Gender Education Workshop

The Women and Memory Forum held its first Gender Education Workshop from October 17th to 30th, 2009. This intensive course was conducted in collaboration with the Social Research and Studies Center at the Faculty of Arts, in Cairo University, and 19 graduate and MA students from the Departments of Sociology, Psychology, and History enrolled and completed the course. Academic specialists introduced them to gender concepts and theories across the disciplines, feminist movements, and seminal theoretical and applied texts in the field.

The second Gender Education Workshop (II) will be held from February 6 – 17, 2010 in collaboration with the Sector of Community Affairs and Environmental Development at the Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University. A number of 21 graduate MA students have enrolled, and are ready to begin the course, with emphasis on training in feminist methodologies and mainstreaming gender perspectives in graduate academic research and theses.