Dr. Choman Hardi, AUIS Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS), was published this month in the London School of Economics (LSE) Centre for Women, Peace and Security Working Paper Series. Her paper, titled ‘Gender Issues in the Context of a Humanitarian Crisis,’ draws...
CGDS attended the premiere of “Begin Now,” a short film produced by the Rasan Organization. The film, shown at the Red Museum on July 4, 2019, expressed the harm of misogynistic labels, and also showed the hope of discarding the labels. Ms. Tanya Kemal Darwesh, Director of Rasan, introduced the...
Representatives from DCO (Dialogue and Culture, an NGO founded in 2015 and active in 162 countries), visited the Center for Gender and Development Studies on Sunday, June 30, 2019. Ms. Srusht Rauf Amin and Mr. Mohammed Abdulaziz are in the process of creating connections locally and internationally, and reached out...
On June 3, 2019, CGDS Director, Dr. Choman Hardi gave a poetry reading at King’s College London (KCL). This was part of a two-day workshop, “Visual Embodied Methodologies.” The workshop built on KCL’s emerging network to relocate visual, embodied, and art-based methodologies from the margins of social science research in...
The Center for Gender and Development Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Lynn Rose, Deputy Director of CGDS, has had a paper accepted for presentation at the Second International Conference on Disability and Diversity in Asia, to be held September 24th and 25th 2019 at the Universitas Brawijaya Law...
The Center for Gender and Development Studies participated in Europe Day on Sunday, June 16, in Baghdad. The European Union awarded CGDS a substantial grant for gender education development in the MENA region in October 2019. Dr. Choman, the founding director of CGDS, summarized our accomplishments in the...
