College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Center for Global Studies

Center for Global Studies

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Women in Science Lecture Series: Dr. Gisela Sin

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Main Library Room 146
- Lecture
Lecture: "On the Edge of Living: Trans Migrants and the Denial of Personhood"

4:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB 1080
- Lecture
I MMAS Chair Cátedra Development and the Global Agenda
Recurring

5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 10, 2026

Film Screening: feature-length experimental film Ourobooros (2017), Basma al-Sharif

7:00 pm

Knight Auditorium Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Film Screening

Monday, April 13, 2026

"Weaving Resilience: Communities, Ecosystems, and Knowledge from the Colombian Caribbean in Times of Socio-environmental Crisis".

4:30 pm TBD

210 Levis Faculty Center
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

CGS Global Policy Forum (April 14 & 15)
Recurring

All Day

210 Levis Faculty Center; 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Conference/Workshop
Student Dialogue: "Bridging Ancestral Knowledge and Scientific Research: Community Perspectives from the Caribbean".

3:00 - 6:00 pm

Women's Resource Center; 616 E Green St #202, Champaign, IL 61820
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

CGS Global Policy Forum (April 14 & 15)
Recurring

All Day

210 Levis Faculty Center; 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Conference/Workshop
9th Annual International Food Security at Illinois Symposium
Recurring

All Day

Heritage Room, ACES Library
- Seminar/Symposium
Comparative Research Roundtable: "Bridging Science and Governance"

3:00 - 4:15 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana, IL 61801
- Conference/Workshop
“What Is Happening in Iran?”

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
- Lecture
CLACS Shifting Landscapes Film Series - "Argentina 1985"

6:00 pm

Coble Hall Room 306
- Film Screening

Thursday, April 16, 2026

9th Annual International Food Security at Illinois Symposium
Recurring

All Day

Heritage Room, ACES Library
- Seminar/Symposium
Food For Thought | Ramón Soto-Crespo and Alison Bell

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St
- Lecture
Ancient Tragedy and Communities

4:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St
- Lecture
Celebrating Al-Andalus: How Islamic Iberia Lives on in Arabic and Hebrew (MENA Heritage Month)

5:00 - 7:00 pm

BNAACC 1212 W Nevada St. Urbana
- Social/Informal Event
I MMAS Chair Cátedra Development and the Global Agenda
Recurring

5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
2026 CU Tango Music Festival at Krannert Uncorked

5:30 - 7:00 pm

Stage 5 at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
- Performance
Archaeologist Talk | Luis Muro, Living Legacies of Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600

5:30 pm TBD

Auditorium (KAM 62)
- Lecture

Friday, April 17, 2026

Talk: "Small Stories as Stepping Stones to Cultural Awareness and Language Revitalization", Marilena Karyolemou, Professor at the University of Cyprus

12:00 pm
- Lecture
CU Tango Music Festival Concert

7:30 - 8:30 pm

Urbana Dance Company
- Performance
CU Tango Music: Meet and Greet Milonga

8:45 - 11:55 pm

Urbana Dance Company
- Performance

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Tango Dance Workshops Day 1 with Daniela and Hernán and Paloma and Maxi

1:00 - 5:15 pm

Urbana Dance Company
- Conference/Workshop
Tango for All

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Community Center for the Arts
- Performance
Tango Music Workshop for Strings and Bass

4:30 - 5:30 pm

Community Center for the Arts
- Performance
Intro to Tango Dance

7:00 - 8:00 pm

Urbana Dance Company
- Performance
CU Tango Music: Festival Milonga

8:00 pm

Urbana Dance Company
- Performance

Sunday, April 19, 2026

CU Tango Music: Practica, Brunch, and Jam with Mate Tasting

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Urbana Dance Company
- Social/Informal Event
Tango Dance Workshops Day 2 with Paloma and Maxi

12:30 - 3:15 pm

Urbana Dance Company
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, April 20, 2026

Land’s Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia

5:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 208
- Lecture

Thursday, April 23, 2026

I MMAS Chair Cátedra Development and the Global Agenda
Recurring

5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Seminar/Symposium
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

Monday, April 27, 2026

Mayki Gorosito's Visit

All Day
- Conference/Workshop

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Book Talk: Zoning Faith: How City Politics Shape Muslim Communities in Chicago, Sultan Tepe

4:00 pm

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

Center for Global Studies

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Coble Hall

801 South Wright Street—Second Floor

Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: (217) 265-5186

Email: global-studies@illinois.edu