Tras la reciente decisión del Estado de Chile de no ratificar el Acuerdo de Escazú vinculado a temas ambientales, Gabriel Vargas, académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas e investigador del Programa de Reducción de Riesgos y Desastres de la U.
La iniciativa de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) es la actividad de difusión científica más grande de la Casa de Bello, y contará en esta oportunidad con más de 70 charlas magistrales, exhibiciones temáticas y stands de las carreras de ingeniería y ciencia que se imparten en dicha unidad académica.El campus Beauchef se prepara para abrir sus puertas este 18, 19 y 20 de octubre para mostrar la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación que allí desarrollan, en el IV Festival de Ingeniería y Ciencias de la Facultad de Ciencia
La iniciativa, que tiene como objetivo identificar y priorizar las respuestas para 16 grupos sociales identificados como vulnerables, reúne a representantes del sector privado, la sociedad civil, la academia y del gobierno para entregar propuestas de políticas públicas que puedan impactar directamente a estos grupos, y de esta forma avanzar en la erradicación de la pobreza.
Cerca de 4.000 personas asistieron el sábado 13 de octubre a la primera de las dos jornadas de la XII Fiesta de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, organizada por el PAR Explora de CONICYT Región Metropolitana Sur Oriente.
Last week, we have had a busy two days (11-12 October 2018) in Dakar participating in a mutlistakeholder workshop on Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Senegal co-organized by the Personal Data Protection Commission (CDP), the Ministry in charge of Digital Economy (MCTPEN), the Internet Society Senegal Chapter, and supported by the African Regional Bureau of
Maybe you’ve already heard the story of how the global edit-a-thon known as Art+Feminism got started. It goes something like this:
Five years ago, four friends—Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, and Laurel Ptak—gathered together to discuss an idea for promoting Wikipedia as a place to challenge one of the ways women are silenced: through the preservation of information. That discussion became the Art+Feminism campaign.
16.10.2018 - 19:00 - 22:00 Kino International Karl-Marx-Allee 33 Berlin
Should content on online platforms such as Netflix be monitored and censored? How can they show nudity when films made for the cinema halls can’t, a petition wants to know.
The article by Anila Kurian was published in Deccan Herald on October 10, 2018. Akriti Bopanna was quoted.
Am Donnerstag, den 25. Oktober widmet sich der Soziologe Ulrich Rosar in seinem Vortrag „Brave New Beauty – Physische Attraktivität als gesellschaftliches Kapital“ der Bedeutung von körperlicher Attraktivität für die gesellschaftliche Stellung in Huxleys Universum und im Hier und Heute.
Documentary screening + AFTER-TALK/Q&A with the artist
17 November 2018, 8 pm
Veem House for Performance
Van Diemenstraat 408-410, Amsterdam
Buy your tickets here
A name.
Everybody has one.
By Vishala Pariag and Kajol Char. This article originally appeared on Politics for Tomorrow.
Internet services across the country are unlikely to be impacted over the next 48 hours even as the Domain Name System (DNS) servers undergo a security update coordinated by global regulator, Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The article by an HT correspondent was published in the Hindustan Times on October 12, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
The Telangana government wants more eyes on the streets to upgrade Hyderabad’s safety. It has asked enterprises, public sectors, residential associations and individuals to install closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) in and around their premises.
The article by Rahul Sachitanand was published in Economic Times on October 14, 2018. Elonnai Hickok was quoted.
What if future generations in 2030 learned about gender inequality in their history class and not in their lived realities? What can rural women achieve when included in digital society? What can we do now to ensure a future without a gender digital gap?
Ambika Tandon was a participant in a roundtable organized by Facebook, School of Media & Cultural Studies, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Bengaluru on October 7, 2018.
The agenda for the roundtable was to discuss their community standards, particularly hate speech and harassment, and receive feedback from a feminist and gendered lens. Click to read more.
Anubha Sinha was recently part of a panel discussion on broadcast treaty.
The article by Catherine Saez was published in Intellectual Property Watch on October 9, 2018.
Swaraj Paul Barooah was a discussant at the Indian Feminist Judgment Project 'righting together' workshop organised in Delhi by Jindal from October 6 - 7, 2018.
Swaraj provided commentary on the re-writing of a patent application from a feminist perspective. Click here to view the agenda.
Foyer of the University library, Wilhelmstr. 32 10/23/2018With the help of the forum für internationale entwicklung + planenung (finep) in Esslingen, the School for Sustainability would like to make Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No 9 tangible. For this reason, the innovative learning tool for SDG 9 - Industrialisation, Innovation and Infrastructure developed by finep will be exhibited for the first time at a German university from 23.10.2018.
Der Dienstbetrieb der alten Telefonzentrale der HHU wurde bereits Ende des vergangenen Jahres eingestellt. Bei der Wahl der neuen Telefonnummer landet der Anrufer in einem automatischen, telefonischen Annahmesystem, wird durch dieses geleitet und bei Fragen, die das System nicht beantworten kann, mit einem Mitarbeiter des SSC verbunden.
Bei Fragen können Sie gerne per E-Mail Kontakt aufnehmen.
By Karis Hustad,
student in the Erasmus Mundus MA in Journalism, Media and Globalisation
at Aarhus University and City, University of London