Կոնֆերանսի մասնակցության հրավեր․ գենդերային հիմնախնդիրները հետխորհրդային Հայաստանում (անգլերեն)
The Zoryan Institute and The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA invite you to a two-day international conference titled “Gender and Intersectionality in Post-Soviet Armenia.” This conference will provide a platform to discuss and better understand gender-related problems in the present-day Republic of Armenia. The conference will take place on Friday, October 15th and Saturday, October 16 from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Pacific Time) via the Zoom Webinar platform.
This conference is organized with the support of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, the UCLA Gender Studies Department, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
This two-day international conference, hosted by the Zoryan Institute in partnership with The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, will provide a platform to discuss and better understand gender-related problems in the present day Republic of Armenia. This conference is organized with the support of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, the UCLA Gender Studies Department, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
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Day 1: Friday, October 15th 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Panel 1: Armenia's Gender Trouble: Deconstructing "Anti-Genderism" From Historical, Linguistic, and Socio-Cultural Anthropological Perspectives
Panel Chair: Melissa Bilal
Sevan Beukian: “Collective Trauma, National Anxiety, and Gender Politics: Rethinking Armenian National Identity”
Tamar Shirinian: “Gender Hysteria: The Figure of the Homosexual, National Anxiety, and Armenia's Queer Futures”
Rafik Santrosyan: “Multimodal Meaning-Making of Gender & its Impact for Policy Considerations”
Anna Aleksanyan: “The Transformation of Discourses About “Traditional” Armenian Family and its Political Manipulation”
Panel 2: Politics and Representation: Uprooting Sexism, Racism, and Homophobia in Education, Decision Making, and Public Discourse
Panel Chair: Victor Agadjanian
Irina Ghaplanyan: “Demanding a Handshake. Gendered Experiences of Policy Production”
Gohar Shahnazaryan: “The Situation of Women’s Rights in the Context of Multiple-Crises in Armenia”
Carina Karapetian Giorgi: “The Challenges of Transnational Armenian Female Migrant Laborers”
Nelli Sargsyan: “Beyond all Necropolitics”
Day 2: Saturday, October 16th 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Panel 3: Equity and Empowerment: Creating and Distributing Resources Beyond the Gap
Panel Chair: Lerna Ekmekcioglu
Judy Norsigian: “Might an Intersectional Approach to Problem-Solving Better Address Gender-Based Health Inequities in Armenia?”
Gohar Khachatryan: “COVID-19 Pandemic and Gender Inequalities in Armenia”
Maro Matosian: “Domestic Violence in Armenia”
Anahit Simonyan: “Labour Rights in Armenia: The Gender Lenses”
Panel 4: War, Trauma, and Displacement: Gender and Building Peace
Panel Chair: Hourig Attarian
Nona Shahnazarian: “Nagorno-Karabakh Wars and Gender Transformations: Displacement, Trauma, and Widowhood”
Karena Avedissian: “Women and Embodied Experiences of War: Positionality of the Activist-Scholar”
Gulnara Shahinian: “Displacement of Women from Artzach and International Legal Protection”
Mariam Avagyan: Presentation Title: TBA