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Events in March 2021
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March 1, 2021(1 event) – Title: Decolonising the Curriculum and Racism in Academia Organizers: Gender Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva, Black Conversations Description: From the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa and Oxford to the decolonisation work being done at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, efforts to decolonise the university have continued to grow across university campuses worldwide. However, what does decolonising the university mean, and how does this differ from diversity and inclusion projects? Black Conversations have partnered with the Gender Centre to host Professor Kehinde Andrews lecture on "Decolonising the curriculum and Racism in Academia". Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
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March 4, 2021(3 events) – 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:
Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – 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 Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – 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 Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
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March 8, 2021(1 event) – Title: The Narrowing of the European Court of Human Rights? Legal Diplomacy, Situational Self-Restraint and Dejudicialisation Organizers: Global Governance Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva (part of ERC funded research project "The Paths of International Law" Description: In recent years, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faced a growing number of challenges, stemming, among other reasons, from problems with the implementation of some of its judgments, an upsurge of sovereigntist sentiments in some member states and the rise of de facto illiberal democracies within its jurisdiction. This article examines the effects that these changing contexts have had on the operation of the ECtHR. In very general terms, the article finds that the ECtHR has become increasingly more restrained, but that this restraint plays out in multiple different ways which reflect the structural differences among the member states with regard to the protection of human rights. The article argues that the ECtHR has developed a new and differentiated legal rationality that combines elements of its original legal diplomacy with new forms of strategic deference and a different vision for its overarching role in the protection of European human rights. Overall, the result is a narrowing of the role of the Court. Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
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March 11, 2021(2 events) – 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 Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – 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 Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
March 12, 2021
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March 13, 2021(1 event) – 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 Online |
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March 16, 2021(3 events) All day Title: Beyond the Pandemic HERE Conference – What next? Organizers: Humanitarian Exchange and Research Centre (HERE) Geneva Description: The humanitarian sector has not been short of reform or change efforts over the years. At the core of each attempt has been the aim to do better, to reach those most affected by crisis in a timely manner with the assistance and protection they need. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in another layer of policy and operational reckoning. It has pushed humanitarians to question, adapt and at times transform their approaches and ways of working. It is intervening at a time of broader questions around structural power imbalances and the role of humanitarians in addressing the climate crisis. It is also accelerating change processes already under way. It is too early to tell what changes are here to stay. What is clear, however, is that it is up to the humanitarian sector to leverage this moment of global crisis to exert the type of transformative change it may really need. Through the conference, HERE would like to use the preliminary findings of its research project “Beyond the pandemic” to move collectively from analysis to solutions. If we have a good idea of what does not work, how do we make change happen? What needs to be integrated into current global policy processes? The true value of an ecosystem is its diversity of views. HERE is therefore not looking for the ideal solution but it rather believes in creating the opportunity to bring different visions together to map alternative ways forward. Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – Title:Labour market effects of the COVID-19 pandemic Organizers: Pompeu Fabra University Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – Title: Building Back Better: a global look at Feminist COVID-19 recovery plans Organizers: Pompeu Fabra University Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
March 17, 2021(3 events) All day Title: Beyond the Pandemic HERE Conference – What next? Organizers: Humanitarian Exchange and Research Centre (HERE) Geneva Description: The humanitarian sector has not been short of reform or change efforts over the years. At the core of each attempt has been the aim to do better, to reach those most affected by crisis in a timely manner with the assistance and protection they need. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in another layer of policy and operational reckoning. It has pushed humanitarians to question, adapt and at times transform their approaches and ways of working. It is intervening at a time of broader questions around structural power imbalances and the role of humanitarians in addressing the climate crisis. It is also accelerating change processes already under way. It is too early to tell what changes are here to stay. What is clear, however, is that it is up to the humanitarian sector to leverage this moment of global crisis to exert the type of transformative change it may really need. Through the conference, HERE would like to use the preliminary findings of its research project “Beyond the pandemic” to move collectively from analysis to solutions. If we have a good idea of what does not work, how do we make change happen? What needs to be integrated into current global policy processes? The true value of an ecosystem is its diversity of views. HERE is therefore not looking for the ideal solution but it rather believes in creating the opportunity to bring different visions together to map alternative ways forward. Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – 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 Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – 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 Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
