CGS Speakers for Spring 2023

The spring semester is underway and the Center of Global Studies is excited to announce the speakers and their lectures for the current semester. 

February

• Allison Witt (UIUC), "Maintaining Online Connection in a Post-pandemic World; Virtual Exchange as an Accomplice to Mobility"

  • February 2nd, 2023 at 12 PM
  • This hybrid event took place at the International and Area Studies Library (IASL), Room 309.
  • Recorded session

• Ned O'Gorman (UIUC), "How Liberals Lost the (Re)Public: World War I and the New American (Inter)Nationalism"

  • February 7th, 2023 at 12 PM
  • This hybrid event took place at Coble Hall, Room 306.
  • Recorded session

March

• William Baptist (Florida State University).  Part of IGI Career Day.

  • March 3rd, 2023 
  • Coble Hall
• Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University).  "Language and Nationalism: Conceptual and Historical Understanding"​​​​​
  • March 8th, 2023 at 12 pm
  • This event took place virtually on Zoom.
  • Recorded session
• Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University), "Language and Nationalism in South Asia"
  • March 22nd, 2023 at 12pm.
  • This event took place virtually on Zoom.
  • Recorded session
• Marco Jaimes (UIUC), "The Death of Monarchs and their Memories"
  • March 23rd, 2023 
  • This hybrid event took place at Coble Hall, 306.
  • Recorded session

• Monika Stodolska (UIUC), "Ukrainian Refugees in Poland and the Response of the Polish and Ukrainian Immigrant Population to the Refugee Crisis"

  • March 28th, 2023
  • This hybrid event took place at the International and Area Studies Library, Room 309
  • Recorded session
• Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University), "Language and Politics in India"
  • March 29th, 2023
  • This event took place virtually on Zoom.
  • Recorded session
• Allison Lide, "The Transformative Power of Montessori Education in Afghanistan: It is Possible"
  • March 30th, 2023
  • This hybrid event took place at Coble Hall, Room 306.
  • Recorded session

April

• Helaine Silverman (UIUC), "Weaponizing Cultural Heritage: Nationalist Contestations of the Past in Thailand and Cambodia"

  • April 4th, 2023
  • This hybrid event took place at the International and Area Studies Library, Room 309.
  • Recorded session

• Martin Nekola, "The Czech Republic: The European Union and the Rise of Populism"

  • April 7th

  • This hybrid event took place at the International and Area Studies Library, Room 309.

  • Recorded session

• Benjamin Bross, "Mexico City Zócalo: Spatial Production and the Ongoing Construction of a National Identity"
  • April 12th, 2023 
  • This hybrid event took place at the International and Area Studies Library, Room 309.
  • Recorded session
• Tang Heng (Technological University Singapore), "Diversity: A Socioculturally-constructed Concept"
  • In person at Room 4-G Education Building
  • Recorded session
  • April 18th 
• Global Intersections Symposium on Ukrainian Cultural and Linguistic Shift (various presenters)
  • April 19th, 21st, 26th
  • Zoom: Register today.
• Anita Chan, Reparations & Resistance in the Archives
  • April 20th
  • Recorded session