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...
On November 5, 2021 12:00pm, Dr. Magdalena Novoa (Urban and Regional Planning) gave the annual faculty affiliate lecture, "Wounded Landscapes: Race, Gender, and Grassroots Preservation in Wallmapu" Magdalena Novoa is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Originally from Chile, her engaged scholarship focuses on...
On October 29, 2021 12:00pm, WGGP hosted a panel with Xola Qosha (Housing Assembly, Cape Town South Africa) and Silvia Baptista (The West Zone Solidarity Web, Rio de Janeiro Brazil) looking at how urban movements in Brazil and South Africa through practices of care and solidarity combat insecurity in food, health, land, housing, and violence based on race, class, and gender. Please note: To...
On October 15, 2021 12:00pm, Dr. Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue University) gave talk on "Solidarity and Feminism: Histories Threaded Through Race and Empire" Dr. Tithi Bhattacharya is a professor of South Asian History at Purdue University. She is the author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2005) and...
On October 11, 2021, GRID Students, Ananya Tiwari and Rama Paudel hosted a panel on "Resilience in the times of COVID-19: Swataleem's Experience with Rural Adolescent Girls" via Zoom. An estimated 10 million girls in India may not return to school when they reopen after the second wave of COVID-19. Furthermore, there will be an increase of more than 30 million child brides in the next...
On September 30, 2021 4pm, Dr. Fionnuala Ni Aolian presented a virtual talk, "The Relevance of Transitional Justice Twenty Years after 9/11" as part of the Illinois Global Institute Blueprint for Transitional Justice in the US: Building on Lessons and Insights from Global Perspectives Series. The 2021-2022 Blueprint for Transitional Justice in the US: Building on...
On September 24, 2021 12pm, Professor Laura McCloskey is a faculty member in public health at Indiana University in Bloomington. Her interdisciplinary research program focuses on the role of gender-based abuse in women’s health and well-being with her most recent empirical project based in South Africa. Discussant: Dr. Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois Professor of Economics...
On September 7, 2021 12:00pm the panel on "Solidarity with Afghan Women" Imperial Wars and Feminists Struggles in Afghanistan" took place. The panelists discussed current moment in Afghanistan through a historical feminist lens revealing how imperialism and religion weave the patriarchal order in Afghanistan and how Afghan women resist this order. Three outstanding Afghan scholar-...