Campus Political Activities courtesy of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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Renowned filmmaker and feminist postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha will introduce her most recent film Forgetting Vietnam and take questions from the audience afterwards.
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Meet GWS Alumni Elizabeth Corr, Director of Art Partnerships at NRDC, and Katie Scissors Harmon, Community Services Program Manager for the Champaign Co. Regional Planning Commission. Lunch provided.
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Naureen Butt will use the lens of first-person narrative to discuss the recent history of Pakistan, particularly the challenges faced by women during the rise of the Pakistani Taliban.
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Professor Assata Zerai (Professor of Sociology and Associate Chancellor for Diversity) will be presenting "Adoption of The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the mention of gender in constitutional nondiscrimination clauses in select African countries: law versus practice"
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Professor Ekmekçioğlu and Bilal’s presentations will delineate the intersections among gender, memory, time, and space, bridge academic traditions inside and outside of the United States, and foster comparative analyses across disciplines. Those interested more broadly in the Digital Humanities and conducting archival research will also benefit from their methodological ex
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by September 8th.
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This new PBS documentary is being screened in anticipation of a public lecture on September 19 by Wang Dan, one of the main student organizers of the Tiananmen Square Protests.
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September 13– Reproductive Freedom is a Christian Value featuring Rev. Katey Zeh, Religious Coalition For Reproductive Choice
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A brief history of the unaccompanied immigrant child phenomenon in the United States. Why they come, how they come, how they are treated once they arrive and what real options they have for finding stability in the United States.
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WELCOMING WEEK: Immigration Justice Panel featuring Dr. Gio Guerra Perez, Dr. Korinta Maldonado, and Gloria Yen
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CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2017-18 CAS Associate Craig Williams.
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The Center for Global Studies cordially invites you to the CGS Fall Open House Reception! Light refreshments will be served.
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September 27 –From Athlete to Activist: One Person’s Story on Finding Their Voice
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Murder Mystery! A "Whodunnit" of Global Amphibian Declines
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Graduate Student Informational Breakfast Conversation with Sarah Bidgood and Dave Schmerler from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by September 29th.
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October 4 – Sexual Violence: Why They Won’t Face the Facts
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Affordable Housing for Whom? featuring Esther Patt, C-U Tenant Union
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Featuring Christine Pallon, Olivia Tasch, and Carrie Chandler, founding members of Girls Rock! Champaign-Urbana. Moderated by Fiona Ngô (Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies)
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The Foreigner’s Home is a feature-length documentary film that explores the vision and work of Toni Morrison through “The Foreigner’s Home,” the 2006 exhibition she guest-curated at the Louvre.
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Speaking Up against Prison Censorship: How and Why We Formed the Freedom to Learn Campaign featuring Rebecca Ginsburg, Education Justice Project
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by October 20th.
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The Center for Advanced Study's 2019 Annual Lecture.
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[Re]Creating Media for Black Girls featuring Dr. Sheri Williams, Melt Magazine
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Alumni Sarah Alo will talk about her career in film-making and acting and share her series, MENACE, a dark comedy about three women hiding out together in a dangerous, dystopian world.
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CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2018-19 CAS Associate Sandy Dall'erba.
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Information to come soon!
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CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2018-19 CAS Associate David O'Brien.
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MillerComm Lecture Series event featuring Natalie Kofler.
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by November 10th.
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WGGP and Center for African Studies are hosting a Grant Writing Workshop and Graduate Student Discussion on Tips for Applying for Grants and Fellowships on November 15, 2019 in 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street. Lunch will be provided from 12:00-12:30.
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Abolition Initiative presentation.
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Melissa Kagen,Digital Media and Gaming, Bangor University will be here to discuss her project on "border games". The project examines the critical play of a variety of games about immigrant and refugee experience. These “border games” take place within fictional or actual borderlands and follow characters either in transit or trapped in detainment centers between nation
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by December 1st.
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Since 2014, the on-going war in eastern Ukraine has claimed more than 14,000 casualties and displaced nearly 2 million individuals, primarily from the former oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk (the Donbas). What can this large scale population movement add to our understanding of displacement and conflict? How can the experiences of IDPs in Ukraine inform the meaning and measu
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Collaboration, Contestation and Creativity in Islamic Investment Banks
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Professor Dara Goldman, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Program in Jewish Culture & Society, will speak on Machismo and Machinations: The Performance of Gender in Cubatón
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As part of our ongoing series of conversations about “What to Do with a Gender and Women’s Studies Education,” Jessica Steinrock will discuss her groundbreaking work as an intimacy coordinator in the entertainment industries.
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“Praxis” comes from the Greek word, “prattein” which means “to do.” It is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. Paulo Freire asserts that praxis is a cycle of learning, reflecting, and acting in order to protect ourselves and our communities from oppressive systems.
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Understating Religious Disaffiliation in Contemporary Turkey: Why Devoted Muslims Are Becoming “Nones”
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"We Poor Not Stupid! Lessons Learned in the Political Schools of the Urban Poor in Cape Town" with Dr. Ken Salo, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois and Danielle Chynoweth, Cunningham Township Supervisor
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