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In these "postcards from the field" Global GRACE project members exchange updates and reflections on their ongoing research, providing colleagues and publics with a snapshot of their activities.


Campamento de las juventudes San Cristóbal de Las Casas
[English version below] Los días 11, 12, 13 y 14 de noviembre de 2021 se llevó a cabo en la ciudad de San Cristóbal de Las Casas en el...
Jan 5, 20223 min read

Virtual meeting: Popular educators in times of change, voices from the heart, July 2021
Education for freedom in the new normality In what part of our body do we keep fear, oblivion, silence, violence? After 200 years we are...
Oct 6, 20212 min read

GlobalGRACE Bangladesh Social Media Platform (Facebook Group for Women)
The GlobalGRACE Bangladesh team has created a social media platform for women from all walks of life. The platform is a women-only...
Sep 15, 20212 min read
A Short, Annotated Bibliography – Organisations and Methods
Decolonising gender inequalities in South Africa ‘Participatory theatre and the production of cultures of equality among sex workers in...
Jul 28, 20216 min read


GlobalGRACE Bangladesh Photo Exhibition and Meet & Greet with Women 2021
GlobalGRACE (WP2) Bangladesh team has created an online platform for women from all professions. The platform is a women-only Facebook...
Jul 14, 20212 min read

New Publication: Methodologies and International Relations: Contemporaneous Debates
The IRI / PUC-Rio Methodology Lab has just published the third book in the series "METHODOLOGIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:...
May 28, 20211 min read

Launching GlobalGRACE Bangladesh Website
GlobalGRACE Bangladesh is very excited to announce the launch of its website on April 2021. Visit us at www.globalgracebd.net. We wanted...
May 19, 20211 min read


Launch: Final Exhibition of Free School of Arts – Elã – Masculinities in Dialogue
The GlobalGRACE Brazil team would like to invite one and all to the virtual experience of our final exhibition at Galpão Bela Maré,...
May 18, 20212 min read


Space Invaders Manifesto Launch
Hear from Space Invaders Sharon Heal, Sara Wajid, Nirmal Puwar, Dr. Siobhán McGuirk, Mel Strauss and Dr Orian Brook in our Manifesto for...
Apr 20, 20211 min read

Para Volvernos A Encontrar - To Find Us Again
GlobalGRACE Mexico (WP5) have created the postcards below to share their awareness-raising work on human rights in migration. The...
Apr 20, 20212 min read

Nityo Sokha - An Effort by Marginalized Women
GlobalGRACE Bangladesh (WP2) has been organizing several workshops on self-identified skills (by the participants) with several female...
Apr 20, 20211 min read

Launch: Free School of Arts – Escola Livre de Artes – Elã
March 12th marks one year of the first officially registered death by COVID-19 in Brazil: Rosana Aparecida Urbano, 57 years old, domestic...
Mar 20, 202112 min read


Primer Encuentro De Antropología Visual: Conversaciones Sobre La Construcción De La Mirada
(Note for English speakers: please scroll down for translation) PRIMER ENCUENTRO DE ANTROPOLOGÍA VISUAL: CONVERSACIONES SOBRE LA...
Feb 8, 202115 min read


The process of creating a Huipil in the community of Bachén from Poconichim, Chenalhó Municipality
By Pável Valenzuela Arámburo and Circe Ariana Carrillo Equipo de México: Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Voces Mesoamericanas. We moved...
Feb 8, 20213 min read

Workshop on Mental Wellbeing
GlobalGRACE Bangladesh arranged workshops on Mental Wellbeing with a total number of fifteen female construction workers and household...
Feb 1, 20211 min read

Special Issue on Creative Community Activism in Global Contexts
We are pleased to announce that the special issue on Creative Community Activism in Global Contexts is now published online. All articles...
Dec 6, 20201 min read


British Museum Detour: Imperialism and Other Legacies
A drawn detour of the introductory spaces of the British Museum by Catherine Hahn, Researcher, GlobalGRACE. The detour explores how the...
Sep 10, 20201 min read


Going Digital?
Since March of this year, we have been living in the oscillations of what has come to be called social isolation, with conflicting...
Sep 2, 20209 min read


Virtual Photo Exhibition - "Swimming Against the Tide: Women Doing ‘Men’s’ Work in Bangladesh"
GlobalGRACE Bangladesh cordially invites you to join "Swimming Against the Tide: Women Doing ‘Men’s’ Work in Bangladesh", a virtual photo...
Aug 6, 20201 min read


Do Museums Care: Conversation with Museum De-Tox
CENTRE FOR FEMINIST RESEARCH, GOLDSMITHS · MONDAY, 13 JULY 2020 Thanh Sinden, Nick Virk, Cina Aissa from Museum De-Tox in conversation...
Jul 15, 202033 min read


The Force of Possibility in the Time of a Pandemic
In this collaborative text, Deyanira Clériga Morales, Aldo Ledón Pereyra and Pável Valenzuela Aramburo (WP5) write about the situation in...
Jun 3, 202012 min read


Authenticity in the Age of Covid-19
Fragmented reflections on coronavirus, digital engagement, and museum practice from Siobhan McGuirk, WP6 ECR I. Authenticating For...
May 13, 20203 min read

Notes from the South on a Global Pandemic: Challenges and Resiliences
I would rather be writing a postcard on another subject related to Brazil and my work; I would rather be telling you about the beautiful...
Apr 6, 20204 min read


