Organized by Sarajevo Open Center, on Monday, 3 March starting at 18:00, a lecture will be held called ‘Women’s Day-Between Lost Authenticity, Unbearable Banality and Political Potential’. The lecture is part of the lectures from the cycle ‘Someone Said Feminism?’
Different gender ideologies, in the form negotiating gender or assigning meaning to it, led to the creation of the syntagm of March 8th as a symbol of that which gender equality is in relation to how it should be. Since it is a symbolic holiday, there’s an inherent reduction in the meaning it carries, so it’s necessary to question it and point out its importance, even if it is reduced only to deposits. Between the complete coopting of the holiday by the left under the auspices that it’s a class issue more than a gender issue and the tendency to banalize and commercialize it by buying a red carnation „the beautiful field,“ which takes one to a archness of the capitalist patriarchy, it becomes a hybrid discussion. Referring to „the celebrated everyday“ depicts the reality that’s created from the real. Keeping this in mind, we will discuss the constructivism that lies at the heart of March 8th with an accent on the socialist and post socialist period as well as recent interpretations in the context of B&H society.
The lecture will take place at the Center for Cultural and Media Decontamination (Zmaja od Bosne 8)
The lecture will be in BHS languages.
(Source: Sarajevo Open Center)
