Center for Global Studies

Saturday, October 11, 2025

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  • 7:30 pm
  • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  National Arab Orchestra w/ Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

  • Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 13, 2025

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  • 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall 306

  CLACS Series: "Language and Life in Q’anjob’al Communties" Adan F. Pascual

  • Lecture
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  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  • Noyes Laboratory, 163

  Angelica Waner: Zines in the Diaspora: Connecting Literary Threads Across Colonial Borders

  • Lecture

Friday, October 17, 2025

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  • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  • JW Eater JR. High, 400 E Wabash Ave, Rantoul, IL 61866

  Rantoul City Schools Hispanic Heritage Celebration ; Celebración del mes de la Herencia Hispania de RCS

  • Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 20, 2025

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  • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
  • 314b Illini Union

  International Students Navigating the U.S.: Immigration, Rights, and Resources

  • Informational
• • 4:00 pm

  Virtual Talk: ESMA Survivors

  • Lecture

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Panel on “Community-Engaged Research in Action: Insights for Graduate Students”

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall 108

  Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies Reading Group: Juliana Freire’s “Indigenous Documentaries: Art, Self-Representation, and the Environment in Huni Kui Films”

  • Lecture
• 

  • 5:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, Language, Cultures and Literatures Building (LCLB 1080)

  Between Amsterdam and the Antilles: Diaspora and Community in Colonial Curaçao

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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  • 12:30 - 3:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall

  Graduate Workshop on "Effective Fellowship Writing"

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center Room 210

  Climate | Change: Fredrik Jonsson on the historical roots of the climate crisis

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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  • 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall 306

  Transitional Justice in Mexico: Sisyphus on the Hill / Dr. Francisco Javier Ramírez Treviño

  • Lecture

Friday, October 31, 2025

• • 3:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center Room 210

  Tropical Polar Bears | Juno Salazar Parreñas

  Juno Salazar-Parreñas, Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Competing Colonialisms in the Great Acceleration

  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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  • 4:00 pm
  • Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

  Book Talk: "Civilizing Contention: International Aid in Syria's War." Dr. Rana Khoury

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 6, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center Room 208

  Food For Thought | Lei Zhao and Jozsef Balogh

  • Lecture

Friday, November 7, 2025

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  • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
  • BNAACC Main Multipurpose Room

  Strategic Networking for Uncertain Times: Turning Conversations into Career Opportunities

  • Informational

Monday, November 10, 2025

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  • All Day
  • TBD

  Workshop with Mayki Gorosito

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall

  Talk by Mayki Gorosito

  • Lecture

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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  • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • Coble Hall 108

  Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies Reading Group: Ailton Krenak’s Tomorrow is Not for Sale and Life is Not Useful

  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 1090 Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana

  Book Talk: " Education 2.0: Chronicles of Technological and Cultural Change in Egypt." Linda Herrera

  • Lecture

Monday, November 17, 2025

• • 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall 306

  Ayni Book Presentation by Carlos Molina-Vital

  • Lecture

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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  • 4:00 pm
  • 1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801

  CSAMES Lecture: "Translating the United States for the Turkish Audience: Presidential Discourses, Award Ceremonies, and Wars." Ozum Arzik

  • Lecture

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

• • 7:00 pm
  • Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign

  Holly Hughes and Katie Pearl | Culture Wars

  • Lecture

Thursday, February 12, 2026

• • All Day
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St

  Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

• • All Day
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St

  Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities

  • Seminar/Symposium