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.
Iranian American Professor Mona Kasra 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.
Human Biology major Hamna Shafiq was fueled by her personal experiences to pursue studies in global health. Now a third-year, she is primed for medical school through her research in undernutrition in vulnerable global populations.
Crystal Anderson will be discussing "NEXTGEN: The Past, Present and Future of K-pop". She is a veteran blogger on Asian popular culture and former associate chief editor for hellokpop.
UVA is among a small group of institutions that writes a new global health case and students compete annually. This year CGHE's global case competition celebrated its 10th anniversary with a challenge where 32 teams participated to address a case about tuberculosis in Tanzania.
A lecture by Marcia Ochoa, University of California at Santa Cruz, author of Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an opportunity for students to present what they have learned through their research experiences to a broad audience.
The U.S. Department of State has named the University of Virginia as a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Top Producing Institution for the 2022-23 academic year.
Professor Roland Betancourt (Art History, University of California, Irvine) will give a talk as part of the Lindner Lecture Series in the Department of Art.
The East Asia Center will be hosting Yanfei Sun, associate professor of sociology at Zhejiang University, for the talk "New Religious Movements and the State in Post-Mao China.
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.
In this forum moderated by Syaru Shirley Lin of CAPRI and UVA's Miller Center, the Pottingers reflect on successes and failures in responding to COVID-19 and ongoing efforts to understand the origins.
The United States is once again weighing intervention in Haiti, a Caribbean nation of about 11 million people riven by deep political, economic and social strife.
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.
This online symposium draws together scholars, artists, and curators who explore the ethics of working with photographs and methods to decolonize the medium, and its histories.
An opportunity to engage with Professor Anindyo Roy who has written on 19th century colonial literature and and is working in cooperation with indigenous activists in India on river preservation.
Representing multiple continents, the activists speaking on this “Democracy Dialogues” panel describe their on-the-ground fight for political freedom in Bolivia, Russia, Zimbabwe, and Myanmar (Burma).
Rapid climate change will transform world's political economy most of us take for granted and what institutions, forms of authority, and political movements might emerge from the current conjuncture?
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.
CGII grant recipients Charles Bradley and Abigail Bradford talk about their projects in Greece. Bradford will be researching "Aulos and Audience in the Ancient Greek Musicscape" while Bradley will be working on "Understanding Early Childhood Development in Emergencies: An Inhabited Institutionalist Analysis of Humanitarian Programming for Young Children and Caregivers."
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.
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.
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.
The University of Virginia's Vice President for Research Melur Ramasubramanian along with researchers Bill Petri, Tomonari Furukawa and Mukti Chowkwale share exciting research opportunities for international students at the University.
This summer, a group of UVA professors and graduate students traveled to Makhanda, South Africa to co-design a new space with The Black Power Station, a DIY, self-managed, community-driven art space and organization. The project was funded by a Three Cavaliers grant, which supports professors from multiple disciplines and their students, to create collaborative interdisciplinary projects.
A new study by Lucy Bassett, Tashmina Rahman find that teachers and headteachers have a conventional perspective, often viewing Primary Pre Education predominantly as a place to provide basic education to children rather than an opportunity for holistic development in the early years.
Ren Capucao is a nurse, nurse historian, and PhD candidate and talks about his dissertation study "Pressed into Starched Whites: Nursing Identity in Filipino American History.
In this episode, M. Tayyab Safdar talks to Emily Mellen about his research on South South Cooperation and UVA's multifaceted BRI project which includes a bibliography project, a speaker series and research.
University of Virginia health researcher Mami Taniuchi and her collaborators at Aga Khan University have received $6 million grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to implement an integrated sewage and clinical case surveillances in Karachi, one of the largest cities in
As we launch the 2021 spring semester this month amid continuing challenges from the COVID-19 threat, the contours of the post-pandemic world are emerging. Steadily accelerated vaccinations, improved compliance with public health measures, strides in treating the disease, and the resilience of our students and faculty in mastering new ways to learn and research are creating conditions to spring back even stronger after the pandemic.