March 18, 2021(2 events) All day Title: Beyond the Pandemic HERE Conference – What next? Organizers: Humanitarian Exchange and Research Centre (HERE) Geneva Description: The humanitarian sector has not been short of reform or change efforts over the years. At the core of each attempt has been the aim to do better, to reach those most affected by crisis in a timely manner with the assistance and protection they need. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in another layer of policy and operational reckoning. It has pushed humanitarians to question, adapt and at times transform their approaches and ways of working. It is intervening at a time of broader questions around structural power imbalances and the role of humanitarians in addressing the climate crisis. It is also accelerating change processes already under way. It is too early to tell what changes are here to stay. What is clear, however, is that it is up to the humanitarian sector to leverage this moment of global crisis to exert the type of transformative change it may really need. Through the conference, HERE would like to use the preliminary findings of its research project “Beyond the pandemic” to move collectively from analysis to solutions. If we have a good idea of what does not work, how do we make change happen? What needs to be integrated into current global policy processes? The true value of an ecosystem is its diversity of views. HERE is therefore not looking for the ideal solution but it rather believes in creating the opportunity to bring different visions together to map alternative ways forward. Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online All day Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Northeast Regional Conference Organizers: ICMA Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers. In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:
Language: ENG Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register Online |
March 19, 2021(1 event) All day Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Northeast Regional Conference Organizers: ICMA Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers. In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:
Language: ENG Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register Online |
March 20, 2021(1 event) All day Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)). Description: Events of the day:
Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
March 21, 2021
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March 22, 2021(4 events) All day Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)). Description: Events of the day:
Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – Title: Global Health Festival Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF) Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:
Language: ARAB Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – Title: Congreso Latinoamericano de Salud Planetaria Organizers: Universidad de Costa Rica Description: A 100% virtual congress organized from Costa Rica for Latin America, with the aim of uniting knowledge about the planet, the human being and their well-being. Language: ESP Registration: Free/ Need to previous register here Online – 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 Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
March 23, 2021(4 events) All day Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)). Description: Events of the day:
Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – Title: Congreso Latinoamericano de Salud Planetaria Organizers: Universidad de Costa Rica Description: A 100% virtual congress organized from Costa Rica for Latin America, with the aim of uniting knowledge about the planet, the human being and their well-being. Language: ESP Registration: Free/ Need to previous register here Online – 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 Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – Title: Global Health Festival Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF) Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:
Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
March 24, 2021(3 events) All day Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)). Description: Events of the day:
Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – Title: Global Health Festival Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF) Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:
Language: ARAB Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – 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 Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
March 25, 2021(5 events) All day Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference Organizers: ICMA Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers. In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:
Language: ENG Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register Online All day Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Mountain Plains Regional Conference Organizers: ICMA Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers. In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:
Language: ENG Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register Online All day Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: West Coast Regional Conference Organizers: ICMA Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers. In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:
Language: ENG Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register Online All day Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)). Description: Events of the day:
Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online – Title: International Trade and the Circular Economy Organizers: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Description: A circular economy aims to transform the current linear economy into a circular model to reduce consumption of finite material resources by recovering materials from waste streams for recycling or reuse, using products longer, and exploiting the potential of the sharing and services economy. Circular economy policies and initiatives largely take place domestically at the national or regional level. However, they have important interlinkages with international trade. International trade plays an important role in circular supply chains in materials and products, end-of-life value chains in waste and scrap, secondary raw materials and second-hand goods. In this light, how can trade contribute to a more resource efficient and circular economy? How would the circular economy transition have an impact on global trade patterns? And in what ways can we secure coherence in these two policy areas? Join Shunta Yamaguchi and Rob Dellink of the OECD Environment Directorate on 25 March at 15:00 CET to discuss the role of international trade in the transition to a resource efficient and circular economy. The presentation highlights findings from a series of recent OECD reports, including: “The Consequences of a More Resource Efficient and Circular Economy for International Trade Patterns” and “International Trade and Circular Economy: Policy Alignment”. Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
March 26, 2021(3 events) All day Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Mountain Plains Regional Conference Organizers: ICMA Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers. In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:
Language: ENG Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register Online All day Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: West Coast Regional Conference Organizers: ICMA Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers. In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:
Language: ENG Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register Online – Title: Global Health Festival Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF) Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:
Language: ENG Registration: Free/ Need to previous register Online |
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April 1, 2021(1 event) – 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 Registration: Free Online |
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