Illinois Global Institute Center for Global Studies

Faculty & Researchers

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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Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe
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
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) ...
Resisting Digital Surveillance in Brazil: Preliminary Fieldwork on AI and Facial Recognition at Carnaval
Resisting Digital Surveillance in Brazil: Preliminary Fieldwork on AI and Facial Recognition at Carnaval - April 9th, 2025 - 12 PM - ...
Transnational Solidarity Against Global Apartheids
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...
The Current Changes in Global Economic Governance
The Current Changes in Global Economic Governance - April 17th, 2025 - 12 PM - On Zoom Abstract:...
2025 NAFSA Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization
Congratulations to the...
(POSTPONED) China's Global Implications: The Past and Present of European Debates
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
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...
CGS Spring 2025 Schedule
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...
Building Inclusive Tech with the Global South
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...
Global Governance of AI: Political and Ethical Challenges Across National, Regional, and International Approaches
Join us on Zoom for an amazing talk entitled "Global Governance of AI: Political and Ethical Challenges Across National, Regional, and International Approaches"! - February...
Put your study abroad experience to work and explore career opportunities in foreign diplomacy
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
Call for GLBL 296 and 298 proposals The LAS Global Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is seeking...
New Approaches to International Area and Global Studies Grant
The Illinois Global Institute invites proposals for the New Approaches to International Area and Global Studies grants. The New Approaches grant supports...
Co-producing counter narratives of radical care, hope, and imagined just futures
Co-Producing Counter-Narratives of Radical Care, Hope, and Imagined Just Futures Thursday, November 14th - 12 PM - On Zoom A panel discussion with the...
Global Intersections: Student Research and Project Grants
GLOBAL INTERSECTIONS GRANT APPLICATION Applications now closed. See current Global Intersections projects ...
FLAS Info Sessions
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) ...
We are Hiring!
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"
Peaceworks on Campus Monday, November 04th - 12 PM - Latzer Hall, University YMCA Summary: Peaceworks on Campus is an effort to regain the...
"The Struggle to Govern the Oceans: The Past, Present, and Future of the Law of the Sea"
The Struggle to Govern the Oceans: The Past, Present, and Future of the Law of the Sea Thursday, November 07th - 04 PM - 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom ...
Global Perspectives on AI
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-GS FALL 24 RECEPTION
CGS/LAS-Global Studies Fall 24 Reception! Monday, October 07th - 5:00-6:30 PM - Core - 3rd floor Atrium - Natural History Building Dear friends...
Ihsan Cetin, "Femicide in Turkey"
Femicide in Turkey September 11 - 12 PM - 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom. Description: Dr. Cetin will discuss the problem of femicides in Turkey...
Armando Jose Torres, "Cultivating 'Multiplicadores' through Community Empowerment: Liberatory and Digital Learning Models for Transformative Development"
Cultivating 'Multiplicadores' through Community Empowerment: Liberatory and Digital Learning Models for Transformative Development Thursday, September 26th - 12 PM - 306...
Manfred Steger, "Globalization at a Crossroads: Deglobalization or Reglobalization?"
Globalization at a Crossroads: Deglobalization or Reglobalization? Monday, October 07th - 04 PM - 2079 Natural History Building and on Zoom ...
In Remembrance: Emeritus Professor Robert McKim
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:...
Will the 2024 Olympic Games become the playing field for social justice protests?
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....
Dr. Helaine Silverman Interviewed, "How can Illinois better preserve its cultural identities?"
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...
Benjamin Bross, "Mexico City Zócalo: Spatial Production and the Ongoing Construction of a National Identity"
Please join CGS in welcoming Dr. Benjamin Bross for his lecture on April 12th, at 12PM at the International and Area...
Is Russia-Ukraine war heading toward stalemate?
Edward A. Kolodziej is Emeritus Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author...
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IGlobal Program Honored with 2023 AACTE Best Practice Award in Support Of Global and International Perspectives
AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education) today announced that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign...
Pat Keenan, "How has national security policy changed in the Biden administration?"
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

