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CGS Spring 2025 Schedule
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...
China's Global Implications: The Past and Present of European Debates
2025-02-05 - 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.) Abstract: This talk reflects upon China as a contested...
Damocles's Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control
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...
Global Governance of AI: Political and Ethical Challenges Across National, Regional, and International Approaches
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...
Building Inclusive Tech with the Global South
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...
Put your study abroad experience to work and explore career opportunities in foreign diplomacy
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...
FLAS Fellowship Graduate Application and Undergraduate Application
2024-12-27 - Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship | 2025-2026 FLAS Fellowships support graduate and undergraduate study in modern foreign languages in combination with area studies, international studies, or international or area aspects of professional studies. Funding for these fellowships is provided by the U.S. Department of...
New Approaches to International Area and Global Studies Grant
2024-12-27 - The Illinois Global Institute invites proposals for the New Approaches to International Area and Global Studies grants. The New Approaches grant supports multidisciplinary initiatives to increase UIUC engagement with world regions and with global questions beyond the current scope of the eleven area and global studies centers...
Call for GLBL 296 and 298 proposals
2024-12-27 - Call for GLBL 296 and 298 proposals The LAS Global Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is seeking proposals for one-credit undergraduate seminars (GLBL 296) that address contemporary societal challenges and engage students in research and...
Media Release
2024-12-09 - On December 7, 2024, 14 teams from across the globe gathered via Zoom for the 4th annual Reimagine Our Future sustainability competition award ceremony. The competition brought together 249 students from 11 institutions in the USA, UK, Ukraine, South Africa, China, Austria, Colombia, and Italy, who spent eight weeks crafting innovative solutions for the United Nations’ Sustainable...
Global Intersections: Student Research and Project Grants
2024-11-12 - GLOBAL INTERSECTIONS GRANT APPLICATION Applications now closed. See current Global Intersections projects here. About Global Intersections Global Intersections is a Center for Global Studies initiative designed to...
Co-producing counter narratives of radical care, hope, and imagined just futures
2024-11-11 - Co-Producing Counter-Narratives of Radical Care, Hope, and Imagined Just Futures Thursday, November 14th - 12 PM - On Zoom A panel discussion with the Humane Urbanisms Project (HUP) collaborators from urban South Africa, USA, Brazil, and Bangladesh. For more information about the project: https://calltoaction.illinois....
"The Struggle to Govern the Oceans: The Past, Present, and Future of the Law of the Sea"
2024-11-02 - 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 Summary: How to govern the oceans has become a major political, environmental, and economic challenge. From the South China Sea to the Arctic Ocean and the deep seabed, questions about how humans...
We are Hiring!
2024-11-01 - 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), and the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives (WGGP) center seek an Academic Coordinator to administrate a new Master of Science (MS) in Global Studies GS) degree program. The MSGS provides a...
"Peaceworks on Campus"
2024-10-25 - Peaceworks on Campus Monday, November 04th - 12 PM - Latzer Hall, University YMCA Summary: Peaceworks on Campus is an effort to regain the narrative about Israel and Palestine on campus today. The work is focused on future policymakers on college campuses. To counteract the toxic, polarized environment...