On April 3rd, 2024, Dr. Kolia, an Illinois alumna with a Ph.D. in the School of Social Work and a graduate minor in Gender Relations in International Development, shared information about Reaching Across Borders services to Syrian Refugees in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. She discussed how war transforms society, and she dispelled biases and myths about Syrian refugee girls and women.
The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are co-hosting our seventh annual event, “12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories” bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. The event took place on...
On November 30th, 23, WGGP hosted a public talk by Rana Elmeligy on "Gender in Development: Standards and Real-Life Limiting Beliefs, Structures, and Practices". Rana Elmeligy is an international development and humanitarian practitioner. Are development programs able to apply gender-sensitivity standards on the ground? The persisting gaps between 'gender in development' standards and real...
On September 12, 2023, As part of the IGI series 'China and the World', WGGP hosted Lü Pin, a PhD student in political science at Rutgers University, who talked about "Resilience Amidst Repression: The Chinese Feminist Movement in the Era of Escalating Authoritarianism.” In 2009 in China, Lü Pin and colleagues organized Feminist Voices, a social media platform that aimed to call attention to...
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 not, paradoxically, in information and communication technology jobs. Here, there has been a niche...
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 food-related activities and settings" Widya Ramadhani, Design Researcher...
On April 12th, 2023, 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 for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies thanks to National Resource 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", please visit the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign library. Co-sponsors for this...
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 Coordinator of the Middle Eastern and North African Studies Program at Wofford College....
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. {"...