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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
This keynote lecture to the Fictions and Frictions conference will be delivered by Hannah Feldman, Professor of Art History at Northwestern.
This symposium will focus on narrative edges in order to develop a more nuanced understanding of the way that visual and performative fictions function politically.
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"
Join us in a discussion of our community's Big Read: "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri. Each weekly discussion sponsored by the International and Area Studies Library will feature a different discussion leader from our local community who will bring their unique perspective to the conversation.
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.
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
Join the International and Are Studies Library and the Slavic Reference Service for a celebration of International Women's Day! We'll have snacks, discussions, and will be displaying some resources about the history of this day.
The ACES Office of International Programs welcomes a distinguished guest from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, Dr. Sheryl Hendriks.
This performance and gallery conversation is the concluding event of the Fictions and Frictions conference, which examines art history in context.
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.
Join us for a presentation on First Ice: The Antarctic Discovery Voyages and their Legacy.
Dr. Xavier Escandell of Grinnell College, Iowa will speak on secession and migration in the context of Catalonia.
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.
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
The preliminary round for the Midwestern regional Euro Challenge competition.
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
Join the Slavic Reference Service for this workshop intended to assist ILL librarians in working with foreign language materials.
The fifth annual symposium hosted by International Food Security at Illinois.
This presentation will look at the challenges and opportunities ahead for Indian agriculture and examine how agricultural policies have hindered the changes needed in the sector.
Those interested in institutional capacity building within international development should plan to attend this presentation. A reception will follow.
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
Building Global Partnerships: Sierra Leone is an opportunity to hear from Christian Kamara, CEO of Sierra Leone YMCA, followed by a panel of faculty and community members that are involved in global relationships with Sierra Leone.
Experts from the US and the EU will speak on transatlantic relations past and present.
Iana Markevych will discuss challenges facing researchers of greenspaces in Europe.
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.
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.
Frances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil, and grew up in Miami, Florida. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the author of the novels THE SEAMSTRESS (2008) and THE AIR YOU BREATHE (2018).
This videoconference will discuss what's at stake in the European Parliamentary elections.
Hande Ozdinler, PhD, Neuroscientist and painter, inventor of OzdinART, and co-founder of the Art Loves Science Foundation, will speak about OzdinART and the Turkish art of marbling (ebru).
Dr. Gaston’s talk will focus on his research from his 2010 book entitled, The Challenge of Bologna: What European Education Has to Teach Us and Why It’s Important That We Learn It (2010).
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"
This is an annual, student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate students a local and friendly venue in which to present and discuss research on any topic related to language and linguistics.
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
The annual graduate student research symposium organized by the FSHN graduate students.
In this latest webinar from the Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL), researchers from the U.S. and Africa will describe how the consortium is solving the seed availability issue in Africa through the Pan-African Soybean Trial Program.
