#ACYPLMacedonia featured in the USF Magazine

The article "USFSP and Tampa Bay Welcome Macedonian Delegation" by Matthew Cimitile is in print in the USF Magazine Spring 2018 edition:
 

cover of the Spring 2018 USF Magazine

And for more about the ACYPL Macedonian visit to Tampa Bay, there are additional posts on this blog -- 22 posts from January 2018.  If you start with this post, regarding our visit with the first US Ambassador to Macedonia, Chris Hill, and then click on "newer posts" you can see them all:

http://jainmacedonia.blogspot.mk/2018/01/acyplmacedonia-in-florida-meeting-with.html

Women's HERStory Month Event at USFSP featuring UKIM Professor Karolina Ristova-Aasterud

We look forward to welcoming Professor Karolina Ristova-Aasterud from UKIM (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje) to be our keynote speaker at our Women's HERStory Month Event:

Defending Women's Reproductive Rights and Freedoms: The Curious Case of the Macedonian Abortion Law of 2013 

This event will take place in conjunction with my Women and the Law class, and my students will be presenting research posters exploring various topics related to reproductive freedom.

Thursday, March 22 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm in Davis 130, USF St. Petersburg.

More about Professor Karolina Ristova-Aaserud:

Prof Dr.Karolina Ristova-Aasterud is an Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at the Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus ", University Ss.Cyril and Methodius, in Skopje, Macedonia, former Member  of the City Council of Skopje (2000-2002) and former Member of Parliament (2002-2006). Both in academic and political capacity, she is very much engaged on the issues of women’s rights and gender equality, very prominently on the issues of introducing gender quotas in her party ( in the early 1990s) and in the electoral laws ( in the mid 2000s), as well as on defending women’s reproductive rights and freedoms. In 2013, she was the main challenger of  the newly introduced Law on Termination of Pregnancy before the Macedonia’s Constitutional Court. As a student and prominent young political activist in the early 1990s, she is one the first, if not the first, who publicly, in media interviews, declared herself as feminist, something as a taboo label at the time in Macedonia. Academically, her teaching and research interests are also very much dedicated to women’s rights, feminist legal and political theories, as well as in European legal/political theory in general . Among other published works, she is the author of the first ever published book on the feminist political theories in the Macedonian language (2009), very influential in raising the feminist perspective in the discourse in the academic, political and civic circles in the country.

We met at the European Conference on Politics and Gender in Lausanne in June 2017:

https://jainmacedonia.blogspot.com/2017/09/european-conference-on-politics-and.html

Former Member of Parliament Tanja Tomic -- guest speaker at USFSP -- in advance of USFSP-SEEU Joint Research Project

 During the Spring 2018 semester, my Civil Liberties class was partnering with law students at SEEU.

We needed to test our videoconferencing equipment in advance of our first skype meeting with our colleagues from SEEU, so we invited former Member of Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia to join us from Skopje to discuss her work to expand women's rights in Macedonia.

Everything works great -- and we can't wait to see our colleagues at SEEU next week!

Thanks so much to Tanja Tomic for taking the time to speak with my students about women's rights in Macedonia!

Our Constitutional Law class with former Member of Parliament Tanja Tomic

SEEU - USFSP Cooperation -- Constitutional Law Students in Prof Blerim Reka and Prof Judithanne McLauchlan classes working together

I am delighted that my cooperation with colleagues at my host university -- SEEU -- continues.  My key contact/host was Vice Rector Blerim Reka.  Now, he and I are collaborating by having our students (and some of them, my former SEEU students!) work together on a comparative research project.

Our objective for our first skype videoconference was to introduce Prof. Dr. Blerim Reka and his students from SEEU with my students from USFSP.  Prof. Reka also delivered an introductory lecture about the European Convention of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights, and I introduced the Supreme Court of the United States and the Bill of Rights.

I have a separate blog devoted to the Comparative Legal Research Project:
          comparativelegalresearch.blogspot.com 


Here are the initial entries about this project

Our first Skype Videoconference:
https://comparativelegalresearch.blogspot.com/2018/03/our-first-skype-videoconference.html

Our bibliographic research session with Poynter Librarian Kaya Van Beynen
 https://comparativelegalresearch.blogspot.com/2018/03/usfsp-legal-research-exercise-and.html

Testing out our videoconference equipment -- with former Dr  JSM student Marissa Wyant
https://comparativelegalresearch.blogspot.com/2018/03/testing-videoconference-equipment-with.html

Videoconference/Guest Speaker former Member of Parliament Tanja Tomic
https://comparativelegalresearch.blogspot.com/2018/03/guest-speaker-former-member-of.html

More about our research partner, Prof. Blerim Reka of SEEU
https://comparativelegalresearch.blogspot.com/2018/03/our-research-partner-prof-blerim-reka.html

Our research projcet:
 https://comparativelegalresearch.blogspot.com/2018/03/usfsp-seeu-comparative-legal-research.html

But here are some pictures our our first videoconference:

I was so happy to see my former students from SEEU

our SEEU and USFSP students