Several members of the project group presented at The Role of Universities in Addressing Societal Challenges and Fostering Democracy conference in March 2021 in Akureyri:
- Randi W. Stebbins and Susan Gollifer presented on “Responsible Higher Education: The Role of Human Rights Education in Addressing Equality for all”
- Flora Tietgen presented on “Experiences of intimate partner violence: immigrant women in Iceland”
- Linda Rós Eðvarðsdóttir presented on “The role of critical education in shifting paradigms that perpetuate violence against immigrant women in Iceland”
- Telma Velez presented on “Cultivating a response using the Istanbul Convention on the rights of women: Immigrant women and #metoo”
Other conference presentations that were done in 2021:
- Flora Tietgen presented at POWES conference in July 2021 – the title of her presentation was “Between powerlessness and resistance: Immigrant women and intimate partner violence (IPV) in Iceland”
- Telma Velez presented at NoPSA Congress in August 2021 in Reykjavík – The title of her talk was “The implementation of Article 20 of Istanbul Convention in the #metoo era: The services available to immigrant women in Iceland.
- Susan Gollifer, Randi W. Stebbins and Flora Tietgen presented at the European Conference on Domestic Violence in September 2021 in Ljubljana – The title of their talk was “When knowing your rights isn‘t enough: Using narratives to explore the tensions between human rights and legal frameworks for immigrant women experiencing IPV in Iceland”
- Flora Tietgen presented at the European Conference on Domestic Violence in September 2021 in Ljubljana – The title of her talk was “Between powerlessness and resistance: Immigrant women and intimate partner violence (IPV) in Iceland”
- Brynja E. Halldórsdóttir presented at Þjóðarspegillinn conference in October 2021 in Reykjavík – The title of her talk was “Epistemic Violence towards immigrant women in Iceland: Silencing, smothering and linguistic deficit”. You can find the slides of her presentation here.