Three Days to Liberation

Open Panels Three Days to Liberation

Scientists and Activists presenting and discussing their own self vision of liberation and their ongoing self reflection on the Jina revolution.
Moderation by theater and Film director, Sahar Rezaei.

14:00-15:30 | Open Panel Self-Liberation
With: Firoozeh Farvardin, Ghoncheh Ghavami, Elaheh Soroushnia
Moderation: Sahar Rezaei

16:00-17:30 | Open Panel Practices of Liberation
With: Azadeh Akbari, Hoda Aminian, Bahar Oghalai
Moderation: Sahar Rezaei

 

Panel 1: Self-Liberation

Dr. Firoozeh Farvardin is a feminist activist and scholar working on gender/sexual (counter) strategies of authoritarian neoliberalism in Iran at IRGAC (International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter Strategy), Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and the MERGE (Migration and the Middle East Research Network) at Humboldt University of Berlin. She is also the affiliated researcher and former guest lecturer at the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM).

Ghoncheh Ghavami  is an Iranian feminist activist and chief editor of Harasswatch, a feminist platform focused on sexual violence and gender issues in Iran.

Elaheh Soroushnia is a PhD student in human geography at FU. For years Elaheh Soroushnia has been an independent researcher in gender and sexuality studies, social movements, and media studies. In her research projects she has tried to understand the complex relationship between gender politics, social movements, and the state.

Panel 2: Practices of Liberation

Dr. Azadeh Akbari is Assistant Professor in Public Administration and digital Transformation at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She was a journalist in Iran for many years and worked as a communication manager and community outreach specialist at the UNHCR, UNICEF, and the British Council. She is a contributor to many leading media outlets, including The Guardian and CNN. Her research focuses on gender-based and authoritarian surveillance and digital resistance. Dr Azadeh Akbari is a member of the board of directors at the International Surveillance Studies Network and has also founded Surveillance in the Global South Research Network to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Western discourses and practices and create a place for exchange, collaboration, and activism against the undemocratic use of surveillance technologies. Azadeh Akbari is also the digital editor for the journals Surveillance & Society and Territory, Politics, Governance.

Hoda Aminian is a feminist activist from Iran who has been living in Berlin since 2014. She studied Urban planning and Urban management in Tehran and Berlin and currently is working as a programmer in Berlin.

Bahar Oghalai is a social scientist. Her research focuses on diasporic feminist biographies of politicization. She is also a research assistant at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences. She publishes regularly on the topics of feminism, migration and diaspora.

Sahar Rezaei is an Iranian Theatre and Film director who is also the acting director of Anhaltisches Theater Dessau. After studying engineering at the Polytechnic University of Tehran, she studied directing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. Above all, she worked on contemporary philosophy, art and politics and worked as a writer, painter, photographer and director. Since 2016 she lives in Germany, worked on sound design by Jan Burianin Prague and continued with composition in Heiner Goebbels‘ classes in Giessen. In 2018 she received the DAAD award for excellent performance of the foreign students of HfMDK. In 2021 she teached at the master-programm of DAMU in Prague. In 2022 she won the first award of the Cologne advancement prize for young literature. Her projects have been presented in Frankfurt, Hannover, Marburg, Dessau, Prague and Tehran.

This event is part of the festival Three Days to Liberation, curated by Maryam Palizban and Constanza Macras | DorkyPark.

With the support of the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.