Center for Global Studies
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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?
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The Humanities Without Walls summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us for more information about this opportunity on February 2.
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Join us for a Zoom panel discussion featuring Carmen Gonzalez (Law, Loyola University Chicago), A. Naomi Paik (Criminology, Law, & Justice and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago), Heidi Hurd (Law) and Richard Ross (Law and History).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lerone A. Martin is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Chair and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.
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A discussion of Christopher Freeburg’s book Counterlife with responses from Vincent Brown and Cheryl Finley. Lunch will be served; registration required. Limited number of book copies available in advance from HRI.
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Presentation by Vincent Brown (History and African American Studies, Harvard University) and Cheryl Finley (Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History, Spelman College) with Christopher Freeburg (English) responding.
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Inside Scoop events bring University of Illinois undergraduates from any major into close conversation about humanities and arts-related topics with distinguished Illinois faculty and visiting scholars.
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Lecture featuring Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
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This symposium explores how infrastructure and aesthetics, as structuring forms, are being taken up in the environmental humanities.
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Part of Undergraduate Research Week.
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Ceremony and reception for the recipients of this year's HRI Prizes for Research.
