Today, Olga Jubany will present the paper “The hate speech threat to human dignity and human rights” at the ICHR: International Conference on Human Rights in Osaka. Abstract: Whereas the new online era provides many new possibilities for interaction and expression it has also become increasingly infested by the growing phenomenon of online hate speech. Part of this refers […]
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GENI will be strongly represented at the ‘IV Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR. Encuentros Diálogos y Relatos desde los Sures’ that will take place in Granada (Spain) 4-7 September. On September 5 Jordi Mas i Olga Jubany will present “Las políticas LGTB+ fuera de la gran ciudad. El caso de Sabadell (Cataluña)” Las políticas […]
Yesterday Olga Jubany and Rosa Lázaro presented “‘Woman’, ‘Migrant’ and ‘Temporary Worker’ Intersectionality in the post-Fordist labour market between North and South America” at the IMISCOE Annual Conference in Barcelona. The paper was presented in the Workshop: Migration, Migrant Workers and Labour Markets in Europe II led by Rinus Pennix. Olga Jubany and […]
Yesterday took place the pre-conference “Migraciones y Refugiados LGBTTTI en un mundo globalizado” organised previous to the 36th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association which is taking place in Barcelona from today, 23 of May to Friday 26. The event was organised by the Sexualities Section of LASA and […]
On 17 May, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, our colleague Jordi Mas will speak about how to prevent and combat LGBTphobia through the results of the project Divercity at the last session of the Conferences on Gender, Health and Equality, organized by the Commission on Equality of Universitat de Barcelona.
The 22 of May GENI and the LASA Sexualities Section organise the LASA 2018 preconference “Migrations and refugees LGBTTTI, in a globalized world” The session will take place at the Sala Gran (Facultat de Geografia i Història – UB) at 9:30h
Our colleague Diana Mata Codesal, has recently published “Gendered (Im)mobility: Rooted Women and Waiting Penelopes” in the Journal of Migration and Culture. The article explores (im)mobility as a gendered social construction: In rural Mexico, as in many other locations worldwide, women’s mobility is depicted as less natural or more problematic than men’s. Simultaneously, women are […]
Yesterday, the Aula Magna of the Facultat de Geografia i Història hosted the session ‘Más allá del feminismo blanco, una aproximación feminista decolonial a problemáticas actuales’, organised by the Casa Iberoamericana de la Mujer and GENI. Sirin Adlbi, Úrsula Santa Cruz, Diana Al-Rahmoun and Florencia Brizuela engaged us with compelling and challenging contributions. For those […]
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Every year the l’Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya (IDHC) organises the course on Human Rights from the 9th to the 26th of April. This year, among the many and great speakers the course will host conferences by the GENI coordinator, Olga Jubany, and our colleague Eunice Romero, on the 23rd and 12th of April […]
We are pleased to announce that the book Las Palabras son Armas. Discurso de odio en la red by Olga Jubany and Malin Roiha has been published. Based on ethnographic research on the experience of youngsters as the main users of social networks, the book analyses the widespread and rabid presence of hate speech on the […]