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...

The Center for Global Studies is a proud sponsor of Education On the Edge: Global Challenges in the Classroom and Beyond produced by the Illinois Global Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  This virtual event is a professional development workshop for K-12 and community college educators and librarians...

CGS congratulates its FLAS Fellow Maxine Katz for receiving a Boren Fellowship. Maxine Katz has been enrolled in Elementary Hindi since fall 2022 and has recently received a 2023 National Security Program (NSP) David L. Boren Fellowship to study Hindi through the South Asian Flagship Languages Initiative (SAFLI). She will study Intermediate Hindi through the University of Wisconsin, Madison this...

 The Center for Global Studies and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois present:   Away From the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural Shift In Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion.   A three-day symposium that took place on April 19, 21, and 26, 2023. Miss the symposium? Watch the recording archive by day of...

Please join CGS in welcoming Dr. Benjamin Bross for his lecture on April 12th, at 12PM at the International and Area Studies Library, Room 309, and on Zoom. Description: This lecture examines one of Latin America’s most important...

Please join CGS in welcoming Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University) on Wednesday, March 29th at 12PM (CST) on ...

Edward A. Kolodziej is Emeritus Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of the book “Global Governance: Evaluating the Liberal...

Please join CGS on March 23 at noon, in person at Coble Hall, 306 and on Zoom for Marco Jaimes (History, UIUC), "The Deaths of Monarchs and the Creation of Nations" Description: Even as many...