Lund is joining hundreds of cities and countries around the world to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8. Student unions, and other organisations are hosting a series of fun, exciting, informative and divers events on various gender-related topics.
Lundagård have aggregated the latest information of what’s happening around town for those interested in joining the events and celebrating the special day.
Mind you, as you read, events are already continuing around town. So hurry…
1. Lectures, Lunch, Theatre and much more
From 10:00 to 16:00 today, a series of events at SOL will mark International Women’s Day. According to the facebook invite “It will be a busy day filled with interesting lectures, lunch and theater.”
Inequalities is an issue that transcends beyond gender, race and geographical boundaries. Both women and men, black and white, straight to gay, poor or rich benefits from feminism.
Therefore the political parties Miljöpartiet, Centerkvinnorna och Demokratisk vänster is organising a common manifestation to show that feminism and equality for everyone.
Everyone is invited to the Stortorget in Lund at 16:00, to show commitment to equal opportunities regardless of any political affiliation. The manifestation of speech and music starts 17:00
3. Women’s Day Party at Smålands
On March 9, the Women’s day celebrations will continue at Smålands nation party at 10:00pm. Dance the night away!
4. Voices of Women: Inspiration and Debates
The Lund Debate Society and Social Sciences Union is before the party-night-out organising a forum and debate workshop with talks from women who are inspiring and talented debaters. The event will take place at Social Sciences Union from 9:00 – 18:00 on March 9, Saturday.
Lucinda David, from the organising team said that the morning session will include inspirational talks, followed by a debate workshop and an exhibition debate in the afternoon.
Ann-Katrin Bäcklund, the Dean of the Faculty of the Social Science of Lund university, and Emma Berringer, a Miljöpartiet politician, is expected to join the event and give an inspiration talk.
“We’re holding the event because we noticed that whilst we attract a lot of women to our ordinary tuesdays debate cafes, most of them feel discouraged and eventually leave. We’ve spoken to some of them and we realise that women have specific challenges when it comes to speaking out in public and having their voices heard. We want to mediate this problem by holding this special event, says Lucinda Davis and continues:
“We also think women’s issues are also important to men so they are welcome to come in the morning but the debate workshops in the afternoon are only for women and self-identifying women.”
text: Lubna Hawwa
