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This videoconference will discuss the World's Fair and international expositions.
WGGP Faculty Affiliate Annual Lecture by Professor Angharad Valdivia from the Institute of Communications Research. Lunch provided with RSVP by February 21st.
Lecture by Professor Angharad Valdivia from the Institute of Communications Research. Lunch provided with RSVP by February 21st.
Amira Al-Mutairi (Assistant Director, ISSS) will be presenting "Cultural Difference in Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment" as part of the IPRH Reading Group series Cross-cultural Re-understanding of Power Harassment: Title VII and Title IX, Awareness and Action. This project is co-sponsored by IPRH and WGGP
The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory will host Nicholson Distinguished Scholar Visitor, Prof. Ananya Roy (Director, Center for Democracy and Inequality, UCLA) on March 5th. She will present a talk titled, "Racial Banishment: A Postcolonial Critique of the Urban Condition in America"
This talk will report some of the preliminary results of a large National Science Foundation supported project to define and measure urban sustainability in Arctic conditions.
Celebrate International Women's Day by hearing from 10 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members as they talk about 10 women who changed the world. Each presenter will have 5 minutes to talk about a woman in their field that made a difference.
Celebrate International Women's Day by hearing from 12 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members as they talk about 12 women who changed the world.
The Center for Advanced Study MillerComm Series and the Center for Global Studies welcomes Professor Manisha Desai (University of Connecticut) for talk titled, "Constructing Solidarities in the Global Justice Movement: A Feminist Perspective".
Professor Desai will discuss the politics of transnational projects to build links and solidarities between movements of women activists differently situated in local and global systems of power.
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"
Transatlantic Educators Dialogue: Transformative Connectivity and Learning with Teachers from Europe
Hear Jennifer Smith, a local K-12 educator, talk about her experiences collaborating with European colleagues.
This videoconference will discuss what's at stake in the European Parliamentary elections.
This lecture by Dr. Paul Gaston is tentatively titled, "Taking Stock of the Bologna Process at 20 years."
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
