Racism, Class and Masculinity:
Friday,
9 March, 11am to 1pm
UN
Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium
INSTRAW and UNICEF are
hosting a panel to discuss the interface between racism, class and men’s
violence against women. The panelists will address issues such as how structural
pressures and cultural norms affect men’s socialization into violence, how
these pressures and norms vary across groups, time and place, and what
recommendations are there for combating these processes.
Opening
Statement: Eleni Stamiris, Director-INSTRAW
Panelists:
Ruth
Hayward: Senior
Advisor, Ending Violence Against Women- UNICEF
Matthew
Gutmann:
Professor
of the Social Sciences – International Affairs at Brown University.
Alan
Greig:
Author,
activist and independent consultant working on issues of men, masculinity and
gender equality.
Follow-up
Bulletin Board Discussion
INSTRAW
will host a bulletin board discussion through GAINS on the topics discussed in this
panel.
For more information: www.un-instraw.org/mens-roles.html
Background
of Speakers for ‘Racism, Class and Masculinities: The Global Dimension of
Gender Based Violence’.
Byron
Hurt,
Byron Hurt
is the former quarterback of the Northeastern University football team and is
the producer of the award-winning documentary film, I Am A Man: Black
Masculinity in America. I Am A Man features the voices of black men from
various socio-economic backgrounds, along with interviews with some of Black
America’s most celebrated progressive academics, social critics and authors.
The result is an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in
contemporary U.S. society.
Ruth
Hayward,
author
of the recent book Breaking the Earthenware Jar – Lessons form South Asia to End Violence
against Women and Girls. Ruth
Hayward will discuss her experience in bringing men together who have worked
towards ending male violence in the South Asia region.
Matthew
Gutmann,
Anthropologist
and author of numerous publications on identity and masculinities in Latin
America, including the widely acclaimed
The Meanings of Being Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City.
Working with incorporating men into gender and development.
Mr. Gutmann will discuss the part played by culture in gender based violence in
Latin America, as well as pointing out how this type of violence includes both
violence by men against women and against other men.
Alan
Greig
Mr.
Grieg is an independent consultant, working at the intersections of HIV
prevention, harm reduction and gender equality.
For the past 10 years, Alan has worked with non governmental and
community-based organizations in countries of the economic North and South to
locate HIV prevention and harm reduction programs within a broader agenda of
social justice. As a white, straight, northern European middle class male,
Alan is confronted with the tensions between privilege and justice, identity and
community, and the margin and the center. He
draws inspiration from the writings of Gilles Deleuze, Gayatri Spivak and Adam
Phillips, and from the struggle against all those who seek "to again take
the world from us."
Diana Mahabir Wyatt,
Has spent 25
years working in the field of domestic violence through counseling, supporting
victims, providing shelter and advocacy. Furthermore she worked for 11 years in
the Trinidadian senate making laws to protect women and children and
to counter-act institutional social violence in other ways. Diana Mahibir Wyatt
is currently the chair of the Tirinidad Tobago Coalition Against Domestic
Violence. She will bring in her extensive experience in this field,
concentrating on the Caribbean culture.