On the morning of Saturday 01 April, dr. Emilie Diouf (Senegal, USA) and Amina Seck (Senegal) will facilitate an open round table discussion on violence against women, gender justice, and their impact on conflict transformation work across African contexts. They will also address the role of (community) arts and its capacity to contribute to imagining futures that can promote, not suppress gender justice.
Joining the main audience will be the cast of the The Whistleblowers (South Africa) Getrude Vimbayi (Zimbabwe), Bonface Beti (Kenya) and Nantea Dance Company (Tanzania). As such, the conversation will center perspectives informed by experiences with gender justice in Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exploration of gender-based violence in African contexts can be identified as a running thread within this years\u2019 ICAF programme. This is not to posit that gender-based violence is an \u201cAfrican problem\u201d; it is rather an intentional way of creating a space for learning from African women\u2019s experiences with promoting gender justice and building more just, peaceful, and inclusive societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
dr. Emilie Diouf, Assistant Professor at the Department of English at Brandeis University in Boston, and Amina Seck will lead the round table discussion, departing from their extensive background in Women\u2019s and Gender Studies. Emilie\u2019s work focuses on the relationship between narrative, migration, trauma, and human rights. She is particularly keen on expanding the field of trauma studies to include more substantially the voices of African women refugees and survivors of civil war and genocide, and how they narrate the large-scale violence inflicted upon them. Emilie has an established background in both academic and activist work with a firm focus on women\u2019s representation and gender justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amina Seck is a specialised author and screenwriter. She published her first novel “Mauvaise Pente” [\u2018Bad Slope\u2019] with Diaspora Acad\u00e9mie editions in 2017, participated in the collective work on the Queens of Africa “Martyr Luther Queens” in 2018 and wrote and directed a short film on the practices of female genital mutilation; “Impure”, filmed in S\u00e9gou, Mali in 2018. In 2021, she founded “Les Cultur’Elles” which is an agency for the promotion of women’s art and culture. Her agency aims to highlight all women who evolve in the cultural milieu, by organising training, capacity building workshops, artistic residencies, symposia, and the production of collective works of art for women. She is the initiator of the Dakar Women’s Book Fair, which will be in its second edition in May 2023. A feminist activist, she is a founding member of the Platform of Feminists of Senegal and the Diaspora. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Emilie Diouf\u2019s research and teaching reflect her interdisciplinary background in African Literature, African American and African Studies, as well as Women\u2019s and Gender Studies. She is interested in the relationship between narrative, migration, trauma, and human rights, particularly expanding the field of trauma studies to include more substantially the voices of African women refugees. Since African women refugees trauma narratives represent subjectivities shattered by violence, they are imbricated into the socio-economic and political transits of cultural production, circulation, and reception. She uses trauma theory to explore the ways in which African women survivors of civil war and genocide narrate the large-scale violence inflicted upon them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emilie\u2019s research in African women\u2019s literature forms a bridge to Francophone Caribbean Women's literature, and to black feminist theory. Comparisons of various women\u2019s cultural productions across the African Diaspora enhance critical inquiry into systemic violence and the promotion of gender justice. Emilie is interested in diversifying the field of feminist studies through cross cultural analysis that allows us to rethink new feminist paradigms that could take into consideration Black women\u2019s unique conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emilie teaches at Brandeis University in the Department of English. Her published work includes: \"Movement of the Female Body: Re-imagining Black Diasporic Women\u2019s Writings.\" In \"New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Unchartered Themes and Alternative Representations.\" Edited by Glenn Chambers, R. Kiki Edozie, and Tama Hamilton-Wray. MSU Press, Forthcoming 2017. \"I Just Wanted To Forget It All. But It Was Impossible:\" Umutesi and the Politics of Testimony in Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire.\" In \"Under Fire: Critical Discourses on African Women in War and Conflict.\" Edited by Pauline Ada Uwakweh. Lexington Books, 2016.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Emilie Diouf","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"emilie-diouf","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-11-21 14:47:40","post_modified_gmt":"2024-11-21 13:47:40","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/?post_type=maker&p=4125","menu_order":0,"post_type":"maker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"edition":15,"makers_involved":[4125,4138,4142,4179,4346],"also_interesting":[227,28,564,124,78]},"programmes":{"2023040120230401":{"10:00:0012:00:00":[{"id":426,"title":"Ending Gender-based Violence: African Women\u2019s Perspectives on the Role of Theatre\/Community Art.","type":"productions","production_count":1,"start_date":"20230401","date":[{"day_name":"Sat","day":"01","month":"April","month_abbrev":"Apr","year":"2023","timestamp":"2023-04-01"}],"time":"10:00 - 12:00"}]}},"days":["20230401"],"makers":{"4125":"Emilie Diouf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/production"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions\/231\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editions?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"festival_production_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icafrotterdam.com\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival_production_types?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}