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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.
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.
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
Qatar Debate 4th US Debate Championship

Oct 30, 2023 10:15 am37 views

Qatar Debates' 4th US Debate Championship, October 14-15, 2023.
IGI SPRING 2023 CAREER DAY

Apr 5, 2023 3:15 pm9 views
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
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?