Sexuality Gender Rights Institute Exploring Theory Practice – CREA

Participants

For the Institute, 25-30
participants will be selected, based on their application forms and their
ability to demonstrate how they would apply the lessons of the Institute.
Individuals working on issues of sexuality, LGBT rights, sexual rights,
sex workers rights, HIV/AIDS, violence against women, health, and/or gender
are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to individuals working in
the global South at the national/local level to advance sexual rights.
Participants are required to stay for the duration of the course.

Venue and Dates

The Sexuality, Gender, and
Rights Institute will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, during  20-28
June 2015. (Begins 9 am on 20th; Ends 4 pm on 28th).

Travel and Visa

Participants are responsible
for incurring their travel costs to and from the Institute and obtaining
their own visa. CREA will assist with the visa process by providing a
letter of invitation and required visa letters.

Registration Costs 

Registration and Course
fees are due on or before 25 May 2015.

Registration fee: USD 150. All selected applicants will have to pay
this fee.

Course fee: USD 2800. This covers tuition, resource
package, accommodation on a twin-sharing basis from 19-28 June 2015 (9
nights), and all breakfasts. Please note that this is a subsidised cost
for participation. The expenses per participant total approximately USD
4500.

Not included in the course
fees: Travel costs and lunches/dinners.

Accommodation

Accommodation will be on
twin-sharing basis. Participants desiring single rooms will have to pay a
supplement of USD 550.

Scholarships

A very small number of full
and partial scholarships from CREA are available on a need basis. Please
note that the scholarship process is competitive.

ONLY individuals who meet
all the following criteria are eligible to apply for a scholarship.

• Working
  for national/local organisation in the global South;

Participating
Faculty

Alice Miller, JD, is a scholar and advocate on the faculty of
Yale University’s School of Public Health and Jackson Institute for
Global Affairs, and a spring Adjunct at Yale Law School. She co-directs
the Global Health Justice Partnership, a joint initiative of the Law and
Public Health Schools. Previously, Miller taught at the UC Berkeley Law
School as well as Columbia University, where she co-directed the Center
(now Institute) for the Study of Human Rights and Master’s Program in
Human Rights jointly appointed to the Public Health and International and
Public Affairs Schools. She teaches and writes in the areas of sexuality,
rights, law, gender, health, and humanitarian issues. She combines
extensive US and international advocacy experience with her academic
work, specialising in developing a framework for human rights claims in
the context of contemporary critical understandings of sexuality, law,
and globalized advocacy networks.

Carole S Vance, PhD, MPH, teaches anthropology, human rights,
health and sexuality at Columbia University, where she founded and
directed the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human
Rights. She has extensively written about sexual theory; trafficking;
science, sexuality, gender, and health; and policy controversies about
sexual expression and imagery. She is the editor of Pleasure and
Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality(1982, 1993).  She is the
recipient of the David R Kessler Award for lifetime contribution to the
study of sexuality (2005) and the Simon-Gagnon Award for career
contributions to the study of sexualities (2014).

Geetanjali Misra is co-Founder
and Executive Director of CREA and co-Director of the Sexuality and
Rights Institute in India. She has worked at the activist, grant-making,
and policy levels on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, gender,
human rights, and violence against women. She writes on issues of
sexuality, gender, and rights, and has co-edited Sexuality, Gender,
and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia
(2005).

Huang Yingying is Associate Professor, Department of
Sociology, and Deputy Director, Institute of Sexuality and Gender, at
Renmin University in China. She bases her research in China and focuses
on female sex workers, male clients, women’s body and sexuality, social
aspects of HIV/AIDS, and research methodology on sexuality. She is the
author of the book Body, Sexuality and Xinggan (sexiness): Study on
Chinese Women’s Daily Lives (2008) and several publications on female
sex workers and male clients in China since 1999. Dr Huang has also
worked as gender consultant for several international HIV/AIDS projects
since 2003, and is one of the key sponsors of the biannual international
conference on Sexualities in China, which started in 2007.

Janet Price is an activist and academic, who works at the
intersection of disability, sexuality, and gender. Based in Liverpool,
UK, she has been involved with CREA for over a decade, raising the
profile of sexuality issues for disabled people. In partnership with
disabled and non-disabled colleagues from Nigeria, India, Kenya, and
Australia, amongst others, she convened the Third Disability, Sexuality,
and Rights Online Institute at the end of 2013. She maintains her
academic links through her involvement with the Gender and Health Group
at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She is also on the Board of
Disability and Deaf Arts (DaDa), Liverpool, which holds a biennial
International Festival, DaDaFest. The last DaDaFest was a part of the
cultural initiative of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012, and
the next will be in 2014, combined with a Congress addressing the value
of disability arts as a route to greater control and power for disabled
people.

Meena Saraswathi
Seshu is the General Secretary of SANGRAM, an organisation
that works on the rights of sex workers and people living with HIV/AIDS.
SANGRAM’s Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation (CASAM)
advocates for the reduction of stigma, violence, and harassment of
marginalised communities, especially those who have challenged dominant
norms. Seshu is part of the UNAIDS Reference Group on Human Rights and
HIV. In 2002, she was awarded the Human Rights Defender Award by the
Human Rights Watch. Seshu delivered the Jonathan Mann memorial lecture as
a plenary speaker at the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna,
Austria, and at the 2012 Sex Worker Freedom Festival in Kolkata, India.

Svati P Shah, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies with an adjunct appointment in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Shah’s work
has been published in a range of academic journals and popular
publications, including Cultural Dynamics, Rethinking Marxism, Al Jazeera
America, and The Caravan. Her book, Seeing Sexual Commerce: Sex, Work,
and Migration in the City of Mumbai, on sex work and migration in
Mumbai’s informal sector, was published in 2014 by Duke University Press.
She is currently working on a book on red light districts in India, and a
new project on the left and the politics of LGBTQ movements in India.

Special Lecture

Shohini Ghosh is Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Centre,
Jamia Millia Islamia, (Central University) New Delhi, India. She is the
director of Tales of the Nightfairies(2002) a film about the Sex
Workers Rights Movement in Calcutta and the author Fire: A Queer Classic(2010)
published by Arsenal Pulp Press, Canada and Orient Publishing in India.
She is co-founder member of Mediastorm Collective, India’s first
all women documentary production collective which received The Chameli
Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Work among Women Media
Professionals in 1992. Ghosh has been Visiting Professor in a number
of universities within and outside India and has had a long association
with the Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute. Ghosh writes on
contemporary media, speech and censorship, popular cinema, documentary
and issues of gender and sexuality. Her current work is titled Violence
and the Spectral Muslim: Action, Affect and Bombay Cinema at the Turn of
the 20th Century.

To be confirmed:

Sealing Cheng, DPhil, is Associate Professor in Anthropology at
the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her doctorate from the
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University. She was
then a Rockefeller postdoctoral fellow in Gender, Sexuality, Health, and
Human Rights at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Between 2005 and 2012, she taught in the Department of Women’s and Gender
Studies, Wellesley College. Her research is focused on sexuality with
reference to sex work, human trafficking, women’s activism, and
policy-making. Her book, On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers
and the U.S. Military in South Korea(University of Pennsylvania Press
2010) received the Distinguished Book Award of the Sexualities Section of
the American Sociological Association in 2012.

Applications are due on
or before 20 April 2015.
Applications received after this date will not be considered. Applicants
will be informed about the selection decisions by 30 April
2015.

Contact Person: Sushma
Luthra; Email: sluthra@creaworld.org or crea@creaworld.org

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