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CREA's 5th Sexuality, Gender and Rights
Institute: exploring
theory and practice
June 18 - 26, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
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Applications are due on or before February 15, 2011.
To apply online, click
here. If you experience difficulty with the online method,
download the application from CREA's website (www.creaworld.org)
and email the completed form to Sushma Luthra at sluthra@creaworld.org. Send any
queries to Ms. Luthra as well.
CREA's
Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute is an annual, week-long,
residential course - begun in 2007 - 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 critically analyze policy, research and program
interventions using a rights-based approach.
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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.
- Sexuality theory
- Sexuality and human
rights
- Sexuality and gender
- Sexuality and legal
systems
- Sexual and
reproductive health and rights
- Representation of
sexuality
- Sexual diversities
and rights
- Sexuality and
disability
- Sexual rights
advocacy
- Case studies of
program interventions
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Organizer
CREA is an international, feminist, human rights
organization based in New Delhi
. CREA promotes and
advances women's human rights and sexual rights of all people by
strengthening feminist leadership, organizations and movements;
influencing global and national advocacy; creating information,
knowledge and scholarship; changing public attitudes and practices;
and addressing social exclusion.
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Participants
25-30 participants will be selected based on their
application forms and their ability to demonstrate how they would
apply the lessons of the Institute. Individuals working on issues of
sexuality, LGBT rights, sexual rights, HIV/AIDS, violence against
women, health or gender are eligible to apply. Preference will be
given to participants working in the global south at the
national/local levels to advance sexual rights.Participants are
required to stay for the duration of the course.For application form,
click here or go to www.creaworld.org.
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Venue and Dates
The Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute will be
held in Istanbul, Turkey
during June 18-26,
2011. (Begins 9 am on 18th; Ends 4 pm on 26th).
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Travel & Visa
Participants are responsible for incurring their
travel costs to and from the Institute and obtaining their own visa.
CREA will assist with the visa process by providing a letter of
invitation and required visa letters.
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Costs
- Registration fee: USD
100. All selected applicants will have to pay this fee.
- Course fee: USD 2250.
Covers tuition, resource package, accommodation on a
twin-sharing basis from June 17-26, and all breakfasts. Please
note that this a subsidized cost for participation. The expenses
per participant total approximately USD 4000 before income is
calculated.
- Not included in the
course fees: Travel costs and lunches/dinners.
Registration and Course fees are due on or before April
30, 2011.
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Accommodation
Accommodation will be on twin sharing basis.
Participants desiring single rooms will have to pay a supplement of
USD 550.
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Scholarships
A very small number of full and partial scholarships
from CREA are available on a need basis. Please note that the
scholarship process is competitive.
ONLY the following individuals are eligible to apply
for a scholarship:
- Working for
national/local organizations in the global South;
- Working and residing
in the global South; and
- Working on sexual
rights, LGBT, sex worker rights issues directly
NOT ELIGIBLE:
Students, individuals not affiliated with
organizations, and those working with international organizations.
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Funding Opportunities
We encourage participants to approach donors to
sponsor their participation. Possible sources for funding include:
the organization you work for, your organization's donors (some
funders will consider travel grants to current grantees), and the
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the African Women's
Development Fund (AWDF), the Ford Foundation, the Global Fund for
Women, the International Women's Health Coalition, Mama Cash, and
Open Society Foundations. We suggest that you begin researching
options immediately upon submitting your application to us.
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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 Center for the Study of Human Rights 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, PhD, MPH, teaches
anthropology at the Mailman School of Public Health and for ten years
directed 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 (1982, 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 co-edited Sexuality, Gender and
Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast
Asia (2005).
Janet Price is a feminist and
disabled campaigner from Northern England who works on issues of
sexuality, disability and social justice with organizations in UK,
India
and at the
international level. She is on the Board of Liverpool-based DaDa
(Disability and Deaf Arts), which held a major international festival
in Nov 2010 (www.dadafest2010.co.uk).
Also a member of the Gender and Health Group and an Honorary Research
Fellow at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, her academic
interests include postmodern postcolonial feminist perspectives on
disability and the body. She co-edited Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader (1999)
with Margrit Shildrick.
Jessica Horn is a writer
and women's rights consultant currently living in Sierra Leone. She is a founding member of the African
Feminist Forum and co-editor of Voice,
Power and Soul: Portraits of African Feminists. She has
consulted for a range of organizations including private donors,
women's rights organizations, international NGOs and UN agencies on
advancing sexual and reproductive rights, ending violence against
women, supporting women living with HIV and ensuring women's rights
in post-conflict reconstruction and peace building.
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).
Meena Saraswathi 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, PhD 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.
Svati P. Shah, PhD 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.
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Special
Lecture
Shohini Ghosh is Sajjad Zaheer
Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Centre at Jamia Millia
Islamia (India
). Ghosh directed Tales of the Nightfairies
(2002) a film about the sex workers' struggle for rights in Calcutta
. She is author of
the volume on Deepa Mehta's Fire for the Queer Classics Series
published by Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, Canada
. Currently, she is
editing an anthology on Documentary Films.
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Applications are due
on or before February 15, 2011. Applications received after this date
will not be considered. Applicants will be informed about the selection
decisions by March 15, 2011. Contact Person: Sushma Luthra; E-mail:sluthra@creaworld.org.
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7 Mathura Road, Jangpura B, 2 Floor, New Delhi 10014, India
Phone: 91-11-243-77707
Fax: 91-11-243-77708
Email:crea@vsnl.net
www.creaworld.org
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