"Atrocities in the Levant through the Jesuit Archives: The Great Famine in Lebanon 1915-1918" on April 23 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the International and Area Studies Library!Many...
The Faculty & Researchers audience hub selects CGS events and resources that are especially relevant to scholars working in various aspects of Global Studies. This grouping is not meant to be exclusionary -- all CGS events are always open to graduate students, undergraduates, K-12 teachers, and the general public. Encouraging freer and more constructive communication among these group is central to the CGS mission.
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iWitness. Armenian Genocide Commemoration. Artist TalkThrough portraiture, testimony, archives and sound, iWitness presents a poignant and deeply moving narrative of the Armenian...
Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe - April 8th, 2025 - 5 PM - Illini Union, Room 314A (1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)Vivian Marcus Memorial Lecture...
Conceptualizing (Im-)migration and Making Sense of Diversity in post-WWII America - April 8th, 2025 - 12 PM - English Building 109 (608 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801) ...
April 10, 5:30 - 7:30 pm (Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA) Art exhibition opening reception "The Art of Recreating Transnational Solidarity Against Global Apartheids." Woman Life...
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Due to illness, the talk originally scheduled for March 5, noon, will not take place. CGS will work to reschedule Dr. Sachsenmaier's visit to UIUC. China's...
Damocles's Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control - February 28th, 2025 - 1 PM - Hybrid (Coble Room 306 and on Zoom.) Join...
The Center for Global Studies is celebrating its 25th anniversary and has a great range of events lined up for this semester!Check out some of them here and mark you calendar to join...
CGS regrets to announce the cancellation of Ambassador Falatko's visit to UIUC campus. In the past few days, the Trump Administration has directed all officers of the US State Department...- Call for GLBL 296 and 298 proposals The LAS Global Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is seeking...
The Illinois Global Institute invites proposals for the New Approaches to International Area and Global Studies grants. The New Approaches grant supports...
GLOBAL INTERSECTIONS GRANT APPLICATION Applications now closed. See current Global Intersections projects ...
Information sessions for students interested in applying for 2025-2026 FLAS will be held in two sections: Wednesday, November 13, 2024, from 3-4pm (213 Gregory Hall) ...
Academic Coordinator The collective units of the Center for Global Studies (CGS), LAS Global Studies, the Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security (ACDIS),...
Peaceworks on Campus Monday, November 04th - 12 PM - Latzer Hall, University YMCA Summary: Peaceworks on Campus is an effort to regain the...
Please join CGS and IASL for the inaugural discussion on AI in Global Perspective: When: Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 9:00 am Central US Time (Chicago...
CGS/LAS-Global Studies Fall 24 Reception! Monday, October 07th - 5:00-6:30 PM - Core - 3rd floor Atrium - Natural History Building Dear friends...
We mourn the loss of our esteemed colleague Robert McKim, Emeritus, who passed away over the summer. Please click here to view the announcement by the Department of Philosophy:...
CGS Affiliate Yannick Kluch, and professor of recreation, sport and tourism, was recently interviewed by the Illinois News Bureau to discuss the history of Olympic athletes’ social justice protests....
In light of Governor J.B. Pritzker's recent announcement of the "State Designated Cultural District" initiative, Illinois is making a significant stride towards preserving its rich cultural heritage...
Please join CGS in welcoming Dr. Benjamin Bross for his lecture on April 12th, at 12PM at the International and Area...
Edward A. Kolodziej is Emeritus Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author...
AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education) today announced that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...
Pat Keenan, CGS Advisory Board member, UIUC law professor, and Heidi Hurd Faculty Scholar has recently offered his assessment of the Biden administration's national security policy in an interview...
Event Archive
A Great Decoupling? Globalization Without the U.S. - April 24th, 2025 - 12 PM - On ZoomAbstract: This panel explores the evolving nature of global economic...
Resisting Digital Surveillance in Brazil: Preliminary Fieldwork on AI and Facial Recognition at Carnaval - April 9th, 2025 - 12 PM - On ZoomAbstract: ...
Building Inclusive Tech with the Global South - February 11th, 2025 - 12 PM - On Zoom. This talk will be presented by Dr. Payal Arora.Abstract: What actions and...
Join us on Zoom for an amazing talk entitled "Global Governance of AI: Political and Ethical Challenges Across National, Regional, and International Approaches"! - February...
Co-Producing Counter-Narratives of Radical Care, Hope, and Imagined Just FuturesThursday, November 14th - 12 PM - On Zoom A panel discussion with the Humane...
