Security Calendar & ACDIS Speaker Series
These events are approved for students who are taking NPRE/GLBL 483 Seminar on Security and GLBL 199S Independent Study, Security Events.
Students are required to prepare a multiple choice quiz with five to ten questions and answers that exhibit an understanding of the lecture. NPRE/GLBL 483 and GLBL 199S students submit the quiz to Illinois Compass. The Certificate students submit the quiz to the ACDIS Office Staff at acdis@spam-is-bad-6633688508bed.illinois.edu.
Spring 2020 – Security-related Events
| Date | Event | Speaker | Location and Time | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/22/2020 | The Caucasus: From Geopolities to Geopoetics | Harsha Ram - Associate professor, University of California, Berkeley | Virtual 1:00 PM | Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center |
| 09/24/2020 | Hong Kong Identity and Migration Past, Present, and Future | Gordon Mathews, Professor of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong | Virtual 10:00 - 11:30 AM | Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies Indiana University East Asian Studies Center |
| 09/25/2020 | The Crisis in Belarus: A Discussion with Natalya Chernyshova | Dr. Natalya Chernyshova, Senior Lecturer, University of Winchester | Virtual 10:00 AM | Russian, East European & Eurasian Center |
| 09/25/2020 | Safer Illinois: A Transatlantic Conversation on Privacy and Technology during an Epidemic | Panel Discussion with- Peter Fatelnig, Minister-Counsellor for Digital Economy Policies at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States; Sanjay Patel, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sony Faculty Scholar, and Director of Alchemy, University of Illinois; and William Sullivan, Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture, Director of Rokwire, University of Illinois | Virtual 12:00 PM | European Union Center; Center for Advanced Study; Grainger College of Engineering; Siebel Center for Design |
| 10/01/2020 | Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation: Challenges, Opportunities & Careers | Sarah Bidgood and David Schmerler | Virtual 5:00 PM | LAS Global Studies ACDIS WGGP |
| 10/02/2020 | The Volatile Market for Globalization | Professor Arjun Appadurai | Virtual 11:00 AM | Illinois Global Institute Humanities Research Institute |
| 10/06/2020 | Crisis Signaling: How Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Affected Incumbent Support in Other European Countries | Catherine De Vries, Bocconi University | Virtual 12:00 PM | Center for European Studies at the University of Florida; UIUC European Union Center; Jean Monnet in the USA; European Commission Erasmus+ Programme |
| 10/15/2020 | From 'Big Data' Socialism to Digital Utopianism: Lessons from the Soviet Past for the Post-Covid-19 Future | Diana Kurkovsky West (Visiting Lecturer of History, Auburn University) | Virtual 4:00 PM CST | Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center |
| 10/16/2020 | The Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh: A Conversation | Anna Ohanyan (Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College) and Erik Herron (Eberly Family Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University) | Virtual, 2:00 PM CST | Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center |
| 10/20/2020 | Nationalism and Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Iran | Professor Rasmus Christian Elling, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen | Virtual, 1:30 PM CST | Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies |
| 10/20/2020 | How to Lose the Information War: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe | Nina Jankowicz (Disinformation Fellow, Science & Technology Innovation Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) | Virtual, 3:30 PM CST | Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center |
| 10/22/2020 | Out of Isolation Series: “Washing with No Water: Environmental Justice, Deregulation and Climate Change Amidst a Pandemic” | Professor Rachel Havrelock (English, University of Illinois at Chicago; Founder & Director, UIC Freshwater Lab) | Virtual, 4:00 PM CST | Humanities Research Institute and Humanities Without Walls |
| 10/26/2020 | Are European Human Rights and Rule of Law in Crisis?: Roundtable and Discussion | Dilara Caliskan (Anthropology), Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology), Jessica Greenberg (Anthropology), Jacqueline Ross (Law) | Virtual, 12:00 PM CST | Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center; European Union Center |
| 11/04/2020 | 75 Years After Hiroshima: A New Nuclear Arms Race? DAY 1: Hiroshima | Dr. Hans Kristensen, Prof. Alan Robock and Prof. David Holloway | Virtual, 6-8:30 PM CST | Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; Department of History; Center for Global Studies; Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering; Department of Physics, and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at Illinois |
| 11/11/2020 | 75 Years After Hiroshima: A New Nuclear Arms Race? DAY 2: New Challenges in Nuclear Arms Control | Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO Rose Gottemueller and Prof. Michael Nacht | Virtual, 6-8:30 PM CST | Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; Department of History; Center for Global Studies; Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering; Department of Physics, and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at Illinois |
| 11/18/2020 | 75 Years After Hiroshima: A New Nuclear Arms Race? DAY 3: Future of the Nuclear Triad | Prof. Margaret Kosal | Virtual, 6-8:30 PM CST | Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; Department of History; Center for Global Studies; Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering; Department of Physics, and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at Illinois |
| 11/17/2020 | An Update on European-Iran Relations | Panel Discussion with- Shireen Hunter, Honorary Fellow, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), Georgetown University; Eldar Mamedov, Political Advisor, European Parliament; Mohammad Homayounvash, Instructor, Mohsin and Fauzia Jaffer Center for Muslim World Studies, FIU; Eric Lob, Associate Professor, Dept. of Politics & International Relations, FIU | Virtual 12:30 PM-1:45 PM | The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of Excellence; the European & Eurasian Studies Program, the Mohsin and Fauzia Jaffer Center for Muslim World Studies; the Politics & International Relations Department; University of Illinois European Union Center |