The Arab Women & Feminist Visions for Equity and Belonging webinar series is the inaugural series of the Global South Lab, and Global South Women and Feminist Visions for Worldmaking at the Othering & Belonging Institute. The Lab facilitates public engagement with Global South civic institutions and social movements to imagine new ways of worldmaking as well as to garner new perspectives and narratives that center the Global South’s diverse citizens, institutions, movements, thoughts and aspirations, leadership, struggles, and practical applications to co-create a world of belonging without othering.
This 3-part public webinar series focuses on Arab women and feminist-led efforts and their essential roles within society and the region in shaping civic life and social and political progress in the Arab region. Women and feminists throughout the region and diaspora representing different countries, lived experiences, struggles, and identities, will share their knowledge and expertise in advancing social and political change, democratization, women's rights and gender justice, knowledge production, food sovereignty, land rights, and much more, while simultaneously centering their voices and demands for rights, equity, and justice for all.
This webinar series has been partially funded by a grant from the Sultan Program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
About the Events
- Part 1: Rights, Equity, Dignity & Social Justice (March 5)
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This webinar will focus on Arab women and feminist-led movements and their role within society and the region in shaping civic life and social and political progress in the Arab region to advance rights, equity, dignity, and social justice. Additionally, it uplifts the intersectionality of Arab women and feminist movements and struggles as they strategize for social and political progress for women and society as a whole. Learn more.
- Part 2: Knowledge Production (April 8)
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This webinar will focus on the role of Arab women and feminists in knowledge production, including education, the arts, and cultural expressions as well as their contributions and interventions, and how their work engages the rich and complex social, political, historical, and contemporary issues, identities, and contexts of Arab societies and peoples.
- Part 3: Food, Climate & Land (May 6)
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This webinar will focus on the critical role of Arab women and feminists in the struggle for climate justice, land rights, food justice, and sovereignty in the Arab region. What are the visions, solutions, and aspirations of Arab women and feminists when it comes to advancing belonging and protecting land and life through climate resilience, sustainable food systems, and by staying on ancestral lands in resistance to violence, land dispossession, and erasure.
