National Resource Centers

Monday, January 27, 2025

• 

  • 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

• 

  • 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

Monday, February 3, 2025

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  • 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

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  • 2:30 - 4:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall

  Put your study abroad experience to work and explore career opportunities in foreign diplomacy

  • Lecture

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

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  • 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

• • 12:00 pm
  • University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

  Democratic Erosion and Women’s Political Power: Perspectives from Europe

  • Lecture

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 pm

  Global Governance of AI: Political and Ethical Challenges Across National, Regional, and International Approaches

  • Lecture

Thursday, February 20, 2025

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  • 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
• • 2:00 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

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana

  Dr. Ussama Makdisi "Why is Palestine Important?"

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

  • 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

Thursday, February 27, 2025

• • 5:30 pm
  • Room 66, Main Library (1408 W Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  Film Screening: Intercepted (2024)

  • Film Screening

Friday, February 28, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop

  • Conference/Workshop

Saturday, March 1, 2025

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  • All Day
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, March 3, 2025

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  • 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

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

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  • All Day
  • TBD

  Archaeology Conference

  • Ceremony/Service

Saturday, March 8, 2025

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  • 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

Monday, March 24, 2025

• 

  • 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

Thursday, March 27, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • TBD

  Film screening "LYD"

  • Performance

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• • 12:00 pm

  Dr. Nadim Bawalsa "Book talk on Transnational Palestine."

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 8:30 am   TBD
  • TBD

  Lac Cities Collective Presents: Mariana Alegre Escorza

  • Ceremony/Service

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

• 

  • 5:30 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL)

  Film Screening: Queendom (2023)

  • Film Screening

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

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  • 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

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

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Markian Dobczansky

  • Lecture

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • TBD

  Dr. Michelle Campos and Dr. Charles Anderson. “Palestine in the World Roundtable.”

  • Lecture