News

1 June 2018

NORA Conference 2019 - Call for Abstracts

Gender and feminist researchers are invited to participate in the NORA 2019 Conference on critical feminist cross-disciplinary research and activities. The conference is co-hosted by RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference, the EDDA Research Center and the United Nations University Gender Studies and Training Programme at the University of Iceland. You are welcome to contact us on noragender@hi.is
28 May 2018

Birzeit University in Palestine and UNU-GEST offer joint fellowships

The External Academic Relation Office at Birzeit University and UNU-GEST invite master's students to apply for a joint Erasmus+ and UNU-GEST fellowships to attend the 2019 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies at the University of Iceland. The programme will run from January 8 to May 24, 2019 in Reykjavík, Iceland
25 May 2018

UNU-GEST graduates the class of 2018

The UNU-GEST programme celebrated the graduation of 23 fellows yesterday who were awarded a post-graduate diploma in international gender studies from the University of Iceland
23 May 2018

Open seminar "The Press in Palestine"

The open seminar discussing the media landscape in Palestine is hosted by UNU-GEST, the Höfði Reykjavik Peace Centre and the Institute of International Affairs on Thursday, 24 May, from 8:30 to 9:30 at Oddi 101 at the University of Iceland.
16 May 2018

Open seminars - UNU-GEST fellows present their final assignments

23 fellows are graduating from the UNU-GEST programme in spring semester 2018. The graduates will present their final assignments at four thematic, open seminars at the University of Iceland.
3 May 2018

Final Lecture in spring lecture series on anti-gender movements as challenges to human rights

Andrea Pető, Professor at Central European University, Budapest, is the 8th and last lecturer in the RIKK & UNU-GEST 2018 spring term lecture series.