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Final Seminar 2022

13 May 2022
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.