The University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona has hosted the third partner meeting for the project Universities Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence (USVSV). Partners from UK, Italy, Greece and Spain were discussing the on-going and future activities of the project. During day one the partners were sharing their training processes in each university and discussing about [...]
The Centre for Gender Studies of Dept. of Social Policy of Panteion University organized an open seminar entitled:“ Gender violence, the management of thanato politics and the ambivalence of the feminist discourse in Turkey.” The lecture was delivered on Monday 3rd of April 2017 by Eirini Avramopoulou, Social Anthropologist, British School at Athens. The discussion [...]
#USVreact has organized a small conference on sexual violence for the 7th of April in the Ibaeta Campus in the University of the Basque Country. As a project centered on training staff in universities about the issue of sexual violence, we have a positive feeling of opening the debate about SV in our local context, [...]
We keep offering free training on Sexual Violence to those interested in our university and Associate Partners. In the next week we are going to focus on specific faculties and schools of the University of The Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Instead of offering our training to any member of the staff in UPV/EHU, we offer it [...]
Contexts for sexual harassment and violence and developing models for challenge and change Lecture by Dr Vanita Sundaram Venue: University of York, York, United Kingdom P/L/002 Date and time: 7th March 2017, 18:30-19:30 Ahead of International Women’s Day, the University of York’s Dr Vanita Sundaram presented her leading research into the emergence of lad culture in [...]
Training, entitled "Sexual violence at the University: recognize, accompany and rethinking response strategies" will start at Rovira i Vigili University at the end of January 2017. Its main purpose is to increase the capacity of the University community for the protection of the rights of people affected by the sexual harassment/violence. The courses, completely free, are [...]
(Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectives – call for papers The 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association will be held from 29th of August to 1st of September 2017 in Athens, Greece. Since the “Great Recession” of 2008 the European society and the very idea of Europe is under threat. The members of the [...]
Youth, Health and Practical Justice: An interdisciplinary conference, UTS, Sydney, Australia. 4-5th December 2016 Dr. Pam Alldred from Brunel University London, is traveling across Australia to present the #USVreact project and collect other experiences related to sexual violence and education. On the 4th of December she presented during the Sexual Ethics & Education stream [...]
Training has started at Panteion University. The sessions take place at the Centre for Gender Studies, Department of Social Policy (http://www.genderstudies-panteion.gr/en/). Each cohort comprises 12-14 participants, and includes members of staff and students. The first couple of groups have completed two 4-hour sessions with senior trainers Dr. Matina Papagiannopoulou and Dr. Kiki Petroulaki. Training [...]
A Cambridge student group has designed an automated reply system online (Robot) that gives legal advise to victims of sexual assault. The so called LawBot is still in BETA (testing phase) but word about the initiative is spreading and feeding into to the UK wide actions against sexual harassment and violence. Follow the project [...]
