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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... - Image
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... - Image
On April 12th, 2023, WGGP hosted Illinois and GRID Alumna, Pilar Egüez Guevara for a graduate student discussion, "Moving Across Careers as a Versatile Scholar". Cosponsors for the event included LAS Global Studies, Center for Global Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies thanks to National Resource Center... - Image
On April 11, 2023, WGGP hosted Illinois and GRID Alumna Pilar Egüez Pilar for film screening and discussion. "Comidas Que Curan: (Re)discovering Ancestral Wisdom Through Ethnography and Filmmaking which included film screening of "Raspando coco". If you are interested in viewing "Raspando coco", please visit the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign library. Co-sponsors for this... - Image
On April 5th, 2023 Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program invited Dr. Courtney Dorroll to host a Graduate Student Discussion on "Self-care in the Classroom". The event took place at 306 Coble Hall at 3 pm. Dr. Courtney Dorroll is Associate Professor of Religion and Coordinator of the Middle Eastern and North African Studies Program at Wofford College.... - Image
WGGP hosted Dr. McKenzie Johnson, Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, on April 5, 2023 for the annual Faculty Affiliate Lecture. The Talk, "Gender in Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding" took place at 12pm CST both in-person and virtually. - Image
On April 4th, 2023 WGGP hosted a talk by Dr. Courney Dorroll on how Dorroll's 2019 book, Teaching Islamic Studies during the Age of ISIS and Islamophobia (Indiana University Press), created emotional labor for both the instructor and her students. Courtney found self-care pedagogy and sustainability practices to be key in replenishing herself and her students. When we ask scholars and students to... - Image
WGGP hosted Dr. Shakira Nasir for virtual event, "Understanding Digital Literacy Among Children from B40 Family Living at the Pusat Perumahan Rakyat (PPR)" on March 31, 2023. Dr. Nasir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the International Islamic University in Malaysia. This talk was co-sponsored by the Center for Global Studies through support of the U.S.... - Image
WGGP hosted Dr. Beverley Mullings, a Professor of Black Economic Geographies at University of Toronto, on March 22, 2023 for talk "Informality, Precarity and the Coloniality of Gendered Labour in the Caribbean" The event talked about the convergences in the kinds of low waged, unpredictable and dangerous jobs that working people worldwide increasingly face, are rendering historical... - Image
12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories, March 8, 2023, 3:30-5:00pm The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were co-hosting our fifth annual event, “12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories” bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community...