International and Area Studies Library - Campus Events

Friday, September 25, 2026

• CEAPS Fall Open House

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• GGIS Colloquium | Gabriela Valdivia, "Where Thought and Place Are One: Yakui Yachana and the Art of Mapping With Amazonian Places"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Lecture

  

• Tsukimi (Moonviewing) in the Arboretum

  Time

  6:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Japan House

  Join us for Tsukimi, the traditional Japanese holiday celebrating the Harvest Moon!

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Saturday, September 26, 2026

• Explore Your University Library at IlliniFest!

  Time

  10:00 am - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Main Library

  The Library has several locations open to welcome admitted students. Stop by to learn more about the libraries at Illinois!

  • Other

  

• Youth Literature Festival

  Time

  10:00 am - 4:00 pm

  Location

  I-Hotel & Conference Center

  The Youth Literature Festival is a free, family-friendly celebration of reading, storytelling, and creativity hosted by the University of Illinois College of Education.

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• “Thinking Beyond Borders: Tagore and the Question of Home”, Tagore Festival Keynote Lecture – Pranav Jani

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Channing Murray Foundation

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Monday, September 28, 2026

• I-Explore Week: Majors & Minors Fair

  Time

  1:30 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Ballrooms A, B, C, and the South & Pine Lounges

  • Other

  

• “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

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• Austria and the US: Standards of Proof in Comparative Perspective

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Max L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law

  • Lecture

  

• Illinois Global Institute Open House - Learn About International Education!

  Time

  4:30 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street

  • Reception/Open House

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge(1080), LCLB

  A friendly Arabic roundtable where participants learn useful phrases and vocabulary through relaxed conversation. All levels are welcome.

  • Meeting

  

• Japanese Tea Ceremony

  Recurring

  Time

  5:15 - 6:15 pm

  Location

  Japan House

  Join us for a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony!

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• IGI Homecoming

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall

  This Homecoming, the Illinois Global Institute has invited alumni and friends to celebrate with us at Coble Hall, tour the building and the Eduardo Kobra murals throughout. This event is invite only.

  • Reception/Open House

  

• MillerComm 2027 Lecture Series | "Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World" | Justin Jackson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  210 Levis Faculty Center

  Justin Jackson is a George A. Miller Visiting Scholar from the University of Massachusetts Amherst who is here to present his project titled "Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World" about America's complex relationship with occupation and globalization.

  • Lecture

  

• MillerComm 2027: Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center Room 210 919 W Illinois St Urbana

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

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

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

• Japan House Homecoming Matcha Café

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Japan House

  Japan House welcomes all to stop by and enjoy a bowl of tea and sweet at our Homecoming Matcha Café! Walk-ins welcome!

  • Reception/Open House

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

• CEAPS Speaker | "Self-Determination in Very Small Places" | Bradley Simpson (University of Connecticut)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  404 David Kinley Hall & ZOOM

  • Lecture

  

• Brown Bag Lecture Series: Ensuring Non-Interference, Maintaining Resilient Democracy: Contemporary Challenges in Legislation on Countering Covert Foreign Influence

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  • Lecture

  

• Brown Bag Series- Ensuring Non-Interference, Maintaining Resilient Democracy: Contemporary Challenges in Legislation on Countering Covert Foreign Influence by Maxim Krupskiy

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• Election Panel I

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

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

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

• CLACS & CEAPS Present | "Narratives of Youth, Violence and Drugs. Comparing “Mano Dura” in Ecuador and the Philippines" | Prof. Cristina Cielo (FLASCO)

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall

  On October 7th at 3PM in Coble Hall Room 306, CLACS and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies are excited to present Cristina Cielo's talk, "Narratives of Youth, Violence and Drugs. Comparing “Mano Dura” in Ecuador and the Philippines".

  • Lecture

  

• Finding Your Voice in Arabic: Reflections and Resources

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080), LCLB

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Nanna Bonde Thylstrup: “Staying with the Trouble of Preservation: The Ambivalent Politics of Deletion in Digital Societies”

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• The Librarians: In Conversation with Becky Calzada

  Time

  12:30 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  School of Information Sciences, Room 126 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL

  Join us for a hybrid brown bag at the iSchool. Special guest, Becky Calzada, a librarian featured in the film, will be present.

  • Other

  

• CEAPS Speaker Brown Bag | Woohui Park (EALC) & Samantha Ting (Comparative & World Lit)

  Time

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

• The Librarians: A Film Screening with Becky Calzada

  Time

  5:00 - 8:15 pm

  Location

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

  Join us for a screening of The Librarians. Special guest, Becky Calzada, a librarian featured in the film, will be present after the screening for a fireside chat with Emily Knox, interim Dean of the School of Information Sciences (iSchool), followed by a live audience Q&A.

