COOLtalk presents “Creating space for participation of women in sports and activities in the public sphere”

Masterpeace Global & Masterpeace Burundi presents a COOLtalk on “Creating space for participation of women in sports and activities in the public sphere” as part of of our series on Artivism for Climate Action, where experts from various social institutions will be sharing their experiences, practices, approaches and research on the subject

Brief

Among the many issues which is facing our societies, is the unfriendly public space which controls and inhibits the participation of women in activities such as sports, entertainments, recreational etc in the public sphere. This perpetuates the historical inequity and dominance of the militaristic/violent patriarchal order and chokes the voice of women as indeed that of culture, emotion, nature, historically oppressed entities etc. This domination is now extended in the world of digital social media such as FB, Insta, X (formerly Twitter), etc, where the discourse is threatening & muzzling the confidence of women and of voices of culture, ecology, independent thinkers, oppressed, minorities, etc from freely expressing themselves.

Masterpeace COOLtalks seeks to create this public discourse for the sharing of thoughts, practices, research, etc by experts, practitioners, thinkers from various fields, in order to enable effective strategies and activism in the sphere of freeing the public sphere of such encumbrances.

We invite you to join us in this effort. This program is going to be held on March 15, 2024 in a hybrid mode. The offline panel will be hosted at Bujuhub, Burundi.

The timings are as follows 3 pm – 4 pm (Burundi time) | 2 pm – 3 pm (CET) | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm (IST).

The Zoom Link to join is here : https://bit.ly/artivismandgender

Please email sudipta@masterpeace.org with any questions you might have.

Speakers

Stéphane Ménard (Play International, Burundi)

Sport without Borders, now PLAY International, was born in 1999 from a deep conviction : sport is both a fundamental right and a way to solve the problems of our societies. 

This postulate inspired the NGO’s first field initiatives in emergency and post-emergency contexts. In Bolivia, Sri Lanka, or Afghanistan, PLAY has been confronted with the pressing need to invent support systems that enable children to overcome trauma or learn how to guard against a chronic illness.

Urni Ganguly (Professor, Kolkata)

Dr. Somrita Ganguly is a professor, and award-winning poet and literary translator. She was a Fulbright Doctoral Research Fellow at Brown University, and is an alumna of the University of East Anglia’s International Literary Translation and Creative Writing Summer School. Somrita served as a judge for the PEN America Translation Prize, and the Kamala Das Poetry Awards, and an Expert Reader for the English PEN Translation Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant offered by the US federal government, and the National Translation Award (US). She is currently Head of the Department of English, Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, University of Calcutta, and has worked on literary translation projects with Room to Read, USA, and the National Centre for Writing, UK. Her work has been showcased at the London Book Fair, and she has read in cities like Bloomington, Bombay, Boston, Calcutta, Cove, Delhi, Hyderabad, London, Miami, Providence, and Singapore. Somrita edited the first anthology of food poems, Quesadilla and Other Adventures (2019), and translated 3 Stories: Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (2021), Firesongs (2019), Shakuni (2019), and The Midnight Sun: Love Lyrics and Farewell Songs (2018), among other works.

Somrita’s PhD thesis, “Uneven Playing Fields: Female Athletes in Sports Literature,” looks at the representation of female athletic bodies in contemporary Indian and American cinema and sports fiction.

Hans Assisa (Business Coach, Buja Hub)

BujaHub is a private non-profit organization registered in Burundi provides a multi sectoral solutions in order to meet the challenge of entrepreneurship and economic inclusivity for youths and women.

Nzoyisenga Fikiri Miti (Clubleader Masterpeace Burundi)

Fikiri is the club leader of Masterpeace Burundi. He is a Rotary peace fellow , community organizer, social entrepreneur & trainer, human rights Advocate, consultant at World Bank & a certified football coach.

Aart Bos (Global Leadership, Masterpeace)

Aart is the Global Leader of Masterpeace, a sports practitioner, artivist and a social entrepreneur.

Moderated by Sudipta Dawn (Changemaker, Masterpeace COOLeaders)

This intervention is part of Culture Monks socially engaged art practice.

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