The Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective is a new music and dance ensemble dedicated to high-quality Flamenco education and performance in Champaign-Urbana and surrounding areas. Directors Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht (dance) and Brian Stark (music) are working with students, some of whom have prior Flamenco...
Current Global Intersections Projects
The P.A.N. Culture and Heritage Experience is a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign study abroad foundations course that focuses on preparing and educating students about life abroad, educational development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and research in Ghana, Africa. The Ghanaian “Year of Return”...
Climate change and climate action are active social factors in an emerging area of research. This project will feature a conversation that addresses current questions about climate change and climate action. The project will include a series of debates that focus on the relationships between the...
There is a clear interrelationship between current educational reforms and global economic movements in different parts of the world. Educational reforms are driven by increasing demand for meeting the global market’s competitive standards. However, these reforms are directed to achieve a set of...
Child marriage is one of the major barriers to international development goals. Even today, India has 102 million child brides. Although keeping them in school is a challenge, formal education enhances girls’ ability to negotiate these key life decisions. This project will collaborate with the...
Illinois Contextual Engineering Week, happening April 20-23, will introduce attendees to the benefits of using a contextual approach in engineering design. Topics will include innovative self-sufficiency, unintended consequences, and contextual influences, alongside providing many real-world...
This project attempts to understand how digital platforms, especially messaging apps, function as unavoidable infrastructure in our social lives and become new modes of national governance. It focuses on messaging apps that are based in East Asia – WeChat from China and Kakaotalk from South Korea...
As facial recognition technological developments accelerate in their capability, “efficiency,” and networked possibilities, they increasingly cause “frictions” (Tsing, 2005) through their deployment in situated circumstances and at various scales. In China, they have been implemented in diverse and...
