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Events in March 2021

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March 1, 2021
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March 4, 2021(3 events)

2:00 pm: Disruptive Decision-Making: How Women Can Redefine Leadership for Better Outcomes on NCDs and COVID-19


March 4, 2021

Title: Disruptive Decision-Making: How Women Can Redefine Leadership for Better Outcomes on NCDs

Organizers: American Academy of Pediatrics

Description: As International Women’s Day approaches, join the Taskforce on Women and Non-Communicable Diseases for a webinar to:

  • Discuss the intersection of women and NCDs in the COVID-19 pandemic, including the multifaceted caregiver burden, mental health challenges, and health service disruptions that women and girls face.
  • Share examples of women in leadership at all levels of society and their valuable influence on decision-making to address the impact of the pandemic on NCDs among women and girls.
  • Strategize and identify key actions and policy interventions to be taken through a gender lens for the greater good, especially in ensuring women’s representation and participation in decision-making.

Language: ENG

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4:00 pm: Book Launch: The Security Sector and Health Crises


March 4, 2021

Title: Book Launch: The Security Sector and Health Crises

Organizers: Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva, Geneva Center for Security Sector Governance

Description: Book launch of The Security Sector and Health Crises, which draws lessons from over 30 international experts on the  Ebola crisis in West Africa to highlight opportunities for cooperation between the health and security sectors to successfully address global health crises.

Language: ENG

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4:00 pm: Borders in the Middle East: Past and Present


March 4, 2021

Title: Borders in the Middle East: Past and Present

Organizers: Graduate Institute, Geneva

Description: The CCDP and the University of Neuchâtel have the pleasure of inviting you to the second of a series of joint events showcasing the findings of the ERC consolidator grant: "Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Transborder Spaces, Circulations, Frontier Effects and State Formation, 1920-1946". The project, begun in 2017, is led by Prof. Jordi Tejel, Adjunct Professor with the Department of History at the University of Neuchâtel and CCDP Research Associate. This second online panel discussion will feature a presentation by Dr. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan, Boğaziçi University on “The Turkish-Syrian Border: The Making of a Post-Ottoman Illicit Zone”, as well as a presentation from Dr. Pınar Şenoğuz, University of Göttingen on "From Smugglers to Entrepreneurs: Sugar Trade and 'Fictitious' Exports at the Turkish-Syrian Border".

Language: ENG

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March 11, 2021(2 events)

12:30 am: How to Eat in Palestine: Women, Nutrition, and the Settler Colonial Economy under the British Mandate (1920s-1940s)


March 11, 2021

Title: How to Eat in Palestine: Women, Nutrition, and the Settler Colonial Economy under the British Mandate (1920s-1940s)

Organizers: Gender Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: Under the British Mandate for Palestine (1920-1948) European Jews settled in the country in unprecedented numbers. Within this broader history of colonisation, asking what Jewish settlers ate there might not seem like a pressing matter. But for many Jewish experts in Palestine – including nutritionists, agronomists, economists, and others – promoting a proper diet among Jewish newcomers was not strictly a matter of public health, but rather a tool to support and sustain a growing settler-colonial economy in an expanding Jewish settlement.

Notably, women led many of the efforts to educate Jewish settlers on matters of consumption. Through food programmes, newspaper columns, radio shows, and cookbooks, female nutrition experts prescribed a diet that drew on nutritional science but was adapted to national goals. Bringing together food, physiques, and Zionist ideology, this presentation will highlight the political economy of nutrition and its value for the colonisation of Palestine.

Language: ENG

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11:30 am: Unconscious Gender Bias: What, Why and How to overcome it. A sociological perspective


March 11, 2021

Title: Unconscious Gender Bias: What, Why and How to overcome it. A sociological perspective

Organizers: PRBB Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Description: Are you more biased than you think? Don’t worry! Join us on the 11th March at 11’30 am when sociologist and gender expert Lidia Arroyo (UOC) will talk us through what unconscious bias really is, its origins, consequences and how to deal with it.

Language: ENG

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March 12, 2021
March 13, 2021(1 event)

3:30 pm: Feminist Alternatives to the "New Normality"


March 13, 2021

Title: Feminist Alternatives to the "New Normality"

Organizers: Global Tapestry of Alternatives

Description: Global Tapestry of Alternatives is holding a virtual assembly, which  will bring together members of different feminist movements, organizations and collectives from the “Global South” to continue amplifying grassroots feminist alternatives that emerged during the pandemic and collectively explore how to build and consolidate feminist economies and societies centered around care and the sustainability of life.

