Student Life Last updated 23 February 2016
Tuesday 8 March is International Women’s Day, a worldwide celebration of the cultural, economic, political and social achievements of women, and a chance to spotlight what else could be done to further improve gender equality.
Birmingham City University will be celebrating International Women’s Day this year, but instead of focusing on just one day, there will be an entire week’s worth of workshops, guest speakers and film screenings at the City Centre Campus.
Starting on Monday, March 7th, there will be two new exhibitions in the Curzon building entrance hall. One of these exhibitions is a photo project, Women of Eastside, which explores the lives and experiences of women living, working or visiting the Eastside area. The other exhibition, the Everyday Sexism Project, showcases anonymous reflections of women's experiences of sexism.
Over the course of the week, there will be a range of workshops held at the Curzon building, on such topics as “Gender, sexism and attachment theory”, “The Radical Feminism of the Black Panthers”, and an interactive theatre workshop on “Lad Culture”, organised by the Geese Theatre company.
There will also be a screening at the IMAX auditorium of the documentary “He Named Me Malala”, about Birmingham’s own Malala Yousafzai, a women’s rights campaigner who gained international attention in 2012 when she was shot by the Taliban whilst campaigning for women’s education rights in Pakistan.
The week concludes with a talk from Birmingham City University alumni Deb Leary OBE, founder and CEO of the international, award winning company Forensic Pathways, who will be speaking on successes and challenges for women in the workplace.
One of the events organisers, Dr. Charlotte Barlow from the School of Social Sciences, said:
Tickets for all of the events during the International Women’s Day Celebrations are free. For more information, visit the events page, or email charlotte.barlow@bcu.ac.uk.