About the assembly
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE OWSD 6TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HAS CONCLUDED. RECAPS FROM THE CONFERENCE AND RECORDINGS OF THE SESSIONS CAN BE FOUND AT THIS LINK.
OWSD, the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, announces its 6th General Assembly and International Conference, which will be held from November 8-19, 2021.
The conference will be held entirely online for the first time in OWSD's 28-year history, allowing as many of OWSD's 7500+ members to participate as possible.
The conference theme is 'Women, science and development', exploring three areas of relevance: 1) the importance of basic sciences for development; 2) the impact of applied sciences on development and 3) including sex and gender as variables in scientific research.
Keynote speakers include: Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN; Bina Agarwal, an internationally celebrated economist specializing in the political economy of gender, poverty and inequality; and Angela Saini, award-winning author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, Superior: The Return of Race Science, and other books.
Professor Alberto Quadrio-Curzio, renowned Italian economist and ex-president of the Accademia dei Lincei, will present a special edition of the Economia Politica journal, focusing on 'Pandemics, women and the Global South' which includes an editorial by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen.
OWSD members will present their own research in the three themes during poster sessions throughout the conference. In addition, members will also present their own scientific and personal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. All members will also have the opportunity to take part in a workshop on increasing their visibility and impact as a scientist, with a session on using podcasts for storytelling by Joy Owango and Adelle Onyango of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), followed by a session on filmmaking for impact by Nicole Leghissa, OWSD video consultant.
The conference will include a handover of the previous OWSD Executive Board to the new members, elected in June-July 2021. On the last day of the conference (19 November), the OWSD Italy Country Network will be launched. This will be an in-person event in Trieste. Italian government representatives and donors are invited to attend. The Trieste event will be coordinated with similar in person events being held in OWSD countries throughout the developing world and streamed online. At least 2,000 OWSD members, women scientists from developing countries around the world, are expected to participate online in the General Assembly and conference.
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