EALC Calendar of Events

Friday, February 6, 2026

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  Seminar with Professors Michael Gibbs Hill and Waïl S. Hassan

  10:00 am

  2090B Conference Room, LCLB

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  EALC Lecture | "The Islamic Book of Odes (Tianfang shijing) and the Horizon of Translation in Modern China" | Michael Hill

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, & Linguistics Building, 707 S. Matthews Ave., Urbana

  • Lecture
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  EALC Speaker Series | “The Islamic Book of Odes (Tianfang shijing) and the Horizon of Translation in Modern China” | Michael Hill

  1:30 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Lecture

Monday, February 9, 2026

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  Mochitsuki & Lunar New Year Event

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, & Linguistics Building, 707 S. Matthews Ave., Urbana

  • Festival/Celebration

Friday, February 20, 2026

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  CEAPS Brown Bag | “Tales of Asian Boys’ Love: Translanguaging and Transmediality of Romance in Selected Japanese, Thai, and Filipino Series” | Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign

  • Lecture

Friday, February 27, 2026

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  CEAPS Brown Bag | “Zhou Zuoren at Tiger Bridge”| Jingling Chen

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Hybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM

  • Lecture

Thursday, March 12, 2026

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  Association for Asian Studies Film Expo

  Recurring

  All Day

  Vancouver, Canada

  • Film Screening

Friday, March 13, 2026

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  Association for Asian Studies Film Expo

  Recurring

  All Day

  Vancouver, Canada

  • Film Screening

Saturday, March 14, 2026

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  Association for Asian Studies Film Expo

  Recurring

  All Day

  Vancouver, Canada

  • Film Screening

Thursday, March 26, 2026

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  10th Annual Korean Speech Contest

  7:00 - 8:30 pm

  LH 1000

  • Other

Friday, April 3, 2026

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  CEAPS Speaker | “Finding An Audience: Japan’s First Women Architects and the NHK Ladies' Classroom” | Dr. Michelle L. Hauk (Washington University in St. Louis)

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign

  • Lecture

Friday, April 10, 2026

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  CEAPS Book Celebration | “The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Pensions, Labor Informalization, and Labor Mobility in China” | Yujeong Yang

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

Friday, May 1, 2026

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  CEAPS Speaker / Political Science Workshop | “From Correction to Connection: Relational Approaches to Countering Misinformation” | Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan)

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  404 David Kinley Hall, 1407 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana

  • Lecture