Illinois Global Institute
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
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On April 7, 2022 at 12pm (CST) on Zoom, Prof. Jessica Brinkworth (UIUC Anthropology) will give a talk exploring the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and labratory work's reliance on single-use plastics.
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How does language affect the way social change moves through a community or culture? Can ‘new’ language affect how we interact with each other and our ideas about social justice? Join us on Zoom along with scholars and activists from Italophone and Francophone communities to talk about these important questions about language and social justice.
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Dr. Cecilia Leal will discuss her research on lipid-based systems and their uses in medicine and other biotechnological applications.
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Anthony Ray Hinton survived for 30 years on Alabama's death row. His story is a decades-long journey to exoneration and freedom.
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Join us for another dialog in WGGP's ongoing conversation with grassroots activists. In this opportunity, we will explore, together with activists from Chile and Puerto Rico, how artistic practices and urban intervention have allowed resistance, visibility, solidarity, and political incidence in the feminist movements.
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Please join the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center as we welcome alumnus journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr for a Q&A session.
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Please join the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center as we welcome Illinois alumnus and journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr for a Q&A session.
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This talk will focus on how one school in western India dealt with this tension to navigate both the pressures of requiring finances to run the school, as well as the economic hardship faced by the fee paying parents.
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Olga Shabalina, PhD candidate in the College of Media, will present two studies that explore the role of thinking style on consumer selfie visual aesthetics across cultures.