We are saddened by the unexpected passing of our colleague and friend Dr. Stafford L. Hood on Sunday, January 15, 2023, at the age of 70.
The Hood family has indicated that additional information will be forthcoming. At this time, condolences may be sent to the College of Education c/o Dean’s Office, Suite 38, 1310 S. Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820....
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...
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...