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Professor Manfred Steger's recent visit culminated with his talk "Globalization at a Crossroads: Deglobalization or Reglobalization?”

Nov 11, 2024 12:30 pm6 views

The Center for Global Studies hosted prominent globalization scholar Professor Manfred Steger (Professor and Chair, Sociology, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa), co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study. On Monday, October 7th, Professor Steger gave a talk titled “Globalization at a Crossroads: Deglobalization or Reglobalization?” making a case that the world is in an era of reglobalization fueled by exponentially increasing “disembodied globalization.”
International Studies Research Lab hosts 12 fellows from across U.S.

Oct 14, 2024 11:45 am0 views

The Center for Global Studies ran the International Studies Research Lab (ISRL) this summer, making its first full in-person session since the Covid-19 pandemic. This blog post summarizes the lab, its purpose, and highlights three of the eleven projects developed through the ISRL.
Migration, Religion, and Technology in Rural Cambodia

Sep 25, 2024 1:00 pm13 views

During the summer of 2024, I traveled to Cambodia to conduct field research for my dissertation. I was there to study foreign aid, public finances, and how the Cambodian government negotiated loan terms. While studying these mass flows of international capital I came across money that was crossing borders in smaller amounts but was perhaps even more interesting.
Reimagine Our Future

Sep 17, 2024 3:45 pm3 views

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

Aug 19, 2024 4:30 pm36 views
CGS Hosted Dr. Eve Darian-Smith for Recent Talk, “World on Fire: Anti-Democracy and Anti- Environmentalism”

Mar 25, 2024 10:45 am31 views

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

Mar 1, 2024 2:45 pm10 views

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

Feb 20, 2024 8:45 am64 views

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

Feb 19, 2024 9:45 am8 views
Premodern Unfreedoms: Global Approaches to Exploitation, Enslavement, and Trafficking’ Conference at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, October 27-28, 2023

Feb 6, 2024 9:45 am52 views
Students from Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, Austria, Britain, and Ukraine Competed in the Finals of Reimagine Our Future hosted at UIUC on December 2

Jan 29, 2024 11:30 am68 views
Qatar Debate 4th US Debate Championship

Oct 30, 2023 10:15 am37 views

Qatar Debates' 4th US Debate Championship, October 14-15, 2023.
Education 2.0 in Egypt: Research & Documentation Project

Oct 24, 2023 11:45 am8 views

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.
Global Studies Consortium at Aarhus University in Denmark, September 21-23, 2023

Oct 24, 2023 11:15 am21 views

From September 21 - 23, 2023, the Center for Global Studies participated in several days of conversation and discussion with fellow members of the Global Studies Consortium at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Globalizing Curricula: The 2023 International Studies Research Lab

Sep 18, 2023 4:30 pm26 views
Policy Brief: Closing the Education Gap for Indigenous Peoples by Adriene Lane, M.Ed.

Aug 3, 2023 10:30 am11 views

“Indigenous Peoples have less access to quality primary and secondary education than other groups, due to the lack of education that respects their cultures and languages. Minority languages, which are spoken by Indigenous Peoples, are often not used for official purposes, including in education. Students whose home languages differ from those taught at school have lower test results and reading scores. Early mother tongue education improves students' performance in their second language and other subjects, and is more cost-effective than second language instruction.” - Adriene Lane.
To view the full Policy Brief by Adriene Lane, click here.
University of Illinois’ CGS and CEAPS partner with Heartland to globalize education on campus by Zach Petrea, July 2023

Jul 18, 2023 1:45 pm36 views
Surveying the Coming Storm: Works on Nationalism Prior to WWII

Jul 7, 2023 12:45 pm137 views

With the benefit of hindsight, modern scholars can identify unbridled nationalism as a leading cause of World War II. However, it is crucial to explore whether scholars of the time foresaw the impending storm caused by nationalist movements in the first half of the 20th century and if they could have predicted the grave, mass-scale atrocities that unfolded. To shed light on the perspectives of scholars from a century ago, the IAS library has curated a Hathi Trust collection titled "Surveying the Coming Storm: Works on Nationalism Prior to WWII."
Successful Global Intersections Spring Project Awardees

Apr 24, 2023 10:45 am30 views
CGS Congratulates its Affiliates and Recipients of LAS Dean’s Awards and Faculty Honors

Apr 14, 2023 4:45 pm22 views
IGI SPRING 2023 CAREER DAY

Apr 5, 2023 3:15 pm9 views
Impressive Illinois presence at the CIES Conference in Washington D.C. in February

Mar 22, 2023 9:30 am112 views

At the CIES Conference in Washington D.C. in February.
15th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society

Dec 9, 2022 2:30 pm43 views

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

Nov 11, 2022 9:30 am152 views

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

Jun 21, 2022 10:45 am51 views

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?

May 5, 2022 8:45 am136 views

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

Apr 28, 2022 2:00 pm80 views

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

Apr 12, 2022 2:15 pm72 views

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

Mar 31, 2022 3:00 pm59 views

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

Nov 17, 2021 12:00 pm52 views

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

Oct 27, 2021 1:15 pm192 views

International travel to France and French archives in year two of the pandemic.
April 2021 iSEE Congress “The Future of Water”

May 19, 2021 3:30 pm17 views

This year’s Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment at University of Illinois (iSEE) Congress was co-organized with the Center for Global Studies, in partnership with the Illinois Global Institute and the Joint Area Centers Symposium (JACS), four of which are funded through U.S. Department of Education Title VI grants. The series of Zoom events brought together a diverse group of researchers, educators, journalists and activists to address global water crises under the rubric of “The Future of Water”, and to introduce the Illinois campus and community to cutting-edge thinking from highly influential scholars on topics ranging from drought to the global politics of water to pollution, public health, and biodiversity.
SAOA: The South Asian Open Archives

Apr 6, 2021 12:00 pm149 views

The South Asian Open Archive (SAOA) is an initiative that makes open access materials on South Asia available for teaching and research.
At Home with Over 170 Million News Stories: My Assistantship with the Cline Center over Covid-19

Apr 2, 2021 3:45 pm273 views

PhD student, James Steur, talks about his experiences during Covid-19.
Syndemics and Coronavirus: The Social Dimensions of Public Health Crises

Mar 11, 2021 2:30 pm501 views

Can we deepen our understanding of the current COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing it as a syndemic?
“Global Education Symposium,” October 14-17, 2020

Dec 17, 2020 12:00 pm42 views

Proving stronger than an epidemic, the University of Illinois College of Education and Office of International Programs presented the “Global Education Symposium” on October 14-17, 2020. Educators and students from around the world shared knowledge and personal thoughts, albeit, through the travel agent known as Zoom.
Spurlock Museum Big History Project

Dec 11, 2020 12:00 pm123 views

Hi. I’m Kim Sheahan Sanford, the Spurlock Museum’s assistant director of education, and I have a confession to make. Sixth graders are my favorite students on earth. They are willing to suspend disbelief as I tell them a myth or a folktale, but they also latch onto adult concepts, like reincarnation and the development of complex writing systems.
Web Archiving and the Global Response to COVID-19

Jun 2, 2020 12:00 pm56 views

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 attempt to preserve some of the initial reactions and concerns brought about the health emergency, the Center for Global Studies and the International and Area Studies Library began archiving websites of civil society organizations around the world as they respond to this crisis.

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