ACADEMIA, ACTIVISM AND ART
During the second Feminist and Queer Solidarities Beyond Borders workshop on Wednesday 20th January 2021, Begüm Başdaş and Nadzeya Husakouskaya were invited to give two key-note lectures on activism and academia.
Begüm, a researcher at Hertie School Berlin, Germany, gave a keynote speech entitled “Activist academic: Knowledge production, ethics and the drive for change”. Nadzeya is a gender researcher and activist from Belarus and gave a keynote speech entitled “Why use matters: ethics, responsibilities and anxieties of the activist academic”.
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Keynote lecture from Feminist and Queer Solidarities Beyond Borders January 2022 workshop
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