On April 21, 2023, WGGP hosted Dr. Winifred Poster (Washington University, St. Louis) for hybrid talk "Women Maintenance Workers for the Global Information Highway: Village Data Processing Centers in India".
Women's share of the formal workforce in India has been declining for several decades. But...
Event Archive
WGGP hosted the virtual WGGP Graduate Forum on April 14, 2023 from 12:00-2:30pm. The forum was an opportunity to showcase the work of graduate students that received support and financial funding through the WGGP Fellowships and Awards. "Dismantling culture in older Indonesian women's...
On April 12th, WGGP hosted Illinois and GRID Alumna, Pilar Egüez Guevara for a graduate student discussion, "Moving Across Careers as a Versatile Scholar". Cosponsors for the event included LAS Global Studies, Center for Global Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Center...
On April 11, 2023, WGGP hosted Illinois and GRID Alumna Pilar Egüez Pilar for film screening and discussion. "Comidas Que Curan: (Re)discovering Ancestral Wisdom Through Ethnography and Filmmaking which included film screening of "Raspando coco". If you are interested in viewing "Raspando coco...
On April 5th, 2023 Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program invited Dr. Courtney Dorroll to host a Graduate Student Discussion on "Self-care in the Classroom". The event took place at 306 Coble Hall at 3 pm. Dr. Courtney Dorroll is Associate Professor of Religion and...
WGGP hosted Dr. McKenzie Johnson, Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, on April 5, 2023 for the annual Faculty Affiliate Lecture. The Talk, "Gender in Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding" took place at 12pm CST both in-person and virtually...
On April 4th, 2023 WGGP hosted a talk by Dr. Courney Dorroll on how Dorroll's 2019 book, Teaching Islamic Studies during the Age of ISIS and Islamophobia (Indiana University Press), created emotional labor for both the instructor and her students. Courtney found self-care pedagogy and...
WGGP hosted Dr. Shakira Nasir for virtual event, "Understanding Digital Literacy Among Children from B40 Family Living at the Pusat Perumahan Rakyat (PPR)" on March 31, 2023. Dr. Nasir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the International Islamic University in Malaysia...
WGGP hosted Dr. Beverley Mullings, a Professor of Black Economic Geographies at University of Toronto, on March 22, 2023 for talk "Informality, Precarity and the Coloniality of Gendered Labour in the Caribbean" The event talked about the convergences in the kinds of low waged, unpredictable and...
12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories, March 8, 2023, 3:30-5:00pm The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were co-hosting our fifth annual event, “12 Women Who...
February 24th, 2023, 11 AM CST WGGP hosted Jama Jack for virtual event, "Feminist Collective Action in the Gambia" on February 24, 2023. Jama Jack is a communications specialist and feminist activist from The Gambia, with more than 15 years of practical experience in advocacy and community...
Building a House United, February 15, 2023, at 7 PM- 8:30 PM Featured Panelist Bill Doherty Co-founder of Braver Angels and Professor, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Scott Althaus Director of...
WGGP hosted Dr. Elena Kopteva for hybrid event, "The Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine - Family and War" on January 25, 2023. This talk was part of the Illinois Global Institute Speaker Series, "The Global Impacts of the War in Ukraine". Dr. Elena Kopteva was born in Ukraine and spent part...
November 30th, 9:10 AM Human Rights, Heritage, and Memory Colleen Murphy, Law, University of Illinois Toru Oga, Political Science, Kyushu University Shao Dan, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois Ren Yatsunami, Law, Kyushu University This workshop is sponsored by...
November 30th, 12:00 PM Remembering through Memory Activism Tali Nates, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (NPC) Mduduzi Ntuli, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (NPC) Catherine Boyd, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (NPC) This workshop is sponsored by the...
November 30th, 10:40 AM Museums Cristóbal Bianchi, School of Art & Design, University of Illinois Emily Anderson, Curator, Japanese American National Museum Gloria Yu Yang, Architecture, Kyushu University This workshop is sponsored by the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program...
November 30th 1:30 PM Memory and Heritage Brett Kaplan, Comparative and World Literature & Director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies, University of Illinois Ran Zwigenberg, Asian Studies, Penn State University & Kyushu University Naoko Gunji, East Asian...
November 29th, 7:00 PM Opening Keynote Address by Ann Burroughs, President and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, IL 61801 This workshop is sponsored by the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) in...
On November 29, 2022 at 12pm CST, Dr. Hanan Elshair presented, "AI Applications in Education" during a virtual talk. Dr. Hanan Elshair is a Professor of Educational Technology and the Vise Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Women for Arts, Sciences, and Education at Ain Shams...
On November 11th, 2022 Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program hosted a Graduate Student Workshop on "Writing Effective Fellowship Proposals" and "Tips for applying for fellowships" The workshop was led by: Dana Johnson, Assistant Director of External Fellowships and Charles Fogelman,...
On October 28, 2022 at 12pm CST, Dr. Koni Benson presented, "Pedagogy and Politics: Enacting Alternative Maps for Creating Communities of Practice" during a virtual talk. Dr. Koni Benson is an historian, organizer, and educator. She is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of...
On October 19, 2022 Illinois Global Institute centers and the African Students Organization in the Illini Union Courtyard hosted an evening of international music, featuring the Afro-Brazilian percussion ensemble Bloco Gavião, the Illinois...
On October 17th, 2022 Women and Gender in Global Perspective Program hosted a talk by Dr. Richa Nagar on "Situated Solidarities, Radical Vulnerability, and Hungry Translations" In this talk, Richa Nagar drew on two decades of creative labors undertaken with the Sangtin farmers' and laborers'...
On October 13, 2022 at 9am CST, Kathleen Siminyu presented, "Honoring Kiswahili with Technology and Community" during a virtual talk. Kathleen Siminyu works at Mozilla Foundation as a Machine Learning Fellow to support the development of a Kiswahili Common Voice dataset and to build speech...
On September 27, 2022 2pm CST, Dr. Timnit Gebru presented talk, Independent Community Rooted AI Research" virtual talk. Dr. Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December...
