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Upcoming Events
Workshop
Digital4Culture - Understanding the Relationship between Digital Technologies and Cultural Heritage
Event
Science Talk: NASA Earth Data Applications
Seminar
Ethnic Favouritism in Environmental Disaster Payouts.
Event
Science Talk: Innovations in Tree-Ring-Based Streamflow Reconstructions
Event
UNU-MERIT Internal Conference 2025
Seminar
Harnessing AI for Smarter, Sustainable University Management
Workshop
Intensive Course on Agent Based Modelling in Social Sciences
Conference
14th Global RCE Conference
Previous Events
Seminar
UNU-IIGH Webinar | Gendered risks of privatised practices on the health workforce
Is the rise of privatised practices in health fertile ground for the amplification of existing gender inequalities in the healthcare workforce?
Event
Documentary Film Screening: Paper Lanterns
On 16 September 2025, UNU will host a screening of Paper Lanterns, a documentary film directed by Barry Frechette and produced by Nobuko Saito Cleary.
Workshop
Connected by Design: Building Inclusive Digital Infrastructure for Future-Ready Cities
The United Nations University – Operating Unit on Policy-driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) is honoured to serve as a co-organizer of the Forum on Connected by Design: Building Inclusive Digital Infrastructure for Future-Ready Cities, convened by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva on 15 September 2025.
Degree Defense
PhD Defence: Trapped in Poverty: Persistent Poverty in the Context of Global Crises
PhD defence Teresa Janz
BIG IDEAS Series
Building Our Immunity to Mis/Disinformation Through Journalism
ONLINE & TOKYO: On 11 September 2025, UNU will host a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Hanako Montgomery, international correspondent at CNN, based in the Tokyo bureau.
Seminar
Migration Seminar Series: Liminality and Exclusion of Asylum Seekers and Refugees
This paper will show how identity cues shape refugee support. Only perspective-taking boosts inclusion; cost info fails.
Event
Science Talk: Enhancing Climate Resilience Through Dam and Barrier Removal
Linking River Restoration to Adaptation
BIG IDEAS Series
Reimagining Gender and Climate Justice in Higher Education
ONLINE: On 9 September 2025, UNU will host a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Giselle Miole, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UNU-IAS.
Conversation Series
Bridges and Borders: Multicultural Exchange and Peacebuilding in the AI Era
On 8 September 2025, UNU will host a conversation with Professor Valerio de Cesaris, Rector of the University for Foreigners of Perugia.
BIG IDEAS Series
Social Media for Social Good: Promoting Well-being in the Digital Age
ONLINE: On 5 September 2025, UNU will host a BIG IDEAS Dialogue with Meg Hoffmann Nakagawa, founder of Blossom the Project.