LAS Global Studies Master Calendar

Monday, February 24, 2025

• • 12:00

  Beinecke Campus Deadline

  • Informational
• 

  • 12:30 pm

  "The Powerful Role of Spatial Planning in Conflictual Zones: From Violent to Hopeful Urbanisms." Yosef Jabareen

  • Webinar
• 

  • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
  • Davenport Hall 230

  Comportments of Kurdish Pleasure: Interjecting Leisure as a Necessary Archive

  • Lecture

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

• 

  • 1:30 - 3:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  CEAPS Book Talk | “Home Beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China” | Wei (Windy) Zhao

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana

  IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi

  • Lecture
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St.

  Why is Palestine Important? (IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World)

  • Lecture
• 

  • 6:30 - 7:00 pm
  • Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820

  Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean (Portuguese)

  • Other

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 pm
  • Hilton Garden Inn

  Why Refugee-Led Organizations Must Be At The Forefront of Leading Change

  • Lecture

Thursday, February 27, 2025

• • 12:00 pm

  Voyager Priority Deadline

  • Informational
• 

  • 3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Brazilian Women Defenders of the Amazon: Virtual Talk

  • Lecture
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana

  IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

  • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building Atrium (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

  The Taste of Language 2025

  • Conference/Workshop

Friday, February 28, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 12:00 pm
  • University YMCA Building

  Friday Forum + Conversation Café

  • Lecture
• 

  • 1:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  CEAPS Brown Bag |“Damocles’s Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control” | Meicen Sun

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 5:00 pm
  • 210 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois

  Multilingualism and Multimusicality in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean

  • Lecture
• 

  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union

  SP25 Korean Conversation Table

  • Social/Informal Event

Saturday, March 1, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 10:00 am
  • 210 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois

  Literature's Refuge at the Aegean Borderscape

  • Lecture

Monday, March 3, 2025

• • 12:00 pm

  Quad Fellowship Final Deadline

  • Other
• 

  • 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)

  LAC Women Justice: Maria Jose Mendez "Embroideries of War: Salvadoran Women Refugees’ Memories of Care"

  • Lecture
• 

  • 5:15 - 6:45 pm
  • BNAAC (Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center)

  What now?

  • Lecture
• 

  • 5:15 pm
  • Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL

  What Now?

  • Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

  CSAMES Event: "On Translating Arabic Poetry," A Discussion with Huda Fakhreddine and Eric Calderwood

  • Lecture

Thursday, March 6, 2025

• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • 1066 Lincoln Hall (702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  Diplomacy of the Heart: Soviet and American Women's Cold-War Correspondence

  • Lecture

Friday, March 7, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • TBD

  Archaeology Conference

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

  • All Day
  • 210 Levis Faculty Center

  SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • All Day
  • Levis Faculty Center 210

  SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 12:00 pm
  • University YMCA Building

  Friday Forum + Conversation Café

  • Lecture
• • All Day
  • 2090B Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Building (707 S. Mathews Ave., 2nd FL)

  Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) - University of Illinois Exchange Symposium 2025

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union

  SP25 Korean Conversation Table

  • Social/Informal Event

Saturday, March 8, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • TBD

  Archaeology Conference

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

  • All Day
  • 210 Levis Faculty Center

  SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • All Day
  • Levis Faculty Center 210

  SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures

  • Ceremony/Service

Sunday, March 9, 2025

• 

  • 3:30 pm
  • Smith Recital Hall

  Viola al-Mashura (The Enchanted Viola)

  • Performance

Monday, March 10, 2025

• • 12:00 pm

  Samvid Priority Deadline

  • Informational
• 

  • 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)

  CLACS Series: Alex Borucki "Silver and the Slave Trade in the Spanish Americas during the Age of Imperial Fracture"

  • Lecture

Thursday, March 13, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio

  Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2025 Film Expo (Day1: 03/13)

  • Film Screening

Friday, March 14, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio

  Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2025 Film Expo (Day2: 03/14)

  • Film Screening
• • 12:00 pm
  • University YMCA Building

  Friday Forum + Conversation Café

  • Lecture

Saturday, March 15, 2025

• 

  • All Day
  • Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio

  Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2025 Film Expo (Day3: 03/15)

  • Film Screening

Friday, March 21, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • University YMCA Building

  Friday Forum + Conversation Café

  • Lecture

Monday, March 24, 2025

• 

  • 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)

  Prof. Ellen Moodie - Book Talk: Indignant Liberalism: Protest, Political Change, and El Salvador’s Post-postwar Generation.

