Dr. Nigel Bagnall Presents on Researching and Teaching in Multicultural Spaces
On Oct. 15 Dr. Nigel Bagnall, associate professor of Comparative and International
Education at the University of Sydney gave a public lecture titled “Researching and
Teaching in Multicultural Spaces.” The talk was co-organized by the Department of
Psychology and Counseling at Webster Geneva Campus and the Department of Psychology
and Education at the University of Geneva. Dr. Bagnall discussed the ways in which
different educational systems — in the US, Australia, and New Zealand — include (or
exclude) indigenous students and deal with issues related to diversity. He argued
that current practices need to be understood in the context of different histories
and wider cultural traditions and that they have important consequences not only for
indigenous populations but for society as a whole. The talk touched also upon the
issue of multiple identities and global citizenship education, two areas that will
be the basis for further collaboration between Webster Geneva Campus and the University
of Geneva.
Polic Presents at Annual CISO Summit Europe
Dr. Viktor Polic gave his views on the risks and benefits for migrating a corporate Information Security Operation Center (SOC) to the Cloud at the Annual CISO Summit Europe in Montreux in September. Cloud computing provides solutions for some challenges to modernizing SOC such as scalability, lack of skilled human resources, acquisition overhead, integration of new technologies, availability, compliance, and cost optimization. Unified cloud platforms with integrated security controls, certified for compliance with international data security standards, and optimized for dynamic resource allocation at competitive pricing provide an alternative to costly on-premise infrastructure with that is not flexible enough for large organizations with global presence and dynamic teams of highly mobile employees.
Grosso presents at Law, Gender and Sexuality Conference in London
Dr Sarah Grosso from the Media Communications Department presented at the 3rd International
Conference of the Asian Yearbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law on the theme
of Law, Gender and Sexuality at the British Institute of International and Comparative
Law on Oct. 26. Her presentation explored the potentials and limits of family law
reform for the promotion of gender equality. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research
conducted in a family court in Ben Ali’s Tunisia, she argued that cultural-religious
understandings of gender and patriarchal norms can shape legal practice in sometimes
counter-intuitive ways.