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Research Center for Humanities & Social Sciences and Center for Gender & Women Studies Hold an Online Lecture - Sensitive March
Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and Center for Gender & Women Studies held an online lecture called “Sensitive March '' on International Women’s Day (2022/3/8). They invited Kalon Gyari Dolma, the minister of the Central Tibetan Administration to share the experience of Tibetan women fighting against violence online, which attracted more than 70 audiences from all over the world to participate in.
This activity was planned by the researcher of the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Dolma Tsering, who is also an exile Tibetan scholar. The invited presenter,Gyari Dolma, once served as the vice chairman of exiled Tibetan Parliament, which was the highest position ever held by a woman in Tibet. What’s more, she’s also the first woman ever to participate in the election of the Prime Minister Tibetan Exile Government. Moreover, she actively dedicated herself to grassroots campaigns related to Tibetan women’s rights or human rights. She has worked as a consultant for the Tibetan Women’s Association in Dharamshala, India, and was committed to promoting gender equality and women’s rights advocacy.
The lecture “Sensitive March” started with the speeches of Yuh-Neu Chen, the vice president of NCKU and Hsing-Chuan Tsai, the director of NCKU Center for Gender & Women Studies. The two speeches respectively referred to the origin of International Women’s Day and the reaction of the women in Tibet and Taiwan when facing the invasion by outsiders. As for Kalon Gyari Dolma, she picked “Tibetan women fighting against violence” as her topic, mainly talking about the process of women participating in fighting against violence in the 20th century and also mention the experience of her mother leading local youngsters in insurrection. During the process, she also mentioning the current situation of the role of women between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the current social conditions that are unfavorable for them.
After the lecture, there was a Q&A section between Su-lin Yu, the Foreign Languages and Literature professor, Dr. Dolma Tsering, and the audience. Through the section, the female viewpoint in “Sensitive March” was magnified, and the audience raised many thoughts full of reflection. For instance, they reflected on the empowerment of Taiwan’s women from an international perspective, and discussed whether modern women possess the knowledge and conditions of law in fighting against the violence. In the end, the lecture ended with the Q&A section, enabling the participants to carry on their desire for knowledge to think about the local and international position of women.
Many participants gave feedback to the organizer after the lecture, one of them mentioned that the topic of the lecture involved the Global Political Tug-of-war, showing that the problem of gender inequality truly exists.
NCKU Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences indicated that the lecture not only conveyed different opinions and thoughts from women, but also served as a warm-up activity. In June, NCKU Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and Dr. Kalon Gyari Dolma will hold an international workshop. The workshop will take exile and refugees as the main topic, discussing the life experience of people in Tibet, Hongkong, and Uighur during the post-cold war era.
The video of this lecture will be uploaded to the podcast of CHASS NCKU and you are all welcomed to subscribe to the fan page of NCKU Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences in order to get first-hand information.
This activity was planned by the researcher of the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Dolma Tsering, who is also an exile Tibetan scholar. The invited presenter,Gyari Dolma, once served as the vice chairman of exiled Tibetan Parliament, which was the highest position ever held by a woman in Tibet. What’s more, she’s also the first woman ever to participate in the election of the Prime Minister Tibetan Exile Government. Moreover, she actively dedicated herself to grassroots campaigns related to Tibetan women’s rights or human rights. She has worked as a consultant for the Tibetan Women’s Association in Dharamshala, India, and was committed to promoting gender equality and women’s rights advocacy.
The lecture “Sensitive March” started with the speeches of Yuh-Neu Chen, the vice president of NCKU and Hsing-Chuan Tsai, the director of NCKU Center for Gender & Women Studies. The two speeches respectively referred to the origin of International Women’s Day and the reaction of the women in Tibet and Taiwan when facing the invasion by outsiders. As for Kalon Gyari Dolma, she picked “Tibetan women fighting against violence” as her topic, mainly talking about the process of women participating in fighting against violence in the 20th century and also mention the experience of her mother leading local youngsters in insurrection. During the process, she also mentioning the current situation of the role of women between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the current social conditions that are unfavorable for them.
After the lecture, there was a Q&A section between Su-lin Yu, the Foreign Languages and Literature professor, Dr. Dolma Tsering, and the audience. Through the section, the female viewpoint in “Sensitive March” was magnified, and the audience raised many thoughts full of reflection. For instance, they reflected on the empowerment of Taiwan’s women from an international perspective, and discussed whether modern women possess the knowledge and conditions of law in fighting against the violence. In the end, the lecture ended with the Q&A section, enabling the participants to carry on their desire for knowledge to think about the local and international position of women.
Many participants gave feedback to the organizer after the lecture, one of them mentioned that the topic of the lecture involved the Global Political Tug-of-war, showing that the problem of gender inequality truly exists.
NCKU Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences indicated that the lecture not only conveyed different opinions and thoughts from women, but also served as a warm-up activity. In June, NCKU Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and Dr. Kalon Gyari Dolma will hold an international workshop. The workshop will take exile and refugees as the main topic, discussing the life experience of people in Tibet, Hongkong, and Uighur during the post-cold war era.
The video of this lecture will be uploaded to the podcast of CHASS NCKU and you are all welcomed to subscribe to the fan page of NCKU Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences in order to get first-hand information.
Online lecture “Sensitive March”
More than 70 people from all around the world participated in the lecture