  • Film Screening

  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

• Japan House Fall Open House - Japan House's Past, Present, and Future

  Time

  11:00 am - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Japan House

  Japan House's annual Fall Open House resumes on Saturday, October 10 featuring Japan House's Past, Present, and Future with a preview of the Ogura-Sato Annex. Please join Japan House for tea ceremonies and learn about Japan House's history and vision for the future with the Ogura-Sato Annex.

  • Reception/Open House

  

Monday, October 12, 2026

• Explore Your University Library at IlliniFest!

  Time

  12:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Main Library

  The Library has several locations open to welcome admitted students. Stop by to learn more about the libraries at Illinois!

  • Other

  

• Brown Bag Series- Before Neorealism: Attentive Cinema between Mexico and Italy by Monica Garcia- Blizzard

  Time

  1:00 - 2:30 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall

  • Lecture

  

• European Union Center, Brown Bag Series: Mónica García Blizzard, "Before Neorealism: Attentive Cinema between Mexico and Italy"

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 108, 801 S. Wright St.

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• Women in Science Lecture: Kelli Trei

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Join us on Zoom (registration link below) or at the University Archives (146 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana)

  Kelli Trei (B.S. Microbiology, 1999, and MLIS, 2012), Associate Professor and Biosciences Librarian, University of Illinois Library, will discuss her background in microbiology and work as liaison to the Schools of Life Sciences: Molecular & Cellular Biology (MCB) and Integrative Biology, (IB) as well as to the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

  • Webinar

  

• Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building [In case of inclement weather, we’ll move to Lucy Ellis Lounge]

  A friendly Arabic roundtable where participants learn useful phrases and vocabulary through relaxed conversation. All levels are welcome.

  • Meeting

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• Japanese Tea Ceremony

  Recurring

  Time

  5:15 - 6:15 pm

  Location

  Japan House

  Join us for a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony!

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

• Women of Valor Exhibit Opening

  Time

  3:00 - 4:50 pm

  Location

  Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, 324 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana

  • Reception/Open House

  

• CEAPS Fall 2026 Travel Grant Due Date

  Time

  11:55 pm

  Location

  No Location

  CEAPS 2026 Fall Travel Grants are due today!

  • Other

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

• CEAPS Speaker/Political Science Workshop | "Is Soft Power a Zero-Sum Competition?" | Austin Strange (Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  404 David Kinley

  Professor Austin Strange is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He will be presenting his paper titled "Is Soft Power a Zero-Sum Competition?" where he dives into the economic relations between the United States and China. Join us in David Kinley Hall Room 404 to learn more about his findings.

  • Lecture

  

Saturday, October 17, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

Sunday, October 18, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

• Workshop on Nuclear Energy and Applications

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  University of Illinois

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• AsiaLENS | "THOSE4YEARS" Free Screening & Discussion with Filmmaker Dr Joe Thomas Karackattu

  Time

  6:00 pm

  Location

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

  • Film Screening

  

• Screening: Those 4 Years

  Time

  6:00 pm

  Location

  Spurlock Museum

  • Film Screening

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

• Workshop on Nuclear Energy and Applications

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  University of Illinois

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

• “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

  

• Japanese Tea Ceremony

  Recurring

  Time

  5:15 - 6:15 pm

  Location

  Japan House

  Join us for a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony!

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

• CEAPS Speaker/Alumni Talk | "The Anime Studies Appetizer Sampler" Billy Tringali (Indiana University Indianapolis)

  Time

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

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

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

Saturday, October 24, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

Sunday, October 25, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

Monday, October 26, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

• Election Panel II

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Informational

  

• Halloween Movie Night

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Knight Auditorium at Spurlock Museum

  • Film Screening

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

• Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building [In case of inclement weather, we’ll move to Lucy Ellis Lounge]

  A friendly Arabic roundtable where participants learn useful phrases and vocabulary through relaxed conversation. All levels are welcome.

  • Meeting

  

• Japanese Tea Ceremony

  Recurring

  Time

  5:15 - 6:15 pm

  Location

  Japan House

  Join us for a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony!

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

Friday, October 30, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition

  

• Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures 35th Anniversary

  Time

  8:30 am - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• Book Talk: Professor Sanjay Joshi, "Brahmins of the Himalaya"

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Saturday, October 31, 2026

• Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  International and Area Studies Library

  • Exhibition