International and Area Studies Library - Campus Events

Friday, September 25, 2026

• 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

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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

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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

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Thursday, October 1, 2026

• 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.

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• 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

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Friday, October 2, 2026

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

  Time

  11:00 am

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Monday, October 5, 2026

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

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall

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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

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• 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".

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Friday, October 9, 2026

• 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

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Monday, October 12, 2026

• Brown Bag Series: Maricia Garcia Blizzard

  Time

  1:00 - 2:30 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall

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Friday, October 16, 2026

• 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.

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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

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Friday, October 23, 2026

• 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

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

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

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Friday, October 30, 2026

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

  Time

  11:00 am

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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

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Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Reception & MillerComm Lecture Series | "The Journey of Yao's Black Divine Comedy" | Yao Jui-Chung in Dialogue with Kao Chen-Hui

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

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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

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• Artist Panel Discussion | Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition

  Time

  2:00 - 3:30 pm

  Location

  Temple Buell Hall, Plym Auditorium (611 E. Lorado Taft Dr., Champaign)

  Join exhibition artists and curators of Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition to gain an understanding of historical ink painting traditions and artmaking today in Taiwan.

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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

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Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• CEAPS Brown Bag | Yating Li (EALC) & Nini Zhou (Media)

  Time

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign & ZOOM

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Monday, November 16, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Angharad Valdivia

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

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