20 February 2018
#IcelandToo? How Patriarchy Is Perpetuated
Dr. Cynthia Enloe, feminist writer, theorist and professor at Clark University, USA, will give an open lecture based on her new book The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy on Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 12:00 to 13:15 in the Aula of the University of Iceland, Main Building.
19 February 2018
Dr. Klatzer is the fourth lecturer in the 2018 lecture series
Dr. Elisabeth Klatzer is the fourth lecturer in the 2018 RIKK & UNU-GEST lecture series during spring term 2018. Dr. Klatzer is a specialist and civil-society activist on feminist economics and gender responsive budgeting. Her lecture is titled “Budgeting for Women’s Rights: Tax Justice and Gender Equality”
14 February 2018
UNU-GEST fellows visit the President and First Lady of Iceland
Today, 14th of February, the 2018 cohort of UNU-GEST fellows had the honour of visiting the President of Iceland, Mr. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and the First Lady, Mrs. Eliza Reid, at Bessastaðir, the presidential residence.
9 February 2018
Fellows of 2018 class in certification process for project management associates
For the first time, a D-level certification as a project management associate, is a part of the UNU-GEST curriculum in the post-graduate diploma programme in international gender studies
7 February 2018
Third lecture of the spring lecture series
On Thursday 8th of February, Dr. Ragnhildur Helgadóttir, Dean of the School of Law at Reykjavik University, will be the third lecturer in the joint RIKK and UNU-GEST lecture series this spring.
1 February 2018
Programme for RIKK and UNU-GEST spring lecture series
The spring term lecture series, organized by RIKK and UNU-GEST, is up and running. The series is dedicated to the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights to honour the 70th anniversary of the foundational human rights document.