European Union Center

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois
Food For Thought: Yuguo Chen and Soo Ah Kwon

Join us for talks by recent CAS Associates. At 11am Yuguo Chen (Statistics) discusses how statistical network analysis is used to develop methods to account for the complex dependencies in network data; and at noon, Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) argues for moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical to better understand youth activism.
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1018 LCLB and Atrium
FRIT Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service

- 5:15 pm
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL
What Now: Focus on Women and Gender in the New Era
- Seminar/Symposium

- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- Illini Union Food Court (lower level)
Pause Café - French Conversation Table
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory
Playing the Changes: Jazz and Education in South Africa

Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
- Lecture
- 6:00 - 7:30 pm
- 1080, Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
Evening French Conversation (Soirée en français)
- Social/Informal Event