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 transcription models for end use cases in the agricultural and financial domains. In this role...
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 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the...
On September 13th, 2022 Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program hosted a Reproductive Justice Panel. Featured Panelists: Dr. Mariela SzwarcberR Oaby, Or. Leslie Reagan, Emma Darbro The panelists offered a global and historical perspective on the struggle by women for abortion rights in the US; feminist mobilization in Latin America where recently they secured legalization...
On September 12, 2022 Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program hosted a talk by Bushra Amiwala on "Youngest Muslim Elected Official in the United States of America". Bushra Amiwala is a Skokie native and daughter of immigrants who truly appreciates diversity in its many beautiful forms. As communities across our nation - the working poor, religious and ethnic...
On April 15, 2022 at 12pm CST, WGGP hosted the panel, "Feminisms, Arts and Activism: practices of resistance and solidarity in public scpace". Individuals from Brigada Laura Rodig, Coordinadora Feminista 8M from Chile and Barrileras del 8M from Puerto Rico joined the conversation. This event was co-sponsored by the School of Art & Design; College of Fine and Applied Arts;...
On April 1, 2022 12pm, Dr. Natasha Aruri presented "Takhayali [imagine.fem] Otherwise! Neocolonialisms, Spatial narratives, Resistance" during a virtual talk. Description: How can visual narratives of alternative worlds change the present and the future? This is the central theme of this talk which draws from research on employments of critical...
West African Dance Night: The Untaught Night 2 "The Journey...." March 25, 2022 Lacina Coulibaly and Sena Atsugah Co-sponsored by: Center for Global Studies; Department of Dance; Center for African Studies; Department of Anthropology; and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies {"...
On March 25, 2022 12pm, Dr. Tutin Aryanti (GRID Alumna), gave an in-person/virtual talk on, "The Women's Mosques: On Segregation and Agency". This talk was co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture; Center for Global Studies; and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/...
West African Dance: The Untaught Night 1 March 24, 2022 Film Screening and discussion for "Engagement Feminin Project" Lacina Coulibaly and Sena Atsugah Co-sponsored by: Center for Global Studies; Department of Dance; Center for African Studies; Department of Anthropology; and Department of Gender and Women's Studies ...
On March 23, 2022 12pm, Mayye Zayed provided a Director's Virtual Talk on her documentary, "Lift Like a Girl" that was coordinated with a film screening. Description: For over 20 years, Captain Ramadan coached world-class weightlifters in Alexandria, Egypt. A larger-than-life character in his own right, Ramadan led his daughter, one of Egypt’s most famous...