Please see the list of upcoming CGS talks and panel discussions for the spring semester of 2021. To download, please click here.
2/2 Will Sander (UIUC), Christina Bollo (UIUC), Liselle Milazzo (UIUC),...
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 Project was started in 2014 to address these problems, but the COVID-19 pandemic has severely...
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 Information Session> Date: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 4:00pm to 5:00pm CT...
Date: November 11, 2020 Time : 12-1PM (cst) Speakers: Emily Mendenhall (Georgetown, School of Foreign Service...
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 distinctly unilateral, from its announced intention to withdraw from the World Health Organization to its...
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 relations with China and with each other? Rajmohan Gandhi is Research Professor of Education Policy,...
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 Attempt to Understand Current Trends in the U.S. and India" 9/29 ...
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 strain on nearly every system of our global society, impacting every sector of civil society. To...
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 educational challenges. CGS is proud to support The SwaTaleem Foundation’s mission to fight child...
The University of Illinois is part of a global community including students, scholars, and artists. All of us are experiencing the pandemic in different ways shaped by culture, the situations of our societies, and our economic and political realities. At the centers and programs in the IGI, we have reached out to friends and colleagues around the world to ask them to share their experiences...
Sanghoon Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois. His dissertation research focuses on voting behavior for political parties that are linked to and frequently reference back to an authoritarian past. He was selected as a recipient of the Taiwan Fellowship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan and the CEAPS Graduate Student...
Robert Wegner is a historian of science at Brazil’s national public health institute, Fiocruz. He spent the 2019 academic year at Illinois conducting research on early 20th century genetics, looking at the work of Eugene Davenport.
Mahmood Khosrowjerdi is a senior academic librarian (førstebibliotekar) at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (Rena, Norway). Mahmood has a PhD in Library and Information Science (LIS) from the Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science at the ...
Yasuyo Inoue is a Library Science professor at Dokkyo University in Saitama, Japan and had spent from September 2019 to January 2020 at the Center for Global Studies as a visiting scholar. Saitama, Japan Dokkyo University finally decided to delay the beginning of a new academic year from April 1st to May 11th. Other universities in big cities are also extending the beginning...
Explore the archive of all presentations hosted and supported by the Center for Global Studies during Spring 2023 here. The 2023 spring semester has concluded and the Center of Global Studies is pleased to provide archived webinars and information from the speakers and their lectures on the linked page...