Illinois Global Institute
Welcome to the calendar of the Illinois Global Institute. We are home to 10 longstanding international area studies centers and thematic programs. Bringing the units together as part of the IGI will improve organizational support, raise visibility, and foster additional cross-campus collaboration on essential international programs
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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The Madan Sara documentary tells the stories of these indefatigable women who work at the margins to make Haiti’s economy run. Despite facing intense hardship and social stigma, the hard work of the Madan Sara puts their children through school, houses their families, and helps to ensure a better life for generations to come.
Thursday, October 5, 2023
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Ukrainian Studies Today: History, Memory, Representations, and Collections Conference Program – Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference (illinois.edu)
Friday, October 6, 2023
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Ukrainian Studies Today: History, Memory, Representations, and Collections Conference Program – Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference (illinois.edu)
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Join us for an information session on the AAUW Fellowship. This information session will focus on AAUW's International & American Fellowship. Current submission deadline is November 15, 2023. Lunch included with Registration.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
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Ukrainian Studies Today: History, Memory, Representations, and Collections Conference Program – Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference (illinois.edu)
Monday, October 9, 2023
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Join the WRC and WGGP as we discuss ""Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" by UIUC Professor Kate Clancy! We'll be exploring issues surrounding menstruation, from bodily autonomy, menstrual hygiene, and the COVID-19 vaccine to the ways racism, sexism, and medical betrayal warp public perceptions of menstruation and erase it from public life.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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Mary Arends-Kuenning is Acting Associate Dean of International Programs in the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, and former Interim Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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Join Lovern J. Gordon, President and Founder of Love Life Now Foundation, Inc for this Domestic Violence Awareness Workshop on October 11th from 4:00-5:30pm. This workshop will be interactive and include time for discussion. There are limited number of complimentary copies of her book, The Legacy He Left Me, that are available through pre-registration.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Friday, October 13, 2023
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Join the Lunch talk on October 13th 12pm by PhD Candidate Mayra Saenz, Agricultural and Consumer Economics with discussant Professor Elizabeth Powers, Department of Economics. Lunch provided with RSVP.
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Join the WRC and WGGP as we discuss ""Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" by UIUC Professor Kate Clancy! We'll be exploring issues surrounding menstruation, from bodily autonomy, menstrual hygiene, and the COVID-19 vaccine to the ways racism, sexism, and medical betrayal warp public perceptions of menstruation and erase it from public life.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Monday, October 16, 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Friday, October 20, 2023
Monday, October 23, 2023
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Friday, October 27, 2023
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Monday, October 30, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
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Julia Fonseca is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2019. Her research interests include household finance, development finance, and labor and finance. Her work focuses on topics like financial development, consumer financial markets, and inequality.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Friday, November 3, 2023
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Graduate Student Workshop "Writing Effective Fellowship Proposal" Led by: Dana Johnson, PhD, Assistant Director of External Fellowships, Graduate College
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Monday, November 6, 2023
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Friday, November 10, 2023
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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This will be a three-hour workshop. During the first half of the workshop, Dr. Elisa Fruhauf Garcia (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) will present to the students how we can edit Wikipedia in order to make women's history less underrepresented there and to have more biographical entries about them, but also including them in general history entries.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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This talk will focus on how our research explores sexual harassment over time and space and how society frames the relationship between body, gender, and race in colonial and postcolonial societies.
