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Faculty & Staff

Collected resources for Faculty & Staff from across the site.

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Nov

For many years Professor Paul Martin has led a capstone experience to Northern Ireland where students study a community that emerged from a conflict that lasted 30 years & claimed thousands of Lives.
November 3, 2023 12:00pm
Garrett Hall at Batten School
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Nov

While freedom of speech is a core tenet of American democracy, it has long been object of intense controversy. When it comes to protecting free speech in practice, education serves as testing grounds
November 9, 2023 1:00pm
The Miller Center
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Muhammad Tayyab Safdar joined as a Global Studies faculty in Fall 2023. He is currently teaching about global development and perspectives from the Global South based on his research on South-South global development relations, in particular the relationship between China and Pakistan.

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Oct

Participants gather weekly for informal conversation at the International Center.
October 10, 2023 5:30pm
Lorna Sundberg International Center
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Oct

Participants gather weekly for informal conversation at the International Center.
October 17, 2023 5:30pm
Lorna Sundberg International Center
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Oct

Participants gather weekly for informal conversation at the International Center.
October 24, 2023 5:30pm
Lorna Sundberg International Center
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Oct

Participants gather weekly for informal conversation at the International Center.
October 31, 2023 5:30pm
Lorna Sundberg International Center
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Nov

Participants gather weekly for informal conversation at the International Center.
November 14, 2023 5:30pm
Lorna Sundberg International Center
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Nov

Participants gather weekly for informal conversation at the International Center.
November 28, 2023 5:30pm
Lorna Sundberg International Center
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Dec

Participants gather weekly for informal conversation at the International Center.
December 5, 2023 5:30pm
Lorna Sundberg International Center
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Dec

Participants gather weekly for informal conversation at the International Center.
December 12, 2023 5:30pm
Lorna Sundberg International Center
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Nov

Join us at the UVA Global Passport Drive for students, faculty, staff, and families! Passport officials from USPS will be on Grounds to accept passport and renewal applications and answer questions.
November 1, 2023 10:00am
Hotel A, West Range at UVA
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Academic and creative writer Levi Vonk joined the University of Virginia as a Global Studies Assistant Professor in Fall 2023 and is currently teaching courses on inequality in the media and global migration. He discussed his research, writing, and teaching.

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Fernando Operé teaches colonial and 19th century Latin American literature and Spanish and Latin American poetry in UVA’s Spanish, Italian and Portuguese department. As founder and director of UVA’s Valencia program, he looks back as the program celebrates its 40th anniversary.

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Chris Gratien and colleague editing the Ottoman History Podcast
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UVA History Professor Chris Gratien speaks about his not-so side gig as part of the recording team for the Ottoman History Podcast, an alternative avenue for scholarly conversation on the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, since its inception in 2011 and how it has enriched his own research and teaching in surprising ways.

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UVA Psychology Professor Hudson Golino discusses his recent collaborative project with Professor Mariana Teles "New Tools to Study and Prevent Online Mass Manipulation."

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UVA English professor Steve Parks talks to UVA Global about how his interaction with activists and advocates has changed his academic work and what he and UVA's Democratic Futures Project plan to do next to support and promote advocates for democracy.

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Iranian American Professor Mona Kasra in the Department of Drama speaks about a recent UVA panel on the situation in Iran, the role of visual media in the crisis, how this impacts her work, and the role the diaspora and higher education institutions can play.

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UVA Global caught up with Art Department Professor Federico Cuatlacuatl to talk about his artistic and scholarly practice and his ongoing collaboration with the UnDocu+ Collective, which included a recent event at UVA and in Charlottesville.

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UVA in Jordan
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A record seventeen Education Abroad Programs took the University of Virginia students to places as distant and diverse as Argentina, Australia, Jordan, Kenya, and Vietnam, among other places for the first time since the pandemic disrupted travel in 2020.

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Professor Samhita Sunya teaches and researches global cinema in UVA’s Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures department. She spoke to UVA Global about her recently-published book, her global courses, and her current research and other work.

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Feb

Join Iran experts to explore the deep and long tradition of women’s involvement in the struggle for democracy in Iran.
February 14, 2023 1:00pm
The Rotunda, UVA
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School and university education concept. Vector flat people illustration. Multiethnic group of student. Book, earth globe, paper plane symbol on sky background.
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As classes wrap up this December, among them will be a series of courses in the Engagements curriculum that bring first-year students out of their worlds and into the global.

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UVA Professor of Art and Archaeology Anastasia Dakouri-Hild talks with UVA Global's Emily Mellen about her comprehensive archaeological survey project in Afidnes, Greece.

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Dec

Miller Center Prof. Marc Selverstone discusses his new book, "The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam"
December 7, 2022 11:00am
The Miller Center
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UVA Professors Jack Chen and Daniel Willingham recently presented about their CGII funded research in early October and spoke to UVA Global's Emily Mellen for a podcast about their work on reading.

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CGII Brown Bag Lunch Series: Aswin Punathambekar & Eli Carter Global Media Cultures Collaboratory Friday 11/12 12-1:30pm Hotel A poster with headshots of Punathambekar and Carter
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In this episode, Aswin Punathambekar and Eli Carter from University of Virginia talk about the Global Media Cultures Collaboratory. They hope to bring together scholars with a shared interest in the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of media practice and use that are reconfiguring socio-cultural, political, and economic terrains across the Global South.

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A conversation with Professor Nomi Dave about her CGII G-Pod funded Sound Justice Lab which explores everyday understandings of the law, through audio, text, and film. She is also co-writing and co-producing a short film on women’s voices and gender activism in Guinea. The film emerges from a collaborative research project with a feminist collective in Guinea.

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In this episode, Howard Epstein, Professor in Department of Environmental Sciences, talks about the UVA Arctic Research Center and its collaboration with other universities, their NSF grant and how their team are addressing the rapidly changing natural, built, and social environments across the Arctic that demand a response in order to preserve the sustainability of northern cities.

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Josh Easter and Amita Sudhir Seated on a Bench Inside Hospital in Kenya
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Amita Sudhir and Josh Easter are Associate Professors in UVA’s Department of Emergency Medicine. In October 2021, they traveled to Kenya as part of the first UVA connection with AMPATH, an organization that connects a consortium of North American universities with Moi University, a public institution in Eldoret, western Kenya. The universities then jointly develop health training programming and exchanges of students and faculty from both sides of the Atlantic.

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In April 2022, the Center for Global Health Equity hosted 15 colleagues from partner institutions in Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda for the CGHE Global Partnerships Workshop to hear about current global health research and student engagement opportunities. Other topics discussed in the workshops organized over a week in Charlottesville included new grant opportunities to develop research capacity; opportunities for educational training; and shared priorities for further research and advocacy.