LAS Global Studies Master Calendar

Thursday, September 10, 2026

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

  Time

  4:00 - 5:30 pm

  • Lecture

  

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

  

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

  

Friday, October 2, 2026

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

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

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

  2:00 - 3:30 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall

  • Lecture

  

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

  

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

  • Lecture

  

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.

  • Lecture

  

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

  

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

  

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

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

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

  • 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

  

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

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Angharad Valdivia

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture