2025-04-22
- A Great Decoupling? Globalization Without the U.S. - April 24th, 2025 - 12 PM - On ZoomAbstract: This panel explores the evolving nature of global economic integration in an era marked by U.S. disengagement, rising protectionism, and a recalibration of economic alliances. With the post-WWII liberal international order under strain, panelists will...
2025-04-21 - iWitness. Armenian Genocide Commemoration. Artist TalkThrough portraiture, testimony, archives and sound, iWitness presents a poignant and deeply moving narrative of the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) as told by its last surviving eyewitnesses.Visit the exhibition from April 10 to May 31, 2025, at the Illini Union Art Gallery.Artist talk:...
2025-04-20 - "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 mass atrocities took place at the beginning of the 20th century, and more accurately during WWI in the Middle East. However, the study of these facts remains, perforce, sketchy and cannot take into...
2025-03-15 - 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 Freedom Collective and Humane Urbanisms Project. April 11, 10-11 am (306 Coble Hall) “Solidarity with Sudan After Revolt: Reimagining Society, Surviving Vengeance.” Elsadig Elsheikh...
2025-03-14 - Resisting Digital Surveillance in Brazil: Preliminary Fieldwork on AI and Facial Recognition at Carnaval - April 9th, 2025 - 12 PM - On ZoomAbstract: 2024 was the most surveilled year in Brazilian history. Last year, the Panopticon, a Brazilian project that monitors how police acquire new technologies, reported a record increase in festivals—such...
2025-03-10 - 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) Abstract: Between the late 1920s and mid-1960s, several Jewish social scientists and humanities scholars laid the theoretical groundwork for ethnic and immigration studies in the United...
2025-03-09 - 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 LectureAbstract: This will be a conversation with Tobias Brinkmann about his recent book, Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe. It tells and contextualizes...
2025-03-07 - CGS Announces Launch of New Master of Science in Global Studies Program, Spring 2026!The Center for Global Studies (CGS) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new Master of Science in Global Studies (MSGS) program, beginning in Fall 2025. This innovative, interdisciplinary program is a collaborative effort among the Center for Global Studies (CGS), the Center for the...
2025-03-06 - Congratulations to the iGlobal...
2025-02-06 - 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 us!February 04th, 2025 - 2:30 - 4:00 pm - Room 306, Coble Hall...
2025-02-05 - 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 Global Implications: The Past and Present of European Debates with Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier - March 05th, 2025 - 12 PM - Hybrid (on Coble Hall, Room 306 and on Zoom.) ...
2025-02-04 - 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 UIUC Professor Meicen Sun and explore how politically motivated internet control shapes economic and research outcomes in autocratic states. Abstract: This paper advances...
2025-02-01 - Join us on Zoom for an amazing talk entitled "Global Governance of AI: Political and Ethical Challenges Across National, Regional, and International Approaches"! - February 18th, 2025 - 12 pm - On Zoom.This talk will be presented by: Allison Stanger (Middlebury College) - Allison Stanger is Middlebury Distinguished Endowed...
2025-01-27 - 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 innovations are needed to create an inclusive AI system? In the last decade, affordable mobile phones, and data plans have brought the 'next billion users' online - mostly young people from the Global...
2025-01-22 - 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 to cancel all recruiting events for the foreseeable future. Meet with US Ambassador in Residence: Susan Falatko! - February 04th, 2025 - 2:30 - 4:00 pm - Room 306 - Coble Hall...