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Spring 2023 Webinar Archive

Explore the archive of all presentations hosted and supported by the Center for Global Studies during Spring 2023 here....

Symposium on Ukrainian Cultural and Linguistic Shift

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...

Tang Heng, "Diversity : A Socioculturally-Constructed Concept."

Please join Tang Heng (Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) ...

Martin Nekola, "The Czech Republic, The European Union and the Rise of Populism"

Join the CGS team in welcoming Martin Nekola for his lecture, "The Czech Republic, The ...

Helaine Silverman, "Weaponizing Cultural Heritage: Nationalist Contestations of the Past in Thailand and Cambodia"

Join the CGS in welcoming Helaine Silverman for her lecture on April 4th at 12PM at the ...

Dr. Monika Stodolska (UIUC), "Ukrainian Refugees in Poland and the Response of the Polish and Ukrainian Immigrant Population to the Refugee Crisis."

Please join CGS for Dr. Monika Stodolska's (UIUC) talk "Ukrainian Refugees in Poland and the Response of...

Allison Lide, "The Transformative Power of Montessori Education in Afghanistan: It Is Possible"

Please join Allison Lide on Thursday, March 30th from 12-1:00PM (CST) at 306 Coble Hall or on Zoom...

Poster for Mishra and Sarangi March 29th

Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University), "Language and Politics in India"

Please join CGS in welcoming Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and ...

Marco Jaimes (History, UIUC), "The Deaths of Monarchs and the Creation of Nations"

Please join CGS on March 23 at noon, in person at Coble Hall, 306 and on Zoom for ...

Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University), "Language and Nationalism in South Asia"

Please join CGS on March 22nd at noon for Mithilesh Mishra (UIUC) and Asha Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru...

Ned O'Gorman (UIUC), "How Liberals Lost the (Re)public: World War I and the New American (Inter)nationalism"

Please join CGS for a talk by Ned O'Gorman (UIUC) on February 7th, at 12 PM (CST), in Coble Hall,...

Allison Witt (UIUC), "Maintaining Online Connection in a Post-pandemic World; Virtual Exchange as an Accomplice to Mobility"

Please join CGS for a talk by Allison Witt (College of Education, UIUC) on February 2nd at 12PM (CST)...

CGS Speakers for Spring 2023

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...

Ann-Perry Witmer (UIUC), "Learning the Value of Contextual Engineering through Soymilk and Tofu Production in Zambia"

On November 10th, join Ann-Perry Witmer (University of Illinois) on ...

Molly Roberts (UCSD), "Strengthening Propaganda and the Limits of Media Commercialization in China: Evidence from Millions of Newspaper Articles."

Molly Roberts (UC San Diego), "Strengthening Propaganda and the Limits of...

Co-Sponsored Talks by the Department of Political Science & CGS

The lectures below are the Fall 2022 co-sponsored by CGS and the Department of Political Science at UIUC. September Yuri Zhukov (...

Flyer for the Global Culture Work event on March 5, 2022.

Global Culture Work: Between Transnational Mobility and Local Commitments

Global Culture Work: Between Transnational Mobility and Local Commitments This panel brings together dance and theater...

CGS Speaker/IGI Blueprint for Transitional Justice in the US Series: Hakim Williams, "Education for Revolutionary Non-Violence"

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...

This is the flyer for Sonia Hernandez's book launch

Book Talk With Sonia Hernandez: For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938

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...

The Migration System as Modern Feudalism

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...

This is the event flyer for Sherry L. Martin's talk.

Public Opinion and the Indo-Pacific's Regional Architecture

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...

Flyer of the speakers for the FLAS Alumni Career Panel

Global Work Series: FLAS Alumni Career Panel

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...

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Global Work Series: Global Museum Work in Light of the Pandemic and the Protest

On October 20 at 12pm, Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle (University of Massachusetts Boston), Dr. Anita Haldemann (Kunstmuseum Basel), Dr. Sooa Im McCormick (...

Resilience in the times of COVID: SwaTaleem's experience with Rural Adolescent Girls

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...

Burnished Ornamentalism: The Social Aesthetics of Postcolonial Elite Schools in Globalizing Circumstances

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...