2025-10-03
- Xiomi Ortiz, Context Before Engineering – Learning from a Community-Led Water Project in the Navajo NationOctober 9th at 12 pm Coble Hall 306 and Zoom Description: Access to water remains a major challenge for many Native communities in...
2025-09-26 - Islands of Exception: Law, Empire, and Offshore Finance in the CaribbeanJose Atiles (Sociology, UIUC)Wednsday, Oct. 1st, 12-1PMCoble Hall, 306 and on Zoom Description: In this talk, Prof. Atiles previews his forthcoming book, Islands of Exception, which explores...
2025-09-22 - CGS Fall ReceptionNational Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Room 1030 1205 W. Clark St, Urbana @ 1pmPlease join us at 1:00pm for food, conversation, and celebration of the fall semester.
2025-09-18 - Millercomm Lecture series: Allison Stanger, "Who Elected Big Tech?" Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025 at 12:00pm National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Room 1030 1205 W. Clark St, UrbanaThis lecture will critically examine the growing influence of major technology corporations on...
2025-09-16 - “Catalysts for Change: Youth Participation and the Future of Global Agendas” Thursday, 25 September 2025, at 9:00-10:00 AM (CT) via ZoomSouthern Voice Talks is a new...
2025-09-05 - Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 at 12:00 pm Coble Hall, Room 306 and on ZoomGiven the complexity of global poverty and climate change, much of technical education has focused on practitioners as changemakers, seeking to inspire individuals to tackle the world’s most...
2025-08-31 - Thursday, September 4th, 2025 at 12:00pm Coble Hall, Room 306 and on ZoomDescription: Claudia Grisales will present her dissertation research that explores the role of digital technologies in struggles for land and recognition of a campesino, or small-farmer, community, in the northwestern Colombian Amazon. While...
2025-08-29 - The Center of Global Studies is excited to announce the speakers and their lectures for the fall semester:09/04 - Claudia Grisales Bohorquez (PhD candidate, UIUC), "Aligning the Stars: an Ethnography of Digital Networks and Campesino Struggles in the...
2024-04-17 - The recent lecture "Law's Quick Fix? Ecocide, Social Transformation & the Pitfalls of Criminalisation" by David Whyte (Professor of Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law) took place on Wednesday, April 24th at 12 PM on Zoom. Description: Calls to...
2024-04-17 - The recent lecture "Digital Paradoxes: How Technology Unintentionally Transforms Education" by Hany Zayed took place on Wednesday, April 17th at 2 PM in the College of Education Room ED 22 and on Zoom. Description: In 2018, Egypt began...
2024-01-30 - 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. Lizhi Liu's for a presentation on her paper, "The Rise of Data Politics: Digital China and the World.” Data has become one of the most valuable assets for governments and...
An estimated 10 million girls in India may not return to school when they reopen after the second wave of COVID-19. Furthermore, there will be an increase of more than 30 million child brides in the next decade globally, due to COVID-19 (UNESCO, 2020). Girls aged 12-17 are at particular risk of dropping out of school (India Education Diary, 2021). In this seminar, we will speak directly with...
May 1, 2021 12:00 - 1:00 pm The Center for Global Studies and European Union Center Present A Global Intersections Event: The Illinois Flamenco Jazz Collective: Juerga de Primavera Directed by Brian Stark and Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht Featuring David Chiriboga and La Malou Register...
Date: Dec 2, 2020 Time : 12:00 PM (cst) Clean running water on the Navajo Nation has been an ongoing challenge for decades, and even today one in three families still do not have a sink and a toilet. The Navajo Water Project was started in 2014 to address these problems, but the COVID-19 pandemic has severely...
Date: November 11, 2020 Time : 12-1PM (cst) Speakers: Emily Mendenhall (Georgetown, School of Foreign Service...