Learning and Unlearning
The Global Grace teams have been working on-line learning resources, to share the work we have been doing across our 6 work packages on...
Apr 6, 20203 min read
A poem sent from a friend of Susan Friedman: Alicia Ostriker
A poem to cheer us through the current global crisis, sent to us with permission from our Expert Assessor, Professor Susan Friedman. The...
Mar 26, 20201 min read


WP2 Female Construction Worker’s Film and Photography Exhibition Travels to India
“Swimming Against the Tide: Women Doing ‘Men’s’ Work in Bangladesh” (Gallery Gold, Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India from March...
Mar 25, 20202 min read


GlobalGRACE Community Festival 2020
The GlobalGRACE (WP2) Bangladesh team in collaboration with their research participants organized a one-day community festival on 26th...
Mar 25, 20203 min read

A Mexico of Love and Learnings
This text is about affect. This text is about the opportunity (unique in life!) to experience ten days of an inspiring Mexico, of loving...
Mar 18, 20202 min read

Launch: Artistic Residency of Passinho Carioca Dance Company
Photo Credits: Márcia Farias // Imagens do Povo The new year brought together the Dance Company, Passinho Carioca, with GlobalGRACE...
Mar 5, 20203 min read


Launching the Female Construction Workers' Manifesto
GlobalGRACE Bangladesh (WP2) has arranged a photography exhibition named “Launching the Manifesto: Female Construction Workers Laying the...
Feb 24, 20201 min read

Reflections on the UCT Decolonial Summer School. Or, learning to ask questions
What does it mean to do decolonial work? Not, what is decoloniality, not, what constitutes a decolonial method, not, what defines...
Feb 12, 20204 min read


Making Lives Lovable: 2nd Community Writing Workshop
Acceptance. Identity. Family. Community. Writing for the self is not only liberating but empowering. No one else defines you but...
Feb 6, 20202 min read

A Global Grace Whatsapp Soapie
For two weeks in the closing months of 2019, the South Africa team (WP1) had us in the palm of their hands. Or, more accurately, we had...
Feb 6, 20203 min read


Participatory Photography, Filmmaking & Handicraft Workshop by WP2
GlobalGRACE Bangladesh has been arranging a series of weekly participatory photography / filmmaking / handicraft workshops with female...
Jan 27, 20201 min read

The Free Course at UNIperiferias – Rethinking Gender: Art, Politics, and Masculinities
Over the months of September to December, GlobalGRACE Brazil brought together a number of organizations, with diverse educators, artists,...
Dec 31, 20197 min read

Reflections on the Transnational Encounter of Migrant Youth
Como esta tu corazón? Immersion – IV Encuentro Transnacional de Juventud Migrante “Queremos ser tratados como sujeitos de derecho, no...
Dec 21, 20195 min read


Transnational Encounter of Migrant Youth: Pronouncement and Videos
At the beginning of December 2019, GlobalGRACE researchers in Mexico (WP5) held a Transnational Encounter of Migrant Youth. It was...
Dec 21, 20193 min read

Infographics of Research into Migration, Education and Development
This infographic shows the results of an investigation into migration, education and development by the GlobalGRACE team in Mexico (WP5).
Dec 21, 20191 min read


Teatro de Sombres in Chiapas
Written by GlobalGRACE Researcher Suzanne Clisby English: During my most recent visit to Chiapas in September, I had a fascinating...
Nov 26, 20192 min read


Handicrafts Workshop in Bangladesh
On August 31st our participants instructed and learned, mutually helping each other to make some beautiful handicraft products. See some...
Oct 25, 20191 min read


Filmmaking and Photography Workshops in Bangladesh
GlobalGRACE Bangladesh held two workshops, photogrpahy and filmmaking, for female participants. Watch what happened below! The...
Oct 25, 20191 min read

Launch: Rethinking Gender: Art, Politics, and Masculinities
Por e para que falar de masculinidades? Why and to what end speak about masculinities? It is with this question that we opened the first...
Oct 18, 20193 min read

Participatory Filmmaking and Photography Workshop
This postcard represents some glorious moments of Participatory Film-making and Photography Workshop, held in Sylhet, Bangladesh in...
Jul 20, 20193 min read


GlobalGRACE Mobile phone based Filmmaking and Photography Competition
Imagining Gender Equalities GlobalGRACE Bangladesh invited Shahjalal University Photographers’ Association (SUPA) and Chokh Film Society...
Jul 20, 20194 min read

Encontros Intra Mareenses (Português)
Douglas Viana: Pesquisador do Instituto Maria e João Aleixo, parceiro no projeto GlobalGRACE (WP3) Durante o processo de preparação do...
Jun 29, 20193 min read

Encounters between Marés (English)
Douglas Viana: Researcher from the Instituto Maria e João Aleixo, partner in the GlobalGRACE Project (WP3) During the process of...
Jun 29, 20193 min read


Decolonising Academic Spaces
The second of two posts about launching South Africa’s Sex Worker Theatre Project. Written by GlobalGRACE member Phoebe Kisubi (Work...
Jun 19, 20192 min read


Postcards from the Field: Body Politics and Moving Bodies
The first of two posts about launching South Africa’s Sex Worker Theatre Project. Written by GlobalGRACE member Yasmin Gunaratnam (Work...
Jun 19, 20192 min read


Postcards from the Field: Meeting Migrant Youth and Participatory Film Workshops
GlobalGRACE member Pável Valenzuela Arámburo (Work Package 5: Mexico) reports on some of the Museo Migrante's recent activities. Above...
Mar 28, 20192 min read


Postcards from the Field: Collaboration in Curation
Global GRACE member Siobhan McGuirk (Work Package 6: UK) reflects on gaining new skills and collaborative methods of curation. Training...
Feb 7, 20193 min read
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