{"id":7238,"date":"2017-05-05T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epeka.si\/predavanja-selme-selman\/"},"modified":"2023-12-16T05:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T05:33:22","slug":"predavanja-selme-selman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epeka.si\/en\/predavanja-selme-selman\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectures by Selma Selman"},"content":{"rendered":"

22, 23 and 25 June, 2017
\nIn more towns<\/h3>\n

Selma Selman is one of the first Romani women in Bosnia and Herzegovina to graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Banja Luka (Murska Sobota, Maribor, Novo mesto, Ljubljana, Velenje, Metlika).
\nShe continued her studies at the renowned Central European University in Budapest and is currently a postgraduate student at Syracuse University in the USA. Selma Selman was born in the Roma settlement of Ru\u017eica, near Biha\u0107, into a family where many members do not have Bosnian citizenship. Selman is always other as a woman and always a foreigner as a Muslim; she is thus always an unwelcome and exotic subject in Europe, America and even Bosnia, which also informs the themes and issues she addresses in her art. She argues that discrimination, against Roma as well as against women and many other minority groups, is ever present but surmountable if we are willing to show some respect and empathy and look beyond our individual concerns and problems.<\/p>\n

In 2017, we will be holding a series of lectures with Selma Selman in Slovenia – in Murska Sobota, Maribor, Novo mesto, Ljubljana, Velenje and Metlika, presenting the successful international contemporary artist, the position of art within the Roma community and the possibilities of overcoming cultural differences through art and cultural production, the position of women in the Roma community and in society at large, as well as the establishment of initiatives aimed at empowering women from minority groups.<\/p>\n

The lectures will also include a presentation of the artist’s fresh catalogue, which presents her current production.<\/p>\n

The youth programme of the the Association EPEKA, Soc. Ent., is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport – Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth.
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GALLERY<\/h3>\n