Gender
Illustrations by Adgur Dzidzaria.
Illustrations by Adgur Dzidzaria.
The term gendernaya demokratiya (gender democracy) evokes little in the way of warm feelings in Russia, even among its few supporters. The words sound too technical, foreign and inaccessible. Until recently, books and articles on this subject have been written by only a small number of experts for a small number of readers. Accordingly, the influence of the roughly ten Russian gender science centres on public discourse is very slight, even in NGO circles.

In contrast, the word chainik (kettle or tea-pot) has appealing and warm associations. When applied to a person, the word means “beginner”. So, to attract as many people as possible, the Moscow office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation has published a little book titled “Gender dlia Chainikov”. A collection of essays and articles written by Russian experts for Russian readers, it contains just about everything that you ever wanted to know, or ought to know about gender.

Popularization, feminist debates, direct assistance, practical implementations – these are the methods that will allow the politics of women’s rights to be perceived more acutely in Russia as what they actually are: serious politics.

Projects

 July 12-15 2011, Moscow, International conference
‘Transformation of masculinity in the 21st century: global challenges, normative expectations, status contradictions’.

More information in English here

Jour-Fixe

Wednesday, 8 February 2012, , 19:00 – 21:00

Jour-Fixe: One year into the Arab Spring: Results, Developments and Outlooks

Mouin Rabbani is an independent Middle East researcher and analyst currently based in Amman, Jordan. He is a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Palestine Studies, Contributing Editor to Middle East Report, and Co-Editor of Jadaliyya.

Irina Zvyagelskaya holds a PhD in History and is Professor, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has been lecturing at the Moscow Institute of International Relations under the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation and at The Institute of African and Asian Studies (Moscow State University). Her fields of interest are conflicts, international relations and security issues (mainly in the Middle East and Central Asia). She is author of six books and over 200 articles and chapters.

Moderation: Sergey Lukashevsky, Director of the Sakharov Museum and Public Center

Venue: 

Conference room (2. floor) 

 

A 50-year catastrophe
An exhibition about the consequences of the 1957 nuclear accident at the MAYAK nuclear coplex.
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