The Social Dimensions of Global Health
CIS and the Global Health Initiative present two panels on a variety of faculty projects dedicated to improving health in communities around the world.
Photograph of Dr. John Schneider working in India courtesy of GHI.
Haiti's Manmade Vulnerability to Natural Disaster
In the aftermath of catastrophe in Haiti, University of Chicago anthropologist Greg Beckett advocates rebuilding more than buildings alone.
Photograph of the damaged Haitian national palace shared by the UNDP under a Creative Commons license.
Race from Tundra to Steppe: Ethnicity, Gender, and Environment in Russian/Soviet Eurasia
A new Winter Quarter course is giving undergraduate students a new understanding of the varied history of ethnicity and gender in remote areas of Russia and the former Soviet Union.
Photo courtesy of Julia Fein.
“With Immediate Effect” – 1989 Revisited
November 4-7, CIS presented a series of public events reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of the transitions in Central and Eastern Europe that marked the end of the Cold War and altered the balance of power in the world.
Photograph of Berlin Wall courtesy of NATO Photos.
Recent News
[PGE] Globalization and Invasion: The Great Lakes Carp Threat Explained
A Q & A with the Program on the Global Environment's Reuben Keller provides the backstory to the current drama playing out in the Great Lakes.
Jeanne Fitzsimmons Appointed SALRC Associate Director
New CLAS Office Manager/Student Affairs Administrator
With Immediate Effect: The Events of 1989 Revisited
David Bosco on the U.N. Security Council and the Making of the Modern World
Outreach News
This June 22-24, the Center for International Studies presented a three-day institute on the Global Economy, in conjunction with the University of Chicago East Asian, Southern Asian, Latin American, East European and Russian Eurasian, and Middle Eastern Area Studies Centers. The goal of the institute was to provide teachers with the tools to successfully teach issues pertaining to the Global Economy, specifically: Markets, Trade and Globalization, Impacts of Globalization, and The Current Global Financial Crisis.