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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. - Image
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 ... - Image
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... - Image
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... - Image
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... - Image
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... - Image
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... - Image
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... - Image
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... - Image
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...