Deadline: 30 March 2012
Open to: Young people, youth workers, activists, interested individuals
Costs: 50 Euros fee (30 Euros for participants from Serbia)
Venue: Zlatibor mountain (Serbia) from 22nd to 29th of April 2012
Description
Re-Imagining Gender is a seminar with elements of training in video-making skills. We want to explore world of gender imagery that surrounds us through learning and sharing experience, making videos, discussing, debating, photography….
Why is Vega organizing a gender related seminar/training?
Vega recognized the need to explore the problems, dilemmas, contradictions and wide variety of issues in relation to gender imagery and gender representation that we all have to operate within our day-to-day lives.
All our communication, images in our heads we create about individuals in relation to gender, our presumptions and opinions are built upon fortified, society-desirable, traditional to certain extent, representations of female and male – bodies, roles, looks, images , norms….Those representations nowadays, in societies overburdened with imagery coming from so many sides – TV, internet, pop-culture, movies, sitcoms, books, comics, advertisements are making sure that the “mainstream” gender stereotypes and representations of gender remain intact and still transmit the desirable models of gender.
We can perceive those images as political issue, we can perceive them as strong socialization tool, as something that forms culture and again hugely influences our lives but regardless of how we approach them – they shape us all and perpetuate binary gender system in which we all have to fit regardless of the endless number of possibilities reality offers.
With choosing this topic Vega wishes to invite you to share and connect, explore possibilities, learn and re-imagine boundaries of gender fixed and limited by the societies we live in!
Program
The six-day program will include:
- A theoretical and practical exploration of the concept of gender and gender representation in taken from a personal, political and social perspective;
- Workshops to discuss different issues as a way of sharing personal and organizational experiences whilst raising awareness;
- Videoing and video editing
- The creation of a safe environment for all participants to learn more about the relationship between the societal portrayal of gender and their identity-formation;
- A social program including intercultural evening, a free day, a welcome and closing party.
Costs
Registration fee for the conference is 50 Euros/30 Euros for participants from Serbia. No exceptions will be made.
Travel reimbursement
Due to limited finances to hold this conference, Vega YC has very limited possibilities to reimburse all travel costs. Therefore, they will prioritize reimbursement for participants from economically and socially disadvantaged environments.
Vega YC encourages every participant to look into local funding and scholarship possibilities, they can also support you through a letter for possible funds or alike. Participants are required to arrange their journeys in the most economical way and also they will have person assigned on behalf of the Preparatory team to assist you optimize your arrangements finance-wise.
The maximum amount for travel reimbursement varies from country to country and it depends on geographical distance as well as on availability of cheap air-fare companies, etc. – it cannot exceed 70% of the total travel costs.
Eligibility
The course is aimed for youth and youth workers (students, activists, individuals) active or those who want to be encouraged to become active in their own communities and/or internationally who:
- Are older then 18 years of age;
- Are interested in sharing experiences and are committed to learn about the topic of the conference;
- Are able to work in English;
- Have some experience (even if little) related to the topic of the conference (we are looking for beginners as well as experts);
- Can act as multipliers within their own organization or community;
- Are committed to set up follow-up activities after the conference;
- Are able to attend for the full duration of the activity.
They would especially like to encourage young women from minority groups to apply.
Application
You can apply for this training online via Salto-Youth.
Contact
Jelena Celebic E-Mail: vega.gender@gmail.com
In the application form it's written that the deadline for sending it is Saturday 24th March 2012?
So is it 24th or 30th?
Dear Olja,
We were given the information directly from the organizers that the deadline is Friday, 30th March 2012.
Kind regards
Elena
Mladiinfo
almost exactly the same tignhs you just said, only you put it better than I did. (My arguments against affirmative action are in point #2, if you are curious about it.) So it’s a bit unexpected for me to suddenly find myself on the opposite side of this same argument. But I’ve thought about this a lot since then, and I guess I’ve come to realize that tignhs are not as simple as I used to believe.Девочки ли, мальчики были на первых ролях в классе или кружке — никто никогда не обращал на это ни малейшего внимания, ни в отрицательном смысле, ни в положительном. Совпадение ли, что девочек на первых ролях было при этом очень много?That sounds wonderful! So where did all these girls who were great at mathematics in school disappear to? Why are so many fewer women than men going into pure math, when there were so many girls in leading roles in math in school? I have a friend who is a math teacher in a private high school, who says the same thing – that a lot of his strongest students are girls, and not boys. So where do they all go? Why do they not go on to math, or physics, or computer science?More than half the students in the very math-intensive biostatistics classes that I take are women, and they are certainly not weaker than the men. So why are so many more women going into applied math than pure math?I have seen women graduate students say that they left mathematics because they didn’t feel welcome in the all-male department – they were looked down on, disrespected, didn’t feel like anybody was willing to listen to any problems they might be having that were different from the men’s problems. It’s easy to just dismiss those women as people who just couldn’t cut it, but when those same women then go on to do fine in other math-related fields, I feel like that’s a sign that there might be some kind of problem that should be addressed.The thing is, women *are* different from men. They might have different problems that the men in the majority might not have. If we insist that people not pay attention to our gender at all – if we pretend that women are just like men – then this is giving the people in the majority carte blanche not to have to worry about those problems. (Want a room where you can use a breast pump during the day without being disturbed? Well, now you are just being unreasonable! None of the *other* people in the department have this problem, so you must be imagining it! etc, etc.) And I think that this approach can be very harmful, and can result in the department losing people that might otherwise have been a great asset to the department.Affirmative action is almost certainly not the best way to solve this problem, but I feel like this *is* a large problem that should be addressed, and not just ignored and swept under the carpet. And it seems to me that a meeting specifically set up in such a way that women speakers can talk about the work that they do, with a panel that includes talking about issues women might face working in mostly-male math departments, could go a long way in making it clear that women *are* welcome in math, that people *do* care about their problems. And such a meeting could even help in beginning to figure out how to *solve* these problems.I’m sorry, I’m shutting up now. Sorry this comment is so long!