GEST Final Seminar 2023
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GRÓ GEST FINAL SEMINAR 19 MAY 2023
IN ROOM HT-101 IN UNIVERSITY CENTER - HÁSKÓLATORG, UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND
PROGRAMME:
8:55-9:00 • Welcoming remarks: Margrét Ann Thors, Final Assignment Coordinator and Instructor, GRÓ GEST
9:00-9:45 • SESSION 1
Empowerment, Disability, and Gender
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 Acom Peace Gloria  | 
 Access and Effective Use of Media by Women with Disabilities  | 
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 Bijal Lal  | 
 Sexual Autonomy Matters: Marginalization of Central Experiences for Women with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Tanzania  | 
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 Priskila Arulpragasam  | 
 Disability, Menstrual Health and Gender: Menstrual Health and Women with Visual Impairment from Higher Educational Institutions in Colombo  | 
COFFEE BREAK: 10 minutes
9:55-10:55 • SESSION 2
Justice, Peace, and Public Health
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 Orlando Javon Pearce  | 
 The Impact of Culture (Music and Legacy Legislation) on the Access to Public Healthcare Services for the LGBTQIA+ Community in Jamaica: Research Proposal  | 
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 Sana Salim Lokhandwala  | 
 Period Fellowship: Towards Menstrual Justice in Pakistan  | 
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 Wevyn Helen Awiti Muganda  | 
 Pride (Or Not) in Peace Processes: Queer Youth Marginalisation, Resistance and Participation in Peacebuilding in Kenya  | 
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 Feven Aberham Hailu  | 
 Responding to Gender-Based Violence Victim Women and Girls: Quest for One Stop Service Center in Hawassa, Ethiopia  | 
COFFEE BREAK: 10 minutes
11:05-12:05 • SESSION 3
Activism, Politics, and Movements
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 Akhil Neelam  | 
 Political Parties and Women's Representation in India and Iceland: A Comparative Study  | 
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 Bleona Kurteshi  | 
 Public Representation of Wartime Sexual Violence in Kosova: “Memoriali Heroinat” (The Heroines Memorial) as a Case Study  | 
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 Nirmala Maharjan  | 
 Women in Nepal: The Gender Landscape and its Evolution—2006-2016  | 
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 Yeimama Kallon  | 
 Women in Political Participation: The Case of Sierra Leone  | 
LUNCH BREAK: 35 minutes
12:40-13:40 • SESSION 4
Unlearning, Masculinities, and Violence
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 Saahithiyanan Ganeshanathan  | 
 Breaking the Cycle: Unlearning Toxic Masculinity to End Gender-Based Violence  | 
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 Winifred Ikilai  | 
 “Your ego is choking me, your actions are bruising me. Listen!”: Promoting Positive Masculinities among Boys and Men in Kitgum, Kumi, and Kampala Districts, Uganda  | 
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 Etumboh Nguh Cyril  | 
 Working with Men and Boys to Strengthen Violence Against Women Prevention and Response in Cameroon  | 
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 Edgar Manuel Bernardo  | 
 Engagement of Military and Humanitarian Actors in the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence against IDPs in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique  | 
COFFEE BREAK: 10 minutes
13:50-14:50 • SESSION 5
Adaptation, Sex, and Sustenance
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 Marleen Atieno Onyango  | 
 Economic Empowerment for Women in Mfangano Island, Kenya: Towards Addressing the “Sex for Fish” Phenomenon  | 
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 Madalitso Juwayeyi  | 
 HIV Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Scaling up HIV Prevention in "Sugar Daddy or Blesser" Transactional Sex Relationships Among University Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Blantyre City  | 
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 Lirani Hannah Kaluwa Katutu  | 
 Adaptive Capacity: A Dream for the Female-Headed Household in Mulanje District, Malawi  | 
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 Nana Kwasi Barning Ackah  | 
 Gender and Climate Change: Perceptions and Adaptation Practices of Smallholder Farmers in Ghana: A Case Study in Shai Osudoku District  | 
COFFEE BREAK: 10 minutes
15:00-16:00 • SESSION 6
Transformation, Education, and Policies
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 Nomore Junior Mutsengi  | 
 Building Safe Communities for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Zimbabwe: A School-Centered Gender Norms Transformative Approach  | 
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 Suju Poon  | 
 Leading (In)visible Spaces: Strengthening the Leadership Skills of Young Women in Rural Communities of Nepal  | 
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 Swechhya Rajbhandary  | 
 Nepali Campus (In)Action Against Sexual Harassment: Developing Policies and Mechanisms to Prevent Sexual Harassment in Nepali Higher Education Institutes  | 
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 Aditi Rindani  | 
 Claiming Sonic Space through a Podcast on Gender: Genderly Speaking  | 
16:00-16:05 • Closing remarks: Prof. Irma Erlingsdóttir, Director GRÓ GEST