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...
On March 8, 2022 3:30pm, WGGP and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) hosted the annual International Women's Day event, "12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories". This annual event brings together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. The 2022 speakers included: Representative Carol Ammons Kat Fuenty, Asian...
On March 3, 2022 12pm, Dr. Evelyne Accad (Faculty Emerita), gave an in-person/virtual talk on, "La Maison de la Tendresse: House of Tenderness", a collection of five short stories recounting various forms of violence experienced by women in Lebanon. The stories center on the role of tenderness, as a guide to understanding and reconstructing the inner house of the self. This quest for...
On February 18, 2022 12pm, Dr. Laura Roth (Visiting Research, Jame I University, Spain), gave virtual talk on, "Feminist Politics Beyond Representative Democracy: The Practices of New Municipalism" Unlike most feminist analyses of politics, Dr. Laura Roth focuses, not on traditional political parties and organizations, but on the municipalist movement and emergent collectives where democracy is...