University Library

International and Area Studies Library - Campus Events

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester
- Other

Sunday, January 26, 2025

- 12:00 - 2:30 pm
- 2000 S Lincoln Ave Urbana, IL 61802
New Year's Wagashi Tasting with Kimiko Gunji

Celebrate the start of 2025 with three winter sweets and tea pairings featuring recipes from Wagashi: Season by Season, the latest wagashi cookbook by Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji!
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, January 27, 2025

- All Day
- Funk ACES Library
Chinese New Year celebration

Join us for a delightful Chinese New Year celebration at Funk ACES Library during the week of January 29, 2025!
- Festival/Celebration
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arabic Tutoring
- Other
- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
Women Enviromental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon: Brazil - Dr. Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro
- Conference/Workshop
- 5:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory
Shadows: Songs from Testimonies of the Fortunoff Video Archive
- Performance

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

- All Day
- Funk ACES Library
Chinese New Year celebration

Join us for a delightful Chinese New Year celebration at Funk ACES Library during the week of January 29, 2025!
- Festival/Celebration
- 4:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
Dr. Rana Khoury, “What Happened, and What’s Next, for Syria?”
- Lecture

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

- All Day
- Funk ACES Library
Chinese New Year celebration

Join us for a delightful Chinese New Year celebration at Funk ACES Library during the week of January 29, 2025!
- Festival/Celebration
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Arabic Roundtable: Grammar 101
- Meeting
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Grainger Library Room 233/235
Grainger Plays: Puzzle Race
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, January 30, 2025

- All Day
- Funk ACES Library
Chinese New Year celebration

Join us for a delightful Chinese New Year celebration at Funk ACES Library during the week of January 29, 2025!
- Festival/Celebration

Friday, January 31, 2025

- All Day
- Funk ACES Library
Chinese New Year celebration

Join us for a delightful Chinese New Year celebration at Funk ACES Library during the week of January 29, 2025!
- Festival/Celebration
- 12:00 pm
- 404 David Kinley Hall 1407 W Gregory Dr. Urbana
Dr. Marwa Shalaby. “How Parliaments Matter: Policy and Opposition in the Middle East’s Authoritarian Legislatures.”
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Markian Dobczansky
- Lecture

Monday, February 3, 2025

- All Day
- Library Gallery, University Library (1408 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801)
Unissued Diplomas Exhibition | Main Library
- Exhibition
- 3:00 pm TBD
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
Ignacio Sanchez Prado: "The Aesthetics and Intimacies of Food Sovereignty. Maíz Criollo in Gastronomy and Art"
- Lecture

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

- 4:30 - 5:30 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Arabic Roundtable: TBD
- Meeting

Thursday, February 6, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S. Wright St.
Dr. Tarek El Ariss. Book talk on Water on Fire: A Memoir of War
- Lecture

Friday, February 7, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Anastasiia Strakhova, "Benefits of Illegality: Clandestine Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe, 1870s-1914"
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 7:00 pm
- Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) Room 4036 and 4039 (1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
Summer Graduate Research Conference
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, February 8, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library
Latin American Story Time: "Drummer Boy of John John"
- Other

Friday, February 14, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Movie Night
- Meeting

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

- 4:30 - 6:00 pm
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center - Kitchen
Bake Dubai Chocolate
- Meeting

Thursday, February 20, 2025

- 5:00 - 8:00 pm TBD
- Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium Temple Hoyne Buell Hall (611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign, IL 61820)
Celebrating Afro-Cuban Artist Wifredo Lam: A Talk with Lowery Stokes Sims
- Performance

Friday, February 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Maxim Krupskiy, "'Foreign Agents' Legislation: Between Democratic Resilience and Weaponized Transparency"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building, 707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
EALC/CEAPS Alumni Book Talk | “Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans Rethinking ‘Women’ in 1970s–1980s Japan” | James Welker
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 8:30 am - 8:00 pm
- Southwest Vestibule, Illini Union (1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Unissued Diplomas Pop-Up Exhibition | Illini Union
- Exhibition
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arabic Tutoring
- Meeting

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 6:30 - 7:00 pm
- Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820
Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean (Portuguese)
- Other

Friday, February 28, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 1:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
CEAPS Brown Bag |“Damocles’s Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control” | Meicen Sun
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, March 1, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
LAC Women Justice: Maria Jose Mendez "Embroideries of War: Salvadoran Women Refugees’ Memories of Care"
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
Dr. Huda Fakhreddine "On translating Arabic Poetry,"
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Salaam MENA Cultural Center
Intro to Islam
- Meeting

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1066 Lincoln Hall (702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Alexis Peri, "Diplomacy of the Heart: Soviet and American Women's Cold-War Correspondence"
- Lecture

Friday, March 7, 2025

- All Day
- TBD
Archaeology Conference
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, March 8, 2025

- All Day
- TBD
Archaeology Conference
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
CLACS Series: Alex Borucki
- Lecture

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Salaam MENA Cultural Center
Intro to Qur'an
- Meeting

Saturday, March 15, 2025

- 1:00 pm
Spring Vacation Begins
- Other

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 7:00 am
Instruction resumes
- Other
- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
Prof. Ellen Moodie - Book Talk: Indignant Liberalism: Protest, Political Change, and El Salvador’s Post-postwar Generation.
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 Mathew Ave Urbana
Abigail Balbale. “‘The sight that I offer is the fairest of sights’: Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba.”
- Lecture
- 6:30 - 7:00 pm
- Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820
Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean (Q'anjob'al)
- Other

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Salaam MENA Cultural Center
Ramadan Across the World
- Meeting

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 7:00 - 8:30 pm
- Lincoln Hall 1092
9th Annual UIUC Korean Spech Contest
- Other

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arabic Tutoring
- Meeting

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Henna
- Meeting
- 6:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium at Spurlock Museum
AsiaLENS | "Cirque du Cambodia"
- Film Screening

Thursday, April 3, 2025

- 8:30 am TBD
- TBD
Lac Cities Collective Presents: Mariana Alegre Escorza
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 1:30 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
CEAPS Brown Bag | "Eco-Cities Beyond Failure: Reimagining the Everyday Socio-Natural Ecologies in Urban China" | Colleen Chiu-Shee
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, April 7, 2025

- 8:30 am TBD
Women Enviromental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon: Peru - Dr. Maritza Paredes
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Arabic Roundtable: TBD
- Meeting

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 1090
Dr. Lauren Osborne. Book talk on Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition,
- Lecture

Saturday, April 12, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library
Latin American Story Time: "Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son"
- Other

Monday, April 14, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
LAC Women Justice Presents: Elizabeth Kennedy
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:30 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Movie Night
- Meeting

Friday, April 18, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Olga Zaitseva-Herz
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- 6:30 - 7:00 pm
- Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820
Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish)
- Other

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arabic Tutoring
- Meeting

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
- TBD
Dr. Michelle Campos and Dr. Charles Anderson. “Palestine in the World roundtable.”
- Lecture

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other

Friday, May 9, 2025

- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other

Saturday, May 17, 2025

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 19, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1
- Other

Monday, June 16, 2025

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other

University Library

University of Illinois

1408 West Gregory Drive | Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-2290