Press Release 052/2018

Public Symposium: Women’s Rights on the Move

With the Event “Europe on the Move. Societies, Values, and Women’s Rights in Transition,“ ZAK Participates in the 24th Festival of European Culture in Karlsruhe
Women’s rights and open society are in the focus of a public symposium of ZAK. (Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons license)
Women’s rights and open society are in the focus of a public symposium of ZAK. (Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons license)

The public scientific symposium of ZAK I Center for Cultural and General Studies of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on May 4 and 5, 2018 focuses on the rights of women, emancipatory rollbacks, and the future of open society. The public event will be opened on Friday, May 4, 2018, 7 p.m. at the Karlsruhe city hall with a keynote lecture by the human rights activist, lawyer, and imam Seyran Ateş, who lives in Berlin.

 

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The conference language is German.


Click http://www.zak.kit.edu/ekt.php for the complete program and information on the lecturers.

 

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