"Civil Society and Feminist Movement in Iran": convegno internazionale con il Nobel Ebadi

L’8 marzo 2014, Giornata internazionale della donna, si terrà presso la Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna il convegno internazionale dedicato all’analisi dello statuto giuridico e delle problematiche legate all’uguaglianza di genere con particolare riferimento alla situazione delle donne in Iran. Il convegno vedrà la partecipazione del Premio Nobel per la Pace Shirin Ebadi e di altre importanti figure dell’attivismo e del mondo accademico.

Il convegno, promosso dall’area di Filosofia politica (prof.ssa Barbara Henry) e patrocinato dal Comune di Pisa, si svolgerà in lingua inglese.

Program

9,30
Greetings from the Authorities (Pierdomenico Perata, Rector, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna; Marco Filippeschi, Mayor of Pisa)

First session: Legal status and gender equality of women in Iran

Scientific introduction: Barbara Henry (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

Chair: Mahnaz Parakand (Centre for Supporters of Human Rights)

Keynote speaker: Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Centre for Supporters of Human Rights), Women’s Struggle for Gender Equality

Leila Alikarami (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), The Quest for Gender Equality of Iranian Women: The One Milion Signatures Campaign

Nargess Tavassolian (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Iranian Women Demanding Equal Rights (case of Iran’s Civil Code)

14,30
Second session: The challenges of women's struggle for gender equality and the support of the intellectuals

Chair: Anna Loretoni (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

Mansoureh Shojaee (P.E.N. Programme “Writers in Exile”), How poets and writers supported women’s rights movement in Iran

Mostafa Khosravi (journalist), Women’s role in Green Movement

Zeynab Payghambarzadeh (Women’s Rights activist), Women’s Rights Activists and the Students Movement

Discussant: Elena Tebano (Corriere della Sera)

17,00
Third session: Men’s perspectives on women’s rights

Chair: Marilu Chiofalo (Adjoint to the Mayor of Pisa for Educational and Equal Opportunity Policies)

Kaveh Qasmi (Journalist and Human rights activist), The men's reasons to join the women's movement

Javad Montazeri (photographer and video journalist), To Womanhood (short film)

Amir Rashidi (Human rights activist), How Iranian Men approach women’s rights

Discussant: Viviana Mazza (Corriere della Sera)