Guest Lecture on “Health, Human Rights and Intersectionality? - Reproductive Rights as Constantly Contested Human Rights” by Sibel T. Savas

Guest Lecture on "Health, Human Rights and Intersectionality? - Reproductive Rights as Constantly Contested Human Rights" by Sibel T. Savas

We want to direct your attention to a guest lecture on “Health, Human Rights and Intersectionality? - Reproductive Rights as Constantly Contested Human Rights” held Sibel T. Savas in Prof. Dr. Greta Olson's lecture series "Introduction to Gender and Sexuality, to Race and Anti-Racism, to Decolonial Thought, and Disability."

The guest lecture will be held via Zoom on Tuesday, February 6 at 4pm.

Sibel T. Savas (she/her) is working as a graduate scientific teaching and research assistant at the Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at Justus-Liebig University Giessen since January of 2023. There, she is part of the subproject "Migration and the Advance of Human Rights in "Health": Paradigms, Practices, and Conflicts", led by Prof. M. Knipper, part of the larger, interdisciplinary research project "Human Rights discourses in Migration Societies“.
In December 2023, Sibel took part in a roundtable discussion on Abortion Rights as Human Rights at the Human Rights Research Network’s Conference at Ghent University, Belgium. From August to October 2023, Sibel completed an internship as graduate teaching assistant at the department for preventative medicine and public health of the faculty of medicine at the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia.
Sibel finished her medical studies in November 2022 at Justus-Liebig University Giessen, where she also completed the extracurricular program on Global Health. At the University Hospital Bern (Inselspital Bern), Switzerland, she gained experiences in life-science research in the field of experimental pediatric pneumology. As a volunteer, she was active with the critical medical students Giessen as well as in the accompaniment of patients in the project "together against tuberculosis" in Giessen.
Her research interests are situated at the intersection of health and human rights, especially peace and conflict in relation to health, the multiple determinants of health, as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights.
She aims to create a space to think together about how an intersectional lens and a human rights framework might be helpful in order to analyze, understand, change and improve equitably the reproductive health of people and populations, health care and practices in medicine, globally and locally. The idea is to highlight the interconnectedness of individual and structural influences on reproductive health and rights, and the longstanding interaction of health and medicine with policy and laws.
 
Zoom Link: https://uni-giessen.zoom-x.de/j/66241551709?pwd=bGhhTkx0ZmlBYjdjTEJEYUUzVmlpQT09
Meeting ID: 662 4155 1709
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