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Events

In all, the MAAR project hosted 15 events, in New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, and Kottayam. These included panel discussions, film screenings, workshops, and street and forum theatre performances.

Across the venues, we reached an audience of more than 1,100 people, including journalists, UN representatives, NGO workers, educators, and students.

In November 2018, MAAR hosted a launch event in New Delhi to coincide with the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November). We presented findings from our initial research in 2018, one of the largest comparative content analysis of news reporting of rape in India, covering ten newspapers across six languages in India for a three-month period (June to August 2018).

Panel debates

Gender Issues & Sexual Violence: the Role of Doctors

Sunday 25th November 2018

Dr Jagadeesh Reddy and 9 other professors, including the head of the committee for sexual harassment were on the panel moderated by Dr Farman Ali, CMD, Docfort Meducation.

Moderator
Dr Farman Ali
Docfort Meducation
Discussants
Dr Jagadeesh Reddy, Head of Forensic Medicine
Dr Pratibha Nadig
Dr Mangala Subramnian
Dr Varsha Mokhasi
Dr Murali Mohan
Dr Ramya Shruthi
Students
Presented in association with:
Docfort Meducation
Vydehi Medical College

Media reporting of sexual violence: Why, what and how much?

Monday 26th November 2018, 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm

UNESCO Auditorium, 1 San Martin Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

Panellists

Moderator
Pamela Philipose, Public Editor, The Wire
Discussants
Neha Dixit, Independent journalist
Lalitha Kumaramangalam, Director, India Foundation and former Chairperson, National Commission for Women
Anju Pandey, Ending Violence against Women (EVAW) Programme Specialist, UN Women
Rituparna Chatterjee, Independent journalist, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Runs @IndiaMeToo
Vakasha Sachdev, Associate Editor (Legal), The Quint

Followed by the Premiere film screening of: The Six Faces of Sexual Violence

Interaction with director, Dr K Hariharan, Professor of Film Studies and Broadcast Television, Ashoka University.

Presented in association with:
UN Women
Ashoka University 

Sexual violence and the media: what must change?

Thursday 29th November, 2:00–3:30 pm

Xavier Hall
St Joseph’s College
PG Block and Research Centre
Langford Road, Bangalore 27

Panellists

Moderator
Ammu Joseph, Independent journalist and author
Discussants
Dr Jagadeesh Narayana Reddy, Professor and Head of Forensic Medicine, Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre
Laxmi Murthy, Contributing Editor, Himal Southasian
Ragamalika Karthikeyan, Deputy News Editor, The News Minute
Samar Halarnkar, Editor, IndiaSpend.com
Sandhya Menon, Journalist
Uma, Jeeva
Presented in association with:
Network of Women in Media, India
St. Joseph’s College

#MeToo and the Politics of Representation

Friday 30th November 2018, 3.30 – 5.30 pm

Panellists

Moderator
Dr Shilpa Phadke
School of Media and Cultural Studies (SMCS),
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Panel members will be announced shortly.
Presented in association with:
School of Media and Cultural Studies (SMCS), Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Effective Use of Media & Communication: How can doctors play a bigger role in the elimination of violence against women?

Saturday 8th December 2018

Panel discussion with doctors at Fortis La Femme, Bangalore moderated by Dr Farman Ali.

Screening of video #ConsentConversations: interviewing different students about what consent is. Followed by audience interaction.

Presented in association with:
Docfort Meducation
Fortis La Femme

 Sex, violence and sexual violence

Monday, 10th December 2018, 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Conversation on institutional collaboration to change the language of gender-based violence.

Moderator
Dr Farman Ali, CMD, Docfort Meducation
Discussants
Dr Prathima Reddy, Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fortis La Femme
Dr Aruna Muralidhar, Associate Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fortis La Femme
Dr Krishen BR, Consultant Psychiatrist, Fortis La Femme
Dr Kaushik K Narayan, Medical Superintendent and Head Medical Process, Fortis La Femme
Rishikesh KB, Assistant Professor, Christ (Deemed to be University)

Screening of #ConsentConversations, a video by Sharin D’Souza

#16Days – The Journey: Presentation by Anna Thomas, Head, Medical Journalism, Docfort Meducation

Presented in association with:
Docfort Meducation

Performances and workshops

The Woman Wants to Know: How Media covers Rape in India

Friday, 23rd November 2018, 11 am

A forum theatre piece performed by the Natak Society and the Comedy Club

Venue: MPH, SSLA

The event has been organized to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Forum theatre is an interactive form of theatre that uses audience participation to look at larger conversations prevalent in the world today. Through this event the audience would have the opportunity to not only view a certain unfolding of events, but also create their own narratives by participating along with the actors.

Presented in association with:
Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts
The Natak Society and the Comedy Club

News coverage of sexual violence

Saturday, 1st December 2018

Journalism workshop on news reporting of sexual violence and practical approaches to critiquing reporting conventions.

Venue: Malayala Manorama School of Journalism

Presented in association with:
Malayala Manorama School of Journalism

Say NO!

Saturday, 1st December 2018

Sexual safety awareness workshop

Venue: Hoskote Govt High School

Presented in association with:
Docfort Meducation
MVJ Medical College

Thilidhirali Baale (Girl, you should know this…)

Sunday, 2nd December 2018, 11 am – 1 pm

Sexual safety workshop by Docfort Meducation..
Organised by Being Social.

Venue: needbaseindia.org

Presented in association with:
Docfort Meducation

‘We the survivors’

Sunday, 9th December 2018

Awareness programme against child trafficking in textile mills. Conducted by students at the Dept of Criminology & Criminal Justice Sciences, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli.

Interaction with mill workers who have been exploited under the guise of the Sumangali Scheme

Presented in association with:
Docfort Meducation
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University

Orange the World

Monday, 10th December 2018, 09:00-10:00

Department of English, Stella Maris College, Chennai
Screening of #ConsentConversations, a video by Sharin D’Souza.
Live sketching session by artist, Nancy Rachel.
Performance poetry by Michelle Ann James, spoken word artist.

Presented in association with:
Docfort Meducation

Thorny Fence, street theatre

Wednesday, 12th December 2018, 09:00-10:00

“Thorny Fence” is one of the byproducts of the three day theatre workshop conducted by the numero uno folk and theatre arts intellectual of Tamil Nadu, Mr Kaleeswaran, Director, Alternative Media Centre, Chennai the previous week.

Presented in association with:
University of Madras

Capacity building workshops

In the third phase of the MAAR project, May to October 2019, we will conduct capacity building workshops in partnership with UNESCO to train journalists in best practice guidelines on news reporting of rape and gendered violence. These will take place in urban and regional locations.

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