Center for Global Studies: Events
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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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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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The Center for Global Studies cordially invites you to the CGS Fall Open House Reception! Light refreshments will be served.
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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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Prof. Cameron McCarthy will give a presentation that addresses the matter of the management and conservation of histories ("burnished ornamentalism") in three school sites: Barbados, India, and Singapore. These schools form a part of a 5-year, 9-country study of postcolonial elite schools in globalizing circumstances.
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In this seminar we will speak with girls from rural India and their teachers to understand how COVID-19 affected India, and in particular, girls' education which has been at the forefront in the Global South. We will also speak with grassroots team members and co-founder of the non-profit SwaTaleem to understand how girls and other stakeholders responded at this time.
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The participating curators and scholars will address the challenges, as well as the new trajectories and avenues for engaging the public that emerged as the result of the global health and race crises. The goal of this panel is to generate active discussions about the impact of these events on the museum as an institution, curatorial practices, and museum professionals.
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Current and recent graduate students are invited to a career exploration panel focusing on using foreign language, area studies, and thematic studies in the job market. Join CGS and UIUC FLAS alumni for this online event to hear professionals and practitioners discuss their current positions and paths from graduate study to employment.
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This talk examines the twentieth-century regulatory framework tying humans to states, its historical formation, and how it has resulted in the callous politics of human sorting that we call the migration system.
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This talk provides a historical overview of trends in Asian Public's views of key U.S. aliances and regional institutions in the Indo-Pacific over the course of the post-World War II period. This retrospective analysis provides insights into the utility of tracking polls to U.S. policymakers when there have been changes in the region.
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Book Launch for Sonia Hernandez's new book: For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands 1900-1938.
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On February 22 at 12pm (CST) on Zoom, Professor Emeritus Edward A. Kolodziej (UIUC Political Science and Founder and past Director of the Center for Global Studies) will give a talk about his new book: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: Evaluating the Liberal Democratic, Chinese, and Russian Solutions.
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On February 4, 2022 at 4pm (CST) Carlos Berrozpe Peralta (Education Advisor for the Embassy of Spain) will give an info session about teaching in Spain. This event will be in person and simultaneously broadcasted on Zoom.
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The panelists' participation in global circulation of cultural practices and expressions is tightly connected to the particular, often culturally or place-specific projects they develop as career “masterpieces.” Eliciting the perspective of these culture workers, this panel seeks to illuminate some of the challenge of global culture work.
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Join UIUC international law, social informatics, and finance experts for a virtual panel on “Digital Activism and International Law in Ukraine” this Tuesday, March 8th, at 12pm.
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On April 7, 2022 at 12pm (CST) on Zoom, Prof. Jessica Brinkworth (UIUC Anthropology) will give a talk exploring the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and labratory work's reliance on single-use plastics.
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This talk will focus on how one school in western India dealt with this tension to navigate both the pressures of requiring finances to run the school, as well as the economic hardship faced by the fee paying parents.
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Olga Shabalina, PhD candidate in the College of Media, will present two studies that explore the role of thinking style on consumer selfie visual aesthetics across cultures.