Post on 29 July 2021 by Anne Marie Steiger
July 28, 2020
Jean du Preez
The 7th Disarmament and Nonproliferation Summer School for Latin American and Caribbean diplomats jointly organized by CNS in partnership with the Mexican Foreign Ministry, the agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin American and the Caribbean (OPANAL) and the Matías Romero Institute in Mexico City, was held in a virtual format from 28 June – 9 July 2021. In view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This was the second virtual course following 5 previous courses that have been held in Mexico City since 2014. The course gathered more than 30 junior to mid-level diplomats from 16 countries in the region (with a majority of women participants) as well as 35 experts speakers and panelists from all over the world.
Tikal and Teotihuacan: Friends Turned Enemies?
Closer examination, and corroboration with Teotihuacan’s remains, uncovered an eerie resemblance of this newly discovered Tikal architecture to an enormous square known as the Citadel. In fact, it was a half-sized literal replica. In an article about this recent discovery,
National Geographic explains that the famous Citadel is where the even more iconic six-level Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan lies.
According to the
Daily Mail , it was probably used as an embassy or outpost of some kind by the Teotihuacans. Its location on the outskirts of Tikal suggests some kind of a collaborative effort. One of the first members from the team to make this connection, archaeologist Stephen Houston from Brown University, explained that “the similarity of the details was stunning.”
Max Enrich sculpts lamps from upholstery foam for Gaudí s Casa Batlló
Pastel-coloured upholstery foam is cut into geometric totems to form a series of floor lights, created by Barcelona designer Max Enrich to contrast with the organic architecture of Antoni Gaudí.
Simply called Totem, the collection encompassing five lamps was commissioned as a homage to Gaudí s Casa Batlló while the building remains closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Totem collection was designed for Gaudí s Casa Batlló I was invited to create a project for these weird times, as the house is shut down, Enrich told Dezeen.
Joining forces to develop a research agenda on intersections of violence against children and violence against women
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Aník Gevers, Elizabeth Dartnall, Alessandra Guedes, and Claudia García-Moreno
(8 April 2021) There is growing global recognition of the intersections between violence against women and violence against children. Unfortunately, there is insufficient interaction between these fields and evidence on how interventions should respond is limited. It is vital to identify key knowledge gaps in order to build evidence to address both forms of violence, through prevention and response programming, to achieve the best outcomes for both women and children.
To address this need, the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), UNICEF Innocenti, and the Special Programme on Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) hosted by WHO are joining efforts to develop a global research agenda on the intersections between violence against women and