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...
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 navigated the COVID-19 Pandemic. As schools in India transitioned to online education as a result of the...
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 creating and facing an existential crisis stemming from a heavy reliance on single-use lab plastics....
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), Madelyn Sanfillipo (School of Information Sciences), and Patrick Keenan...
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-Champaign, she is student member of the CGS Board and a recent...
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 Council; https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr). ...
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 Solutions. This book raises key question including: How do we prevent the next pandemic? Will...
An estimated 10 million girls in India may not return to school when they reopen after the second wave of COVID-19. Furthermore, there will be an increase of more than 30 million child brides in the next decade globally, due to COVID-19 (UNESCO, 2020). Girls aged 12-17 are at particular risk of dropping out of school (India Education Diary, 2021). In this seminar, we will speak directly with...
Global Intersections is a Center for Global Studies (CGS) initiative designed to encourage multicultural, international, transnational, and global perspectives in student research. Below is a description of a research project from two graduate students that is being funded by Global...
CGS has a new office location for the upcoming year! We have joined the Illinois Global Institute (IGI), along with several centers, at our new home in Coble Hall. The expectation is that over the next year, all IGI units will move to Coble Hall. During this transitional year, CGS will be located on the 2nd floor of Coble Hall. There will be some...
May 1, 2021 12:00 - 1:00 pm The Center for Global Studies and European Union Center Present A Global Intersections Event: The Illinois Flamenco Jazz Collective: Juerga de Primavera Directed by Brian Stark and Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht Featuring David Chiriboga and La Malou Register...
CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES Request for Proposals Application: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/6649631. Deadline: October 1, 2021 (This RFP as pdf) Application Information: The Center for Global Studies (CGS) invites current...
Congratulations to the students who were announced for the Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Fellowships and Awards! The Center for Global Studies would like to give a special shout out to awardees Ananya Tiwari, the student representative on the CGS Advisory Board and Atyeh Ashtari, our Graduate Assistant. Good luck to all 3 recipients in their studies and careers!
The Center for Global Studies (CGS) is excited to announce the 2021 International Studies Research Lab (ISRL), an initiative that promotes the internationalization of community colleges nationwide. CGS invites applications from faculty, librarians, and administrators interested in expanding global and area...