I hope you’ll be interested in this seminar. Please circulate this msg widely. Thanks,
Ruth
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Transforming Cultures: A Trans-Atlantic Conversation about Gender-Based Violence
We've recently seen unprecedented attention to cultures that support or challenge gender-based violence: disclosures about violence and abuse by Harvey Weinstein and others; the #MeToo and #TimesUp
campaigns; plans to outlaw 'upskirting'; Dr Christine Ford's accusations about Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to name just a few.
Northumbria University will host a seminar which will reflect on these developments in the UK and the US and is delighted to welcome two eminent scholars/activsts/practitioners:
Professor Susan Marine, Merrimack College, US will speak about how the Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings are shaping discourse
about sexual violence in high school and college.
Ms Cullagh Warnock, expert on gender-based violence, will talk about the role of specialist women’s organisations in improving
services and policy around gender-based violence.
Date: Wed 24 October
Times: 1700-1830
Venue: Sandyford Building, room 210, Northumbria University
Academics, students, activists, practitioners - all welcome!
Dr Ruth Lewis
Associate Professor and Head of Subject (Sociology, International Development, and International Relations and Politics)
Dept of Social Sciences
University of Northumbria
Lipman Building, room 322
Newcastle upon tyne NE1 8ST
Tel: 0191 227 3940
2018/19 semester 1 office hours: Tuesdays 2-4pm
No appointment necessary.
Blog:
https://blog.northumbria.ac.uk/sociology/
Co-Convenor, with Emily Falconer, of the BSA Gender Study Group
Co-Convenor, with Rachel Fenton, of Universities Against Gender-Based Violence (UAGBV)
YOU CAN FIND MY RECENT WORK AT:
Sundari Anitha and Ruth Lewis (eds)
Gender based violence in university communities: Policy, prevention and educational initiative Bristol: Policy Press
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/gender-based-violence-in-university-communities
Marine, Susan and Ruth Lewis (2017) Mutuality without alliance: The roles of community in becoming a college student feminist
Gender and Education
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2017.1332342
Ruth Lewis, Mike Rowe, Clare Wiper, (2016) ‘Online abuse
of feminists as an emerging form of violence against women and girls’ British Journal of Criminology
https://academic.oup.com//bjc/article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azw073/2623986/Online-Abuse-of-Feminists-as-An-Emerging-form-of?guestAccessKey=c232458f-c733-4d90-8ef0-3f4c7ebb9741