The Struggle to Govern the Oceans: The Past, Present, and Future of the Law of the SeaThursday, November 07th - 04 PM - 306 Coble Hall and on ZoomSummary:...
Femicide in TurkeySeptember 11 - 12 PM - 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom.Description: Dr. Cetin will discuss the problem of femicides in Turkey,...
Cultivating 'Multiplicadores' through Community Empowerment: Liberatory and Digital Learning Models for Transformative DevelopmentThursday, September 26th - 12 PM - 306 Coble...
Globalization at a Crossroads: Deglobalization or Reglobalization?Monday, October 07th - 04 PM - 2079 Natural History Building and on Zoom Description...
The recent lecture "Law's Quick Fix? Ecocide, Social Transformation & the Pitfalls of Criminalisation" by David Whyte (Professor of Climate Justice, Queen Mary...
The recent lecture "Digital Paradoxes: How Technology Unintentionally Transforms Education" by Hany Zayed took place on Wednesday, April 17th at 2 PM...
Scroll to the bottom of the page to watch a recording of Dr. Liu's presentation. On Wednesday, February 7, at 12pm on Zoom, the CGS was joined by Dr....
Explore the archive of all presentations hosted and supported by the Center for Global Studies during Spring 2023 here...- The Center for Global Studies and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois present: Away From the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural...
Please join CGS in welcoming Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and ...
Please join CGS on March 23 at noon, in person at Coble Hall, 306 and on Zoom for ...
The 2023 spring semester has concluded and the Center of Global Studies is pleased to provide archived webinars and information from the speakers and their lectures on this page. February...
- The lectures below are the Fall 2022 co-sponsored by CGS and the Department of Political Science at UIUC. September Yuri...
Global Culture Work: Between Transnational Mobility and Local Commitments This panel brings together dance and theater...
On January 25 at 12 p.m.m (CST) on Zoom, Dr. Hakim Williams (Gettysburg College) gave a talk about education for revolutionary non-violence. An unsustainably plenteous...
In her latest book, For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938, Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Caritina...
On November 9 at 12pm on Zoom, Dr. Janice Jayes will give a talk that examines the twentieth-century regulatory framework tying humans to states, its historical formation,...
On November 16 at 12pm on Zoom, Sherry L. Martin (Acting Asia Division Chief in the U.S. Department of State's Office of Opinion Research) will give a talk that provides a historical...
On October 20 at 12pm, Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle (University of Massachusetts Boston), Dr. Anita Haldemann (Kunstmuseum Basel), Dr. Sooa Im...
On October 6 at 12pm, Prof. Cameron McCarthy (Communication Scholar and University Scholar in the Department of Educational Policy, Leadership, and Organization (...
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iSEE Congress - Spring 2021 In the seventh iSEE Congress, we are partnering with the Joint Area...
Date: February 9, 2021 Time: 12pm-1pm CST Speaker: Prof. Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) Description: Climate...
Date: February 2, 2021 Time : 12pm-1pm CST Speakers: Christina Bollo...
Speaker: Eric T. Freyfogle Professor Freyfogle is the author or editor of a dozen books dealing with issues...
Speaker: Ian Brooks This presentation will describe the Center for Health Informatics, what it means to be the WHO/PAHO...
Speaker: Courtney Cuthbertson Using the sociological framing of the stress process model, this presentation will share findings from a...- CGS proudly hosted a talk on Reconceptualizing Citizenship and Civic Engagement from the Perspectives of Newcomer Immigrant and Refugee Youth by Liv Thorstensson Dávila on February 26, 2020....
- CGS proudly hosted a talk on Global Attitudes of Rural Technical Inferiority as a Cause for Migration to Cities in the Non-Industrialized World presented by Ann-Perry Witmer on December 4th, 2019...
- On November 7-8, 2019, CGS proudly hosted Professor María Belén Albornoz from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador (FLACSO). On November 7th, she presented “Technology and...
- On October 23rd, 2019, CGS proudly sponsored a discussion of the Climate Action Game Experiment (CAGE) presented by Cliff Singer and members of the CAGE team. Climate Action Game...
- CGS proudly hosted MillerComm 2020: Framing the Global Immigrant Challenge: Evidence from Elected Representatives’ Tweets presented by David D. Laitin on October 17th, 2019. ...
- On April 11th, 2019, CGS proudly hosted Naureen Butt who presented “One Woman’s Journey From Pakistan to the United States: A Struggle for Women’s Rights”. This event was co-sponsored by ...
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