CSAMES Events

Friday, October 2, 2026

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

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• Cornelius W. Queen, co-author of A Daring Enterprise: A US-Egyptian Partnership and the Case for Soft Power

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  306 Coble Hall

  • Lecture

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• Screening: Those 4 Years

  Time

  6:00 pm

  Location

  Spurlock Museum

  • Film Screening

  

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 30, 2026

• Book Talk: Professor Sanjay Joshi, "Brahmins of the Himalaya"

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• Book Talk: Becoming Allies: Civil Liberties Activism in India, Ankita Pandey

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

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

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• "‘Imagining Capital in the City: Urban Life in DLF’s Public Projection, 1949-1960", Anish Vanaik, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 am

  ‘Imagining Capital in the City: Urban Life in DLF’s Public Projection, 1949-1960’

  • Lecture