• 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...
  • Please see the list of upcoming CGS talks and panel discussions for the spring semester of 2021. To download, please click here2/2     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)   SpeakersEmily 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 here9/15     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...