01/22/2024 - On November 8, students, faculty, and staff were treated to free international musical performances as part of International Education Week. Artists included the Brazilian Jazz Ensemble, led by Goio...
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01/22/2024 - On Dec. 8, 2023, Illinois high school students who were awarded first place or honorable mention in the 2023-24 High School Translation Competition gathered at the Italian Cultural Institute in...
09/27/2023 - Staff from the Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, LAS Global Studies, and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center met with students at the Majors...
09/20/2023 - On Sept. 12, around 70 attendees listened to the first talk in this year’s IGI Series on Global Responsibilities, which focuses on “China and the World.” The purpose of the series is to bring...
09/12/2023 - For three days this summer, about 50 area high school teachers and librarians listened to speakers and participated in round-table discussions around the theme of “Education at the Edge: Global...
08/29/2023 - Illinois Global Institute is excited to welcome LAS Global Studies. IGI, established in 2019, anchors the university’s work in global learning and research. With the inclusion of LAS Global Studies...
08/22/2023 - Over 2,500 incoming students attended Liftoff 2023, and representatives from the Illinois Global Institute were there to greet them. Present were representatives from the following centers: African...
05/31/2023 - Click here to read Kaleigh Rahn's interview with Natasha Samreny,...
04/27/2023 - Click here to read about Boren awards received by LAS students Maxine Katz and Tina Wayne.
04/20/2023 - The U of I News Bureau has written about the Latin American Ensemble, supported by IGI's own Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. See below to...
03/07/2023 - IGI Career Day, 2023 By Terri Gitler Over 40 University of Illinois students attended Illinois Global Institute Career Day, an event focusing on using foreign language, area studies, and thematic...
03/02/2023 - Prof. Edward A. Kolodziej (former director of Center for Global Studies) was featured in the Illinois News Bureau Expert Viewpoints series in an interview titled, "Is Russian-Ukraine war heading...
02/22/2023 - Prof. Valerie J. Hoffman (former director of Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) was featured in the LAS Experts series in an interview titled, "Beneath the Surface of Islam." Click...
01/26/2023 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumna Brittney Nadler (majored in Global Studies and Spanish) recently was awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign...
11/07/2022 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is now a sustaining member of Scholars at Risk (SAR), an international network of higher education...
