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The Fletcher School's Conference on Gender and International Affairs

Fletcher's longest-running student-led conference.

02/04/2024

Join us this Thursday 2/8 in the Crowe Room for our first general meeting of the semester! All those interested in planning the Fall 2024 Conference on Gender & International Affairs are encouraged to attend 💫

Our meeting will be followed by a collage-making session 🧑‍🎨🎨

11/21/2023

Thank you to everyone who attended Fletcher's 9th Annual Conference on Gender & International Affairs: Power, Policy Progress, this past Friday and Saturday. And thank you to all those who supported us in the lead-up to this year's conference over the past six months 💖 We are especially grateful to all our speakers, volunteers, and sponsors, and to the Student Affairs team for helping make this year's conference a reality.

11/18/2023

IT'S DAY TWO💫💕🎉

Thank you all for an amazing day one of CGIA, we appreciate everyone's support! Join us today for a full day of panels and workshops. Registration opens at 9 am EST!

🔗 Keep an eye out for a Zoom link in your email for those who would like to attend virtually

11/17/2023

IT'S DAY ONE OF CGIA 🎊💖✨

Join us at 3:30 PM In ASEAN for our opening plenary from Dean Gallagher & our opening keynote from Laicie Heeley, Editor in Chief of Inkstick Media.

11/16/2023

Join CGIA for one (or both!) of our workshops this Saturday!

💼 Business Workshop: Establishing Work-Life Boundaries for Mission-Driven Work

In mission-driven work, saying no is never easy. But what if the constant pressure to be available - to do more - actually results in doing less? What if healthy work life boundaries are good, not only for you, but for the mission as well? This workshop will explore strategies for setting boundaries and clarifying expectations in the workplace, as well as the intersecting power structures that make this task easier said than done. Join your mission-driven peers for an engaging and supportive discussion of the gendered barriers and solutions to creating work-life balance that allows you the space to thrive both in and beyond your work.

🎨 Art Workshop: Global Perspectives Towards Individual Representations

Led by Lu Adami, a student at The School of Museum and Fine Arts at Tufts, participants have the opportunity to make a collage using a variety of materials through a collage-oriented exercise in gender and language. Join this art exercise and interact with your understanding of your gender identity while learning more about how transgender and gender nonconforming people around the world build community.

11/16/2023

Join CGIA for our Panel: Empowering Mental Health Conversations throughout the Global Health Space, November 18th, at 1:30 pm in ASEAN!

Individuals’ experiences with mental health are fundamentally linked to their experiences with gender identity and expression, as well as their marginalization due to patriarchy and other forms of structural violence (?). This panel examines the centrality of mental health as a public health issue, looking into how gendered traumas related to conflict, migration, and reproductive rights impact mental health, as well as the ways that gendered power dynamics have shaped how mental health is perceived and addressed within global health institutions.

11/15/2023

Join us this weekend for our climate panel: From International Negotiations to Action: Power Dynamics and “Natural” Disasters.

With COP28 poised to operationalize a ‘loss and damage’ fund to help developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change, we seek to understand who is or isn't included in the international negotiations that will bring financing to places in most need. What are the power dynamics engendered in international environmental policy creation? Will the operationalization of the fund change these dynamics? What are the gendered impacts of “natural” disasters?

11/15/2023

Happy to introduce you to Sina, one of CGIA's Finance & Community Relations Chairs 🌱

Sina is an exchange student from the Geneva Graduate School, where she is specializing in Gender, Race and Diversity as part of her Master in International and Development Studies. Her research focus is on power dynamics in conflict, peace and tech studies with a regional focus on the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to starting her Masters, Sina worked in the public sector at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation as a Thematic Regional Advisor on health related projects in Eastern and Southern Africa. She is also engaged in various projects such as the first LGBTQ+ film festival in Bern.

11/15/2023

Join us on Saturday, November 18 for CGIA's Panel: Power Lines: The Role of Communication and Information Technologies in Advocacy!

This panel critically examines the pervasive challenges of discrimination faced by LGBTQ+ individuals within the realms of communication and information technologies. The panel unites Morgan Klaus Scheuerman's research on identity representation within technical infrastructures, Lenny Lopatto's expertise in the societal impacts of communication tech on LGBTQ+ rights, and Alexandra Novitskaya's work on gender politics and human rights in a post-Soviet context. Under Carolyn Gideon's moderation, the session will navigate the complexities of advocacy in the digital landscape, dissecting how these technologies can perpetuate discrimination and discreditation.

11/14/2023

Join us for our Panel: Rights, Resilience, Resistance:
LGBTQ+ Advocates on the Global Stage, this Saturday, November 18th!

This panel explores the way that LGBTQ+ people living under repressive regimes find ways to resist, persist, and keep going under increasing attacks on their rights, autonomy, and safety. This conversation is an opportunity to unpack the parallels between attacks on LGBTQ+ rights across multiple contexts, as well as to discover how solidarity can be formed across similar, but diverse, contexts.

11/13/2023

Join us Saturday, November 18, for our panel: Securing What for Whom? Myths and Realities about Militarism

What do gendered race, class, and nation have to do with drones, autonomous weapons, and other military operations? How do taken-for-granted assumptions about masculinity and femininity shape our understandings of militarism, war, national security, and peace? Why does militarized sexual violence persist near military bases?

This panel examines critically how and why militarism and military institutions reflect and reinforce globalized structural inequalities and unpacks how these impact everything from weapons development and regulations to national security decision-making, to the relationships between militaries and local communities. Finally, this panel asks: how can feminist frameworks and vision generate power and inspire us to engage in politics of possibility and hope?

11/12/2023

Introducing Liv, one of CGIA's two volunteer chairs 🎊

Liv is a first-year MALD candidate studying International Human Rights Law and Gender Theory and Intersectional Analysis. Her research interests lie at the intersection between international legal organizations and human rights, and she's passionate about expanding the capacities of countries and IO’s to better promote and protect the human rights of their people. She currently works with the Hopes, Fears and Illusions Project at the Leir Institute and with the Office of the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS).

Prior to attending the Fletcher School, she completed internships at the International Rescue Committee, OAS, Sanisera Archaeological Institute, and a Fulbright Grant in Tucumán, Argentina. Liv holds Bachelor’s degrees in International Affairs and Spanish from the University of Colorado Boulder.

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