KOCHI:
The year 2020, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, was intended to be ground-breaking for gender equality. Instead, with the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, even the limited gains made in the past decades are at risk of being rolled back.
The pandemic is deepening pre- existing inequalities, exposing vulnerabilities in social, political and economic systems which are in turn amplifying the impacts of the pandemic. In this scenario, The Women Studies Centre of Cochin University of Science and Technology organizes Two Day International Webinar on ‘Vulnerabilities through the Gendered Lens: Lessons from Covid-19’ on 6th & 7th August, 2020(from 10a.m onwards). The keynote speaker at the webinar is Dr.J.Devika, Historian, Social critic & Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram.
Dr. P.G. Sankaran, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUSAT will inaugurate the webinar. The other speakers are Dr A.K. Jayasree, Social activist, Critic & Professor, Academy of Medical Sciences, Pariyaram, Dr Doris Padmini, Associate Professor, Universitiy Kebangsaan, Malaysia, Dr S. Saradakutty, Film and literary Critic & Professor, Devaswom Board College, Parumala, Dr Ashaletha, Principal Scientist, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Kochi, Preetha Menon, Motivational Speaker and Co- founder, WELL, Switzerland, Fara Shibla, Cine artist, Anchor & Psychologist, Dr Jaya K. Govindan, General physician, Melbourne, Australia. The platform for webinar is zoom. Those who are interested can register through https://sellmytalk.com/wsc/
