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  • Impressive Illinois presence at the CIES Conference in Washington D.C. in February

    by Tonini, Donna CatherineMar 22, 2023 9:30 am

    At the CIES Conference in Washington D.C. in February.


  • 15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society

    by Timur Pollack-LagushenkoDec 9, 2022 2:30 pm

    Upcoming submission deadline for 15th Annual Conference of the ILLS

  • Congratulations to “The Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program” Awards Recipients

    by Janet HusunukpeNov 11, 2022 9:30 am

    The Center for Global Studies (CGS) congratulates Steve Witt, Director of CGS, CGS Faculty Affiliates Faranak Miraftab, Annie Abbott, Scott Althaus, Melissa Goodnight, Barbara Hug, Ellen Moodie, and Ken Salo, and former CGS Graduate Assistant Vinisha Singh Basnet, for receiving the 2022-2023 Chancellor Jones Call to Action Research Program awards.

  • Highlighting Teaching Excellence at the Faculty Retreat

    by Donna ToniniJun 21, 2022 10:45 am

    Each year UIUC holds a faculty retreat to promote teaching excellence, and awards faculty retreat grants that enable recipients to design and implement an instructional enhancement that has a high probability of improving education at Illinois. The theme of the 2022 annual faculty retreat was “Breaking Down the Garden Walls: A Promise of Access to Success.” The retreat highlighted the practices and approaches implemented by faculty across campus as they work towards a campus culture that fosters student success.  At the retreat, CGS Associate Director Donna Tonini caught up with CGS Affiliates Professor Eman Saadah, Director of the Less Commonly Taught Languages Program and Director and Language Coordinator of Arabic, and Professor Raquel Castro Goebel, the Portuguese Language Program Director, and an instructor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

  • How do we know what we know about the climate change?

    by Vinisha BasnetMay 5, 2022 8:45 am

    This 8-module introductory course on numerous aspects of Climate Change is an attempt to educate students about the basics of this spiralling global problem. This was developed as part of the 2019-20 Global Intersections Program of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

  • Constructing transnational solidarities in radical care and democracy through digital feminist storytelling

    by Atyeh AshtariApr 28, 2022 2:00 pm

    In this post, you will read about a Global Intersections project proposed by two graduate students in Urban and Regional Planning Department that received funding from CGS. Global Intersections is a Center for Global Studies (CGS) initiative designed to encourage multicultural, international, transnational, and global perspectives in student research. This project aims for creating a digital storytelling platform using a critical feminist storytelling methodology.

  • Career Opportunities in Foreign Language and Area Studies

    by Maria DorofeevaApr 12, 2022 2:15 pm

    On October 26, 2021, Center for Global Studies (CGS) held a virtual “FLAS Alumni Career Panel,” that focused on the strategies for using foreign language and area studies skills on the job market for current and recent graduate students.  This blog post discusses this event and explores the key role that foreign language and area studies education can play in career succes.  

  • Global Studies, Librarianship, and the Job Market

    by Nathan SonnenscheinMar 31, 2022 3:00 pm

    Nathan Sonnenschein, a former graduate assistant at the Center for Global Studies, discusses how his experiences at CGS prepared him for the job market.

  • The Impact of the 2021 International Studies Research Lab

    by Nathan SonnenscheinNov 17, 2021 12:00 pm

    Through the International Studies Research Lab (ISRL), the Center for Global Studies and collaborating centers leverage the campus’ expertise and vast library resources to support the development of international and area studies programming in community colleges across the country, providing access to important US Department of Education Title VI resources to institutions and regions without direct access to these important grant funds.

  • Returning to French Archives Amid the Pandemic

    by Timur Pollack-LagushenkoOct 27, 2021 1:15 pm

    International travel to France and French archives in year two of the pandemic.