celebrating migration and diversity, for the construction of a society just for all
Masculine domination is no story of the past. Gender equality in Europe, so often presented as a European and democratic value, continues to be systematically disregarded: inequalities of salaries, violence against women, inequality of access to responsibilities in all domains, general discourse on feminine and masculine values or characteristics, come back of masculinism.
The events of the Transeuropa Festival will focus on specific issues:
• What does it mean to be a feminist today and why does it have a rationale?
• What are possible forms of mobility?
• Are new forms of conservatism appearing or are they the same old new forms?
• What would be the strength and possibilities for a common transnational activism?
With the participation of key thinkers on Feminism, civil society organisations and artists to two simultaneous events in Paris and Bologna, this series will bring together ideas on how best to act for a gender equal Europe.
With an event in Bologna : “La donna è mobile…” at the Libreria Feltrinelli, Piazza Ravegnana on the 3rd of May from 5.30 – 8.00pm on the mobility of women seen from four different perspectives: work, education, territory, leadership. Organised with the web portal inGenere
With: Marcella Corsi (inGenere.it), Paola Mengoli (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Tindara Addabbo (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) and Maria Chiara Patuelli.
And a simultaneous event in Paris : Feminist in Europe in 2010? at Sciences-Po. Paris, Amphithéâtre Leroy-Beaulieu, on the 3rd of May from 7.15 to 9.15pm
With Geneviève Fraisse, philosopher, Michela Marzano, philosopher, Orlan, artist (tbc), Elsa Dorlin, philosopher (tbc).
When: 1st May, 5pm
Where: La Galerie Crêperie et Bar
Info: Flori de mac (Red Poppy) was made as part of an anthropological study conducted on a Roma community in Orastie, Hunedoara county. Its main theme is the status of Roma women, defined by contexts such as birth, marriage, abortion, contraception, domestic violence and prostitution. For more information please click here.
When: 3rd May, 7.15 – 9.15pm
Where: Sciences-Po. Paris, Amphithéâtre Leroy-Beaulieu
Info: An open discussion on feminism today verging around three main questions: the opportunity or necessity of feminism today, the renewal of forms of domination and conservativism, and the
possibility of transnational feminist political activism. For more information please click here.
When: 3rd May, 5.30 – 8.00pm
Where: Libreria Feltrinelli, Piazza Ravegnana
Info: Debate on the mobility of women seen from four different perspectives: work, education, territory, leadership. Organised with the web portal inGenere. For more information click here.
As time goes by in Italy women are rescaled to remind them that their “natural” place is next to a man, silent and aware of masculine superiority.
Nancy Fraser, celebrated critical theorist and feminist, discusses about the transnationalisation of the public sphere, radical justice and the crisis and pulling feminism back from neoliberalism.
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Would you like to add this project to your festival? There is more to it than just this exhibition. I book is also in the making. We could run a workshop in Oxford.
Best wishes
Wilfried