) if you are planning to attend.

Alex forwarded me an e-mail he received about this. This sounds like something we could be interested in attending.

On their website they have some questions that they are investigating:

What type of impact does gender have on one's day-to-day experiences and opportunities?

What do activists from Syria, the Sudan, Germany, and the USA share?

And what are the possibilities for building a transnational activist vision that places gender politics at its center?

This reminds me a lot of what we were talking about two Mondays ago.

Project Mission Statement:

Our vision is to build and expand on existing and nascent networks of feminist activists and scholars through collaborative research endeavours. Through our exchange project, we seek to interrogate embedded power relations within transnational feminism and encourage a creative and self-organized learning process about gender issues. We wish to forge genuine alliances across geographic and academic bounds, creating a space for agency, voice, and mutual respect.

http://genderandemancipation.org.ohio-state.edu/index.html