Thursday, September 10, 2026

• Dr. Ruth Meinzen-Dick, "Research Frontiers on Empowerment of Women Farmers" (CSGGE)

  Time

  4:00 - 5:30 pm

  • Lecture

  

• "Quinceañeras: Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture" by Diana Leon-Boys, Jillian Báez, and Angharad N. Valdivia

  Time

  4:30 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana IL

  Join the editors of "Quinceañeras: Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture"(external link) for a conversation celebrating the release of their edited collection.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• "Edith Maude Eaton's Transtopic Chinaman" | Victor Mendoza | 9/17/2026

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Lecture

  

Monday, September 21, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Gaby Valdivieso (Geography)

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Monday, September 28, 2026

• “Breathing Through the Roaring 2020s: Fascism, Imperial Breathlessness, and the Art of Breathing Otherwise” with Ronak K. Kapadia

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

• Tayzhaun Glover, " 'She had been caught in the open sea while escaping': Enslaved Women, Plantation Labor, and the Dynamics of Transmarine Marronage in 19th Century Martinique"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

• Book Talk: James Lawson: Teacher of Satyagraha, Rajmohan Gandhi

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series: Narratives of youth, violence and drugs. Comparing “mano dura” in Ecuador and the Philippines

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Black and Transgender Migrations and Visions of Sanctuary

  Time

  6:00 - 9:00 pm

  Location

  Latzer Hall, University YMCA 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  This inaugural event by the Borders of Sanctuary Working Collective presents a public facing panel that pairs Professor Willie Mack (Black Studies, University of Missouri) on Black migration with Devin Lowe from the Black Trans Travel Fund, which serves Black and Transgender migrants.

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• “Reformist Muslim Thought: Rethinking the Quran and Islamic Tradition from the19th Century to Today”, Youssouf Sangare

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street , Champaign IL 61820

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Islam in France: Minority Religion, Laïcité, and the Politics of Muslim Identity

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Matthew S. Winters, "Persistent Citizens: Pursuing Social Welfare Benefits in Brazil and Argentina"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Slavic Department Lecture: "Whose Tongue Is it Anyway?: On Poets Translating Themselves and Others"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Translators who translate from their “first” language and into their acquired tongue have been marginalized. This talk aims to build on the work of Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, Adrian Wanner, and others in looking at several Polish and Polish-American poets for whom literary multilingualism and translation are two sides of the same coin.

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

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

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Monday, November 9, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: María Alejandra García Otero (Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences)

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Angharad Valdivia

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture