On 21 November 2021, CGDS presented information on the gender spectrum for a group of about 25 medical students. Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, spoke about various aspects of gender identity. The webinar, on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, also featured Ms. Sawen...
On 22 November, Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, presented “The Rights of Special Education Students” at the conference “For a Comprehensive Education.” The conference was hosted by the Halabja Disabled Organization (HDO) and funded by fida, a Finnish NGO that supports community development....
On 17 November, 2021, Dr. Choman Hardi facilitated a poetry workshop for women in Sulaimani as part of a conference on gender and the use of arts-based methods to understand conflict, prevent violence, and build peace. She also gave a poetry reading on 18 November, the last day of the...
On 12 November 2021, Dr. Shakir, AUIS Instructor in English and Social Sciences and the spring 2021 CGDS Jan Warner Visiting Scholar, and Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, presented a panel session on disability and diversity at the 6 th World Disability and...
“Same Blood Same Bone Same Life’: Disability Advocacy in Mogadishu” appears in the fall 2021 Disability History Association News. Dr. Lynn, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia, in March 2021, and met with three disability advocacy organizations there. CGDS is an institutional member of the...
On 8 November 2021, Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS Director, spoke at a panel session. “The Future of Iraq,” held via Zoom by the Aspen Initiative in the UK. Ambassador Mark Bryson-Richardson, the UK Ambassador to Iraq, joined the panel, among others, and Chloe Cornish, the Financial Times correspondent for the...
Dr. Choman Hardi accepted an invitation from the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany, to speak about the Anfal Genocide on 26 October 2021. Her talk was the first in a series of talks for the project “Gathering the Dispersed.” The audience included the Transcultural Studies research group, as well...
On October 20, 2021, Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, participated in “Gender Equality and Social Cohesion: Pathways for Future,” a conference and workshop hosted by Spark and Yasar University, and funded the Kingdom of the Netherlands....
CGDS is pleased to announce that Mr . Ali Hussein Azeez Abo-Jadya, who has been with us since March 2019, has accepted the position of Data Analytics Researcher at IN2 Company in Erbil. Mr. Ali will carry out quantitative research, data...
On October 26, 2021, a delegation from the European Union visited AUIS to learn about the results of the project “Enhancing Education, Developing Community, and Promoting Visibility to Effect Gender Equity in Iraq and the Greater MENA Region,” completed by the Center for Gender and Development Studies. President...
