Future events
- 2026-08-27T13:30:00+02:00
- 2026-08-27T14:30:00+02:00
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ThursdayZEF Public Lecture: Research Evidence to Policy Action
About the speaker: Dr. Gaston Sorgho MD, MPH, PhD served as the World Bank Group's Practice Manager overseeing health, nutrition, and population programs in West Africa. He is a medical doctor with a Master of Public Health from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health. Prior The World Bank, he held various positions at the Ministry of Health in Burkina Faso for over 15 years. He joined the World Bank in 1999 and retired in 2024. Throughout his career, he worked extensively in Africa, in a variety of posts ranging from senior public health specialist in the country office of Cote d'Ivoire, to country representative in Mauritania. He taught health sector reform and Results Based Financing for many years at the World Bank Institute in Washington, D.C. and across Africa, Europe, and Asia. Today he continues to work with a range of United Nations organizations in support of governmental health initiatives and policies.
- 2026-09-08T15:30:00+02:00
- 2026-09-08T16:30:00+02:00
8
TuesdaySyrian Women in Lebanon and Turkey: Conflict and Identity
In this Ceremonial Colloquium, Dima Al Munajed will discuss her award-winning doctoral thesis. In it, she challenges the homogenizing, victim-centered narratives that dominate post-2011 research on Syrian refugee women. Instead, she focuses on their strength and agency. Using an ethnographic, comparative case study approach, Munajed examined how the differing responses of the Lebanese and Turkish governments to the Syrian refugee crisis shaped the civic engagement of Syrian women during the same period of displacement. She found an overall increase in civic participation after the war. The findings of the thesis on the growth and diversity of Syrian women's feminist activism and awareness since 2011 provide valuable context for understanding current debates over the roles of Syrian women following the recent liberation of Syria from over 50 years of al-Assad rule and Baathist policies. The ZEF Doctoral Thesis Prize is awarded every two years by the Friends of ZEF Association.
- 2026-09-08T17:00:00+02:00
- 2026-09-08T18:30:00+02:00
8
TuesdaySAVE-THE DATE: ZEF Board Lecture by Professor Gioconda Herrera
The Board lecture at ZEF takes place during the annual meeting of ZEF's International Advisory Board in Bonn. This year our honored Board member Professor Gioconda Herrera will talk about Migration and climate change in the Andes.
- 2026-09-15T18:00:00+02:00
- 2026-09-15T21:00:00+02:00
15
TuesdayPanel discussion: 10 Years of the Peace Agreement in Colombia
This expert panel discussion will look into the peace process in Colombia, which started in 2016 and sparked great hope for an end to the decades-long armed conflict. We will take a critical look at the successes, setbacks, and future prospects in light of the change in government, as well as to discuss potential lessons for other peace processes. In addition, we will explore Germany's role in supporting the peace process and in financing violence through transnational organized crime and extractivist development models. Find the full program via the link below. Financial support is provided by the City of Bonn [as part of the Bonn Peace Days 2026]. Registration is required! Please register with colpaznrw@riseup.net This event is co-organized by ZEF's Research Group on Cultural and Political Change (ZEF CPC)