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Elena Cornaro Study Award - fifth edition 2022

The Elena Cornaro University Centre promotes the fifth edition of the Study Award in honour of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, dedicated to the young scholar who graduated in Philosophy from the University of Padua on 25 June 1678, becoming the world’s first woman to graduate. The award, which

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Feminist transformation of universities

Barbara Risman (University of Illinois Chicago), Kristen Myers and Allison Danell (East Carolina University), will discuss the attempts in the United States by the National Science Foundation to improve gender equity in universities and in the scientific community more generally.The conference is

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Talk: ‘Caribbean Ecofeminist Aesthetics: Reimagining Body and Land Intersections’ with Dr Myriam Moïse

Tuesday 21st June 2022 Dr Myriam Moïse, Université des Antilles, will deliver a talk “Caribbean Ecofeminist Aesthetics: Reimagining Body and Land Intersections” at 16:00-17:30 (BST). Organized by The University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies (UCCGS), the event is available online. It is part

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“Una giornata con Elena” - fourth edition

The fourth edition of the event “Una giornata con Elena” is held on Monday 27th June at 5 p.m. in Aula Magna in Palazzo Bo. The ceremony will prize the winner of the Elena Cornaro Study Award that was announced by the Elena Cornaro University Centre for gender studies and policies and promoted by:

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The forbidden library

The Students' and Academics' International Aid Fund (SAIH) and the Centre on Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen (CMI-UiB), as part of the 'Queer lawfare seminar series', hold a debate about the relevance of preserving queer knowledge, the challenges this poses and the

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