Belgrade Women’s Studies Center and Reconstruction Women’s Fund
Invite you to the event
In Memory of Žarana Papić
(2002 – 2012)
Center for Cultural Deconstruction / Pavilion Veljković
Birčaninova Street, 21
September 10th, 2012 at 8pm
Žarana Papić (1949 – 2002) was our prominent feminist anthropologist, theoretician and political activist who helped create feminism in Yugoslavia and who persistantly fought all forms of nationalism.
The book Žarana Papić. Texts 1979 – 2002 represents an overview of her work. It contains 18 texts, two interviews and a full bibliography of her published works. The book is published by the Center for Gender and Political Studies, Reconstruction Women’s Fund and Women in Black, and edited by Adriana Zaharijević, Daša Duhaček and Zorica Ivanović.
The experimental movie This Is My Report to You contains quotes and authentic audio materials from Žarana’s texts, conversations and lectures. Žarana Papić was a political activist who through her work obligated us to continue to opose fascism and nationalism. The movie has been translated into sign language with the idea of continuously questioning thought and language. This Is My Report to You was directed by Vladimir Šojata, and the sign language interpretation was done by Vera Jovanović. Production and original idea for the movie by Reconstruction Women’s Fund.
Belgrade Women’s Studies Center (www.zenskestudie.edu.rs) for 20 years has been organizing alternative educational program, developing feminist theory and encouraging feminist practices in Serbia.
Stipends Žarana Papić (www.rwfund.org) is the program of support to individual women activists/academics to improve their access to knowledge and global exchange in the fields related to gender/women’s issue.The majority of Reconstruction Women’s Fund scholarships are awarded for specialist, M.A. and Ph.D.Women’s Studies in the country and for some respective gender and peace programs abroad (Democracy and Diversity Summer Institute in Wroclaw and International Institute for Peace Education organized by Teachers College of Columbia University).
