Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP)
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Join the WRC and WGGP as we discuss ""Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" by UIUC Professor Kate Clancy! We'll be exploring issues surrounding menstruation, from bodily autonomy, menstrual hygiene, and the COVID-19 vaccine to the ways racism, sexism, and medical betrayal warp public perceptions of menstruation and erase it from public life.
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The Madan Sara documentary tells the stories of these indefatigable women who work at the margins to make Haiti’s economy run. Despite facing intense hardship and social stigma, the hard work of the Madan Sara puts their children through school, houses their families, and helps to ensure a better life for generations to come.
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Ukrainian Studies Today: History, Memory, Representations, and Collections Conference Program – Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference (illinois.edu)
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Join us for an information session on the AAUW Fellowship. This information session will focus on AAUW's International & American Fellowship. Current submission deadline is November 15, 2023. Lunch included with Registration.
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Join the WRC and WGGP as we discuss ""Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" by UIUC Professor Kate Clancy! We'll be exploring issues surrounding menstruation, from bodily autonomy, menstrual hygiene, and the COVID-19 vaccine to the ways racism, sexism, and medical betrayal warp public perceptions of menstruation and erase it from public life.
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Mary Arends-Kuenning is Acting Associate Dean of International Programs in the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, and former Interim Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois.
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Wednesday, October 11, 12pm-1pm, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center Food for the Soul: Reckoning, Restitution and Repair: African Art and the Politics of Return
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Join Lovern J. Gordon, President and Founder of Love Life Now Foundation, Inc for this Domestic Violence Awareness Workshop on October 11th from 4:00-5:30pm. This workshop will be interactive and include time for discussion. There are limited number of complimentary copies of her book, The Legacy He Left Me, that are available through pre-registration.
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Michael Aiken Chair Emerita and Professor Emerita of Art & Design, Dr. Donna Cox will share her career as the Director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and her research on scientific visualizations.
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Thursday, October 12, 5:30-7:30PM KAM 62 and hybrid via Zoom “If Objects Could Speak”: A Screening and Panel Discussion on African Art, Museum Reckoning, and the Politics of Restitution.
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Friday, Oct. 13th 11AM-12:30PM, Krannert Art Museum Encounters: Arts of African Gallery Reckoning, Restitution, Repair: A Community Conversation
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Join the Lunch talk on October 13th 12pm by PhD Candidate Mayra Saenz, Agricultural and Consumer Economics with discussant Professor Elizabeth Powers, Department of Economics. Lunch provided with RSVP.
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Join the WRC and WGGP as we discuss ""Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" by UIUC Professor Kate Clancy! We'll be exploring issues surrounding menstruation, from bodily autonomy, menstrual hygiene, and the COVID-19 vaccine to the ways racism, sexism, and medical betrayal warp public perceptions of menstruation and erase it from public life.
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Saturday Oct 14th: 12-3PM, Krannert Art Museum Global Africa Community Forum Festival We will round up our events with an all-ages Forum Festival featuring live music, food trucks, museum tours, and arts activities including Make Your Own DIY Soccer Ball African-style!, an African Pottery Workshop, and a community soccer game in the playing field behind KAM.
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African Students' Organization presents AFRO-FUTURISM SYMPOSIUM. Collaborative Role of Africans & African-Americans in Afro-Futurism. Co-sponsored by: Center for African Studies, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
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Julia Fonseca is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2019. Her research interests include household finance, development finance, and labor and finance. Her work focuses on topics like financial development, consumer financial markets, and inequality.
