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Institute for Global Studies

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Recent News

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University of Minnesota graduate awarded international scholarship to study in China

A December 2020 Honors graduate, Lilli Ambort began studying Chinese in high school and completed a minor in the language at the University of Minnesota and her BA In Global…

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Susan Craddock: Studying infectious disease through a social and environmental lens

As a researcher, Craddock examines social, political, and environmental factors—including inadequate infrastructure and degraded living conditions—to help determine how and…

Fall on campus

RIGS Dissertation Proposal Workshop Deadline Extended to April 5

Apply now! RIGS Dissertation Proposal Workshop Deadline Extended to April 5!

Prentis Hemphill

GWSS Second Annual Lecture Series presents: Prentis Hemphill

Prentis Hemphill joins us for our 2021 GWSS Colloquium series and the second annual GWSS Lecture series.

RIGS Initiative Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) for Graduate Students - Apply Now!

RIGS Initiative Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) for Graduate Students Deadline Extended to October 19, 2020

Upcoming Events

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January 27, 2022

"Yellow Star, Red Star: The Appropriation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Communist Eastern Europe"

The 2022 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture

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January 28, 2022

McNally & Kwakkel Fellows

Summer 2021 Fellowship Presentations

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February 10 - 11, 2022

CPS Regional Colloquium

Check back soon for more information.

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February 10, 2022

Aris Lecture: Sarah E. Bond

"Diagrams of Difference: Representing Information in the Late Roman and Medieval Mediterranean"

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February 17, 2022

CPS Lecture: Mario Antonio Cossío Olavide

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