WGGP's focus is global human security and gender equity.

Highlights of WGGP Faculty Affiliates Amy Gajda (Law and Communications), publishes new book, The Trials of Academe: The New Era of Campus Litigation Media coverage: The New York Times Inside Higher Ed See news about other faculty affiliates

Highlights of WGGP's GRID Students Maimouna Barro, GRID GRAD, publishes book: The Role of Literacy in Enhancing Women's Agency and Well-Being (2009) Junjie Chen, GRID student, Goodman Fellow, and doctoral candidate in anthropology at UI, wins award. Junjie's paper "What Counts as a 'Family Line': Reproductive Politics and Class Differentiations in Post-Socialist Rural China" won the David M. Schneider Award from the American Anthropological Association 2009. GRID Graduate Minor Sign up for our Graduate Minor, Gender Relations in International Development (GRID), and learn about our Goodman Fellowship and WGGP Grants

WGGP IN THE NEWS

A Minute With interview with Gale Summerfield,
WGGP Director and Associate Professor, Human and Community Development
WCIA interview with Noreen Sugrue,
Assistant Professor, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program

NEW WGGP PUBLICATIONS

Gender, China and the World Trade Organization: Essays from Feminist Economics Edited by Günseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong, Gale Summerfield Published by: Routledge, November 2009

This collection seeks to identify the gendered implications within China of the country’s transition from socialism to a market economy and its opening up to international trade and investment. The changes have created greater wealth for some, while at the same time, serious gender, class, ethnic, and regional disparities have also emerged.

Sustainable Biofuels and Human Security

Summer 2009 issue
Swords and Ploughshares
The Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS)
in cooperation with the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contents:
Introduction Jürgen Scheffran and Gale Summerfield
Biofuel Conflicts and Human Security: Toward a Sustainable Bioenergy Life Cycle and Infrastructure Jürgen Scheffran
Prospects for the New Bioeconomy Hans P. Blaschek
Biofuels in the Broader Context Clifford E. Singer
Biofuels and Global Poverty Mary Arends-Kuenning
Biofuels: Getting to the Real Facts and Promise about the Food vs. Fuel Debate Anil Hira
Sustainable Biofuel Standards and Certification Timothy M. Smith, Kristell Miller, and Justin Lindenberg
Use of Remote Sensing to Measure Land Use Change from Biofuel Production Steffen Mueller and Ken Copenhaver
A Note on China in the Global Biofuel Scenario Gale Summerfield
To access the issue, visit
http://acdis.illinois.edu/publications/207/publication-SustainableBiofuelsandHumanSecurity.html

Coming Events Saturday, November 14,Women and Globalization: Seeking Freedom in the War Zone, Evelyne Accad, Professor Emerita, French, Comparative Literature, University of Illinois and Lebanese American University, at 2:30 pm at the Urbana Free Library. Cosponsors CSAMES, WGGP and Urbana Free Library. (She will give another talk on campus this spring. Watch for details.)   Monday, February 15, 5:00 pm, Deadline for Submitting Applications for WGGP Award Opportunities for New and Continuing Graduate Students. Details about $14,000 Goodman Fellowship and other WGGP grants. Monday, March 1, Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century, Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank, Foellinger Auditorium, Posters and Panels on Gender Equity, Microfinance, and Health at 10:00, 1:00, and 3:00 in Business Instructional Facility, (at Sixth and Gregory), co-sponsored by WGGP and others.   For further information on the Grameen Bank, see http://www.grameenfoundation.org/who_we_are/our_people/board_members/muhammad_yunus/

RESEARCH, THEMATIC AREAS, AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

Transnational Migration [Details and Events]

Provost's Initiative on Gender Equity: Local and Global
and Gender Equity Council [Details and Events]

WGGP Newsletter, Perspectives: Research Notes and News [Current Issue]

NEWS and RESOURCES

Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas, by Nancy Folbre,
just published by
Oxford University Press.

Migration Policy Institute paper on Immigrants and the Current Economic Crisis

Human Development Report 2009 on Migration

INSTRAW website on Gender and Migration

Elinor Ostrom, first woman to win Nobel Prize for Economics, 2009. Read about her work in Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School, available from Routledge. The volume includes a dialogue with Elinor Ostrom and presents a systematic analysis of the program that developed a unique and extremely successful combination of interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical approaches for the study of social sciences.

In the News: NYT Magazine (8-23-09) focuses on women in developing countries

 

 

The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) is an academic unit in the International Programs and Studies (IPS) Division of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).