CGS Speakers for Spring 2023

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 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
  • Recorded Session
• Anita Chan, Reparations & Resistance in the Archives
  • April 20th
  • Recorded session