As part of ESRC Festival of Social Science, join us for this special screening to learn more about gender violence, and how we can explore and address this through film, and the documentary’s contribution to the fight against sexist and sexual violence.

In the documentary ‘Briser le silence des amphis’, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and staff members testify to the sexist and sexual violence they suffered on a French university campus.

‘One of the almost systematic consequences of this violence is the silencing, and therefore their omission. Making these stories heard is, beyond their individual liberating scope, working to complete the missing part of our collective history.’

The screening (50 minutes) will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with Corinne Nativel - a producer on the film, Jelke Boesten and Phoebe Martin – with conversations around sexual harassment against and among young people, safe and unsafe spaces, and contributing toward positive changes.

This is a free public event. Everyone is welcome, whatever your experiences. Refreshments will be provided.

Speaker

Dr Corinne Nativel

Corinne is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris-East Créteil (UPEC). She was trained as a linguist and social scientist and completed her PhD in political sociology and political economy from the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham. Corinne was a Producer on Briser le silence des amphis.

Corinne’s research is broadly located in the field of policy analysis with a focus on social justice and place/space restructuring. Her research explores the impact of economic and welfare restructuring on the production and reproduction of social inequalities, particularly in relation to youth and gender, analysing the influence of individual and collective strategies, policy networks and governance mechanisms.

Discussants

Professor Jelke Boesten

Jelke is Professor in Gender and Development, and PI on the Visual Embodied Methodologies Network project - 'Intersectional Gendered Violence' & Vice Dean (Research, interim) for the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at King's.

Jelke’s current research focuses on transformative gender justice in post conflict societies – the idea that interventions to address gendered injustice, such as violence against women and girls, should aim to transform the social, political and economic relations that underpin the possibility of violence.

Dr Phoebe Martin

Phoebe is a Research Associate on the VEM project 'Intersectional Gendered Violence' at King's. Her research looks broadly at the intersections of art and feminist activism.

Before joining King's she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of York, working on the project 'The Comfort Women and the Silence Breakers: Memorialising Sexual Violence as Feminist Politics'.

Phoebe completed her PhD at University College London, looking at feminist activism in Peru through the lens of visual and embodied politics. She is also a co-editor of the Feminist Perspectives blog at King's.

 

This is part of a series of events for the ongoing ESRC-funded project, Visual and Embodied Methodologies for Intersectional Gendered Violence and Imaging Gendered Violence - an Editorial project created and developed by the VEM Network at King’s, curated and published by Arts Cabinet in their Editorial series, 2024.