29 March 2023
GRÓ GEST‘s Lecturers Contribute to RIKK Public Lecture Series on Decolonialism
Three of GRÓ GEST lecturers contribute to the RIKK lecture series this semester: Marsha Henry looked at the gendered, racialised, and militarised politics of peacekeeping on 23 February, Marai Larasi’s lecture on 15 March was titled ““Time Travel” as Liberation Strategy. Reflections on Decoloniality, Memory and Black Feminist Imagination”. And this Thursday, 30 March, Mukul Mangalik will take examples from Latin America, Africa, and South and South-East Asia in his exploration of un-gendering histories of anti-colonial struggles for liberation.
22 March 2023
GRÓ alumni in Kenya meet with UNESCO‘s Regional Office for Eastern Africa
Kenya has outgrown Iceland in terms of electricity generated with its geothermal resources.
21 March 2023
Call for Nominations Closed
The open call for nominations for the GEST 2024 programme closed on the 8 March 2023. A total of 366 nominations were received from 45 countries, most from Africa and South Asia. Of the received nominations, 283 candidates have been invited to submit a comprehensive application by 3 April 2023.
14 March 2023
GRÓ GEST and Erasmus+ Collaboration: Fellows from the Jamaica and Kosovo
This year, two of the twenty-three fellows participating in the GRÓ Gender Equality Studies and Training programme, GEST, are Erasmus+ students: Bleona Kurteshi from the University of Pristina, Kosovo and Orlando Javon Pearce from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
10 March 2023
NEW Online Course: Gender and Development
On 9 February 2023 GEST launched its third massive open online course, this time on gender and development.