2023-09-22
- Join the CGS team in welcoming Dr. Adil Najam on Monday October 2nd at 12PM for their presentation, "The Age Adaptation". Dr. Najam will examine climate change impacts, particularly on developing countries of the Global South who have had the least to do with causing the climate crisis but now find themselves at the forefront of its impacts.
Because the world...
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 HERE...
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)...
Speaker: Chimène Keitner (Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International Law, UC Hastings Law) Respondent: Patrick Keenan (Professor at the College of Law, UIUC) The U.S. response to the global pandemic has been distinctly unilateral, from its announced intention to withdraw from the World Health Organization to its decision...
Speaker: Professor Rajmohan Gandhi In his talk for CGS, Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi examined how the pandemic influenced inequalities in the world’s largest democracies, the U.S. and India. What is the pandemic’s impact on ethnonationalism’s appeal in the two countries? How has it affected their relations with China and with each other? Rajmohan Gandhi is Research Professor of Education Policy,...
Explore the archive of all presentations hosted and supported by the Center for Global Studies during Spring 2023 here. 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 the linked page. Be on...- 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 Shift In Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion. A three-day symposium that took place on April 19, 21, and 26, 2023. Miss the symposium? Watch the recording archive by day of presentation:...
Please join Tang Heng (Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) on April 18th (CDT) for her lecture, "Diversity : A Socioculturally-Constructed Concept." In-...
Join the CGS team in welcoming Martin Nekola for his lecture, "The Czech Republic, The European Union and the Rise of Populism," on Friday April 7th at 12PM (CST) at the International and Area Studies...
Join the CGS in welcoming Helaine Silverman for her lecture on April 4th at 12PM at the International and Area Studies Library, Room 309 and on Zoom, ...
Please join CGS for Dr. Monika Stodolska's (UIUC) talk "Ukrainian Refugees in Poland and the Response of the Polish and Ukrainian Immigrant Population to the Refugee Crisis," on Tuesday, March 28th at 12PM (CST), in person at the ...
Please join Allison Lide on Thursday, March 30th from 12-1:00PM (CST) at 306 Coble Hall or on Zoom for her lecture, "The Transformative Power of Montessori Education in Afghanistan: It Is Possible." For 20 years,...
Please join CGS in welcoming Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University) on Wednesday, March 29th at 12PM (CST) on Zoom...