Orientations
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According to this project, the seminars will be sessions aimed to compare,
theoretically discuss and evaluate the good practices
identified through the collection and cataloguing activity, in order
to let the theoretical issues which will be treated in the seminars (such as the notions
of democracy, political representativeness, social vs. political action, women’s
co-existing/cnflictual identities etc.) emerge from the actual political practices. Their
principles and implications will be also confronted with the tradition and experience of
women’s and feminist politics, on the one hand, with classic political thought, on
the other hand.
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During the first year
of activity, some key-words - democracy, identity/difference, building of connections
- have been identified, to signify shared interests.
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First of all the
interest, or rather the need for the link-up, the connection between women operating in
institutional places - administrations, parliaments and governements - and women
working in public spaces established in the last decades by women’s movementsg - libraries
and bookstores, shlters and centres, national and international co-ordination groups and
local networks etc. We need to identify theories and practices suitable for backing and
establishing connection and linking as consistent and visible, and therefiore capable of
being reproduced and disseminated.
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This would comply
with a widely-shared definition of politics and their practices: they are
considered as the framework of relations practised in places where women operate in order
to modify relations between genders and give positive answers to problems pertaining both
to a respectful cohabitation and to a dignified survival. Moments will be dedicated to theory
an conceptual analysis with specific attention being paid to feminist and
democratic theories of Recognition (Riconoscimento, Anerkennung, Reconnaissance),
which today are again at the centre of attention in a few European countries. They have
been seen as appropriate tools for non competitive and destructive relations. In this
wider meaning, therefore, the initial indication has been developed in order to identify
good practces by women aiming at modifying forms of decision-making and public spaces.
They are practices pursuing de facto a double democfratisation (David Held), both
in society and insititutions. As far as topics are concerned, that of Care and
Love Work as regards life and death and their related decisions has been deemed to be
strategically important, likewise issues concerning equality and difference, and decisions
about constitutions and legislations, governments and governance.
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Provisional programme
Definitive dates and titles will be given in
october.
Date
and places
Responsabile organisation |
Tema |
February 1999
Bologna
"Orlando" Association
(International seminar) |
Recognition.
The effective and viable exchange between the places of women’s and feminist
political experience.
The focus in on the relation between women
engaged in political activities in differing contexts either inside or outside
institutions. The starting point of this seminar, which will delve on concept and
political practices at antional and international level, should be to present several
practical actions already carried out in different contexts, thanks to viable and
effective relations of mutual recognition between women. The seminar, therefore, will
exapnd the work hypotesis on the constitution of a new communitas of women and men,
where a double male and fenale soverainity could be conclaimed. |
March 1999
Bologna
"Orlando" Association
(localsl seminar) |
Women in the
federalization processes
It will be a comparative theme seminar on
women’s and feminist presence and role in federation issues now surfacing in many
European countries, namely in territorial movements, forces and governments, which ib
recent years have put forward claims for local and regional autonomy and self-government
sometimes referring to strong traditions, or "the invention of tradition" (Erich
Hobsbawm). |
Derby
Derby City Council
(International seminar) |
Identity/identities:
fostering women’s action in a multicultural environment
Starting from the interest for women’s and
feminist contribution to the building up of as different communitas, the seminar
will start from the locally-based experience of the British partners, the seminar will
touch upon relations between and recognition by women from different cultural and ethmic
backgrounds, on new public spaces and the notion of citizenship they do entail. |
| June
1999 Madrid
Federacion de Organizaciones Feministas del
Estado Espaņol
(International seminar) |
The
invisible work: women’s political action.
The seminar will focus on the issue of
recognition of different figures and places of women’s and feminist political
experience and it will touch upon the relation between formal and informal places of
politics, and between women operating in them (for examples, in territorial bodies). It
will examining their visibility, or lack of it, and promotie viable relations and
exchanges |
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to be defined Ancona
Prospecta
(International conference) |
Women’s
good practices in publi health
The conference would give value to the work
of documentation of good practices carried out by women (and men) inside and outside the
institutions, towards workers and users of the public health services. Its aim is to
disseminate information, to promote the exchange of experiences of good practices, to
activate and widen a women’s network in order to strenghten women’s action. |
The Proceedings of the
seminars
are in print.
They will be published by
by Pitagora Editrice, in Italian and English. A computerised version will be available on
this WEB site.
For further information please
contact:
Fernanda Minuz, project leader
Associazione di donne Orlando - Bologna
via Galliera 8 - 40121 Bologna - Italy
tel. ++39-(0)51-233863 fax ++39-(0)51-263460
Pitagora Editrice
Via del Legatore 3
I-40138 Bologna
tel: **(39) (51) 53 33 11; fax: **(39) (51) 53 53 01
E-mail: Pited@pitagoragroup.it
  
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