9 November: Intersectionality and refugee women in the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum

Women’s rights and gender sensitivity have been quite prominent in the European Union’s agenda lately. In November 2020, the European Commission released its third Gender Action Plan, which focuses on the EU’s external actions. One of the most ambitious goals of the action plan, set for 2025, is the application of an intersectional gender perspective in the EU’s external actions, with a special focus on migrant women. However, the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, the European Commission’s proposal to reform the Common European Asylum System, does not mention intersectional approaches, neither in its text nor in related legislative proposals.

Feminist perspectives, approaches and actions are at the core of the work of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, the German Green Political Foundation. We strongly support the mainstreaming of intersectional perspectives into (European) policy making and policies. Against this background, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union commissioned the study “Intersectionality and refugee women – The shortcomings of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum from an intersectional prism”, which analyses the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum and its related proposal for a Screening Regulation from an intersectional perspective.

More information and registration: https://calendar.boell.de/en/intersectionality-refugee-women

Bridging decolonial & materialist feminisms – online public lecture – November 17, Ghent University, UC Berkeley, Birzeit University

Register here to receive the link to the Zoom webinar: https://eventmanager.ugent.be/PublicLectureDecolonialandMaterialistFeminisms

This public lecture intends to shed light on the materialities of decolonial feminisms and their variegated historically situated infrastructures and scales: from bodies to territories, from the flesh to the soil, from biologies to minerals and land, and from property to labour.

In relation to transnational discussions we understand decolonial feminisms in their broadest sense to address and resist the gendered ongoing histories of colonialism, white eurocentrism and US centrism. Thus, in various contexts, decolonial feminisms may include anti-colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial theory, and epistemologies of the global south(s). We understand materialist feminisms as feminisms that insist on examining the material conditions under which gendered and sexual power relations take shape under racial and patriarchal capitalism, through i.a. gendered and sexual divisions of labour and property.

Paola Bacchetta, PJ Di Pietro and Lena Meari will discuss how decolonial and materialist feminisms inspire their work, what might be gained from cross-fertilizing insights and questions from these two feminist traditions and what this entails both methodologically and politically. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Maria Martin de Almagro Iniesta (Ghent University).

Paola Bacchetta is Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s at University of California, Berkeley, Co-founder and first Director of the Berkeley Gender Consortium and current (transnational) Co-Coordinator of the Decolonizing Sexualities Network. She is author and co-editor of numerous books, articles and book chapters on: feminist decolonial, transnational and queer of color theories and praxis; global racialities; politics of spatialities; and Hindu nationalism and other right-wing movements.

PJ DiPietro works at the intersection of decolonial feminism, Latinx Studies, and trans* of color praxis. They are a faculty member in the department of women’s and gender studies at Syracuse University (unceded Haudenosaunee land, New York).

Lena Meari is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine. She has special interest in the geopolitics of knowledge production; subject formation in colonial contexts; decolonizing methodologies; critical feminist theory; and revolutionary movements.

Website: https://www.globalstudies.ugent.be/bridging-decolonial-and-materialist-feminisms/2/

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Lunch Research Seminar: Prof. Dr. Lisa Dikomitis, Dr. Helen Price & Dr. Brianne Wenning (ECLIPSE)

