Cette conférence est organisée dans le cadre du Gender Studies Visiting Faculty Programme 2024 (collaboration Sciences Po et Université Paris Cité/Cité du Genre).
Le programme de professeures et professeurs invités est soutenu par l’IdEx Université Paris Cité (ANR-18-IDEX-0001) et déployé grâce au partenariat entre Université Paris Cité et Sciences Po.
Caring for Survivors: Sexual Violence in Higher Education Institutions
Shivani Gupta (National University of Singapore College)
The mainstream social visibility of the #MeToo movement since 2017 has surfaced and verified the existence of sexual violence in various everyday spaces, which has shocked the world by becoming an ‘open secret’. It is a secret that plagues the world today and takes on a drastic turn within academic institutions. The lecture discusses rising cases of sexual violence in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the insensitive ways in which victims/survivors of sexual violence are implicated in the management of such cases. The talk will briefly delineate the reasons for sexual violence, premised on the relegation of the issue to the margins through social scripts and norms that make it difficult to centre it in mainstream discourses. These arguments will provide an entryway to the prime focus of the lecture that is to imagine, theorise and practise care for victim/survivors of sexual violence. Care is predominantly assumed to be a practise that is based on providing services and acting in ways that promote and ensure healing and well-being for those suffering from a certain ailment/health issue/trauma. Thus, care, or lack of it thereof, becomes axiomatic in understanding the prevalence of sexual violence as well as the mechanisms to counter it. The lecture will tend to methods of caring for victims/survivors of sexual violence that bring into its fold inclusivity, diversity, equality, and justice through a victim-survivor-centric approach to sexual violence.
Discutants:
Yara Mahfud (Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology, Université Paris Cité),
Victor Coutolleau (Postdoctoral Researcher, Sciences Po Gender Studies Programme)
Clara Le Gallic-Ach (Doctoral Researcher, Sciences Po Centre for Research on Social Inequalities – French Institute for Demographic Studies).