Center for Gender Studies of INTEC will hold its XII Dominican Conference on Gender Studies
The Dominican Conference on Gender Studies is a permanent space for academic debate, which will bring together dozens of specialists to reflect on forced displacement of women due to climate change, as well as gender-based violence, among other topics.
SANTO DOMINGO. -The Center for Gender Studies Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (CEG-INTEC) will celebrate its Twelfth “Dominican Conference on Gender Studies: Construction of knowledge for equality”, in which we will reflect on the forced displacement due to climate change, human mobility; sexual and reproductive health; gender-based violence against women, Dominican feminism, and also about the genre art and cinema.
The Conference, which will be held on the days 28 and 29 November in the INTEC Social Security Auditorium, has the overall objective of developing a academic debate on the reality of gender relations in the Dominican Republic, disseminating research, studies and social interventions that make evident the expressions of discrimination based on gender in the country, revealing the disadvantageous consequences for women in the social, economic, political and cultural to help uproot the causes that generate these inequalities.
The event, which has been held biannually since 2003, will feature in this edition the participation of Nora Esther Cabrera Velasco, a lawyer specialized in climate justice with a focus on constitutional law, who will give a presentation on climate justice; and Mariana Romero, executive director and senior researcher in the Health, Economy and Society area of the Center for State and Society Studies (CEDES), Argentina, who will give a keynote lecture on reproductive justice.
Conference Program
On Tuesday, November 28, the first panel will be: “Forced displacement due to climate change”, in which Yanelba Abreu y Fidelia Rincon, both of the Civil defense; Sheila Báez, the CEG-INTEC, and Ulises Jauregui-Haza, coordinator of Doctorate in Environmental Sciences from INTEC, with the moderation of Solhanlle Bonilla, director of research at the Ministry of the Environment. The objective of the panel is to present to Dominican society the challenges of research and response from public policies regarding forced displacement due to climate change to contribute to raising awareness about its disproportionate effects on the lives of women and girls.
That same day, in a second panel on human mobility will participate Fernando Bissacot, Regional Statelessness Officer for the Americas and the Caribbean, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR); the anthropologist Tahira Vargas and the jurist Yildalina Tatem, with the moderation of Thais Moraes, also from UNHCR. The third panel will correspond to the analysis of gender and cinema in moderation Juanjo Cid and the participation of the actress Ingrid Luciano; From Bridget Wooding, researcher, rights defender, writer, teacher, and expert on migration, and María Cristina Fumagilli, professor of literature at the University of Essex, United Kingdom.
The panel will take place on Wednesday, November 29 “Sexual and reproductive health” in moderation Indiana Barinas, coordinator of the Gender Unit of the Ministry of Public Health, which will feature presentations by the doctor Gloria Ortega Rojo and Edell Escalante.
The second panel of that day corresponds to the topic “Gender-based violence against women” which will have as moderators Licelot Zabala , Graduate of the Specialty in Gender and Equality Policies in education of the Ministry of Education and as panelists Estefania de la Cruz, Politician, Uasdiana, feminist, activist and militant, revolutionary; Orlidy Inoa, researcher and consultant on criminal justice and human rights issues with a gender perspective, member of the LA and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights (CLADEM), Patricia Santana, Lawyer, specialist in Constitutional Law, comprehensive approach to violence and non-discriminatory legislation; and Carlos Campillo, Consultant, Teacher and Human Rights Lawyer.
The XII version of the Dominican Conference on Gender Studies will conclude with the dialogue “Dominican Feminism: political stakes, agenda and perspective” with the reflections of Alicia Medina and Anny Jaquez, feminists.