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:...
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...
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...
On October 4 at 12:00pm CST, through Zoom, join us for Dr. Maya Tudor's (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford) lecture, "Varieties of...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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-...
On April 21, 2022 at 12pm(CST) on Zoom, Thaddeus Herman (PhD candidate in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership with a dual concentration of Philosophy of Education and Global Studies in Education) will give a talk detailing how one school in Western India...
On April 7, 2022 at 12pm (CST) on Zoom, Prof. Jessica Brinkworth (UIUC Anthropology) will give a talk exploring the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and labratory work's reliance on single-use plastics. Lab-based science is simultaneously...
Join UIUC international law, social informatics, and finance experts for a virtual panel on “Digital Activism and International Law in Ukraine” this Tuesday, March 8th, at 12pm. Professors Tatyana Deryugina(Gies College of Business), ...
Ananya Tiwari has been named by Google.org as one of the seven “Leaders to Watch” from non-profits around the world. A doctoral student in the Education Psychology program at the University of Illinois Urbana-...
Many of you may have attended the CGS panel discussion with CGS FLAS Alumni held on October 26th, 2021, at which you will have heard from Terrell Jermaine Starr (Atlantic...
February 22, noon: Professor Emeritus Edward A. Kolodziej (UIUC Political Science and Founder and past Director of the Center for Global Studies) will give a talk about his new book: Global Governance: Evaluating the Liberal Democratic, Chinese, and Russian...