On March 5, 2025, The Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity (CSGGE) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign co-hosted our eighth annual event, “11 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 featured 11...
On October 11, 2024, WGGP hosted an Affiliate Lecture by Dr. Eunmi Mun on "Egalitarian Workplaces: Organizational Pattern of Gender Wage Inequality in High Income Countries". Scholars of gender wage inequality have long shown that workplaces play a significant role in shaping the gender gap, but we know little about what kind of workplaces treat women and men equally and how many workplaces are...
On October 2, 2024, WGGP hosted an Alumni Lecture by Annie Contractor on "Community Engagement, Rural Edition: Navigating Local Power and Conquering the Fear Factor". The lecture explores the unique challenges and opportunities faced by rural communities in fostering effective community engagement. The discussion dissects the dynamics of entrenched local power structures, the role of trust in...
On April 4, 2024 WGGP hosted keynote lecture by Dr. Amina Mama (University of California, Davis) on “Transnational Feminist Praxis in an Age of Genocide” as a part of Transnational Feminist Resistance(s) Against Contemporary Violence(s) Conference on April 4-5th, 2024. This lecture argues that the many violences perpetrated against women have been the major driver of...
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...