<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail-adM">Hello Everyone, <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I would like to invite you all to a webinar featuring National and International Feminist Scholars and Practitioner from Nepal, Nigeria, and Puerto Rico. The event has been supported by Virginia Tech's College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences'  <i style="font-weight:bold">International Initiative Grants </i>and the Department of English.  </div><div><br></div><div>The event is public, please feel free to share it widely with your students and colleagues. </div><div><br></div><div>Below is more information and attached is the flyer. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards, <br>Sweta </div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><div><span id="gmail-m_-4061267130456890325m_229615838757968720gmail-m_-487994009797236522gmail-m_-8350827475749092740gmail-m_8056445168639342477gmail-docs-internal-guid-e9cc4617-7fff-aeb9-7674-31864baa129e"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One Year of Covid-19: How Women Across the World Are Coping, Managing, and Resisting Covid-19 </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span id="gmail-m_-4061267130456890325m_229615838757968720gmail-m_-487994009797236522gmail-m_-8350827475749092740gmail-m_8056445168639342477gmail-docs-internal-guid-5d65b12e-7fff-210a-e08e-5594483a7fcf"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">Date: Dec 07, 2020</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">Time: 9:00-10:30 AM EST, (2 PM GMT)</span><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">10 AM in Puerto Rico, 7:45 PM in Nepal, and 3 PM in Nigeria </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration Required: </span><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(134,31,65);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yyee6hnd" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yyee6hnd</a></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Event Details: </font></span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y4hv9gml" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y4hv9gml </a></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><div><span id="gmail-m_-4061267130456890325m_229615838757968720gmail-m_-487994009797236522gmail-m_-8350827475749092740gmail-m_8056445168639342477gmail-docs-internal-guid-6fa5599f-7fff-08c2-1dd1-618906455d04"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Featured Speakers: </b></span><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Ricia Anne Chansky, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Dr. Neeti Aryal Khanal, Tribhuvan University, Nepal and Ms. Tosin Akibu, UN-WOMEN, Nigeria </span></p><br><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Moderated by:</b> </span><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Sweta Baniya, Virginia Tech University</span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><div><span id="gmail-m_-4061267130456890325m_229615838757968720gmail-m_-487994009797236522gmail-m_-8350827475749092740gmail-m_8056445168639342477gmail-docs-internal-guid-ab302698-7fff-8887-15f0-2ab79fe3fe04"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this event, we are inviting speakers and scholars from various disciplines, profession, and communities who have transnational research expertise on feminist work in a disaster, community work experience on disasters like pandemics. December 2020 will mark a year of Covid-19 pandemic which has challenged human civilization in a way we have never seen before.  In this regard, the gender perspective on COVID-19 is a matter that is often ignored specially because women are considered vulnerable and not able to manage a disaster. In this regard, this event will create a space for scholars and practitioners to share with the Virginia Tech community: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">a.</span><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The impacts of COVID-19 on women globally </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">b.</span><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Women’s Disaster Management as well as coping, managing, and resisting strategies</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">c.</span><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How feminist perspective will be helpful in managing the disaster?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This event will feature speakers from Nepal, Nigeria, and Puerto Rico. This global discussion and interaction will be very beneficial as we all move through and are coping with the aftereffects of Covid-19 in our own ways. This event will create an opportunity for all of us to understand the leadership aspects of women globally in order to cope with the virus. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"EB Garamond",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Questions should be directed towards Dr. Sweta Baniya (<a href="mailto:baniya@vt.edu" target="_blank">baniya@vt.edu</a>)</span></p><br></span></div></div></span></div></div><div><span id="gmail-m_-4061267130456890325m_229615838757968720gmail-m_-487994009797236522gmail-m_-8350827475749092740gmail-m_8056445168639342477gmail-docs-internal-guid-5d65b12e-7fff-210a-e08e-5594483a7fcf"><b>More information here:<a href="http://goog_1557739121/" target="_blank"> </a></b></span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y4hv9gml" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y4hv9gml</a></div></div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Sweta Baniya, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)</span><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Professional & Technical Writing </font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Department of English at Virginia Tech<br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">181 Turner Street NW (0112), Blacksburg, VA 24061<br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <a href="https://sbaniya.com/" target="_blank">sbaniya.com </a>| @Sunkesharee</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>