Briser le silence des amphis (Breaking the silence of the lecture halls)

What’s on offer?

In the documentary ‘Briser le silence des amphis’, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and staff members testify to the sexist and sexual violence they suffered on a French university campus.

What’s it about?

As part of ESRC Festival of Social Science, join us for this special screening to learn more about gender violence, and how we can explore and address this through film, and the documentary’s contribution to the fight against sexist and sexual violence.

‘One of the almost systematic consequences of this violence is the silencing, and therefore their omission. Making these stories heard is, beyond their individual liberating scope, working to complete the missing part of our collective history.’

The screening (50 minutes) will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with Corinne Nativel - a producer on the film, Jelke Boesten and Phoebe Martin – with conversations around sexual harassment against and among young people, safe and unsafe spaces, and contributing toward positive changes.

The event is part of the Visual Embodied Methodologies (VEM) network project ‘Intersectional Gendered Violence’ – based at King’s College London.

VEM includes arts-based practices like photography, poetry, art, performance etc.

Our project explores ways visual and embodied methods (VEM) can be used to understand & address different strands of gendered violence, from sexual harassment to state violence, war, and genocide.

Who’s leading the event?

Professor Jelke Boesten, Department of International Development, King's College London

Dr Phoebe Martin, Department of International Development, King's College London

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