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...
2024-01-30 - 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...
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...