Language: ENG and SPA

Registration: Free/ Registration available but not necessary

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March 14, 2021
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March 16, 2021(2 events)

11:00 am: Labour market effects of the COVID-19 pandemic


March 16, 2021

Title:Labour market effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Organizers: Pompeu Fabra University

Language: ENG

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5:30 pm: Building Back Better: a global look at Feminist COVID-19 recovery plans


March 16, 2021

Title: Building Back Better: a global look at Feminist COVID-19 recovery plans

Organizers: Pompeu Fabra University

Language: ENG

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March 17, 2021(2 events)

3:00 pm: Promoting Health through Sustainable Urban Development


March 17, 2021

Title: Promoting Health through Sustainable Urban Development

Organizers: Barcelona Global Health Institute (ISGlobal), LSHTM - Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health and  Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Description: The programme is aimed at strengthening the field of Planetary Health, particularly within Europe, by bringing together stakeholders from academia, government, and civil society. The initiative builds on previous activities including the EU meeting “The Europe that Protects: Safeguarding our Planet, Safeguarding our Health” hold in Dec 2020 in Helsinki, as well as the “Horizon 2020 HERA Research agenda for the Environment, Climate & Health 2020-2030”.

Language: ENG

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4:00 pm: Risk factors for Depression and Anxiety during the Pandemic


March 17, 2021

Title: Risk factors for Depression and Anxiety during the Pandemic

Organizers: Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR)

Description: Depression was already the second leading cause of global burden of disease before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic almost one year ago. Mental health conditions were associated with global economic costs rising to U$S 1 trillion per year. These estimates are expected to further increase in the current context and have an unprecedented impact on an already overstretched healthcare system. Identifying preventable risk factors for depression and other mental health conditions has the potential to help reduce this burden and improve the mental wellbeing of all citizens.

Higher rates of anxiety and depression can be directly associated with the infection in a part of the population that experiences increased fear of getting infected, contagion or uncertainty regarding the course of the treatment. But the largest impact of the pandemic will be indirect, and associated with stressors originating from the significant disruptions in living and socioeconomic conditions including enforced isolation, domestic violence, financial burden and wider environmental factors such as lack of access to green spaces. In this seminar we will discuss these expectations based on the social determinants of mental health model and results of the CoviCat study.

Language: ENG

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March 22, 2021(1 event)

6:30 pm: Women delivering justice: What's holding them back?


March 22, 2021

Title: Women delivering justice: What's holding them back?

Organizers: SNF-funded research project "Diversity on the International Bench: Building Legitimacy for International Courts and Tribunals", in collaboration with Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: This event is part of the Public Lecture Series "Women's Voices in the International Judiciary".

Language: ENG

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March 23, 2021(1 event)

2:00 pm: Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce: Enabling Women to Lead


March 23, 2021

Title: Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce: Enabling Women to Lead

Organizers: Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce Initiative (GEHCWI)

Description: The session aims to contribute insights into the status of women’s leadership in health and care and feasible policy interventions to ensure a more gender-equitable and representative leadership. This session will also present the state of women’s leadership in health and care sectors, including in response to the COVID19 pandemic. A high-level interactive panel discussion will explore opportunities to advance women’s leadership in the health and care workforce.

This session supports the Priority theme of CSW65 - Women's full and effective participation and decision-making in public life along with the first pillar of the GEHCWI which is to increase the proportion of women leaders in health and care roles and one of the key policy areas of WHO GHWN GEH on gender & leadership in the health workforce. It also supports 2021 as the International Year of Health and Care Workers, designated by the World Health Assembly in November 2020.

Language: ENG

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March 24, 2021(1 event)

3:00 pm: Catalyzing Demand for Planetary Health in Europe


March 24, 2021

Title: Catalyzing Demand for Planetary Health in Europe

Organizers: Barcelona Global Health Institute (ISGlobal), LSHTM - Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health and  Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Description: The programme is aimed at strengthening the field of Planetary Health, particularly within Europe, by bringing together stakeholders from academia, government, and civil society. The initiative builds on previous activities including the EU meeting “The Europe that Protects: Safeguarding our Planet, Safeguarding our Health” hold in Dec 2020 in Helsinki, as well as the “Horizon 2020 HERA Research agenda for the Environment, Climate & Health 2020-2030”.

Language: ENG

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April 1, 2021(1 event)

12:30 am: How to (not?) know the Ethiopian Woman and her Hidden Desires


April 1, 2021

Title: How to (not?) know the Ethiopian Woman and her Hidden Desires

Organizers: Gender Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: In this talk, Serawit B. Debele juxtaposes two divergent archives to think about how the female body is produced through discourses on sexual desire. On one hand, she focuses on Wendy Belcher’s and Michael Kleiner’s controversial translation of a hagiography of a female patron saint from the 16th century. On another, she looks at magazines – which exclusively focused on women and sex – that were produced in the first few years of regime change in Ethiopia in 1991.

Language: ENG

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