Using Your Voice: The Impact of Slow Activism
Date and time
Location
Middlesex University London
The Burroughs London NW4 4BT United KingdomDescription
Using Your Voice: The Impact of Slow Activism
Event Information
Dates: Tuesday 19 June 2018
Location: The Barn (Room 1 and 2)
Abstract: When we see injustice we become frustrated, but how can we utilise that feeling without being aggressive or becoming emotionally exhausted? Regularly attending protests and maintaining the energy to keep fighting can be hard to sustain. Attending protests can also be difficult for those who are introverted, suffer from anxiety, are physically unable, have family commitments, have unconventional work hours, or do not live in large cities. We want to raise awareness of Slow Activism and mobilise our attendees to be capable of creating change by learning from researchers and creating in crafting sessions.
Agenda
09:30 Registration
10:00 Introduction: Georgia Price
10:05 Panel 1: Dr Alice Donald, Dr Michael Kearney & Dr Tunc Aybak
11:05 Panel 2: Dr Rachel Seoighe, Dr Carly Guest & Mia Scally
Prof Sarah Bradshaw- Chair to the two morning panels
12:05 Lunch
13:00 How to research your target with credibility - Ruth Houghton
14:00 Talk and Craftivism footprint workshop – Sarah Corbett (tbc)
15:30 How to create change without being a dick - Leena Norms
16:30 Closing remarks
17:00 Reception
Speakers:
Sarah Corbett https://craftivist-collective.com/
Dr Micheal Kearney, Senior Lecturer, Law, Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/306146 Alternative Methods of Protest (talk title tbc)
Leena Norms https://www.youtube.com/user/jsutkissmyfrog
Dr. Alice Donald: The principles underpinning the right to peaceful assembly under the Convention https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/donald-alice
Dr. Rachel Seoighe: Slow activism https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/seoighe-rachel
Dr Carly Guest: Everyday creativity as a practice of resistance https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/guest-carly
Dr Tunc Aybak: The Standing Man in the Gezi Movement: Taksim Square as a Liminal Space of Protest https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/aybak-tunc
Mia Scally: Intimate Partner Violence, The Survivors Protest https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/scally-mia
Prof Sarah Bradshaw- Chair to the morning panels https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/bradshaw-sarah
Ruth Houghton: How to research your target with credibility https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/houghton-ruth
Organisers: Georgia Price & Christiana Rose
For further information please contact c.rose@mdx.ac.uk or g.price@mdx.ac.uk
Biographies:
“A Little Book of Craftivism’” was released October 2013 and is on it’s second print run. Her book “How To Be A Craftivist: the art of gentle protest” is out October 2017.
Leena Norms is a vlogger, podcaster and producer - by day working at Penguin Books and by night has amassed over 3 million views on her YouTube channel and launched a chart-topping podcast. On her channel, justkissmyfrog, she discusses feminism, activism and how to make the world a better place.
She was awarded the Bookseller Rising Star Award, is a YouTube Creators for Change Fellow and Vlogger in Residence for Greenbelt Festival. You can catch her on twitter @leenanorms.
Carly Guest: Carly is a Lecturer in Sociology at Middlesex University, with a background in gender studies and psychosocial studies. Her research and teaching interests include feminist theory and practice, political identities, everyday resistances and solidarities, family and personal life, narrative and memory, creative and feminist methods.
Ruth Houghton: Ruth is a Subject Librarian supporting the School of Law at Middlesex University for 6 years. Ruth has a MA in Theatre and Development studies and a PgDip in Library and Information Studies. She is particularly interested in widening participation and engaging students using a variety of interactive tools and games, both online and physical resources. Ruth teaches information literacy skills to both undergraduate and post graduate students, helping them to identify quality sources of information and avoiding the traps of “fake news”. Ruth is also the Disability Liaison Librarian and works with an inter disciplinary team to tackle barriers to learning for all students. She has previously spoken at CPD25 events and at Sherif User Groups on the subject of supporting and engaging students with additional needs.
Mia Scally is a lecturer with the Department of Criminology and Sociology. Within this role, Mia is the programme leader for BA Criminology with Psychology. Prior to this, Mia was a research associate with the Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies and Forensic Psychological Services. Mia has recently been involved in two research projects, including a project funded by the European Commission to explore child safety online and a UNICEF project exploring child protection in the MENA region.
Dr Alice Donald is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law and Politics and Leader of the PhD programme in Law. Alice previously worked as a commissioner, editor and broadcast journalist with the BBC World Service (1991-2005). She was an Associate of Global Partners from 2007-10, and Senior Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University from 2010-12.
Sarah Bradshaw: A feminist and a scholar-practitioner, Sarah is a Professor in Gender and Sustainable Development at Middlesex University. Her research focusses on gendered experiences of poverty with a special interest in Latin America, where she has worked with women’s groups and movements for the last twenty years later. Living in Nicaragua during Hurricane Mitch led to a focus on disasters, publishing in 2013 the first book that considers the nexus of Gender, Development and Disasters. She combines research with practice, having lobbied around World Bank policies, advocated for the inclusion of gendered rights in UN processes, and engaged in inter-governmental negotiations around international policy frameworks.
Dr Rachel Seoighe is a criminologist and socio-legal scholar with a particular interest in political agency and resistance, contemporary detention estates – including prisons and immigration detention centres - and Sri Lankan politics and Tamil rights. Dr Seoighe completed her PhD at King's College London in 2014. Her PhD was an analysis of Sri Lankan state crime and state discourse of counter-terrorism throughout the civil war, with a critique of transitional justice and memory studies in the authorship of a 'national story' for Sri Lanka's post-war nation-building project. On completion of her PhD, she spent three months in Delhi as a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for South Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and six months as a Research Fellow in the School of Law, University of Warwick where she worked on Dr Ana Aliverti's project 'Foreign nationals before the criminal courts: immigration status, deportability and punishment.' Dr Seoighe holds an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice (King's College London, Distinction) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (National University of Ireland, Galway). @racheladrianne
Michael Kearney’s research interests are broadly in the area of public international law, particularly international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and human rights as well as legal theory. Of particular interest is the role and impact of international law on the question of Palestine, categories of conflict, and issues related to crimes of incitement, propaganda for war, and freedom of expression.