  • Lecture
• • 3:30 - 4:00 pm

  ONLINE Junior & Senior Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu

  • Informational

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

• • 9:00 - 9:30 am

  ONLINE Junior & Senior Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu

  • Informational
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • 1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 Mathew Ave Urbana

  CSAMES Lecture: "The sight that I offer is the fairest of sights’: Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba.” Abigail Balbale

  • Lecture
• 

  • 6:30 - 7:00 pm
  • Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820

  Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean (Q'anjob'al)

  • Other

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

• • 4:00 - 4:30 pm
  • 807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 - Rm IUB 514

  Junior & Senior Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu

  • Informational

Thursday, March 27, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • College of Law Faculty Lounge, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue (second floor), Champaign, IL 61820

  Restoring the Rule of Law after Democratic Decay: Lessons from Poland

  • Lecture
• • 2:00 - 2:30 pm

  ONLINE Junior & Senior Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu

  • Informational
• • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
  • Lincoln Hall, Room #1002 - 702 S Wright St, Urbana IL, 61801

  Knight-Hennessy Information Session - Presented by Stanford University

  • Informational
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • 2090B School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building

  EUC Brown Bag Event: Croatia's EU Path and the Prospects of Future EU Enlargement

  • Lecture
• 

  • 5:00 pm
  • 112 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright St. Champaign

  Film screening: "Lyd"

  • Film Screening
• 

  • 7:00 - 8:30 pm
  • Lincoln Hall 1092

  9th Annual U.of I. Korean Speech Contest

  • Other

Friday, March 28, 2025

• • All Day
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  Illinois Global Institute Career Day

  • Professional Development
• • 12:00 pm
  • University YMCA Building

  Friday Forum + Conversation Café

  • Lecture
• • 3:00 - 3:30 pm
  • 807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 - Rm IUB 514

  Junior & Senior Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, George Mitchell, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Rhodes, and Schwarzman programs and how to apply for these scholarship opportunities. For more information, contact the scholarships office at topscholars@illinois.edu or visit our website at www.topscholars.illinois.edu

  • Informational
• 

  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union

  SP25 Korean Conversation Table

  • Social/Informal Event
• 

  • 7:00 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

  Japanese Paper Print Project: Film and Live Music Event

  • Film Screening

Monday, March 31, 2025

• • 3:30 - 4:00 pm

  ONLINE Freshman & Sophomore Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.

  • Informational
• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • 108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright Street)

  AsiaLENS - GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening: "Hot Stuff"

  • Film Screening
• • 5:30 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL 61801

  Tracing Media Histories Through Videographic Criticism

  • Film Screening

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

• • 12:00 pm

  Book Talk: Transnational Palestine. Nadim Bawalsa

  • Webinar
• • 3:30 - 4:00 pm

  ONLINE Freshman & Sophomore Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.

  • Informational

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

• • 2:00 - 2:30 pm

  ONLINE Freshman & Sophomore Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.

  • Informational
• 

  • 6:00 pm
  • Knight Auditorium at Spurlock Museum

  AsiaLENS | "Cirque du Cambodia"

  • Film Screening

Thursday, April 3, 2025

• • 2:00 - 2:30 pm
  • 807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 - Rm IUB 514

  Freshman & Sophomore Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.

  • Informational

Friday, April 4, 2025

• • 9:00 - 9:30 am

  ONLINE Freshman & Sophomore Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.

  • Informational
• • 12:00 pm
  • University YMCA Building

  Friday Forum + Conversation Café

  • Lecture
• 

  • 1:30 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  CEAPS Brown Bag | "Eco-Cities Beyond Failure: Reimagining the Everyday Socio-Natural Ecologies in Urban China" | Colleen Chiu-Shee

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 3:30 pm
  • 807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 - Rm IUB 514

  Freshman & Sophomore Student Scholarships Recruitment Information Session

  Topics to be covered include information about the Beinecke, Churchill, Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, Goldwater, Knight-Hennessy, Luce Scholars, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Schwarzman, Truman, and Udall programs and how you may prepare for these opportunities.

