Occasional Speaker Seminar
SOCIAL WORK
Wednesday 7th March, 5pm
Room 104, Fulton
Speaker
Dr Ephrat Huss, Ben Gurion University, Israel
presents:
The use of arts-based methods in social work to
symbolically reclaim spaces: Impoverished Bedouin
women in Israel
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In this seminar, Dr Huss analyses impoverished Bedouin women
in Israel via self-explained images which demonstrate how the
intersection of different cultural, national and gendered types of
oppressions severely limit women’s concrete – but also
metaphorical – spaces, creating much pain. The images also
show how the women constantly struggle against these limitations.
Dr Huss’s case study will be used to demonstrate how work with
images can enhance research and intervention in social work when
used from a social critical, humanistic and strengths-based
perspective.
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Dr Ephrat Huss is a researcher in social work and directs an MA programme
specialising in arts and social work at Ben Gurion University, Israel.
She has published extensively about drawing as a speech act for marginalised
(specifically Bedouin) women in Israel, and on the use of art as self-expression.
* Refreshments available
** The seminar can be joined remotely by logging on to:
https//connectpro.sussex.ac.uk/swhuss_7mar2012