On January 29th and 30th, Sarajevo Open Centre will organise and host, for the fourth time, the International Festival of Queer Film Merlinka at the Art Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo. This Festival has been organised for seven years in Belgrade with the goal to promote films tackling LGBT topics. The Festival is named after a … Continued
Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Comparative Overview of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Progress Report 2015 by the European Commission and the Alternative Progress Report for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2015 by the Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, December 2015
This is a review text about the course of the promotion of the book “Feminist readings of social phenomena” that took place in Tuzla, on 4 December 2015, in the Peace Flame House.
On Tuesday, December 1, from 9:30 to 10:30 A.M. the action WE MUST SAY NO! took place on the plateau in front of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The action should have drawn the general public’s and authorities’ attention to the bad financial status of the safe houses. Beside the participants … Continued
Regional conference on ”Hate Crime – amending the Criminal Code of FBiH?” was organized in Sarajevo as part of the 16 Days of Activism campaign and marking of International Human Rights Day, 10 December
As part of the program for the 16 days of activism, and December 10th, International Human Rights Day, a regional Conference Hate Crime in BiH – Necessary Amendments to the FBIH Criminal Code was held on 30th of November 2015 in Sarajevo.
Sarajevo: Sarajevo Open Centre, 2015. English version: What Changes Do We Want to See? Overview of the Situation and Guidelines for Future Action of Institutions and Civil Society Organisations in the Areas of Gender Equality, Fight Against Discrimination and Hate Crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina B/C/S version: Kakve promjene želimo? Pregled trenutnog stanja i smjernice … Continued
In the Museum of Literature and Theatre Arts of B&H, on Friday 20 November, Nebojša Jovanović gave a lecture on Queer theory and classical Yugoslavian film. This was the seventh lecture in the scope of the third cycle of Somebody said feminism.
On Friday, 27/11/2015 the lectures of Module 4 (Feminist ethical and political theory) took place, and that was the last lecture for the first generation of the Žarana Papić School of Feminism.
Ajla Demiragić, teaching asistant at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, spoke about the relation between the feminisms and nationalism, about text and context.
Representatives of the Sarajevo Open Centre last week actively participated on the public discussion regarding the BiH Law on Prohibition of Discrimination.