Latina/Latino Studies Event Calendar

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• MillerComm: 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

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

• Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Jr. Lecture Series: Dr. Jennifer Nájera

  Time

  4:00 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility, Room 4025

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• Reproductive Justice Symposium

  Time

  5:00 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility, Room 4025

  Join the Departments of Latina/Latino Studies and Gender and Women's Studies for the Reproductive Justice Symposium: a space for conversation between leading scholars of reproduction and the campus community.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Black and Transgender Migrations and Visions of Sanctuary

  Time

  6:00 - 9:00 pm

  Location

  Latzer Hall, University YMCA 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  This inaugural event by the Borders of Sanctuary Working Collective presents a public facing panel that pairs Professor Willie Mack (Black Studies, University of Missouri) on Black migration with Devin Lowe from the Black Trans Travel Fund, which serves Black and Transgender migrants.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• LLS Speaker Series: Laura Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility, 2039

  Join us for a lecture by Laura Chávez-Moreno, an associate professor of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education at the University of California Los Angeles about her book "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America"

  • Lecture