LAS Global Studies Master Calendar

Thursday, January 15, 2026

Boren (Undergraduate) Campus Deadline

12:00 pm

Enter information online and email waiver and resume
- Informational

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Info Sessions

3:00 pm

Coble Hall, room 306
- Informational

Monday, January 26, 2026

Udall Campus Deadline

12:00 pm

National and International Scholarships Program
- Informational

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Gilman Scholarship Information Session

3:30 - 4:30 pm

514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
- Informational

Friday, January 30, 2026

ONLINE Gilman Scholarship Information Session

9:00 - 10:00 am
- Informational
Gilman Scholarship Workshop Session

3:00 - 4:00 pm

514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
- Informational

Monday, February 2, 2026

Dr. David Smilde - Venezuela & the United States: Keys to Understanding the Conflict

3:00 pm
- Lecture

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Book Talk: "Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque." Dr. Cristina Moreno Almeida

4:00
- Lecture

Thursday, February 5, 2026

Beinecke Scholarship Information Session

3:30 - 4:30 pm

514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
- Informational

Friday, February 6, 2026

ONLINE Beinecke Scholarship Information Session

9:00 - 10:00 am
- Informational
Lecture: Muslim Women and Architectural Patronage, Dede Ruggles

12:00 pm

Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign IL Room 306
- Lecture
Book Talk: "The Islamic Book of Odes and the Horizon of Translation in Modern China," Michael Hill

1:30 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB building
- Lecture
Beinecke Scholarship Workshop

3:00 - 4:00 pm

514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
- Informational

Monday, February 9, 2026

Mochitsuki & Lunar New Year Event

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, & Linguistics Building, 707 S. Matthews Ave., Urbana
- Festival/Celebration
Ayni Book Presentation by Carlos Molina-Vital

3:00 pm

Coble Hall 306
- Lecture

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Voyager Scholarship Information Session

3:30 - 4:30 pm

514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
- Informational
Book Talk: "From Apartheid to Democracy, A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine." Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Omer-Man

4:00 pm

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

Friday, February 13, 2026

Urbisurgence and Resistance: Indigenous Urbanism and the Struggle for Spatial Justice, Dr. Sahera Bleibleh

10:30 - 11:50 am
- Lecture

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Samvid Scholarship Information Session

3:30 - 4:30 pm

514 IUB, 807 S. Wright St. Floor 5
- Informational

Monday, February 23, 2026

Beinecke Campus Deadline

12:00

National and International Scholarships Program
- Informational

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Talk: Craig Perry

8:30 am
- Lecture

Friday, February 27, 2026

CEAPS Brown Bag | “Zhou Zuoren at Tiger Bridge”| Jingling Chen

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Hybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM
- Lecture

Monday, March 9, 2026

Voyager Priority Deadline

12:00 pm

National and International Scholarships Program
- Informational

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Book Talk: The Long War On Iran: New Events, Old Questions, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

All Day
- Lecture

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Book Talk: Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War, Amir Moosavi

4:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Conference Center 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801
- Lecture

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Book Talk: by Bill Granara

5:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St #400, Urbana, IL 61801 Room 208
- Lecture

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Cultural event: Al Andalus Night Cultural Event

All Day
- Lecture

Thursday, April 23, 2026

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

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Book Talk: Zoning Faith, Sultan Tepe

4:00 pm

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