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...
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...- 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...
Please join CGS in welcoming Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University) on Wednesday, March 29th at 12PM (CST) on ...
Please join CGS on March 23 at noon, in person at Coble Hall, 306 and on Zoom for Marco Jaimes (History, UIUC), "The Deaths of Monarchs and the Creation of Nations" Description: Even as many...
Please join CGS on March 22nd at noon for Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University), "Language and Nationalism in South Asia" In this presentation, Dr. Mishra and Dr. Sarangi take into account the category of language in its relationship with the idea of...
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 this page. February Allison Witt (UIUC), "Maintaining Online Connection in a...
Molly Roberts (UC San Diego), "Strengthening Propaganda and the Limits of Media Commercialization in China: Evidence from Millions of Newspaper Articles." Friday, September 30th at noon (...- The lectures below are the Fall 2022 co-sponsored by CGS and the Department of Political Science at UIUC. September Yuri Zhukov (Michigan), “Near-Real Time Event Data on Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine.” September 23rd at noon (...
Global Culture Work: Between Transnational Mobility and Local Commitments This panel brings together dance and theater artists and arts managers based in Africa, Europe, and the Americas to discuss key conditions of their work in this “global” profession. What have been the roles of transborder mobility and financial...
On January 25 at 12 p.m.m (CST) on Zoom, Dr. Hakim Williams (Gettysburg College) gave a talk about education for revolutionary non-violence. An unsustainably plenteous modernity taunts our emaciated minds, bodies and spirits. Neocoloniality, hyperconsumerism, global warming, racialized polarization, forced displacement, the Covid-19 pandemic: how much more can our...
In her latest book, For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938, Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Caritina Piña Montalvo and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. A vivid look...
On November 9 at 12pm on Zoom, Dr. Janice Jayes will give a talk that examines the twentieth-century regulatory framework tying humans to states, its historical formation, and how it has resulted in the callous politics of human sorting that we call the migration system. Dr. Jayes suggests that we recognize the current system as more akin to a form of global...