[Pdf-women] South Asia - CREA Feminist Leadership, Movement Building & Rights Institute - Call for Applications - Funding Provided

Tue Jun 4 15:36:35 MDT 2019

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Applications are due on or before 15th June 2019.

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Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute
South Asia
4-11 August 2019
Kathmandu, Nepal

Applications are due on or before 15th June 2019.

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CREA’s ‘Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute’ in South Asia is a residential programme, designed to strengthen feminist solidarity, leadership, advocacy, and strategies for building collective power for social transformation.

The Institute engages feminists from across the region to build a substantive understanding of our present – a time that is witness to the emergence of majoritarian right wing ideologies with a shrinking space for dissent and dialogue; neoliberalism with new forms of economic injustices; and a growing regime of surveillance and censorship. The possibilities and challenges of digital and social media on the one hand, and the emergence of new modes of popular protest, and contestations around heteronormativity and able-bodied-ness on the other, are some of the realities that define the current context.

The course will seek to encourage and enable participants to:
Interrogate concepts such as nation, identity and development that affect our struggles and strategies by reshaping the discourse and practices of patriarchy and gender.
Explore different forms of leadership through feminist journeys, histories and standpoints across generations.
Build new and collaborative modes of resistance in the face of emerging configurations of power.

Pedagogy & Principles

The methodology used at the Institute is rigorous; the days will be packed with lectures, films, group work, and a lot of reading. Over the course of eight days, participants will be expected to work hard, but will also get to learn, enjoy, and forge new friendships and working relationships.

The process of learning is based on four core pedagogic principles.

Location
Locate our everyday, ‘micro’ individual and organisational practices in the macro context of the larger women’s movement and of other struggles for gender equality and justice.

Reflection
Deepen curiosity and self-reflexiveness among participants by facilitating conversations that traverse geographies, generations and diversity of concerns and political standpoints.

Embodiment
Work through multiple embodied identities to make connections between our often contradictory experiences arising from diverse structures of power and hierarchy such as caste and class, region and religion, nation and ethnicity.

Expansion
Build solidarity across borders by bringing into focus a shared sense of being South Asian. This including a deeper understanding of our common heritage, historical inter-linkages as well as ruptures and differences. The idea is to explore together what constitutes South Asian Feminist practice -- both as an assumption and an aspiration.

Core Faculty

Dipta Bhog is a creative facilitator, who has over three decades of experience of working on issues of gender and education, women’s rights and development. She is a founder member of "Nirantar, A Centre for Gender and Education" in New Delhi. She has worked with rural women and grassroots women leaders -building on their leadership and organisational strength. Issues of identity and caste have been critical in her work in the field and in her engagements with education and curricula. She has conducted research on social science school textbooks in four states in India and has developed curriculum, textbooks, creative reading material, comic-books and digital installations to communicate feminist ideas and insights.

Paromita Chakravarti is Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University (JU) and has been Director, School of Women's Studies, and a convenor of the Cell Against Sexual Harassment at JU. She teaches drama, women's writing, queer and film studies and has worked on gender representation in school textbooks, sexuality education, women's higher education, women and HIV and AIDS. Closely associated with the women’s movement in Kolkata, she is active in the queer, sex worker, homeless and single women’s movements. She has introduced one of the first post-graduate courses in Queer Studies in the Department of English at JU. Her book, Women Contesting Culture, co-edited with Prof Kavita Panjabi was published in 2012. Dr. Chakravarti is also the founder member of the NGO “Ebong Alaap” which works on critical pedagogies and serves as board member of "Anjali" a NGO which works on mental health.

The visiting faculty will include other activists and academics from the region.

Participants

To be selected to attend the Institute you must be:
·    A woman or a trans person, with a minimum experience of 3 years working on gender issues, women’s rights, development and/or youth activism (voluntary or paid)
·    Residing or working in South Asia
·    Able to demonstrate how you will use what you learn at the Institute in your work and how you will continue to participate in follow-up activities
·    Proficient in English language, as the Institute is conducted in English and all the training and reference materials used will be in English

Venue and Dates

The Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute--South Asia will be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 4-11 August 2019. Participants are expected to arrive by 3 August 2019 and stay for the entire duration of the course. Considerations have been made to ensure reasonable accommodation and accessibility for participants. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Costs

CREA will cover all the costs related to the selected applicant’s participation in the institute. This includes travel to the venue, tuition, accommodation and meals during the days of the institute.

Accommodation

Accommodation will be on twin-sharing basis.

Organizer

Founded in 2000, CREA is a feminist human rights organization based in New Delhi, India. It is one of the few international women's rights organizations based in the global South, led by Southern feminists, which works at the grassroots, national, regional, and international levels. Together with partners from a diverse range of human rights movements and networks, CREA works to advance the rights of women, girls, and trans persons, and the sexual and reproductive freedoms of all people. CREA advocates for positive social change through national and international fora, creates knowledge and resources to shift discourse, and provides training and learning opportunities to global activists and leaders through its Institutes.

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