Upcoming programs in detail:
1. Virtual Black History Month Program:
Monday, February 14, 19:00-20:00:
Cultivating Social Change Leadership: Learning from Black History about Building Bridges across Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
With Layli Maparyan, Professor & Chair of Africana Studies, Wellesley College and Aisha Camara, Moderator.
Register here. You will receive the link to the Zoom session a day before the event.
Please check out all out Black History Month programs on the U.S. Embassy’s website.
2. Virtual Going Green – Education for Sustainability Program:
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 18:00-19:00
Towards Zero Carbon Transportation – The Role of Cities and Impacts on Communities
With P. Özge Kaplan, PhD, Senior Research Engineer, Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
And Rose-Anne Clermont, journalist and author.
Complete program here.
Register here. You will receive the link to the Zoom session a day before the event.
3. Women’s History Month Program
Monday, March 21, 20:00-21:30: U.S. Embassy Literature Series
The event will be live-streamed from the English Theatre Berlin: https://youtu.be/MOaZ4b9SgSo
Calling for Change: Constructing an Inclusive Form of Feminism
With
Rafia Zakaria, attorney, human rights activist and author of “Against White Feminism.”
Feminism is supposed to be the fight for the freedom and equality of women. And in the past 200 years it has made incredible gains: paving the way for women to advance economically, handing them back control of their own bodies, and advocating for their needs and their experiences. But not for all women.
On the occasion of Women’s History Month, author and activist Rafia Zakaria is advocating for using the transformative potential of the present to reconstruct an inclusive form of feminism without centering whiteness. She will read and discuss passages from her book Against White Feminism illustrating the repeated exclusions, obstacles, and condescension she has experienced as a woman of color and a Muslim from the Global South. She tells the story of how white supremacy and whiteness as a source of privilege have tainted the feminist movement and turned into a grab-and-go branding exercise. The book details how colonialist and white supremacist patterns from the past continue to be replicated in the present.
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