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...
2024-04-10 - We join our colleagues in Spanish and Portuguese, in the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, and from all around the world in sorrow over the death of Professor Elena Delgado. As we mourn her loss, we see her impact at Illinois everywhere we turn. For more on her many accomplishments, click the link: ...
2024-03-16 - CGS is excited to announce a recording is available for the recent lecture "'We Are the River': Rights of Nature in a Climate Changed World.", by David Takacs (Professor Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair UC Law, San Francisco) taking place on Wednesday, March 27th at 12PM at 306 Coble Hall and...
2024-02-20 - Grace Schlichter has been part of IGlobal since her first year on campus. She got involved with the program to broaden her understanding of students' culture and backgrounds and prepare her to lead her future classroom. I’m not sure how we started talking about it, but when I heard the word “tiger,” I froze. I was talking with the middle school students I teach through the...
2024-02-16 - A recording of Professor McCarthy's talk is available at the end of this description. Thursday, February 29th | 3-4pm | 306 Coble Hall and Zoom A dynamic process of revivification is taking place in the visual cultural domains of postcolonial elite schools as they seek to...
2024-02-16 - Monday, March 4th | 12 - 1 PM | Campus Instructional Facility (CIF), Room 4039 In this talk, Professor Eve Darian-Smith (Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine) will focus on wildfires in California, Australia, and Brazil, connecting them to the broader economic, social, and political issues underlying climate change, and exploring...
2024-02-12 - The Center for Global Studies is proud to be a co-sponsor of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS16) - which is now open for registration! ILLS is an annual graduate student-run linguistics conference aimed primarily at providing graduate and advanced undergraduate students a friendly venue in...
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...
2024-01-24 - Please join the CGS Team in welcoming John Levi Barnard (Associate Professor of English & Comparative & World Literature, UIUC), on Wednesday, January 31st at noon in 306, Coble Hall for his talk, "Meat, Climate, and the Dystopia of the Present." Moving through a century of dystopian film and literature -- from The Jungle to Soylent Green...
2024-01-24 - Please join us and Debbie Sharnak (Assistant Professor of History & International Studies at Rowan University) on Wednesday, January 31st from 6-7:15pm at Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 for her a talk on her book, Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay....
2024-01-22 - Please join us in welcoming Debbie Sharnak (Assistant Professor of History & International Studies at Rowan University) on Monday, January 29th from 5-6:15pm at Huff Hall, Room 1002 for her lecture "Fútbol under Authoritarian Rule and Its Global...
2023-11-20 - Scroll to the bottom of this page to watch this webinar recording! Original post: Join the CGS team in welcoming Dustin Tingley (Professor of Government at Harvard University) and Alexander F. Gazmararian (Doctoral Candidate at Princeton University) for their virtual lecture...
2023-11-01 - Scroll to the bottom of the page to watch a recording of Dr. Sultana's presentation. Join the CGS team in welcoming Farhana Sultana (Professor of Geography at Syracuse University) for her virtual lecture, "From Climate Coloniality to Climate Revolution" on Wednesday, November 8th at 12PM. The extremely uneven...
2023-10-31 - In light of Governor J.B. Pritzker's recent announcement of the "State Designated Cultural District" initiative, Illinois is making a significant stride towards preserving its rich cultural heritage. The initiative, backed by a robust $3 million fund, aims to assist communities in celebrating their unique histories and fostering tourism. The challenges Illinois has faced over the years are...