Center for Global Studies

Thursday, September 10, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Friday, September 11, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Saturday, September 12, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• Latin American & Caribbean Storytime: The Life of Dolores Huerta

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Urbana Free Library, 210 W Green St, Urbana, IL, 61801

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Sunday, September 13, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Monday, September 14, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• Celebrating Latin America & the Caribbean with Cultura Pesá

  Time

  7:00 pm

  Location

  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S Goodwin Ave Rm 4-122, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Performance

  

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Friday, September 18, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• Discussion on Nepal Disaster

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:30 pm

  CSAMES will host a discussion on the unprecedented disaster brought about by flash floods in the Nepal valley in August 2026. Professor Rabin Bhattarai (rbhatta2@illinois.edu) will lead the discussion. CSAMES is working with Prof. Bhattarai to assemble a resource page with information as they become available.

  • Webinar

  

Saturday, September 19, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• Nathan Hensley | No Escape, No Ending: Gesture, Improvisation, Solidarity

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• GGIS Colloquium | Gabriela Valdivia, UNC Latina/o Studies Program

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Lecture

  

Saturday, September 26, 2026

• “Thinking Beyond Borders: Tagore and the Question of Home”, Tagore Festival Keynote Lecture – Pranav Jani

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Channing Murray Foundation

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Monday, September 28, 2026

• Tayzhaun Glover, " 'She had been caught in the open sea while escaping': Enslaved Women, Plantation Labor, and the Dynamics of Transmarine Marronage in 19th Century Martinique"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Stephanie O'Rourke | Landscapes of Dis-placement: Mining and Mapping the 19th-century British Empire

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Justin Jackson | Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

• MillerComm 2027: Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center Room 210 919 W Illinois St Urbana

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• Book Talk: James Lawson: Teacher of Satyagraha, Rajmohan Gandhi

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• Election Panel I

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series: Narratives of youth, violence and drugs. Comparing “mano dura” in Ecuador and the Philippines

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Nicholas Jackson and Stefan Vogler

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

• Black and Transgender Migrations and Visions of Sanctuary

  Time

  6:00 - 9:00 pm

  Location

  Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• Brent Roberts | Studying Lives and Living a Life: Personality Development Across the Life Course

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• “Reformist Muslim Thought: Rethinking the Quran and Islamic Tradition from the19th Century to Today”, Youssouf Sangare

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street , Champaign IL 61820

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Youssouf Sangaré | Islam in France

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Monday, October 26, 2026

• Election Panel II

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Informational

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Matthew S. Winters, "Persistent Citizens: Pursuing Social Welfare Benefits in Brazil and Argentina"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Jui-Chung Yao and Chien-Hui Kao in conversation: Landscape as Storytelling: The Journey of "Yao’s Black Divine Comedy"

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Food For Thought | Fahad Mahmood and Aleksei Aksimentiev

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• “Performance and the Making of Religious Imagery in Early and Medieval India (Buddhist, Hindu, Jain)”, Anna Tosato

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Monday, November 9, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: María Alejandra García Otero (Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences)

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Angharad Valdivia

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Food For Thought | Kimberly Mack and Laura Hetric

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Tess McNulty and Alex Shakar

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture