You are warmly invited to our next Gender, Law, and Technology Reading Group session, which will take place on Friday 12 September 2025 from 12:30 to 13:30 CET, both in person (room C4.05) and online via Teams (link below).
We are delighted to welcome Doğa Rojda Koldaş, PhD candidate in Political Science and International Relations at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Doğa is a sociologist with interdisciplinary training in gender studies and extensive experience in LGBTIQA+ rights and social justice. Her doctoral research focuses on LGBTIQA+ communities in Turkey and explores the sociopolitical dimension of trauma, with an emphasis on “healing justice” from an intersectional feminist perspective.
In this Guest Speaker Lecture titled “We Are Each Other’s Remedy: Collective Healing and Resistance Across Borders”, Doğa will draw on research with queer feminist activists in Turkey to highlight how solidarity and collective healing emerge as vital strategies of survival in the face of systemic violence and trauma. Framing healing as a relational and political practice, rather than an individual process, the presentation will explore how communities create alternative forms of care, belonging, and resistance when institutions fail them.
In our discussion we will reflect on how these collective practices intersect with the challenges posed by AI technologies, data protection regimes, and social media platforms that increasingly shape the landscapes of surveillance and activism.These reflections will serve as an entry point for a broader conversation on how practices of solidarity, justice, and collective care can resonate across struggles, from Turkey to Gaza and beyond, in contexts of violence and displacement.
We very much look forward to seeing many of you there!
Feel free to register at anastasia.karagianni@vub.be.