2025-03-07
- CGS Announces Launch of New Master of Science in Global Studies Program, Spring 2026!The Center for Global Studies (CGS) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new Master of Science in Global Studies (MSGS) program, beginning in Fall 2025. This innovative, interdisciplinary program is a collaborative effort among the Center for Global Studies (CGS), the Center for the...
2024-10-01 - Please join CGS and IASL for the inaugural discussion on AI in Global Perspective:When: Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 9:00 am Central US Time (Chicago)Where: On ZOOM.Register - ...
2024-09-20 - Cultivating 'Multiplicadores' through Community Empowerment: Liberatory and Digital Learning Models for Transformative DevelopmentThursday, September 26th - 12 PM - 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom Description: In 2019, Armando joined a Rio de Janeiro based NGO and Think Tank as a research collaborator to digitally map local favela organizations...
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. Description: Calls to...
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...
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...
2023-10-31 - 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...
On October 4 at 12:00pm CST, through Zoom, join us for Dr. Maya Tudor's (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford) lecture, "Varieties of Nationalism and Democratic Consequences." Dr. Tudor asks: when is nationalism a resource for democracy?...
CGS is pleased to announce that we were granted both NRC and FLAS awards for the 2022-26 cycle. Out of the 12 International Centers that were successful in the competition for the US Department of Education's Title VI funds, CGS received the highest level of funding for our category. CGS is gratified that its NRC and FLAS budgets will increase substantially over the previous awards....
Please join the UIUC Political Science Department and CGS for the following talk Friday, August 26, 2022: Speaker: Prof. Paul Staniland (https://paulstaniland.com/) from the University of Chicago Title: “Major Power Competition and Internal Politics in Modern Asia” Date...
Interviewed by Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh. In this interview, he explains how his personal background has informed his research trajectory. Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and Catherine & Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. To read the complete interview please follow the link: ...
ISRL 2022 The Center for Global Studies (CGS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is excited to announce the 2022 International Studies Research Lab (ISRL), an initiative that promotes the internationalization of community colleges nationwide. CGS invites applications...
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Dara Goldman, Professor of Spanish and Director of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. Dara was a faculty affiliate of the Center for Global Studies, as well as several other Centers under the Illinois Global Institute. To read more about Dara’s work and legacy, please read the following...
On April 28, 2022 at 12pm (CST) on Zoom, Olga Shabalina (PhD candidate in the College of Media) will present two studies that explore the role of thinking style on consumer selfie visual aesthetics across cultures. She situates selfies within the larger history of self-portraiture and investigates whether cultural predisposition to compose self- images in a specific way...