Events related to Gender and Climate Change
1.-12.3.2010, New York, Gender and Climate Change at the 54th session of the CSW
In parallel to the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) a series of side events addressing gender and climate change will take place:
- Overcoming Copenhagen Black Women Organizing Climate Justice (March 1)
- Climate change and gender responsiveness in Asia-Pacific (March 2)
- Women's Tribunals for Justice Poverty and Climate Change (March 3)
- Gender and Climate Change-the Untold Story of Copenhagen (March 4)
- Climate Witnesses - Women on the Frontline (March 4)
- The Impact of Climate Change on Gender The Nigerian Experience (March 5)
- Gender,Climate change, Agriculture and Food Security (March 6)
- Race, Gender, and Climate US Women of Color Speak UP Act OUT (March 8)
See the full program
18-19 March 2010, Lund (Sweden) Gender, Power and Climate Change Conference
There will be a Gender, Power and Climate Change conference in Lund, Sweden, 18-19 March 2010. The first day (Thursday, March 18) will be open to the public:
When: 13:15-17:00
Where: Pangea, Geocentrum II, Lund University
Arranged by: Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability (LUCID) and Department of Political Science, Lund University
See the full program
7 - 9 Apr 2010, Iloilo City, Conference on gender, environment and development
The Women's Studies Association of the Philippines (WSAP) devotes its 8th national conference to the theme Gender, Environment and Development and invites presentations on the following topics:
- The consequences of climate change on women
- Climate-induced disasters
- Human-made disasters
- Environmental decision-making in government, industry and the scientific community
- Environmental education and awareness
- Women and girls in/and the sciences
- Experiences of hope: sustainable communities, educational practices, NGO initiatives
- Policy initiatives and women's participation in environmental activities, e.g., management of resources, agro-forestry, coastal resource, watershed, etc.
- The impact of mining on women and men
- Gender, migration and climate change
- Best practices in climate change mitigation
more information and call for papers (until 30 Jan 10)
14-18 Apr 2010, Washington D.C., "Gender and Climate Change - Pitfalls, Possibilities and Realities
Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference, April 14-18, 2010, Washington D.C.
Organizers: Farhana Sultana (Syracuse University) and Joni Seager (Bentley University)
Sponsored by: Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group (CAPE), Development Geographies Specialty Group (DGSG), Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group (GPOW)
Climate change has become a topic of much debate in policy and academic writing. However, the gendered nature of climate change is less studied. Geographers are uniquely situated to engage with the ways that nature-society relations are differentiated along gender lines, bringing fresh perspectives and critical lenses to the ways that climate change impacts and adaptation efforts are understood, experienced and acted up differently across axes of social differentiation, sites and scales. A gender perspective can thus provide insights to enrich existing debates, demonstrating the ways that drivers of climate change, vulnerability, resiliency, adaptation, policy-making, and decision-making are all bound up with various constructions of gender and difference, which have important outcomes in the ways that climate changes come to affect people and places. This session seeks to engender climate change debates and bring critical geography perspectives into conversation with the dominant narratives around climate change, related impacts, mitigation, and adaptation.
Papers are invited that engage with such concerns.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to both organizers by 15 October 2009. Please email the title and abstract of your paper to Farhana Sultana and Joni Seager. Please note that there is no funding to assist attendance to the AAG conference.
For more information on the AAG conference, please visit www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm
19 - 22 April 2010, Peoples' World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth's Rights
Please visit Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights website for more information
21-23 June 2010, Bonn, Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2010
The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2010 will address and assess the pivotal issues that have consigned the world to such a precarious state and seek a viable way out by looking at the role of the media on an international, national and local level. The 2010 conference will bring together media users and producers, scientists, peace keeping and conflict prevention specialists, energy industry experts, policy makers as well as representatives from international, grassroots and non-governmental organizations to discuss how to harmonize individual and collective action in order to steer the world away from a foreboding future and instead toward genuine sustainability. The role the media play in this process will consistently be in focus during the three-day conference. GenderCC cooperates with the organizers of the conference.
