[EVENT] (Pussy) Riot: Women in the Prison System 2 May
When: Tue 2 May 2017, 17:30 – 18:30 BST
Where: Main Lecture Theatre, Divinity School, St. John’s College
Tickets: https://genderriot.eventbrite.co.uk
The Department of Politics and International Studies is pleased to present Maria Alyokhina as the closing keynote for the 2017 “Gender and the Political Academy” conference.
Alyokhina is a member of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot, and spent two years in prison for a conviction of hooliganism following a performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 2012. Alyokhina will be drawing on her own experience to discuss women in the penal system.
Tickets will be a £2 donation at the door, to go to Mediazona, an independent online media organisation dedicated to promoting human rights: https://zona.media/
