National Resource Centers

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Info Sessions

3:00 pm

Coble Hall, room 306
- Informational

Monday, February 2, 2026

Dr. David Smilde - Venezuela & the United States: Keys to Understanding the Conflict

3:00 pm
- Lecture

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Book Talk: "Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque." Dr. Cristina Moreno Almeida

4:00
- Lecture

Monday, February 9, 2026

Ayni Book Presentation by Carlos Molina-Vital

3:00 pm

Coble Hall 306
- Lecture

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Book Talk: "From Apartheid to Democracy, A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine." Sarah Leah and Michael Omer-Man

4:00 pm

Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
- Lecture

Friday, February 13, 2026

Urbisurgence and Resistance: Indigenous Urbanism and the Struggle for Spatial Justice, Dr. Sahera Bleibleh

10:30 - 11:50 am
- Lecture
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Andrei Kureichik, "Voices of Change Reframed. Documentary Theatre of Social Impact"

12:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, Room 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (707 S. Mathews St., Urbana, IL 61801)
- Lecture

Thursday, February 26, 2026

REEEC New Directions Lecture: Sophia Wilson, "Maidan: Ukraine’s Democratic Revolution”

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture

Thursday, April 16, 2026

REEEC New Directions Lecture: James T. Andrews, "Narrating the Soviet Metropolis: The Moscow Metro and the Story of Socialism”

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture