CREA’s
Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute: Exploring Theory and Practice
June
12-19, 2010
Istanbul,
Turkey
Applications are due on or before April 18,
2010.
Application Form - http://files.creaworld.org/files/SGRI%202010%20application%20form%20.doc
CREA’s Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute
is an annual, week-long, residential course that focuses on a conceptual study
of sexuality. It examines the links between sexuality, rights, gender, and
health and their interface with socio-cultural and legal issues.
Participants will critically analyze policy, research and program interventions
using a rights-based approach.
Course Content
Sexuality
is a complex field of study that spans multiple disciplines and areas of work.
Accordingly, the course content of the Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute
will focus on a conceptual and theoretical study of sexuality drawing from
different social science disciplines and the intersections between them.
Activists and academics will teach the course using classroom instruction,
group work, case studies, simulation exercises, fiction and films.
q Sexuality theory
q Sexuality and human rights
q Sexuality and gender
q Sexuality and legal systems
q Sexual and reproductive health and rights
q Representation of sexuality
q Sexual diversities and rights
q Sexuality and disability
q Sexual rights advocacy
q Case studies of program interventions
Organizer
CREA is a feminist organization that promotes,
protects and advances women’s human rights and the sexual rights of all people
by building leadership capacities, strengthening social movements and
organizations, increasing access to information, knowledge and resources, and
creating enabling social and policy environments. CREA is based in New
Delhi, India
and works locally, regionally and internationally.
Participants
Individuals
working on issues of sexuality, rights, HIV/AIDS, violence against women,
health or gender are eligible to apply. 25-30 participants will be selected
based on their application forms. Participants are required to stay for the
duration of the course. For application form, go to www.creaworld.org.
Venue
and Dates
The
Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute will be held in Istanbul,
Turkey during June 12-19,
2010. (Begins 9 am on 12th; Ends 4 pm on 19th).
Participants will stay in double rooms.
Participating
Faculty
Alice
Miller, JD
is Lecturer in Residence and Senior Fellow at the Miller Institute for Global
Challenges and the Law, University of California,
Berkeley Law
School. Miller co-directed the human
rights Center and master's
program at Columbia University
and teaches in the areas of sexuality, rights, law, gender, health, and
humanitarian issues. She combines extensive advocacy experience with her
academic work. She specializes in developing a framework for human rights
claims in the context of contemporary understandings of sexuality and
globalized networks and advocacy work.
Carole
S. Vance, Ph.D., M.P.H., teaches anthropology at the Mailman
School of Public Health and is Director of the Program for the Study of
Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at Columbia
University. She has written widely
about sexual theory; science, sexuality, gender, and health; and policy
controversies about sexual expression and imagery. She is editor of Pleasure
and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (1993). In 2005, she received the
David R. Kessler Award for lifetime contribution to the study of sexuality.
Geetanjali
Misra
is co-founder and Executive Director of CREA and co-Director of the Sexuality
and Rights Institute in India.
She has worked at the activist, grant making and policy levels on issues of
sexuality, reproductive health, gender, human rights and violence against
women. She writes on issues of sexuality, gender and rights and had co-edited Sexuality,
Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast
Asia (2005).
Irazca
Geray
is a program and publications officer at WWHR – New
Ways, an autonomous women's NGO founded in 1993,
based in Turkey.
She has co-coordinated several advocacy campaigns for law reform and is the
editor of a number of WWHR publications including the Purple Newsletter,
CSBR e-news and United Nations CEDAW Process and Advocacy and Lobbying
with Non-Governmental Organizations – Shadow Reports from Turkey: 1997 &
2005 Experiences.
Janet
Price
is a feminist and disabled campaigner from Northern England
who is a member of the Gender and Health Group and an Honorary Research Fellow
at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She works on issues of sexuality, disability
and rights with organizations in India
and UK and is on the Board of DaDa
(Disability and Deaf Arts) based in Liverpool. Her
academic interests include postmodern feminist perspectives on colonialism,
disability and the body and she has co-edited Feminist Theory and the Body:
A Reader (1999) with Margrit Shildrick.
Mauro
Cabral*, co-director of GATE (Global Trans Advocates for Trans
Equality), is a philosopher from Cordoba, Argentina
who is involved with diverse academic and political initiatives focused on
bodily diversity and sexual rights. He participated in the experts’ seminar
that proposed the Principles of Yogyakarta on Sexual Orientation, Gender
Identity and Human Rights. Cabral has published several articles on trans and
intersex issues and edited Interdiciones. Escrituras de la intersexualidad en
castellano (Anarrés Editorial, 2009). *To be confirmed.
Meena Seshu is the general secretary of SANGRAM, an
organization that works on the rights of sex workers and people living with
HIV/AIDS. SANGRAM’s Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and
Marginalisation (CASAM) advocates for the reduction of stigma, violence and
harassment of marginalized communities, especially those who have challenged
dominant norms. In 2002, Seshu was awarded the Human Rights Defender Award from
Human Rights Watch.
Radhika Chandiramani is
Founder and Executive Director of TARSHI (Talking about Reproductive and Sexual
Health Issues), Director of the South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on
Sexuality and co-Director of the Sexuality and Rights Institute in India. She co-edited Sexuality, Gender and Rights:
Exploring Theory and Practice in South and South East Asia
(2005) and authored Good Times for
Everyone: Sexuality Questions, Feminist Answers (2008).
Sealing Cheng, Ph.D. is Assistant
Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Wellesley
College. Her research is focused on
sexuality with reference to sex work, human trafficking, women’s activism, and
policy-making. Her book On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the
U.S. Military in South Korea is published in 2010 with the University
of Pennsylvania Press.
Shohini
Ghosh
is Sajjad Zaheer Professor of Video & TV Production at the AJK Mass
Communication Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia (India).
She is co-founder member of Mediastorm Collective, India’s
first all women documentary production collective. Ghosh directed Tales of
the Nightfairies (2002) a film about the sex workers’ struggle for rights
in
Calcutta. Currently, she is
writing a book on the film Fire for the Queer Classics Series (Arsenalpulp
Press, Canada).
Svati P. Shah, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender
and Sexuality Studies at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. Shah’s work has been published in a range of scholarly
and progressive journals, including Gender and History, Cultural
Dynamics, Rethinking Marxism, and SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for
Action and Reflection. She is currently working on a book on sex work and
migration in Mumbai's informal sector.
Applications are due on or before April 18,
2010. Applications received after this date will not be
considered.
CREA Contact Person: Sushma Luthra; E-mail: sluthra@creaworld.org