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...
2025-03-14 - 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...
2025-02-01 - 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...
2024-11-11 - Co-Producing Counter-Narratives of Radical Care, Hope, and Imagined Just FuturesThursday, 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.edu/1478-2/...
2024-11-02 - The Struggle to Govern the Oceans: The Past, Present, and Future of the Law of the SeaThursday, November 07th - 04 PM - 306 Coble Hall and on ZoomSummary: 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 use...
2024-10-02 - Globalization at a Crossroads: Deglobalization or Reglobalization?Monday, October 07th - 04 PM - 2079 Natural History Building and on Zoom Description: Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping our planet. However, following a number of crises in the opening decades of the 21st century, the neoliberal globalization...
2024-09-20 - Cultivating 'Multiplicadores' through Community Empowerment: Liberatory and Digital Learning Models for Transformative DevelopmentThursday, September 26th - 12 PM - 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom Description: In 2019, Armando joined a Rio de Janeiro based NGO and Think Tank as a research collaborator to digitally map local favela organizations...
2024-09-04 - Femicide in TurkeySeptember 11 - 12 PM - 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom.Description: Dr. Cetin will discuss the problem of femicides in Turkey, placing it in a global context. He will focus on the following topics: The Istanbul Convention, statistics on femicides, different forms of femicides, social causes of it, legal legislation and...
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...