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- Prof. Min Zhan of the School of Social Work has been appointed Director of WGGP beginning August 16. Min brings a long history of collaboration with WGGP and its Gender Relations in International Development interdisciplinary graduate minor, which is housed in the School of Social Work, where Min has served as Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Engagement. Min’s scholarship...
2023-12-20 - 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 will feature 12...
2021-08-19 - WGGP has moved! We will join the Illinois Global Institute (IGI), along with several centers at our new home in Coble Hall. The expectation is that over the next year, all IGI units will move to Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street (corner of John and Wright Street). During this transitional year, WGGP will be located on the first floor of Coble Hall. There will be some internal relocation within...
2021-02-03 - Women & Gender in Global Perspectives and the Women’s Resources Center are thrilled to host a virtual screening of the acclaimed documentary, RBG. This film follows the life and legacy of the late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and it will be available for viewing, for free, beginning at 4 p.m. CST on Tuesday, February 16th until 4 p.m. CST Thursday, February...
2021-01-13 - GRID Student Nehal Elmeligy has published her first peer-reviewed academic article in the Journal of Resistance Studies titled "Making a Scene: Young Women's Feminist Social Nonmovement in Cairo" (November 2020). Nehal is a third year PhD student in Sociology....
2020-11-24 - WGGP Faculty Affiliate Dr. Rebecca Smith was a guest speaker for the CGS-WGGP panel titled "Syndemics: Theory & Application" (November 11, 2020). Rebecca is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathobiology and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Her research focuses on epidemiology, specifically the mathematical and statistical modeling of disease, with an...
2020-11-18 - The latest news from the New York Times on how government leaders, school administrations, parents and students are navigating an uncertain season. ...
2020-11-17 - Women participating in politics have navigated unique challenges and opportunities from the coronavirus pandemic. Governments around the world should take these steps to safeguard women’s political inclusion during the pandemic and beyond. The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt political processes around the world. Seventy-three elections have been ...
2020-11-13 - The LAS Global Studies program is currently accepting proposals for the GLBL 296: Global Studies Foundation Seminar (on-campus) and GLBL 298: Global Studies Seminar Abroad for AY 2021-22. Faculty are encouraged to apply for both seminars and graduate students may apply for GLBL 296. GLBL 298 seminars abroad are pending...
2020-11-12 - WGGP Faculty Affiliate Colleen Murphy has published a Chicago Tribune article titled "Commentary: To protect our democracy, remember: Our opponents are not our enemies" (November 5, 2020). Colleen Murphy is the Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of law & Professor of...
2020-11-12 - The Center for African Studies will be hosting an event titled "75 years of the UN and the Africana Diaspora--a special CAS webinar" on Tuesday, November 17 @ 10:00am. Event will feature WGGP Visiting Research Scholar Vernita Pearl Fort as a guest speaker. This Webinar celebrates the United Nations' 75th anniversary while remembering that the UN Charter...
2020-11-12 - Come see GRID Student Cintia Martins Freitas present at the Lemann Graduate Forum on Friday, November 20. The event will begin at 10:00 am and Cintia's presentation titled “Collective Candidacies and New Municipalism in Brazil: Possibilities for Greater Gender Equality in Local Politics” will...
2020-11-09 - Hosted by the University of Illinois Archives and co-sponsored by WGGP, the November lecture will be presented by Susan Martinis on Tuesday, November 10, 2020, at 12:00pm CST. Susan Martinis is a Stephen G. Sligar Endowed Professor of Biochemistry and the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. Click here to register for event.
2020-11-02 - The content that we put in the name "Storyteller" in our contemporary world is restrictive of that which it took within traditional African societies. Within the framework of this communication, it will be a question of looking at the role and the place of the Storytellers in the process of transmission, essentially oral, of endogenous knowledge in Africa, formerly. As an illustration of the...
2020-11-02 - Have you ever waited in a long line for the ladies’ room? Have you ever had a hard time finding a restroom? Discover how public restrooms have historically privileged certain groups of people and discriminated against others and how changing legislation, building codes, and the media have addressed these controversies. Analyze important gender and family issues in public restroom design including...