January Program Agenda

JacksonKatz@aol.com is one of America's leading anti-sexist male activists. An educator, author and filmmaker, he is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in the field of gender violence prevention education with men and boys, particularly in the sports culture and the military. He has lectured on hundreds of college and high school campuses and has conducted hundreds of professional trainings, seminars, and workshops in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Japan. He is the co-founder of the Mentors In Violence Prevention (MVP) program, the leading gender violence prevention initiative in professional and college athletics. He is the director of the first worldwide domestic and sexual violence prevention program in the United States Marine Corps. He is also the creator and co-creator of educational videos for college and high school students, including Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity (2000), Wrestling With Manhood (2002) and Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol (2004). His new book, The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, was published by Sourcebooks in 2006. Read more about Jackson Katz.
Overview:
Dr. Katz will present his case for the necessity of a paradigm shift in the way domestic and sexual violence are understood.  Instead of seeing sexual and domestic violence as "women’s issues" that some “good guys” help out with, he argues that they are men’s issues, about which all men should be educated and active – especially men in positions of family, community, professional and political leadership.  He will also discuss the bystander approach to gender violence prevention, of which he is a key architect, and will show clips from his films and others to augment a discussion of the role of media literacy in prevention education.

• 10 THINGS MEN CAN DO TO PREVENT GENDER VIOLENCE
• Men, Masculinities, and Media: Some Introductory Notes
• VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
• SLAPSHOT

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