LAS Global Studies Master Calendar

Thursday, September 10, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• UAAT Mandarin Scholarship Info Session

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall

  The University Academic Alliance in Taiwan (UAAT) Mandarin Scholarship Program provides students from the University of Illinois System with the opportunity to study Mandarin and gain career insights in Taiwan. Join CEAPS to learn more about the Mandarin Scholarship Program in Coble Hall Room 306.

  • Informational

  

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

  Time

  4:00 - 5:30 pm

  • Lecture

  

Friday, September 11, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• CEAPS Chinese Studies Faculty Get Together

  Time

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Saturday, September 12, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• Latin American & Caribbean Storytime: The Life of Dolores Huerta

  Time

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  Urbana Free Library, 210 W Green St, Urbana, IL, 61801

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Sunday, September 13, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Monday, September 14, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• Gates Priority Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational

  

• Knight-Hennessy Priority Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational

  

• Student Coffee Talk with Filmmaker Beth Harrington

  Time

  1:30 - 2:30 pm

  Location

  111 Coble Hall

  The Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS) will be hosting a coffee discussion with filmmaker Beth Harrington at Coble Hall Room 111 on Monday, September 14th at 1:30 pm. This event is open to any student interested!

  • Meeting

  

• AsiaLENS | "Our Mr. Matsura" (Film Screening + In-Person Discussion w/ Filmmaker Beth Harrington)

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

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

  Our Mr. Matsura, a feature documentary film, is the story of photographer Frank Matsura who journeyed from his native Japan to live in rural Washington State in the early 1900s. The film presents a picture of the “frontier” that departs from the existing popular culture narrative and celebrates the singular contribution of a community-building immigrant artist in America.

  • Film Screening

  

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• BNAACC Drop-In Hours

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Informational

  

• Celebrating Latin America & the Caribbean with Cultura Pesá

  Time

  7:00 pm

  Location

  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S Goodwin Ave Rm 4-122, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Performance

  

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• European Union Center Fall Reception

  Time

  4:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, September 18, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• Discussion on Nepal Disaster

  Time

  11:00 am - 12:30 pm

  CSAMES will host a discussion on the unprecedented disaster brought about by flash floods in the Nepal valley in August 2026. Professor Rabin Bhattarai (rbhatta2@illinois.edu) will lead the discussion. CSAMES is working with Prof. Bhattarai to assemble a resource page with information as they become available.

  • Webinar

  

• CEAPS Workshop | "Research Funding for East Asian Studies"

  Time

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Saturday, September 19, 2026

• Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Champaign County

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Sunday, September 20, 2026

• Mid Autumn Mooncake Making Workshop

  Time

  10:00 am - 2:30 pm

  Location

  Orchard Downs, Community Center

  Join us on Sunday, September 20th, at the Orchard Downs Community Center for a free hands-on workshop where people can make delicious mooncakes and egg yolk pastries together! We will be holding a family session from 10:00 am - 11:30 am and a general session open to everyone from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

• Truman Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

• AsiaLENS/Mortenson Screening | "One Big Hapa Family" (Screening + Discussion) | Jeff Chiba Stearns

  Time

  5:45 - 8:15 pm

  Location

  School of Information Sciences, Rm 126; 501 E Daniel St. Champaign

  • Film Screening

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• ONLINE Truman Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  • Informational

  

• CEAPS Fall Open House

  Time

  1:00 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Festival/Celebration

  

• Truman Scholarship Workshop

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Saturday, September 26, 2026

• “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

• “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

  

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

• Gilman Scholarship - Drop-In Advising Workshop

  Time

  3:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall - LAS Hub - 702 S Wright St - Urbana IL, 61801

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• BNAACC Drop-In Hours

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Informational

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• 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

  

• MillerComm 2027 | "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

  

• Gilman Scholarship Fall Final Deadline

  Time

  11:55 pm

  • Informational

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

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

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

Monday, October 5, 2026

• Churchill Campus Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational

  

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

  Time

  2:00 - 3:30 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 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

• Goldwater Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• ONLINE Goldwater Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  • Informational

  

• 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

  

• Goldwater Scholarship Workshop

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• BNAACC Drop-In Hours

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Informational

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• Critical Language Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

• 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

• ONLINE Critical Language Scholarship Program Information Session

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  • Informational

  

• 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

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• Workshop on Nuclear Energy and Applications

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  University of Illinois

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• Workshop on Nuclear Energy and Applications

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  University of Illinois

  • Conference/Workshop

  

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

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Boren (Undergraduate) Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

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

  • Lecture

  

• Boren (Undergraduate) Workshop

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

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

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

Monday, October 26, 2026

• Election Panel II

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• BNAACC Drop-In Hours

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Informational

  

Friday, October 30, 2026

• East Asian Languages and Cultures 35th Anniversary

  Time

  8:30 am - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• Truman Campus Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational

  

• 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

  

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

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Opening Reception | Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Krannert Art Museum

  • Exhibition

  

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

  

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

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• BNAACC Drop-In Hours

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Informational

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Angharad Valdivia

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Monday, November 30, 2026

• Goldwater Campus Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• BNAACC Drop-In Hours

  Time

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  • Informational

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Udall Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• ONLINE Udall Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  • Informational

  

• Udall Scholarship Workshop

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Thursday, December 10, 2026

• UK Summer Fulbright Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Monday, January 4, 2027

• Boren (Undergraduate) Priority Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational

  

Friday, January 8, 2027

• ONLINE UK Summer Fulbright Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  • Informational

  

Thursday, January 14, 2027

• Boren (Undergraduate) Campus Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Enter information online and email waiver and resume

  • Informational

  

Thursday, January 21, 2027

• Gilman Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Friday, January 22, 2027

• ONLINE Gilman Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  • Informational

  

• Gilman Scholarship Workshop Session

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Monday, January 25, 2027

• Udall Campus Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational

  

Thursday, January 28, 2027

• Beinecke Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Friday, January 29, 2027

• ONLINE Beinecke Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  • Informational

  

• Beinecke Scholarship Workshop

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Sunday, January 31, 2027

• Landscapes in Sound & Ink

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Recital Hall, Smith Memorial Hall

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Thursday, February 4, 2027

• Voyager Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Friday, February 5, 2027

• ONLINE Voyager Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  9:00 - 10:00 am

  • Informational

  

• Voyager Scholarship Workshop

  Time

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Thursday, February 18, 2027

• Samvid Scholarship Information Session

  Time

  3:30 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Building, fifth floor #514, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820

  • Informational

  

Monday, February 22, 2027

• Beinecke Campus Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational

  

Thursday, February 25, 2027

• Voyager Priority Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational

  

Monday, March 22, 2027

• Samvid Priority Deadline

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  National and International Scholarships Program

  • Informational