Rather than returning to pre-pandemic normal, Higher Education must reexamine strategies for internationalization. This discussion examines previous models of internationalization to consider how socially unjust neoliberalism has infected practices. In this moment, higher education must radically reimagine the practice and possibilities of internationalization for responding to the generation of...

iSEE Congress - Spring 2021 In the seventh iSEE Congress, we are partnering with the Joint Area Centers (JACS), three of which are funded through U.S. Department of Education Title VI grants, and the Illinois Global Institute to readdress the...

Date: Feb. 25, 2021 Time: 12 PM - 1 pm CST The world is experiencing new COVID-19 waves and lockdowns. West Africa, however, is open to most travelers and remains a world leader in fighting the spread of the coronavirus. Join us for a conversation on how to prepare to travel abroad and study in West Africa in 2021. Fred Benneh, school founder and community developer, will join us from Ghana to...

Date: February 9, 2021 Time: 12pm-1pm CST Speaker: Prof. Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) Description: Climate migrations are often characterized as moving people from low to higher income countries, or from rural to urban areas (particularly into slums or low-income neighborhoods). However, climate change will...

Date: February 2, 2021 Time : 12pm-1pm CST   Speakers: Christina Bollo (UIUC, School of Architecture) Caitlin Clarke (UIUC, Department of Sociology)...

FLAS Info Sessions Poster Undergraduate Information Session Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 4:00pm to 5:00pm CT Virtual Event Register here Graduate Information Session Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 4:00pm to 5:00pm CT Virtual Event...

Speaker: Eric T. Freyfogle Professor Freyfogle is the author or editor of a dozen books dealing with issues of humans and nature, some focused on legal aspects, others reaching to larger cultural and social issues. In this talk he will explore why American legal and cultural systems of water use and...

Speaker: Ian Brooks This presentation will describe the Center for Health Informatics, what it means to be the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on Information Systems for Health and how the center is helping WHO respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic. Professor Brooks is the Director of the Center for Health Informatics at...

Speaker: Courtney Cuthbertson Using the sociological framing of the stress process model, this presentation will share findings from a mixed methods study of mental health among Flint residents during the water crisis. Sociological examination of the Flint water crisis demonstrates how mental health outcomes and the experience of...

Covid-19 has affected every aspect of life since its outbreak.  One of the hardest hit areas is Education.  This Summer a panel of experts put together an enlightening and informative online discussion of how to cope with learning during the pandemic.  The Summer 2020 Virtual Educators Workshop, "K-14 Education During Covid-19 in the US and Abroad" was an immense success....

CGS proudly hosted a talk on Reconceptualizing Citizenship and Civic Engagement from the Perspectives of Newcomer Immigrant and Refugee Youth by Liv Thorstensson Dávila on February 26, 2020. Speaker Bio: Dr. Davila is an Assistant Professor of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership for the College of Eduction at Illinois. Her research examines the...

On January 23rd, 2020 the Illinois Global Institute International Area Studies Centers sponsored an International Music & Art Interactive family program at the Champaign Public Library.    Children of all ages and their caretakers spent an afternoon learning about different cultures from around the world through arts and crafts, music, and dance. They...

CGS proudly hosted a talk on Global Attitudes of Rural Technical Inferiority as a Cause for Migration to Cities in the Non-Industrialized World presented by Ann-Perry Witmer on December 4th, 2019. Speaker Bio: Ann-Perry Witmer is a lecturer in Agricultural and Biological Engineering, where she directs a robust research laboratory that investigates the...

On November 7-8, 2019, CGS proudly hosted Professor María Belén Albornoz from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador (FLACSO). On November 7th, she presented “Technology and Transitional Justice: Making Visible the Information Infrastructure for War Victims”. Her visit was co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean...

On October 23rd, 2019, CGS proudly sponsored a discussion of the Climate Action Game Experiment (CAGE) presented by Cliff Singer and members of the CAGE team. Climate Action Game Experiment:  CAGE studies how climate change feeds back on human policies. It includes global heat and greenhouse gas balance and econometrically calibrated models of the evolution of up to 16...