Registration:
Send an email to s.devuyst@ugent.be. There will be a free sandwich lunch. Please register before 21/11 if you want to participate in the lunch and indicate your preference: sandwich meat, cheese, vegan or fish. If you do not want to participate in the sandwich lunch, you can register until 29/11.
Title:
Culture, gender and parasites: Interdisciplinary global health research around leishmaniasis
Abstract:
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a skin condition caused by infection with a microscopic parasite (Leishmania spp.) which results in the development of skin lesions which heal slowly and are difficult to treat. These lesions can result in the stigmatisation and social isolation of the infected individual, causing severe emotional distress. ECLIPSE is a four-year £4.6M healthcare programme funded by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), which aims to improve the patient journey for people with CL and to reduce stigma in the most underserved communities in Brazil, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka.
The ECLIPSE team is multidisciplinary with over 60 researchers (anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, parasitologists, public health and primary care specialists), physicians (dermatologists, family doctors, community medicine specialists) and artists (theatre makers, performance artists, musicians, painters). The ECLIPSE researchers are using an intersectional approach involving a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to gain an in-depth understanding of people’s, communities’ and healthcare professionals’ experiences and views on the impact of CL on the daily lives of those affected and the barriers to seeking healthcare, including obtaining accurate, early diagnosis and receiving effective treatment. The ECLIPSE programme is underpinned by theoretical and methodological approaches from medical anthropology. Research activities include team ethnography, individual ethnography, interviews, focus groups, CL awareness and stigma surveys, creative community workshops with local artists, intervention design and feasibility evaluations.
The ECLIPSE team is strongly committed to involving community members in Brazil, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka in all ECLIPSE activities. This means that each stage of the research is conducted with local communities, in line with the ECLIPSE ethos: ‘no research about community members, without community members’. ECLIPSE researchers recognise, value and seek to amplify community knowledge and understandings of health and illness, and explore the facilitators and challenges of seeking treatment for CL. Indeed, community engagement and involvement is at the heart of ECLIPSE. The community members’ experiential knowledge, combined with other knowledge (such as biomedical and anthropological insights), will result in the development of new knowledge which will underpin the co-creation of the ECLIPSE public health interventions. These will be co-developed with community members, implemented and evaluated in Brazil, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka. One intervention in each site will be community based, while the second will be a training package for local health workers.
With the increasing calls for large multidisciplinary teams in health research, team ethnography features more and more as a methodological approach. Global health projects like ECLIPSE, which rely on the collaboration among people in and across various communities, societies and countries, are particularly well suited for team ethnography to explore culture, gender and parasites. Team members in these projects, however, often experience competing demands and obligations to and from the local communities in which they work; to and from team members in the different countries; to and from health policy makers; and to and from funding bodies. Added to this mix is the pressure to maintain a consistent level of academic rigour, reflexivity and comprehensibility across field sites, cultures and contexts. This complicates the issue of how to conduct robust team ethnography.
ECLIPSE researchers will convene a 2-hour research seminar at the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender (CRCG) which will consist of a series of short presentations on different aspects of the ECLIPSE programme, and will introduce discussion topics, including:
•The patient journey for people with CL: a perspective from 3 continents
•Is CL a stigmatizing disease and who is affected most: an intersectional approach
•Community engagement and involvement in a CL programme: effective, decolonial and inclusive community engagement amplifying local knowledge
•Interdisciplinary research: how do we foster and further develop interdisciplinary insights on cutaneous leishmaniasis?
More information on the ECLIPSE website: www.eclipse-community.com
Supported by: ECLIPSE, Centre for Research on Culture and Gender, NIHR, ESCO

Lecture and Workshop Series for 2021-2022: “How to decolonize the university? Reflections and practices at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences”

Stephanie Collingwoode Williams is an anthropologist, social worker, trainer, consultant and activist. She is an expert in anti-racism, intersectionality, climate justice, feminism, queerness and biraciality. Stephanie was raised in Ghana, and has studied in the Netherlands and Belgium, where she has been involved with various climate-justice and anti-racist movements, such as Code Rood and Kick-Out Zwarte Piet. Over the years she has participated in actions against the glorification of Belgium’s colonial history. More recently, she was active as spokesperson for the Belgian Network For Black Lives, which organized Black Lives Matter marches in Belgium (2020). Stephanie is also a curator of a decolonial festival (SOKL), speaker and volunteer for Black History Month Belgium and other collectives. She enjoys writing, exchanging thoughts on a multitude of issues and working on community.

October 28 (19:30-21:00) – Public Lecture – Campus Ufo: Technicum Aud D

October 29 (10:00-12:00) – Workshop – Campus Ufo: Technicum Room 2.11

Attendance is free, but registration is required: https://webappsx.ugent.be/eventManager/events/OnDecolonizingHigherEducationCollingwoodeWilliams

Online studiedag Vrouwen met een migratieachtergrond op de arbeidsmarkt – 02/12/2021

LEVL, ella, Furia, ENAIP-Limburg en de Nederlandstalige Vrouwenraad slaan de handen in elkaar. Samen organiseren we op 2 december 2021 van 9.30 tot 12.30 uur een online studiedag over “Vrouwen met een migratieachtergrond op de arbeidsmarkt”.

De online studiedag is gratis en richt zich op iedereen met interesse in dit thema.

Tijdens de studiedag gaan we dieper in op de verschillende drempels die vrouwen met een migratieachtergrond ervaren op de arbeidsmarkt. Ook verkennen we hoe de arbeidsmarktpositie van vrouwen met migratieachtergrond verbeterd kan worden.