Webinar Recording: David Whyte, "Law's Quick Fix? Ecocide, Social Transformation & the Pitfalls of Criminalisation"
The recent lecture "Law's Quick Fix? Ecocide, Social Transformation & the Pitfalls of Criminalisation" by David Whyte (Professor of Climate Justice, Queen Mary...
Hany Zayed, "Digital Paradoxes: How Technology Unintentionally Transforms Education"
The recent lecture "Digital Paradoxes: How Technology Unintentionally Transforms Education" by Hany Zayed took place on Wednesday, April 17th at 2 PM...
Webinar Recording: Lizhi Liu, "The Rise of Data Politics: Digital China and the World"
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....
Spring 2023 Webinar Archive
Explore the archive of all presentations hosted and supported by the Center for Global Studies during Spring 2023 here...
Symposium on Ukrainian Cultural and Linguistic Shift
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...
Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University), "Language and Politics in India"
Please join CGS in welcoming Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and ...
Marco Jaimes (History, UIUC), "The Deaths of Monarchs and the Creation of Nations"
Please join CGS on March 23 at noon, in person at Coble Hall, 306 and on Zoom for ...
Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University), "Language and Nationalism in South Asia"
Please join CGS on March 22nd at noon for Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru...
CGS Speakers for Spring 2023
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...
Molly Roberts (UCSD), "Strengthening Propaganda and the Limits of Media Commercialization in China: Evidence from Millions of Newspaper Articles."
Molly Roberts (UC San Diego), "Strengthening Propaganda and the...
Co-Sponsored Talks by the Department of Political Science & CGS
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
Global Culture Work: Between Transnational Mobility and Local Commitments This panel brings together dance and theater...
CGS Speaker/IGI Blueprint for Transitional Justice in the US Series: Hakim Williams, "Education for Revolutionary Non-Violence"
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...
Book Talk With Sonia Hernandez: For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938
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...
The Migration System as Modern Feudalism
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,...
Public Opinion and the Indo-Pacific's Regional Architecture
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...
Global Work Series: Global Museum Work in Light of the Pandemic and the Protest
On October 20 at 12pm, Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle (University of Massachusetts Boston), Dr. Anita Haldemann (Kunstmuseum Basel), Dr. Sooa Im...
Burnished Ornamentalism: The Social Aesthetics of Postcolonial Elite Schools in Globalizing Circumstances
On October 6 at 12pm, Prof. Cameron McCarthy (Communication Scholar and University Scholar in the Department of Educational Policy, Leadership, and Organization (...
Global Platforms & Infrastructures
Date: Apr 30, 2021 9:00 - 11:00 am Digital platforms are so pervasive in our everyday life to the point that it becomes no longer meaningful to separate our lives from them. How do...
iSEE Congress Spring 2021
iSEE Congress - Spring 2021 In the seventh iSEE Congress, we are partnering with the Joint Area...
Global Intersections Series: "When Corona Virus Meets the City"
Date: February 9, 2021 Time: 12pm-1pm CST Speaker: Prof. Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) Description: Climate...
Event Series: Covid-19 "Remote Teaching in Times of COVID-19"
Date: February 2, 2021 Time : 12pm-1pm CST Speakers: Christina Bollo...
Water, Community, and the Culture of Owning
Speaker: Eric T. Freyfogle Professor Freyfogle is the author or editor of a dozen books dealing with issues...
WHO, The Center for Health Informatics, and COVID-19
Speaker: Ian Brooks This presentation will describe the Center for Health Informatics, what it means to be the WHO/PAHO...
Toxic Water and Corroded Trust: Stress and Mental Health in the Flint Water Crisis
Speaker: Courtney Cuthbertson Using the sociological framing of the stress process model, this presentation will share findings from a...
Reconceptualizing Citizenship and Civic Engagement from the Perspectives of Newcomer Immigrant and Refugee Youth
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....
Global Attitudes of Rural Technical Inferiority as a Cause for Migration to Cities in the Non-Industrialized World
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...
Technology and Transitional Justice: Making Visible the Information Infrastructure for War Victims
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...
Climate Action Game Experiment (CAGE)
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...
MillerComm – Framing the Global Immigrant Challenge: Evidence from Elected Representatives’ Tweets
CGS proudly hosted MillerComm 2020: Framing the Global Immigrant Challenge: Evidence from Elected Representatives’ Tweets presented by David D. Laitin on October 17th, 2019. ...
One Woman’s Journey From Pakistan to the United States: A Struggle For Women’s Rights
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 ...
Racial Capitalism Symposium
KNIGHT AUDITORIUM, SPURLOCK MUSEUM 600 S GREGORY ST, URBANA, IL 61801 03/29/2019 - 9:00 AM View the full symposium schedule and details about the Racial Capitalism ColLab ...
MillerComm – Constructing Solidarities in the Global Justice Movement: A Feminist Perspective
CGS proudly hosted MillerComm 2019: Constructing Solidarities in the Global Justice Movement: A Feminist Perspective presented by Manisha Desai on March 13th, 2019. Event...

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