Theme: Osmišljeno ovde

The first TEDxBelgradeWomen will be hold on December 7th, 2013, at one of the best venues in the city - Dom omladine. The entrance to the event is free, with a good motivation letter.
We will live stream one session form TEDWomen and also will have a session with live speakers (four women and one man).

Dom omladine Beograda
Makedonska 22
Belgrade, 11000
Serbia

Olga Maksimovic Mirkovic

Olga Maksimovic Mirkovic sees personal and professional development of each individual as the basis for the progress of both society as a whole and single companies. But what happens when a part of the system changes already defined system framework by its development? What happens when the values of individuals and corporations do not match anymore? Is it then possible to reconcile the existing differences between these two and how it can be done? Olga will share with us her vision of this dynamic relationship. She presents herself as a wife, mother and executive director of “Limundo”. A mathematician according to her basic education, with a master degree in public relations, Olga deeply believes that lifelong learning is a way in which we can change the world. In her career she had the opportunity to work in different places and environments, from the school system to start-up companies. She believes that knowledge is not divided in categories, so everything she has learned through both her formal and informal education she today applies in conducting of Limundo as an executive director of the company. Her view of the relation between the company and its employees she will present to us through the theory of networks and through her professional perspective.

Tatjana Obradovic Tosic

Tatjana Obradovic Tosic in her speech will encourage us to ask ourselves: what do TV advertisements we see every day sell to us, altogether with certain products? In which way through the sale of а hair dye, laundry detergent or car tires we have been also sold the entire value system, the concept of normality and models of behavior? Tatjana is a psychologist by training, who has been working over the last 10 years as a consultant in the area of gender mainstreaming and gender analysis, as well as a trainer in several projects dealing with the women empowerment. She is also one of the founders of NVO “Mena group”. She is particularly interested in media discourse in Serbia, and her research on the way of presenting female body in ads is part of her master thesis that she will soon defend.

Milena Minja Bogavac

Milena Minja Bogavac, a writer, playwright, slam poet and theater artist, believes that engaged art is the most powerful tool of social emancipation. Her creative work in the field of culture has been enriched with over 15 written plays, which have been performed both in Serbia and abroad. Milena has been awarded numerous times for her drama work. She leads an independent theater troupe named Drama Mental Studio, but she also cooperates with many organizations and cultural institutions (Bitef Theater, Center E8, Walking Theory…). In her presentation, she will represent the idea of decentralization of alternative culture and performing forms concerning narrative, dance and theater expression, which have been developed so far in Serbia only in the big cities. She believes that proper education on these forms and ways of expressing creativity can help to solve many problems that young people nowadays are facing with in the province. In her speech she will pay special attention to methodology of this type of training and the positive effects that it has for the society.

Vojislav Arsic

Vojislav Arsic, better known as Vojkan, is a founder of the Center E8 and one of the founders of the "Be a Man" programme, in which young men are creating a new image of "Balkan man" through the promotion of gender equality and nonviolence. With his speech Vojkan will encourage us to ask ourselves how many times through our childhood we have been given clear instructions about how a man or a woman should behave. And what does the message sent to men "do not act like a girl" mean. What kinds of persons are girls if it is bad to act like them, Vojkan asks. As a man, he believes that the issue of gender equality is the problem that concerns both men and women. Gender inequality and gender-based violence is not nor should it be just a woman's story. It is a human story that affects the whole humanity. Men and women should primarily behave like human beings, not like actors playing the scenario that someone else wrote.

Ivana Malinovic

Ivana Malinović is one of the founders and a director of the NGO "Belgrade Flower Festival". The issues she is dealing with concerns modern cities whose development is shaping our everyday life, but is also affecting all aspects and perspectives of the life quality of those who live and grow up in these cities. Can children in today's cities play in the street as we used to? Is hiperurban surrounding recognizing children as equal members of the public space and what it can offer to children, i.e. what it has deprived them of? Can the tendency of our youngsters to reside in the virtual world be understood as a clear message that they do not feel to belong to the physical space which more and more often invalidates the right to play and be free? With these issues Ivana directly faced when she became a mother, so she put her professional experience in journalism, public relations, activism and research work into the service of the quest for good solutions that could help to create a child friendly city. She thinks that a person friendly city is the one that recognizes all its residents and their needs as equally valuable and that only this kind of a city has the potential and the future.