Wednesday November 17, 2010 1pm - 2:30pm (1 Hour 30 Minutes)
Lecture / Seminar
phyllis.rippeyoung@acadiau.ca
585-1431
Prof. Gill Hague ~ "Violence against Women: The Devastating Legacy and the Transforming Struggle"
This public lecture will discuss in an accessible way the tragedy of violence against women across the world, and the transforming efforts to campaign against it and to build policy, practice and activism. It will include a very brief discussion of the work of the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the University of Bristol, UK, one of the largest such centres, which works nationally and internationally, using an activist frame wherever possible. The lecture will be a broad-brush ‘global’ coverage of violence against women, and various versions of it have already been presented in three continents. Prof. Hague will illustrate the talk with examples both from the work of activists internationally and from her own contributions over nearly 40 years, as a women’s movement activist and a researcher in many countries of the world. This often-distressing work feeds into the transformative and moving struggle to make violence against women a thing of the past. The lecture will end on an uplifting note to celebrate the historic achievements of this struggle so far.
Location: Acadia University, Beveridge Arts Centre, Room 138
phyllis.rippeyoung@acadiau.ca
585-1431
Prof. Gill Hague ~ "Violence against Women: The Devastating Legacy and the Transforming Struggle"
This public lecture will discuss in an accessible way the tragedy of violence against women across the world, and the transforming efforts to campaign against it and to build policy, practice and activism. It will include a very brief discussion of the work of the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the University of Bristol, UK, one of the largest such centres, which works nationally and internationally, using an activist frame wherever possible. The lecture will be a broad-brush ‘global’ coverage of violence against women, and various versions of it have already been presented in three continents. Prof. Hague will illustrate the talk with examples both from the work of activists internationally and from her own contributions over nearly 40 years, as a women’s movement activist and a researcher in many countries of the world. This often-distressing work feeds into the transformative and moving struggle to make violence against women a thing of the past. The lecture will end on an uplifting note to celebrate the historic achievements of this struggle so far.
Location: Acadia University, Beveridge Arts Centre, Room 138
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leanna.mcdonald@acadiau.ca
902-585-1140
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