Meer informatie hier.

Call Humanitarian Communication Thesis Prize 2021

𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭

Have you recently completed your master thesis on humanitarian communication or the representation of international development? Do you want to share your research with a broader audience and get recognition for your work from an expert jury? Then submit your thesis for the Humanitarian Communication Thesis Prize 2021!

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆?

To enter the competition, please fill in the registration form and send a digital copy of your thesis to info@humanitairecommunicatie.nl by November 1, 2021, mentioning ‘HuCom Thesis Prize 2021’.

More information at www.humanitairecommunicatie.nl/annual-thesis-prize/.

We need to talk about… Gender | woe 6 oktober 2021 | Piet Hoebeke en Griet Vandermassen

Op woensdag 6 oktober organiseert VC Het Geuzenhuis een nuchter debat rond gender met Piet Hoebeke en Griet Vandermassen.

Volgens uroloog Piet Hoebeke is ons klassieke beeld van mannen en vrouwen dringend aan een update toe. Er bevindt zich tussen de stereotiepe man en vrouw immers een heel spectrum van seksuele identiteiten. Alle aspecten van onze seksuele identiteit kan je volgens Hoebeke zien als de regelaars op een mengpaneel. Die staan ook niet altijd volledig open of dicht, maar ergens tussenin.

Griet Vandermassen gaat een heel eind mee met die visie. Ook zij plaatst de acceptatie van ieders seksuele identiteit voorop – eveneens die van transpersonen – maar zet wel vraagtekens bij het idee van sekse en gender als een eindeloos gevarieerd mengpaneel. De verschillen tussen de seksen zijn volgens haar substantiëler dan Piet Hoebeke denkt.

Hierop aansluitend bespreken beiden hun meningsverschillen en hoe die zich vertalen in een andere visie op enkele ethische issues. Bijvoorbeeld of we aparte toiletruimtes voor de verschillende seksen moeten afschaffen, wat met mogelijk onomkeerbare behandelingen voor minderjarige transgenders? Wat met transpersonen in de sport?

Inschrijven en meer informatie: http://www.geuzenhuis.be/we-need-to-talk-about-gender

Adjunct diensthoofd – Gelijke Kansen (M/V/X)

Met zo’n 3900 medewerkers en een uitgebreid onderwijsnetwerk kan de Stad Brussel beschouwd worden als een van de belangrijkste werkgevers van het Brussels Gewest.

Het Departement Organisatie is belast met het toezicht dat de Stad uitoefent op diverse publieke organen, het secretariaat van het College en de Gemeenteraad, de administratieve sancties maar ook met de public relations.

De Stad Brussel strijdt tegen ongelijkheid, discriminatie en vooroordelen die blijven bestaan. In deze strijd coördineert en ondersteunt de Dienst Gelijke Kansen acties, informeert en sensibiliseert ze de burgers rond deze problematiek. Het objectief van de Dienst Gelijke Kansen bestaat erin alle burgers van de stad gelijke kansen te bieden, zonder discriminatie op basis van geslacht, herkomst, leeftijd, seksuele voorkeur of handicap.

Meer informatie: https://jobs.bruxelles.be/nl/vacature/61490/chef-de-service-adjoint–egalite-des-chances–org/

RoSa zoekt een nieuwe bibliotheekmedewerker 80% (v/x/m)

RoSa vzw is een dynamisch kenniscentrum dat het genderbewustzijn bevordert in Vlaanderen. Hierdoor draagt de organisatie bij aan een gunstig klimaat om de feitelijke ongelijkheid tussen vrouwen en mannen in de samenleving weg te werken. RoSa doet dit door te documenteren, te informeren en te sensibiliseren.

De RoSa-bibliotheek is een grassroots-bib die tijdens de tweede feministische golf aan het einde van de jaren zeventig werd opgericht. Onze unieke collectie non-fictie literatuur bestrijkt het hele spectrum wat gender betreft en weerspiegelt de diversiteit in het feminisme. De nieuwe bib-medewerker zal samen met de bibliotheekcollega’s de collectie verder uitbouwen en ontsluiten, en ervoor zorgen dat iedereen bij de RoSa-bib terecht kan voor degelijke en toegankelijke informatie over onze thema’s.

Meer informatie: https://rosavzw.be/nl/actualiteit/vacature