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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
Please see the list of upcoming CGS talks and panel discussions for the spring semester of 2021. To download, please click here. 2/2 ...
Date: Dec 2, 2020 Time : 12:00 PM (cst) Clean running water on the Navajo Nation has been an ongoing challenge for decades, and even today one in three families still do not have a sink and a toilet. The Navajo Water...
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Info Sessions <Undergraduate Information Session> Date: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 4:00pm to 5:00pm CT Register here <Graduate...
Date: November 11, 2020 Time : 12-1PM (cst) Speakers: Emily Mendenhall (Georgetown,...
Speaker: Chimène Keitner (Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International Law, UC Hastings Law) Respondent: Patrick Keenan (Professor at the College of Law, UIUC) The U.S. response to the global pandemic has been...
Speaker: Professor Rajmohan Gandhi In his talk for CGS, Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi examined how the pandemic influenced inequalities in the world’s largest democracies, the U.S. and India. What is the pandemic’s impact on ethnonationalism’s appeal in the two countries? How has it affected their...
Please see the list of upcoming CGS talks and panel discussions for the fall semester of 2020. To download, please click here. 9/15 Rajmohan Gandhi (UIUC), “Inequalities, Ethnonationalism, and the Pandemic: An...
Written in collaboration with Steve Witt. One doesn’t need to look far to see how much the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world, halting the mobility of people and goods that we took for granted as critical components of the global economy. This crisis has put a...
Congratulations Ananya Tiwari for winning the Illinois Innovation Prize for $20,000! Ananya is the co-founder of the SwaTaleem Foundation. The SwaTaleem Foundation works with schools in the remotest and poorest parts of India and uses a human-centered design approach to understand and address their...