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 this page.
February
Allison Witt (UIUC), "Maintaining Online Connection in a...
Pat Keenan, CGS Advisory Board member, UIUC law professor, and Heidi Hurd Faculty Scholar has recently offered his assessment of the Biden administration's national security policy in an interview with Illinois News Bureau. Read the full interview here.
Molly Roberts (UC San Diego), "Strengthening Propaganda and the Limits of Media Commercialization in China: Evidence from Millions of Newspaper Articles." Friday, September 30th at noon (...- The lectures below are the Fall 2022 co-sponsored by CGS and the Department of Political Science at UIUC. September Yuri Zhukov (Michigan), “Near-Real Time Event Data on Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine.” September 23rd at noon (...
A professional development workshop for K-12 and community college educators and librarians JULY 19- 20- 21, 2022 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM (CT) VIA ZOOM Registration: https://go.illinois.edu/IGISummer2022GlobalEducatorsWorkshop Illinois educator PDH...
Global Culture Work: Between Transnational Mobility and Local Commitments This panel brings together dance and theater artists and arts managers based in Africa, Europe, and the Americas to discuss key conditions of their work in this “global” profession. What have been the roles of transborder mobility and financial...
On January 25 at 12 p.m.m (CST) on Zoom, Dr. Hakim Williams (Gettysburg College) gave a talk about education for revolutionary non-violence. An unsustainably plenteous modernity taunts our emaciated minds, bodies and spirits. Neocoloniality, hyperconsumerism, global warming, racialized polarization, forced displacement, the Covid-19 pandemic: how much more can our...
In her latest book, For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938, Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Caritina Piña Montalvo and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. A vivid look...
On November 9 at 12pm on Zoom, Dr. Janice Jayes will give a talk that examines the twentieth-century regulatory framework tying humans to states, its historical formation, and how it has resulted in the callous politics of human sorting that we call the migration system. Dr. Jayes suggests that we recognize the current system as more akin to a form of global...
On November 16 at 12pm on Zoom, Sherry L. Martin (Acting Asia Division Chief in the U.S. Department of State's Office of Opinion Research) will give a talk that provides a historical overview of trends in the Asian publics' views of key U.S. alliances and regional institutions in the Indo-Pacific over the course of the post-World War II period. This retrospective analysis...
On October 26 at 12pm, current and recent graduate students are invited to a career exploration panel focusing on using foreign language, area studies, and thematic studies in the job market. Join CGS and UIUC FLAS alumni for this online event to hear professionals and practitioners discuss their current positions and paths from graduate study to employment. Speakers include...
On October 20 at 12pm, Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle (University of Massachusetts Boston), Dr. Anita Haldemann (Kunstmuseum Basel), Dr. Sooa Im McCormick (Cleveland Museum of Art), and Dr. Maureen Warren (Krannert Museum of Art) will discuss how the pandemic and racial struggles have reshaped global...
On October 6 at 12pm, Prof. Cameron McCarthy (Communication Scholar and University Scholar in the Department of Educational Policy, Leadership, and Organization (EPOL) and in the Institute of Communications Research, UIUC) will give a presentation that addresses the matter of the management and conservation of histories (“burnished ornamentalism”) in...
Date: Apr 30, 2021 9:00 - 11:00 am Digital platforms are so pervasive in our everyday life to the point that it becomes no longer meaningful to separate our lives from them. How do they shape our everyday life, cultural industry, labor relations, and identity? How do digital platforms operate their power—economically, materially, and politically? In this Webinar, we invite three...