“Women in Armenia: Searching for the Lost “Queens””

“Women’s Resource Center” NGO together with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung South Caucasus (Tbilisi) organizes the series of public lectures named “Women in Armenia: Searching for the Lost “Queens”” dedicated to analysis and discussion of the women’s issues in Armenia during the history and nowadays.

 
This public event includes 6 lectures that aim to present women’s problems in Armenia in different spheres of life: art, politics, mass media, economic relations, etc. During the lectures the misleading perceptions of the feminism and gender-related issues in Armenian society will be discussed as well.

The meetings will take place in the evenings from 18:30 to 20:30, at Akanat café, 28 Koghbatsi street, Yerevan. The language of the lectures is ARMENIAN.

For all other questions concerning the Lecture Series please feel free to contact us by emails: siranhovhannisyan@ysu.am and/ or gohar@womenofarmenia.org.

November 12: Women and Armenian Mass Media
Speaker: Anna Gevorgyan, Expert in Iranian Studies
Venue: Akanat Gallery Cafe, 28 Koghbatsi street.
TIme: 18:30 – 20:30
Language: Armenian

December 2: Women’s Art versus Feminist Art. Categories and Contradictions in Art Practices of Armenia
Speaker: Susanna Gyulamiryan, Head of the Laboratory of Art and Cultural Studies.

Past lectures

September 17: Myths about “Dangers” of Feminism: the Perception of Feminism in Armenian Society
Speaker: Anna Voskanyan, Social Work Expert

October 1: Feminism on Hold: How Divergent Concepts and Economic Interests Created a Disabling Environment for the Emancipation of Armenian Women`
Speaker: Nvard Manasyan, Education Expert

October 15: “Women’s movement in Armenia”
Speaker: Anahit Harutyunyan, PhD in linguistics, author of the book “The Century of Distinguished Women”

October 29: Women in Politics and Political Language/Texts in Armenia
Speaker: Ruzanna Tsaturyan, Ethnographer

November 4: “Ways of Being a Feminist: Angry or Glamorous Feminist, Feminist Killjoys, Feminazis”
Speaker: Tamar Tskhadadze