The Gender Issues Committee (GIC) is organising a seminar on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2017. The seminar will be held on Wednesday 26 April in the Seminar Room, MaKS Building, University of Malta, Msida Campus.
Programme
09:15 Registration and Coffee
09:45 Introduction by Dr Carmen Sammut, Pro-Rector for Student and Staff Affairs and Outreach
10:00 Keynote Speech – 'A systematic approach to integrate Sex and Gender Medicine and Gender perspectives in medical education curricula'
Sabine Ludwig, responsible for Gender and Diversity in Medical Education at the Charite, Berlin, Germany
10:40 'Gender in Education: Individual discretion versus mainstreaming'
Prof. Mary Darmanin, Department of Education Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta
11:00 'Making technology education appeal to females' by Dr Sarah Pule, Department of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Education, University of Malta
11:20 'Establishing a mainstream – 'Gender Studies, gendered subjects' – access for all' by Dr Brenda Murphy, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing
11:40 Closing speech by Prof. M.T. Camilleri Podestà