Event Videos – Spring 2022

April 21, 2022

As reproductive justice advocates, activists, and scholars anticipate the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the 1973 landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, we gather to talk about the challenges and implications of federal rulings for abortion access in Illinois, especially as they affect women who are historically marginalized. We also consider how states like Illinois are poised to shape the conversation around access, what we learn or lose when public understanding of the national and local contexts of struggle for reproductive justice is framed through the lens of Roe v. Wade, and what lies ahead for activists and for those seeking abortions.

Speakers:

• Allison Cowett, Medical Director, Family Planning Associates Medical Group; Health Systems Clinician, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Yamani Yansá Hernandez, former Executive Director, National Network of Abortion Funds
• Megan Jeyifo, Executive Director, Chicago Abortion Fun
• Teri McMurtry-Chubb, Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development, UIC Law
• Kim D. Ricardo, Professor of Law, UIC Law

Moderated by Elena Gutiérrez, Associate Professor, UIC Gender and Women’s Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies.

Hosted by the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center (WLRC) and co-sponsored by UIC Gender and Women’s Studies, UIC Library, UIC Law, and UIC Women’s Law Caucus.

April 5, 2022

Building on scholarship in both gender and urban anthropology, UIC PhD student Nirupama Jayaraman’s presentation of work in progress explores the relationship between gender and mobility, within the routinely used public transport bus network, considered public space within this project, in the South Indian Tier II city of Madurai.

To explore the relation between gendered usage and the ensuing inequality of access to transport infrastructure in a small city, her project asks the following questions: What impact does the spatial context of smaller cities have on public transport as a gendered experience? How does people’s gender (perceived and self-identified) play a role in their usage of public transport? Who are the external (state) actors that influence, through gender focused policies, everyday transport decisions and how?

Findings from this project will help contribute to ethnographic understandings of gendered mobility, examine spaces of consumption within transportation, and augment interdisciplinary interventions to existing mobilities discourses on cities of the Global South across anthropology, gender studies, and urban planning.

The presentation is followed by a response from Dr. Tarini Bedi, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Dr. Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Professor and Director, Master of City Design Program, Urban Planning and Policy, as well as audience Q&A.

WLRC’s Feminisms Lunch Lectures series offers faculty, staff, students, visiting scholars, and activists an opportunity to present their projects, ideas, and works-in-progress on a wide range of topics and engage participants in lively and provocative discussion.

Hosted by the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center (WLRC) and Gender and Women’s Studies department.

March 31, 2022

How do women and gender non-conforming artists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color decide to use their creative skills to bolster social justice movements?

How does their work engage racial and economic justice to imagine new possibilities with and for their local communities and beyond? How do they bring this work into the academy and vice-versa?

This Women’s History Month, the UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center is hosting dialogues with artists, activists, and educators to explore these questions and inspire new ways to work collectively toward a better world.

Speakers: Quenna Lené Barrett and JeeYeun Lee

March 29, 2022

In 2017, women matriculants (admitted and enrolled) in medical school reached gender parity, and in some cases have outnumbered their male counterparts. Despite these gains, women continue to face significant disparities in mid-career to senior-level leadership positions. For African-American women, Latinas, and Native American and/or indigenous women, the statistics are even worse. Women of color are woefully underrepresented in leadership.

Why are there still so few women in positions of power? Why are women of color absent from leadership ranks?

In this Women’s History Month keynote lecture, Dr. Chiquita A. Collins discusses the barriers that women encounter and specifically address the dimensions of gender and race and their impact on leadership. She shares recent data reported by the Association of American Medical Colleges, The State of Women in Academic Medicine 2018-2019: Exploring Pathways to Equity (2020) and offers accessible resources as recommendations for institutions in their quest to advance women.

Speaker: Chiquita A. Collins, PhD, MA
Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer
Associate Professor/Research, Department of Population Health Sciences
UT Health San Antonio

Hosted by the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center (WLRC) and co-sponsored by the UIC College of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Sociology, Honors College, and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs.

March 17, 2022

How do women and gender non-conforming artists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color decide to use their creative skills to bolster social justice movements?

How does their work engage racial and economic justice to imagine new possibilities with and for their local communities and beyond? How do they bring this work into the academy and vice-versa?

This Women’s History Month, the UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center is hosting dialogues with artists, activists, and educators to explore these questions and inspire new ways to work collectively toward a better world.

Speakers: Aram Han Sifuentes and Lisa Woolfork

March 2, 2022

For faculty in academic health sciences, the balance between research, education, and patient care has been impeded by the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation aims to illustrate the personal and professional characteristics of faculty here at UIC and for the audience to understand the impact of the pandemic and consequent policy implications. This work is the result of a year-long collaboration between the UIC Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) scholars, the College of Medicine, and the Department of Sociology.

Speaker: Dr. Heather Weinreich, Assistant Professor, UIC Department of Otolaryngology

WLRC’s Feminisms Lunch Lectures series offers faculty, staff, students, visiting scholars, and activists an opportunity to present their projects, ideas, and works-in-progress on a wide range of topics and engage participants in lively and provocative discussion.

Hosted by the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center (WLRC) and Gender and Women’s Studies department.