Meeting Programme

 3rd International Anti-Homophobia Meeting

 
May 12-19, 2008, Ankara - Turkey
 
HacettepeUniversity Beytepe Campus
13 May 2008, Tuesday
 
10:30 – 12:00

HOMOPHOBIA and DISCRIMINATION WORKSHOP

Moderator: Umut Güner, Kaos GL

 
13:00 – 14:30

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Moderator: Assist. Prof. Dr. Mete K. Kaynar, HacettepeUniversity, Department of Political Science and Public Administration

Prof. Dr. Yakın Ertürk, Middle EastTechnicalUniversity, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

Dr. Kürşad Kahramanoğlu,Journalist, Human Rights Defender

 
15:00 – 16:30
“Being a Gay in Turkey!”
LGBT Individuals share their experiences

 “HOMOSEXUALITY AND DEPRIVATION!”

What are we avoided in family, education, and working spheres?

Bawer Çakır, Buse Kılıçkaya, Erdal Matur, Begüm Topbaşlı

 
AnkaraUniversity Cebeci Campus
14 May 2008, WEDNESDAY
 
13:00

Meeting in the Campus Entrance

 
13:30 – 15:00

GENDER AND WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Serpil Sancar, AnkaraUniversity, Chairperson of WomenStudiesCenter (KASAUM)

Yıldız Tokman, Feminist

Prof. Dr. Tayfun Atay, AnkaraUniversity, Department of Folklore

Burcu Ersoy,Kaos GL

 
15:30 – 16:30
WORKSHOP AGAINST ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA

AnkaraUniversity Faculty of Political Sciences Human Rights Society (MİHT)

AnkaraUniversity Student Initiative against Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation (CAKOG)

AnkaraUniversity Anti-Capitalist Student Society
 
METU / Middle EastTechnicalUniversity
 
14 May 2008, WEDNESDAY
 
17:30 – 19:00

Colloquy with Murathan Mungan (Poet-writer)

 
15 May 2008, THURSDAY
 
13:00 – 14:30

NATIONALISM, HATE OUTBREAK AND HOMOPHOBIA

Moderator: Zeynep Sarıaslan, METU Sociology Society

Prof. Dr. Melek Göregenli,Social psychologist, EgeUniversity

Prof. Dr. Selçuk Candansayar, Psychiatrist, GaziUniversity

 
15:00 – 16:30

PRACTICES AGAINST SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION AND SEARCH FOR FREEDOM

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Mithat Sancar, AnkaraUniversity Faculty of Law

Diego Mellado, European Commission Delegation to Turkey, Head of Political Affairs Section

Carina Mårtensson, Minister, Embassy of Sweden in Ankara

Ali Erol, Kaos GL       

 
 
16 Mayıs 2008, FRIDAY, Ekin ArtsCenter
 
11:00 – 12:00
Short Films with Gay Themes
 
13:00 – 14:30

OPENING SPEECHES

Presentation: Kürşad Kahramanoğlu, Kaos GL Association

Michael Cashman, Member of the European Parliament

Mehveş Bingöllü, Jurist,European Court of Human Rights

Emine Bozkurt, (Video) Member of the European Parliament, PvdA (Labour Party), the Netherlands

 
15:00 – 16:30

THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER

Moderator: Nazik Işık, Founding Member of Women’s Solidarity Foundation, Kaos GL member

Özlem Altıparmak, Lawyer, Chairperson of Amnesty International Turkey

Aksu Bora, Feminist

Burcu Ersoy, Kaos GL

 
17:00 – 18:30
DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE AGAINST LGBT PEOPLE

Moderator: Dr. Kerem Altıparmak, AnkaraUniversity, Faculty of Political Sciences, HumanRightsCenter

Prof. Dr. Şevki Sözen, IstanbulUniversity, Chair of Department of Forensic Sciences

Juliana Cano Nieto, Researcher, LGBT Rights Program, Human Rights Watch, USA

 
17 May 2008, SATURDAY, Ekin ArtCenter
 
12:00

March against Homophobia

We are marching from Human Rights Monument to the Parliament!

http://antihomofobi.org/node/75

14:00 – 15:30

Popular Culture, Violence, Homophobia

Yıldırım Türker, Writer

 
16:00 – 17:30

FEMINIST FORUM

Moderator: Burcu Ersoy, Kaos GL

Ayşe Gül Altınay, SabancıUniversity, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies

Jenny Sundén, Royal Institute of Technology, School of Computer Science and Communication, Sweden

 
18:00 – 19:30

Colloquy with Anja Meulenbelt (Writer, the Netherlands)

 
20:00
Award Ceremony of the Women to Women Story Contest
 
18 May 2008, SUNDAY, Ekin ArtsCenter
 
14:00 – 15:30

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE EU ACCESSION PROCESS

Moderator: Murat Çelikkan, Journalist, Human Rights Defender

Michael Cashman, Member of the European Parliament / President of European Parliament's Intergroup on Gay and Lesbian Rights

Oya Aydın, Lawyer

Aija Salo, ILGA-Europe Programs and Policy Officer

 
17:30 – 19:30

READING THEATRE: “I am that beautiful…”

Hülya Adak, Ayşe Gül Altınay, Esin Düzel, Nilgün Bayraktar

 
20:30 – 22:00
Stand-Up Show
Esmeray
 
 
19 May 2008, MONDAY, Ekin ArtsCenter
 
10:00 – 12:00
FILM SCREENING
 
13:00 – 14:30

LESBIAN and BISEXUAL WOMEN FORUM

 
15:00 – 16:30
“Being a Gay in Turkey!”

DISCUSSIONS ON EQUALITY IN CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS: Others in the Civil Constitution

Moderator: Oral Çalışlar, Journalist

Hülya Gülbahar, Lawyer, Association for the Support and Education of Women Candidates (Ka-Der), Chairperson

Özlem Çolak, Lambdaistanbul LGBTT Association

Ali Erol, Kaos GL

 
17:00 – 18:30
TRANS FORUM

Moderator: Senem Doğanoğlu, Lawyer

Sinan Sinem Göknur, Lambdaistanbul LGBTT Association / Women for Women’s Human RightsNew Ways

Belgin Çelik, Lambdaistanbul LGBTT Association

Buse Kılıçkaya, Pink Life LGBTT Association

Anette Trettebergstuen, Member of the Norwegian Parliament