On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, a session of the Council for Gender Equality of the University of Sarajevo (UNSA) was held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Prof. Dr. Jasna Kovačević, the Council’s coordinator, informed the present members about the activities implemented in the past period, including the Winter School “Gender and Globalization”, held in February 2023 in Sarajevo. According to student evaluations, this School was very successful – they positively evaluated both, the content of the School and the teaching staff. Now, students have to prepare their final papers […]
During March 2023, more precisely on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at theJosip Juraj Stossmayer University in Osijek and on Friday, March 31, 2023,at the Facutly of Law of the University of Zagreb promotions of the book “Violence against pregnant women in Bosnia and Herzegovina – family, health system and work relations” by Zlatan Hrnčić, PhD, were held. The following workshops that accompanied these promotions had the same name “Violence against pregnant women”. Students from both universities attended the promotion and actively participated in the discussion. Considering that this book scientifically[…]
“Understanding masculinity: how to develop gender equality” was the title of the workshop the well-known journalist from BiH Nikola Vučić held at eight universities, partners in the UNIGEM project, during the “16 Days of Activism” Campaign in 2022. Here is a video of one workshop, produced within the TPO Foundation’s educational cycle on gender equality, which is part of the UNIGEM Project (University and Gender Mainstreaming) that the TPO Foundation from Sarajevo currently implements in partnership with 19 universities from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, supported by the[…]
On April 5 and 6, 2023, a gender equality workshop was organized at the Faculty of Criminology, Criminology and Security Studies for the deans and directors of the University of Sarajevo on the topic Gender-based harassment/violence: preventive and repressive mechanisms at the University of Sarajevo”. The lecturer was Prof. Dr Marija Lučić-Ćatić. The content of the workshop covered the following topics: what is gender-based harassment and gender-based violence, what preventive and investigative and repressive mechanisms exist at UNSA (how to report, relevant legal regulations and competent authorities). The workshop was[…]
In the premises of the International Multireligious and Intercultural Center IMIC Zajedno in Sarajevo, on March 29, 2023. In 2008, the promotion of the English edition of the book “Bridge-Builders in (Post)WarTimes Guidelines on Interreligious Dialogue” was held, which was supported by KAICIID from Portugal. The author of the book is Jelena Jorgačević Kisić, a journalist from the Belgrade weekly Vreme. Jelena is a PhD student at the University of Regensburg. She has won several national journalism awards for her articles. She is the president of the non-governmental organization Forum[…]
As part of the project “University and Gender Mainstreaming (UNIGEM)”, the TPO Foundation from Sarajevo and the University Gender Resource Center (UNIGeRC) of the University of Sarajevo (UNSA) invite researchers from the academic community (professors and PhD students) from the field of humanities, social and especially legal sciences, as well as activists, who work in the field of combating gender-based violence, to participate in research that will deal with the analysis of verdicts for gender-based violence, especially sexual violence and femicide, and writing theoretical texts based on the aforementioned analysis.[…]
Working women are not the only ones who suffer because of difficult working conditions and low wages. Working men aren’t off any better.” (Clara Zetkin) When the 8th of March is celebrated as International Women’s Day, in public discourse we have at least three types of actions and reactions. The first and most prevalent way of celebrating the 8th of March is buying flowers and gifts for women without any critical attitude towards the position of women in the family and society. Another type is the activism of various women[…]
The workshops were designed to provoke assumptions about the concepts of gender and gender identities because most teachers claim to know what these terms represent, yet most are not familiar with the key theoretical frameworks and research on these topics. Gender theories, concepts of masculinity and femininity, and toxic masculinity were presented based on the study “The Man’s Box,” which offers a research framework for this topic that is rarely explored in the Balkans. In the second part of the workshop, participants conducted testing on masculinity and femininity in groups,[…]
On the occasion of celebrating International Women’s Day, TPO Foundation organized the panel “Fight for women’s rights between generations” on the 7th of March, with the support of the Swiss Embassy. The students of the First Bosniak High School were part of the audience, and one of them prepared a reflection on the held panel. You can read Hana Aldžić’s text here. REFLECTION ON THE PANEL “The fight for women’s rights between generations” (Hana Aldžić (First Bosniak High School) After the panel discussion which was held on 07.03.3033. and organized[…]
On the occasion of the celebration of International Women’s Day, another in the series of activities of the TPO Foundation was the holding of a panel discussion “With BiH women writers about BiH women writers today”. The panel discussion was held on March 9, 2023. in the premises of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies “prof. dr. Zdravko Grebo” of the University of Sarajevo. An interesting and inspiring conversation was led by contemporary writers Adisa Bašić, Melida Travančić, Lejla Kalamujić, and Nikolina Todorović, and the discussion was moderated by the writer[…]
