Center for Global Studies

Friday, November 13, 2026

• "‘Imagining Capital in the City: Urban Life in DLF’s Public Projection, 1949-1960", Anish Vanaik, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 am

  ‘Imagining Capital in the City: Urban Life in DLF’s Public Projection, 1949-1960’

  • Lecture

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series: Angharad Valdivia "Emilia Pérez: A Perfect Case Study of the overlap of Latin American and Latinx Studies"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Food For Thought | Kimberly Mack and Laura Hetrick

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

• 'How (not) to Kill a Language: The Many Lives of Sumerian'

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Spurlock Museum of World Cultures Knight Auditorium

  • Reception/Open House

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• “Performance and the Making of Religious Imagery in Early and Medieval India (Buddhist, Hindu, Jain)”, Anna Tosato

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Tess McNulty and Alex Shakar

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Monday, January 25, 2027

• Elizabeth Rodini | A Walk through the Layered Lives of Rome

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, February 4, 2027

• Louie Palu | The Idea of North in Literature and Photography

  Time

  6:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  In this CAS/MillerComm event, documentary photographer and filmmaker Louie Palu discusses distinct representations of the Arctic in literature and the visual arts, exploring this often-misunderstood region as both imagined otherworld and real-life landscape.

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, February 9, 2027

• Food For Thought | Sameh Tawfick and Pollyanna Rhee

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  Join us for talks by Sameh Tawfick (Mechanical Science & Engineering) and Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture.)

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, March 9, 2027

• Food For Thought | Shelley Weinberg & Josue David Cisneros

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  Join us for talks by Shelley Weinberg and Josue David Cisneros.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, March 25, 2027

• Food For Thought | Liviu Mirica and Cristian Proistosescu

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  Join us for talks by Liviu Mirica and Cristian Proistosescu.

  • Lecture

  

Friday, April 2, 2027

• Design in Multi-Species Worlds

  Time

  9:00 am - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  The symposium will explore the timely field convergence of posthumanism and environmental design, especially with regard to how the posthumanist perspective can challenge, guide and even inspire new ways of thinking about the environment and the life that is dependent on it.

  • Seminar/Symposium