Center for Global Studies

Friday, October 17, 2025

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

  6:00 - 8:00 pm

  JW Eater JR. High, 400 E Wabash Ave, Rantoul, IL 61866

  • Festival/Celebration
  • Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 20, 2025

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

  11:30 am - 1:00 pm

  314b Illini Union

  • Informational
  • Informational
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  Frank Center Student Workshop: Investigative Journalism with María Inés Zamudio

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  336 Gregory Hall

  • Conference/Workshop
  • Conference/Workshop
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  Virtual Talk: Ser Mujeres en la ESMA / Being Women at ESMA

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Conference/Workshop
  • Conference/Workshop
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  Professor Gino Pauselli (Political Science, UIUC), "Critical Ties: How Reliable Information Suppliers Influence International Organizations' Propensity to Criticize States"

  12:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

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

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Coble Hall 108

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

  5:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, Language, Cultures and Literatures Building (LCLB 1080)

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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  Graduate Workshop on "Effective Fellowship Writing"

  12:30 - 3:00 pm

  306 Coble Hall

  • Conference/Workshop
  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, October 23, 2025

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

  4:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 210

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Monday, October 27, 2025

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  CLACS Talk Series: Disordered Domestication: Colonial Logics of Wildness and Domestication in Cusco, Perú. Prof. Amanda  Cortez

  3:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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

  3:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Friday, October 31, 2025

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  Tropical Polar Bears | Juno Salazar Parreñas

  3:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 210

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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

  4:00 pm

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

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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  Food For Thought | Lei Zhao and Jozsef Balogh

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 208

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Friday, November 7, 2025

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  Strategic Networking for Uncertain Times: Turning Conversations into Career Opportunities

  11:30 am - 1:00 pm

  BNAACC Main Multipurpose Room

  • Informational
  • Informational

Monday, November 10, 2025

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  Workshop with Mayki Gorosito

  All Day

  TBD

  • Conference/Workshop
  • Conference/Workshop
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  Talk by Mayki Gorosito

  3:00 pm

  Coble Hall

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Coble Hall 108

  • Lecture
  • Lecture
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  "Palestine, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom" Panel Discussion

  3:30 pm

  TBD

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

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

  4:00 pm

  Gregory Hall 810 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 223

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Monday, November 17, 2025

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  Ayni Book Presentation by Carlos Molina-Vital

  3:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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

  4:00 pm

  1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Monday, December 8, 2025

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  "Shrinking civic and academic space in Germany: an inventory of recent restrictions and violations." Dr. Ilyas Saliba, Part of "Palestine in the World "Series.

  1:00 pm

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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  Holly Hughes and Katie Pearl | Culture Wars

  7:00 pm

  Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign

  • Lecture
  • Lecture

Thursday, February 12, 2026

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  Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities

  Recurring

  All Day

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St

  • Seminar/Symposium
  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

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  Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities

  Recurring

  All Day

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St

  • Seminar/Symposium
  • Seminar/Symposium