Next Lecture series event with Tamara Shefer on "Gender and sexual justice in South Africa: Young people making a change" 6th April, 12h
Tamara Shefer is a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and previous Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
She will be our next guest lecturer, as part of our Lecture Series in collaboration with RIKK Háskóli Íslands, this Thursday 6th April with Tamara Shefer, on "Gender and sexual justice in South Africa: Young people making a change". Join us at 12.00-13.00h at the National Museum of Iceland's lecture hall.
In her talk, she will share some poignant examples of gender and justice activism among young people in current South Africa. Drawing on a number of inspiring events over the last two years, she will attempt to show how students’ struggles articulate a nuanced understanding of the challenges facing contemporary South Africa that is cognizant of both past and present injustice.
Furthermore, Tamara will explore the value of such activist and pedagogical interventions within public spaces, both virtual and material, that disrupt normative gendered, sexual, raced and other social identities and inequalities and will reflect on the generative impact of such activism to current orthodoxies and practices in higher education as well as the larger project of sexual and gender justice, both in South Africa and other global Southern countries, but with relevance globally.
The lecture is in English, open to everyone and admission is free.
The RIKK & UNU-GEST lecture series in the spring semester 2017 is held in collaboration with The National Museum of Iceland.
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