National Resource Centers

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Info Sessions

3:00 pm

Coble Hall, room 306
- Informational

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Book Launch: Author Meets Readers, "Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights"

3:30 - 5:30 pm

Room 215 (Faculty Lounge), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, IL 61820
- Lecture

Friday, January 30, 2026

REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Joseph Mosse’, "Reimagining a Ukrainian Past: Natalena Koroleva's Old Kyivan Legends"

12:00 pm

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

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

Friday, February 6, 2026

Lecture: Muslim Women and Architectural Patronage, Dede Ruggles

12:00 pm

Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign IL Room 306
- Lecture
Book Talk: "The Islamic Book of Odes and the Horizon of Translation in Modern China," Michael Hill

1:30 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB building
- 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 Whitson 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

Talk: Craig Perry

8:30 am
- Lecture
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, March 12, 2026

Book Talk: The Long War On Iran: New Events, Old Questions, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

All Day
- Lecture

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Book Talk: Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War, Amir Moosavi

4:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Conference Center 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801
- Lecture

Thursday, March 26, 2026

REEEC New Directions Lecture: Halyna Padalko, "AI for Disinformation: Threat or Remedy?”

4:00 pm

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

Thursday, April 2, 2026

CSAMES Talk: “Muslim Sicily, Real and Imagined,” Bill Granara

5:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St #400, Urbana, IL 61801 Room 208
- 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
Celebrating Al-Andalus: How Islamic Iberia Lives on in Arabic and Hebrew (MENA Heritage Month)

5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Talk: On Beginnings, or the Roots and Routes of the Nested Memory Concept, Helen Makhdoumian , Postdoctoral Program fellow at Vanderbilt University

5:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
- Lecture

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Book Talk: Zoning Faith, Sultan Tepe

4:00 pm

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