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Fall 2020 Events Card

WICID is thrilled to release our Fall 2020 Events Term Card.

You can find the date, time, speakers, and registration details for all of our events this fall here

Please note - this event has been postponed and provisionally rescheduled to December 3- please watch this space for updates on the final date and time. Thank you for your understanding.

Join us for the Critical South Asia Group webinar series this fall. First up:

"Meritocracy and Democracy: The Social Life of Caste in India" with Prof. Ajantha Subramanian (Dept of Anthropology, Harvard University)

Dec 3 at 2pm (to be finalized - please watch this space)

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tNi3ClkEQeugBgrtmgwwFw

On Friday Sept. 25, 2020 the 5th Anniversary of the creation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), WICID joined Warwick IGSD and other colleagues in launching the Warwick SDG Report.

Our colleagues at Warwick IGSD write,

"At the University of Warwick, we prioritise a thoughtful, critical and substantial engagement with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our aim is that by 2030, Warwick will be one of the world’s exceptional universities, helping to transform our region, country and world for the collective good. Our strategy thus combines a commitment to cutting edge, internationally relevant work, with an ethical commitment to positive impact in the world. Through building inclusive communities of research, teaching, learning and practice we believe that we can help to shape and further the sustainable development agenda. This is a contribution but also a commitment to playing our role as a Higher Education Institution."

Read the full report here.

Read comments from our colleagues at IGSD here.

Watch the launch recording here.

Join WICID and GPS Monash on November 4, 9-10:30am (GMT) for this event, in which panellists will discuss findings from the piloting of a new method (the Feminist Everyday Observatory Tool) to capture the impacts of conflict on women's social reproduction (unpaid care work). The FEOT, an innovative three-step research method developed by Profs Shirin Rai and Jacqui True, brings the quantitative benefits of time-use studies together with the depth and nuance gained from qualitative techniques, including narrative interviews.

The method was recently piloted in a comparative research study carried out with conflict-affected populations in Sri Lanka and Myanmar by Dr Jayanthi Lingham, Dr Melissa Johnston and in-country research teams, as part of the Monash-Warwick Alliance project 'Inclusive Economies, Enduring Peace'. At this event, they will share the methodological findings from this study and discuss the value of the FEOT for future research on labour, gendered time use and conflict.

Discussants

Ms Ratna Sudarshan (ISST, New Delhi)

Ms Nina Potarska (Women's League for Peace and Freedom)

Dr Samanthi Gunawardana (Monash GPS)

Prof Shirin Rai, WICID, University of Warwick (Chair)
Prof Jacqui True, Monash GPS (Closing)

Registration

This webinar will take place over Zoom. Please register here

Event Details

Date:

24 September 2020 at 9:00 am – 10:30 am

This event has now transpired, but you can watch the recording online here.

Description

This event will launch the field report and research brief piloting a new method (the Feminist Everyday Observatory Tool) to capture the impacts of conflict on women's social reproduction (unpaid household labour). The field report outlines the findings from a comparative qualitative research study, carried out in two case studies in Sri Lanka and Myanmar across six sites (two each of conflict-affected, proximate to conflict and relatively stable) using the Feminist Everyday Observatory Tool. The project led by Prof Shirin Rai (Warwick) and Prof Jacqui True (Monash) and funded by the Monash-Warwick Alliance, is examining the depletion of women's and household labour in situations of conflict and fragility.

Speakers

Alison Davidian, Deputy Country Representative a.i., UN Women Afghanistan

Samantha Hung, Deputy Representative, Asian Development Bank (ADB) European Office, and incoming ADB Chief of Gender Equity

Dr Melissa Johnston, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash GPS

Dr Jayanthi Lingham, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, WICID

Nela Porobić-Isaković, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Chair: Professor Jacqui True, Director, Monash GPS

Closing Remarks: Professor Shirin Rai, Director, WICID

Register

Register here: https://monash.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cto-GGVCTaa6S7HC905PMg

This event is taking place at 9:00-10:30am BST (6:00-7:30pm AEST; 10:00-11:30am CEST).

For any queries, please email: WICID@warwick.ac.uk

This event is co-hosted by Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID) and Monash Gender, Peace and Security (GPS) Centre.