Addressing Sexual Violence at the University This one day local event organized by the Centre for Gender Studies of Panteion University in Athens was a great success, with many students participating. The project was commended officially, and the Rector and two members of the university Senate gave introductory speeches. Here some images from the [...]
"Being a university lecturer isn't generally very difficult but one of the most challenging aspects by far is pastoral care for students with difficulties, especially harrowing in the case of students who disclose to us that they've been victims of sexual violence - which, people outside universities are always surprised to hear, happens shockingly often. [...]
New edition of training courses at theUAB. Several courses will be held on "Sexual Violence in the University." In this case, the training will take place at the UAB and the trainers will be Paula Arce and Isabel Muntané. On 12 and 15 of February, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., the course aimed at [...]
‘Tackling Sexual Violence & Harassment on Campus: Policy and Practice’ This free local conference took place at Brunel University London, Eastern Gateway 003/003a on Wednesday 7th February from 11am-5pm. USVreact is the Universities Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence project which has been coordinated by Brunel, but links 24 universities across Europe. The event sees high profile speakers: [...]
Last week we were very happy to share some of our preliminary conclusions on sexual violence in universities with the AFIT research group. Our Main Researcher Marta Luxan was present in one of the seminars organised by this feminist anthropology research group in Donostia, in which Mari Luz Esteban, a member of our Expert Advisory [...]
Disclosure Training at Sussex and Brighton This 'Partner Training Evaluation Report' focuses on the Sussex University training, which has also been piloted by our Associate Partner Brighton University. Our training included: descriptions of sexual violence and statistics about its incidence on campuses in the UK; discussion of the broader context within which sexual violence occurs; the effects of [...]
Find below the complete programme for the one-day conference to be held in the Education, Philosophy and Anthropology faculty in Donostia (here) the 26th of January 2018. 09:30 Aurkezpena / Presentación Marta Luxán Serrano, Mila Amurrio (USVreact, EHU) 10:00 Cuestiones conceptuales sobre las violencias sexuales desde las perspectivas feministas y claves de su abordaje en [...]
Our colleague Edurne Jiménez Pérez, member of the Catalan team of the USVReact, will participate on January 31st in this panel: “"From the crime of passion to genderbased violence. Evolutions and drifts of research on violence against women" in the 2nd Conference of the Inter-University PhD program in Gender Studies. The panel, coordinated by Gerard [...]
The UVic-UCC has participated in various actions of the USVrecat project carried out during 2017 and 2018. To begin, on April 26 and 27 a team of 5 PDI and 2 PAS received USVreact training organized by trainers from the URV (Sara Cagliero and Ivana Soto). Once UVic staff was formed, the model was replicated, offering it [...]
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence, edited by Nancy Lombard (2018) Chapter 18: Lost in Translation? Comparative and International Work on Gender-Related Violence by gigi guizzo, Pam Alldred and Mireia Foradada-Villar INTRO It is generally agreed that research across countries, with different cultural and/or language contexts, brings difficulties of translation, meaning here both the literal linguistic translation [...]
