Event Highlights: 5th Transatlantic Dialogue on Gender Issues – Woman Up! for a New Progressive Agenda
On March 3 and 4, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with BU’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, hosted the 5th Transatlantic Dialogue on Gender Issues: Woman Up! for a New Progressive Agenda. The goal of the two-day event, sponsored by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and the Fondation Jean Jaurès, was to explore theoretical, strategic and policy challenges concerning gender equality facing progressives on both sides of the Atlantic and to consider ways to strengthen progressives’ positions in future elections. Participants included, Zita Gurmai, MEP for the Hungarian Socialist Party and President of the Party of European Socialists; Pia Locatelli, Italian politician and MEP for the Italian Democratic Socialists; Gina Sapirio, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University; and Ghislaine Toutain, Consultant with the Fondation Jean Jaurès among several others. For a full list of participants, please view the event announcement and schedule here.
Listen to the workshop sessions on Sound Cloud*:
*We regret that due to technical difficulties, we were not able to record introductory remarks by Zita Gurmai, Pia Locatelli, and Ghislaine Toutain, the first session on “The (In)visibility of Left feminism,” or Victoria Budson’s remarks in the second session on “Changing the Narrative on Gender Issues.”