A Conducive Context? Misogyny, inequality, violence – LFN – 22nd June 2011
Conference at London South Bank University on Wednesday 22 June 2011
This exciting one-day conference will explore relationships between violence against women and the broader cultural, social and economic context.
Opened by author and journalist Joan Smith reflecting on cultural misogyny twenty years after her feminist classic ‘Misogynies’ was first published, the conference will ask: How have things changed? What are the challenges that activists, academics, policy makers and service providers face, and where do we go next?
Join leading academics, activists, professionals from the women’s sector, charities, law, media and policy, to debate and discuss.
Keynote speakers:
Joan Smith – Columnist, critic and novelist, author of ‘Misogynies’
Dr. Aisha Gill – Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Roehampton University
Pragna Patel – Southall Black Sisters
Professor Liz Kelly – Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University; Co-Chair, End Violence Against Women Coalition
Workshop sessions run by the End Violence Against Women coalition, Newham Asian Women’s Project, OBJECT, Jill Radford, Vera Baird QC, Dr Lynne Harne and others…. Poetry by Imtiaz Dharker….
Organised jointly by London Feminist Network and London South Bank University.
For further information, programme and booking form go to http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/business/training.shtml#ConduciveContext
Sliding scale, low rates for students and activists.
