Conference Documentation

The organising team of the conference: Anne Jenichen, Jill Scherneck, Eva Klakl, Georg Kössler, Tsewang Norbu
The organisers Anne Jenichen, Jill Scherneck, Eva Klakl, Georg Kössler, Tsewang Norbu
"Religion Revisited - Women’s rights and the political instrumentalisation of religion"
The Heinrich Böll Foundation, jointly with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), organized the international conference "Religion Revisited - Women’s rights and the political instrumentalisation of religion" in Berlin on 5-6 June 2009. Scholars and feminist activists discussed the question of how to deal with religions in the fight for women’s rights and gender equality.

Below you find two videos (a trailer of the conference and a film about the project "Religion, Politics and Gender"), presentations of the conference speakers, reports of the working groups as well as some pictures of the conference.


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Impressions of the Conference
A selection of 42 photos of the conference taken by David Ausserhofer.
 
Renate Wilke-Launer and Jill Scherneck (conference team) Tsewang Norbu (conference team) Participants talking Sindi Medar-Gould Anne Phillips, Anne Jenichen (conference team), Renate Wilke-Launer and Karoline Hutter (HBF Berlin) Deniz Kandiyoti and Shahra Razavi
 
Photos: David Ausserhofer
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