Events of Interest to Global Studies Majors
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
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An unsustainably plenteous modernity taunts our emaciated minds, bodies, and spirits. Neocoloniality, hyperconsumerism, global warming, racialized population, forced displacement, the COVID-19 pandemic: How much more can our plants and its inhabitants endure?
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Friday, January 28, 2022
Monday, January 31, 2022
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
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In recent years, more European cities have begun to tackle the challenge of advancing gender equality by designing public spaces with gender in mind. But what does a gender-equal city look like, and how does gender-equal urban planning work in practice?
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Friday, February 4, 2022
Monday, February 7, 2022
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Friday, February 11, 2022
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Friday, February 18, 2022
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Unlike most feminist analyses of politics, Dr. Laura Roth focuses, not on traditional political parties and organisations, but on the municipalist movement and emergent collectives where democracy is understood as going far beyond state’s representative institutions and politics.
Monday, February 21, 2022
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
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On February 22 at 12pm (CST) on Zoom, Professor Emeritus Edward A. Kolodziej (UIUC Political Science and Founder and Directer of the Center for Global Studies) will give a talk about his new book: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: Evaluating the Liberal Democratic, Chinese, and Russian Solutions.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Friday, February 25, 2022
Monday, February 28, 2022
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Monday, March 7, 2022
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
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The Humanities Research Institute and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co- host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.