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Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations

The Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences recently published a new report, entitled "Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations – Beyond Broadening Participation". The report examines how systemic racism in the United States has had a significant

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Call for Papers | Stories in Transit. Online Study Day about Italian Transnational Trans* Studies

The Queer Caucus of the AAIS is organizing an interdisciplinary study day in November 2023 devoted to the critical analysis of trans* issues within the Italian socio-cultural and political context. The first session will explore the history of Italian trans* communities. The second part of the study

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Masculinities and Gender-based violence

Sage Journals has recently published three articles about gender violence and different kind of masculinities.The first article, Men Have Gender and Women Are People: A Structural Approach to Gender and Violence, analises the relationship between violence and patriarchal gender system and aimes to

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VIDEO - Women, knowledge and academic institutions: a Paduan debate three-hundred years later

Taking inspiration from the three-hundredth anniversary of a seminal conference that took place at the Accademia dei Ricovrati in Padua in 1723, in which the debated topic was whether women ought to be allowed to cultivate the sciences and the arts and whether they should be given access to

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Cambridge Reproduction Summer School

Registration is now open for the University of Cambridge's online Summer School on "Reproduction at the crossroads", which will take place from 18th to 20th September 2023.  The Summer School is addressed to postgraduate students, early career and established researchers, healthcare professionals

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