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...
CGDS is proud to congratulate Shkak, CGDS's former Media Officer on being selected as a participant for the Global Peace Summit (GPS) Sydney 2025 , an international platform dedicated to peacebuilding, cultural diplomacy, and youth empowerment . This prestigious opportunity brings together emerging leaders from diverse backgrounds...
On 21 November 2024, Dr. Choman Hardi, co-director of CGDS, participated in a panel discussion at King’s College London titled The Ethics of Representation: Engaging with Testimony of Atrocity . She was joined by fellow panellists Prof. Jelke Boesten and Dr. Rebecca Jinks, and the session was chaired...
On 19-20 November 2024, Dr. Choman Hardi, co-director of CGDS, was a panellist at the Iraq Initiative Conference held at Chatham House. During the research roundtable titled Creative Mediums as Political Expression Tools , Dr. Hardi joined fellow panellists Tamara Al-Attiya, Sherko Abbas, Tamara Chalabi, and Henaa Malallah to discuss...
On 27 November 2024, CGDS co-director Dr. Choman Hardi facilitated a gender and media training session for media directors and editors-in-chief. The training was organized by the Democracy and Human Rights Development Centre (DHRD) and Jasana Organisation, with a focus on empowering female journalists and promoting women’s participation...
Choman Hardi and Afsana Press recently embarked on a book tour to promote "Whispering Walls," featuring author readings, book signings, and engaging conversations with the author. The tour included stops at Royal Holloway University, Canterbury Waterstones, and Queen's College Oxford. The event at Royal Holloway University was moderated by Dr....
Associate Professor Dr. Choman Hardi delivered the keynote address at the second Kurdish Studies Conference, a collaborative effort between the LSE and Sheffield University. Held from May 22nd to 23rd, 2024, at the University of Sheffield, the conference was organized by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department...
On April 25, In a moderated discussion, authors Choman Hardi and Essmat Sophie read from their recent novels and discussed the role of fiction when it comes to re-writing the highly contested history of both the past and the present. Hardi and Sophie undertake the difficult endeavor...
"On Human Rights Day, which falls on December 10th each year, the global community celebrates the fundamental rights and freedoms that belong to every individual. It was on this auspicious day in 2023 that Dr. Choman Hardi, an esteemed associate professor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS),...
On November 30, 2022, Savan Abdulrahman, our research assistant contributing to the Masculinity research project at CGDS, achieved success by winning a participation prize during the final conference of a three-year-long project between Sweden and Kurdistan. The project focused on "International Cooperation to Strengthen Democracy and Equality...
