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11.03.2020
Movie screening of "Sisters in Arms"
About this event
11 March 2020 from 16:00 until 19:00
A movie screening and a discussion on gender-based violence in war zones:
>Sisters in Arms
Wednesday 11 March 2020
Amphitheater Chapsal, 27, Rue Saint Guillaume
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Movie Screening
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Discussion
With: Caroline Fourest, movie director, and Dr Nazand Begikhani, senior research fellow at the University of Bristol, Vincent Wright Chair (2019/20) and Visiting Professor at Sciences Po
The film depicts women in war, both as survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) as well as combatants fighting extremism and ISIS jihadists. It is about feminist solidarity and resistance strategies across boundaries, contextualized in the Middle East and Kurdish regions.
This event is co-sponsored by PSIA and PRESAGE (Programme de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Savoirs sur le Genre).