  • Informational
• 

  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union

  SP25 Korean Conversation Table

  • Social/Informal Event

Monday, April 7, 2025

• • 8:30 - 9:30 am

  ONLINE Fulbright Scholarship Information Session

  • Informational
• 

  • 8:30 am   TBD

  Women Enviromental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon: Peru - Dr. Maritza Paredes

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

  • 5:15 pm
  • Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL

  What Now: Focus on Women and Gender in the New Era

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

• • 1:00 - 2:00 pm

  ONLINE Fulbright Scholarship Information Session

  • Informational

Thursday, April 10, 2025

• 

  • 4:00 pm
  • Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 1090

  Book Talk: Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition. Lauren Osborne

  • Lecture

Friday, April 11, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • University YMCA Building

  Friday Forum + Conversation Café

  • Lecture
• • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
  • 807 S Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820 - Rm IUB 514

  Fulbright Scholarship Information Session

  • Informational
• 

  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union

  SP25 Korean Conversation Table

  • Social/Informal Event

Saturday, April 12, 2025

• 

  • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library

  Latin American Story Time: "Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son"

  • Other

Monday, April 14, 2025

• 

  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
  • 404 David Kinley Hall

  CEAPS Speaker | Kenneth McElwain, “What Do Japanese People Want from Their Constitution?”

  • Lecture
• • 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)

  LAC Women Justice Presents: Elizabeth Kennedy

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

• • 3:30 - 5:00 pm

  ONLINE Fulbright Personal Statement Workshop

  • Informational

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

• • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
  • 807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 - Rm IUB 514

  Fulbright Personal Statement Workshop

  • Informational

Thursday, April 17, 2025

• 

  • 4:30 pm
  • Spurlock Museum

  Kang Endowed Lecture with Professor Dali L. Yang

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, April 18, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • University YMCA Building

  Friday Forum + Conversation Café

  • Lecture
• 

  • 12:30 pm
  • Illini Union

  Kang Endowed Lunch Seminar with Professor Dali L. Yang

  • Social/Informal Event
• 

  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union

  SP25 Korean Conversation Table

  • Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

• • 8:30 - 9:30 am

  ONLINE Fulbright Scholarship ETA Workshop

  • Informational
• 

  • 6:30 - 7:00 pm
  • Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820

  Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish)

  • Other

Friday, April 25, 2025

• • 1:30 - 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall 306 (801 S. Wright St., Champaign)

  VASP Brown Bag | Sun Hyun Kim, "Pansori literature and cultural contents in Korea" & Na An, "TBD"

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 - Rm IUB 514

  Fulbright Scholarship ETA Workshop

  • Informational
• 

  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union

  SP25 Korean Conversation Table

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, May 1, 2025

• 

  • All Day

  Indiana University Summer Language Workshop

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
  • 807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 - Rm IUB 514

  Fulbright Scholarship Research Grant Workshop

  • Informational

Friday, May 2, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:00 am

  ONLINE Fulbright Scholarship Research Grant Workshop

  • Informational
• • 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Latzer Hall YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign

  Palestine in the World Roundtable with Michelle Campos and Charles Anderson

  • Lecture

Thursday, May 8, 2025

• • 1:30 - 2:30 pm
  • 514 IUB, 807 S. Wright St. Floor 5

  UK Scholarship Information Session for Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, and Gates Writing Workshop

  • Informational

Friday, May 16, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  ONLINE UK Scholarship Information Session for Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, and Gates Writing Workshop

  • Informational

Monday, June 9, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Marshall Priority Deadline

  • Informational

Monday, June 23, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Fulbright Priority Deadline

  • Informational

Thursday, August 14, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  ONLINE Luce Scholars Information Session

  • Informational

Monday, August 18, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell Campus Deadline

  • Informational

Thursday, August 21, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Schwarzman Priority Deadline

  • Informational

Monday, August 25, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Fulbright Campus Deadline

  • Informational

Thursday, August 28, 2025

• • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
  • TBD

  Gilman Scholarship Information Session

  • Informational

Friday, August 29, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:00 am

  ONLINE Gilman Scholarship Information Session

  • Informational
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign, IL 61820

  Gilman Scholarship Essay Workshop

  • Informational

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Luce Priority Deadline

  • Informational

Friday, September 5, 2025

• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign, IL 61820

  Churchill Scholarship Information Session

  • Informational

Monday, September 8, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Knight-Hennessy Priority Deadline

  • Informational

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

• • 8:00 am
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Schwarzman Final Submittal Deadline

  • Informational

Monday, September 15, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Gates Priority Deadline

  • Informational

Thursday, September 25, 2025

• • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
  • 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  Truman Scholarship Information Session

  • Informational

Friday, September 26, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:00 am

  ONLINE Truman Scholarship Information Session

  • Informational
• • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  Truman Scholarship Workshop

  • Informational

Monday, September 29, 2025

• • 8:00 am
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Fulbright Final Submittal Deadline

  • Informational

Monday, October 6, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Churchill Campus Deadline

  • Informational

Monday, November 3, 2025

• • 12:00 pm
  • National and International Scholarships Program

  Truman Campus Deadline

  • Informational