SU Gender is entering 2021 with four H2020 projects. As of January 2021, a new project has been added to its existing portfolio consisting of the GEARING-Roles (2019-2022) project, seeking to strengthen gender equality mechanisms, and WHOLE-COMM (2021-2025) ve Re-ROOT (2021-2024) projects, examining migration and integration at different urban scales and layers. The RESISTIRE (RESpondIng to outbreaks through co-creaTIve sustainable inclusive equality stRatEgies) project, which was ranked 5th among 162 applications, has succeeded in securing over 5.2 million Euros funding under the H2020 COVID-19 call (with a Sabancı University budget of 247.975 EUR).
As a group of researchers from Turkey/located in different countries we received seed funding from the Swedish Institute to run the international collaborative project: #GenderStruggles: Building Community Resilience via Creativity and Digital Media. The project is co-hosted by the Raul Wallenberg Institute in Sweden and Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) in Turkey and aims to create digital platforms for the exchange of best practices, knowhow, and expertise among feminist and LGBTI+ activists/activist-scholars in Turkey and Sweden to promote resilience in the face of anti-gender mobilizations. Humboldt University Berlin, Center for Comparative Research on Democracy adjoins the project in collaboration with SU Gender to reach out to activists/activist-researchers in Germany.
As SU Gender, we are organizing an international webinar series on sexual harassment, gender based violence, diversity and inclusion within and outside the university. In this series, we would like to share experiences with experts, researchers, and activists from different universities, research centers and NGOs, and learn from their expertise. The nineth of the webinar series will take place on December, 16. You are welcome to join our webinar by registering via the link below.
As SU Gender, we are organizing an international webinar series on sexual harassment, gender based violence, diversity and inclusion within and outside the university. In this series, we would like to share experiences with experts, researchers, and activists from different universities, research centers and NGOs, and learn from their expertise.
What’s New and What’s Ahead in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - An international and interdisciplinary workshop
Based on an auto-ethnographic engagement with the feminist and transgender communities in Turkey, this presentation explores a historical examination of trans exclusionary radical
The Purple Certificate Program carried out by the Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center for Excellence (SU Gender) for 13 years with the support of the Sabancı Foundation held online basic training on gender equality to teachers and prospective teachers with notebook computers provided to participants by Sabancı Holding.
SU Gender and Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) received the Swedish Institute Creative Force grant for the international collaborative project entitled "#Genderstruggles: Building Community Resilience via Creativity and Digital Media.” The project will start in January 2021 and last for 12 months. SU Gender researcher Zeynep Gülru Göker will coordinate the project with three external experts: Aslı Polatdemir (Bremen University), Olga Selin Hünler (Frei Universitesi) ve Selin Çağatay (Gothenburg Universitesi). At RWI, RWI Turkey program’s chief advisor İlhami Alkan Olsson and researcher & program advisor Aysel Madra will coordinate the project activities with contribution from Şebnem Keniş as external advisor.
As SU Gender, we are organizing an international webinar series on sexual harassment, gender based violence, diversity and inclusion within and outside the university. In this series, we would like to share experiences with experts, researchers, and activists from different universities, research centers and NGOs, and learn from their expertise. The seventh of the webinar series will take place on November, 18. You are welcome to join our webinar by registering via the link below.
Speakers:
Aslı Şimşek, Cemre Baytok, Seda Kalem, Sema Sancak, Umut Azak
Date:
November 18, Wednesday, 18.00 UTC +3
For Registration: https://bit.ly/SUGender_Webinar7
GEARING Roles project's second annual conference will be organized by Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence on November 9-10-11 under the title "Gender and Leadership in Higher Education and Research". As Leadership is one of the key areas we work on as we design and implement Gender Equality Plans (GEPs), we hope to discover what leadership with a gender equality perspective means from academic and civil society perspectives. Throughout the conference we will bring together feminist civil society leaders from Turkey, GEP implementing university representatives, and higher education and research institution leaders from around Europe. The conference will take place with online panels, roundtable discussions and a digital activism workshop for university students. By organizing this conference as the GEARING Roles project, we aim to create a space for knowledge and experience exchange for a better understanding of what leadership for gender equality should look like.