Final Seminar 2022
The semester at the 2022 Gender Equality Studies and Training programme (GRÓ GEST) is coming to an end. Throughout the term, the GRÓ GEST fellows have worked on a final assignment; research papers, research proposals and project proposals, all having to do with issues relevant to gender equality in their home countries. This coming Monday, 16 May, they will give presentations on the content of their final assignments in the Auditorium in Veröld (VHV-023), University of Iceland, from 8:55 am – 4:10 pm.
Agenda:
8:55 - 9:00 • Welcoming remarks: Guðrún Eysteinsdóttir, Operations Manager, GRÓ GEST
9:00-10:15 • SESSION 1 • RESEARCH AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS
More than primadonnas of the women’s movement: Placing young feminist organizing at the center of SRHR advocacy initiatives // Diana Motsi
Gendered and trauma-informed Child Protection services: Resource Guide for Social Workers Working with Violence Against Children Cases // Enjouline Laurensia Kole
Challenging Transnistrian authorities’ (non)response to intimate partner violence (IPV) // Natalia Rezneac
Towards Inclusive and Equitable Education: Reforming Ghana’s Re-entry policy // Owusuwaa Owusu-Brempong
Counting Dead Women: Towards a Femicide Observatory in Kenya // Nicole Wasuna
Coffee break: 10 minutes
10:25-11:40 • SESSION 2 • GENDER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
Exploring Sexual Harassment at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences // Hasina Ndeketa
Challenging the Gender Norms at Early Ages in Cairo, Egypt // Mai Tarek Shalabi
Introducing Intersectional Discrimination in the Anti-Sexual Harassment Training in India // Mohamed Altamash Khan
Chichewa Spoken Word Poetry as Tool for Reducing the Prevalence of Gender Based Violence at Soche Technical College in Malawi // Robert Chiwamba
Countering Digital Gender Based Violence in Pakistan: Creating feminist internet spaces // Sonal Bahadur Ali Dhanani
Coffee break: 10 minutes
11:50-12:50 • SESSION 3 • INTERSECTIONALITIES AND GENDERED CONSTRUCTS
Palestinian Female Bodybuilders’ Body Image // Balqees Shaheen
Transformation Project Homonationalism: EU Integration, Ana Brnabić, and (Euro) Pride // Nikola Maljković
The Legal and Judicial Construction of Gender in Sexual Crimes in Sri Lanka // Sandani N. Yapa Abeywardena
Harmonizing the narratives on the concept of gender in the context of trans-feminist solidarity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro // Selma Alispahić
Lunch break: 40 minutes
13:30-14:45 • SESSION 4 • RE-NEGOTIATING GENDERED SPACES
Why Does She Move? re(Negotiating) Mobility in Gendered Spaces of Lyari, Karachi // Aarti Lila Ram
Promoting Smarter and Gender Responsive Cities for Women in New Delhi, India // Ankita Bhat
Gender Lens in Promoting Peace for the Prevention of Violence against Women during Elections in Kenya National Action Plan II on UNSCR 1325 // Grace Nyamwathi Waweru
Namibian Women in Security and Peacekeeping // Lahya Itedhimbwa Shikongo
Violence Against Palestinian Women in Israel: Intersections of Patriarchy, Militarism and Discrimination // Razan Wazwaz
Coffee break: 10 minutes
14:55-16:05 • SESSION 5 • ACTIVISM
Women’s activism in Kosovo manifested through protests // Erza Kurti
Male Voices against Teenage Pregnancies (MATEP) in Kamuli, Uganda // Joseph Nyende
Promoting Micro-Entrepreneurship & Increasing Enterprise Success Rate Among Rural Women in Punjab, India // Liakatbir Singh Veghal
Towards African Feminist Articulations of Joy and Healing: Lessons from Afrocentric Self and Collective Care Interventions // Maame Adwoa Amoa-Marfo
16:05-16:10 • Closing remarks: Giti Chandra, Research Specialist, GRÓ GEST
The seminar programme is also to be found here.