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  • Reimagine Our Future

    by Sandra VoskoboynikovaSep 17, 2024 3:45 pm

    Reimagine Our Future invites undergraduates to use their critical and creative thinking skills to develop ideas supporting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.  

  • Investigating Intersections of the Local and Global: Exploring Migration Trends in Kraków, Poland

    by Donna ToniniAug 19, 2024 4:30 pm

  • CGS Hosted Dr. Eve Darian-Smith for Recent Talk, “World on Fire: Anti-Democracy and Anti- Environmentalism”

    by Elizabeth WorkmanMar 25, 2024 10:45 am

    The Center for Global Studies hosted Professor Eve Darian-Smith (Professor and Chair, Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine) as part of the MillerComm 2024 Lecture Series sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study on March 4th, 2023. This blog post summarizes the talk and provides further information on learning more about the topics discussed.

  • Congratulations to “The Chancellor’s Call to Action Research Projects for 2024-25” Awards Recipients

    by Janet HusunukpeMar 1, 2024 2:45 pm

    The Center for Global Studies (CGS) congratulates CGS Faculty Affiliates Faranak Miraftab, Ken Salo, Scott Althaus, Anita Chan, Yannick Kluch, Teresa Ann Barnes, James Kilgore, Ian Brooks and former CGS Graduate Assistant Atyeh Ashtari for receiving the 2024-2025 Chancellor Jones Call to Action Research Program awards. The Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Justice Research Program 2024-2025 awarded 12 research programs focused on systemic racial inequalities and injustice in our communities and higher education. 

  • Kainen Bell CGS Spotlight

    by Bell, KainenFeb 20, 2024 8:45 am

    CGS would like to congratulate PhD student Kainen Bell for his recent selection as a Global Policy Fellow at the Institute for Technology & Society (ITS) in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Kainen was one of ten researchers selected worldwide who share common interests in technology and its interfaces with Law, and expanding their knowledge about the Brazilian technological context. The intensive four-week program will take place in July, and includes a series of meetings with ITS partners in Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, and São Paulo. 

  • CGS Congratulates its Faculty Recipients of the College of LAS Teaching and Advising Awards

    by Janet HusunukpeFeb 19, 2024 9:45 am

  • Premodern Unfreedoms: Global Approaches to Exploitation, Enslavement, and Trafficking’ Conference at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, October 27-28, 2023

    by Duncan, HeatherFeb 6, 2024 9:45 am

  • Students from Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, Austria, Britain, and Ukraine Competed in the Finals of Reimagine Our Future hosted at UIUC on December 2

    by Liebenberg Leon: Lavey WarrenJan 29, 2024 11:30 am

  • Qatar Debate 4th US Debate Championship

    by Hedaya HassaneinOct 30, 2023 10:15 am

    Qatar Debates' 4th US Debate Championship, October 14-15, 2023.

  • Education 2.0 in Egypt: Research & Documentation Project

    by Elizabeth WorkmanOct 24, 2023 11:45 am

    Recent years have witnessed significant educational reforms in Egypt through the Education 2.0 initiative (often abbreviated EDU 2.0) that looks to expand skills-based learning and digital learning methods. University of Illinois Professor of Education Linda Herrera has worked with Dr. Tarek Shawki, Minister of Education and Technical Education (2017-2022) to not just chronicle the monumental educational reform, but also create an archive of primary source materials about this transformation that intends to benefit students, instructors, researchers, and stakeholders in the education sector.