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.
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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...
2024-03-16 - CGS is excited to announce a recording is available for the recent lecture "'We Are the River': Rights of Nature in a Climate Changed World.", by David Takacs (Professor Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair UC Law, San Francisco) taking place on Wednesday, March 27th at 12PM at 306 Coble Hall and...
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...
2024-01-24 - Please join the CGS Team in welcoming John Levi Barnard (Associate Professor of English & Comparative & World Literature, UIUC), on Wednesday, January 31st at noon in 306, Coble Hall for his talk, "Meat, Climate, and the Dystopia of the Present." Moving through a century of dystopian film and literature -- from The Jungle to Soylent Green...
2024-01-24 - Please join us and Debbie Sharnak (Assistant Professor of History & International Studies at Rowan University) on Wednesday, January 31st from 6-7:15pm at Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 for her a talk on her book, Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay....
2024-01-22 - Please join us in welcoming Debbie Sharnak (Assistant Professor of History & International Studies at Rowan University) on Monday, January 29th from 5-6:15pm at Huff Hall, Room 1002 for her lecture "Fútbol under Authoritarian Rule and Its Global...
2023-11-01 - Scroll to the bottom of the page to watch a recording of Dr. Sultana's presentation. Join the CGS team in welcoming Farhana Sultana (Professor of Geography at Syracuse University) for her virtual lecture, "From Climate Coloniality to Climate Revolution" on Wednesday, November 8th at 12PM. The extremely uneven...
2023-10-12 - Scroll to the bottom of the page to watch Dr. Genovese's presentation. Please join the CGS for the next talk in our Climate Change series: Federica Genovese (Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Oxford) on Wednesday, October 18th at 11AM CST on...
2023-10-03 - Please join the CGS for the next talk in our Climate Change series: Jim Best (Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change, UIUC) on Wednesday, October 11th at 12PM in 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom will give their lecture, "The Future of the World’s Great Rivers: Anthropogenic Stresses, Impacts and Possible Solutions."...
2023-10-02 - Please join the CGS team in welcoming Mayra Alejandra Saenz Amaguaya (PhD Candidate in the Agricultural and Consumer Economics Department) for her lecture, "Can Institutional Factors Affect Intergenerational Family Transfers?" on Thursday, October 5th at 12PM in 309 International and Area Studies Library (Main Library) and on...
2023-09-22 - Please join the CGS team in welcoming Dr. Adil Najam on Monday October 2nd at 12PM, in Levis 208 and on Zoom, for his 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...
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...