ACDIS Calendar

Thursday, September 28, 2023

• • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1020 Lincoln Hall

  History Department NCFDD Group

  • Meeting
• • 5:30 - 6:30 pm
    
  • La Casa Latina

  Luso Brazilian Association: Brazilian Conversation Group (Bate Papo)

  • Social/Informal Event
• 

  • 5:30 pm
    
  • Temple Buell Hall

  School of Art & Design Visitors Series: Diana Taylor | Reparative Memory

  • Lecture
• • 7:00 - 9:15 pm
    
  • 213 GH

  History Movie Night: Jojo Rabbit - Undergraduate Program

  • Meeting
• • 7:30 pm
    
  • Stock Pavilion

  CETACEAN

  • Performance

Friday, September 29, 2023

• 

  • All Day
    
  • I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center (1900 S 1st St, Champaign, IL 61820)

  The 72nd Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA 2023)

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC Noontime Scholars Book Talk: Patti McCracken, "The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring"

  • Lecture
• 

  • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • LEVIS FACULTY CENTER 919 W. ILLINOIS ST., URBANA, ILLINOIS

  The Living Sahara: New Horizons in Teaching Africa and the Middle East

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 6:30 - 8:30 pm
    
  • Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium

  Can’t Go Native?: Special Film Screening and Conversation Celebrating the Life and Career of David W. Plath (1930-2022)

  • Film Screening

Saturday, September 30, 2023

• 

  • All Day
    
  • I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center (1900 S 1st St, Champaign, IL 61820)

  The 72nd Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA 2023)

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • LEVIS FACULTY CENTER 919 W. ILLINOIS ST., URBANA, ILLINOIS

  The Living Sahara: New Horizons in Teaching Africa and the Middle East

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL-61801

  Teacher Workshop on "The Living Sahara: New Horizons in Teaching Africa and the Middle East"

  • Conference/Workshop

Sunday, October 1, 2023

• 

  • All Day
    
  • I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center (1900 S 1st St, Champaign, IL 61820)

  The 72nd Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA 2023)

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, October 2, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • 208 Levis Faculty Center

  The Age of Adaptation, Dr. Adil Najam (Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment, Boston University)

  • Lecture
• 

  • 3:00 pm
    
  • Coble Hall 306

  Victoria Sanford | Textures of Terror The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

  How the Myth of the Free Market Has Blocked Climate Action

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Women's Resources Center - 616 E Green St, Suite # 202, Champaign IL 61820

  Period Action Day Book Club: "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" by Kate Clancy

  • Meeting

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 3057 Lincoln Hall

  Academic Outsider by Associate Professor Dr. Victoria Reyes

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge @ FLB

  Madan Sara Film Screening and Discussion with Director Etant Dupain

  • Film Screening
• • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge in Foreign Language Building, 707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Madan Sara Film Screening and Discussion with Director Etant Dupain

  • Film Screening
• • 3:30 pm   5:00
    
  • GH 213

  Faculty Meeting

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Risa Wechsler (Stanford) Title: TBA

  • Lecture

Thursday, October 5, 2023

• • All Day
    
  • University of Illinois Main Library

  Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference ("Ukrainian Studies Today: History, Memory, Representations, and Collections")

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 9:00 am   8:30 pm
    
  • University of Illinois Main Library

  Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1020 Lincoln Hall

  History Department NCFDD Group

  • Meeting
• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • 108 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820

  Book Talk on "Circa: A Novel"

  • Lecture
• 

  • 12:30 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC New Directions Lecture: Eli Feiman, Public Opinion in Wartime Russia: Business as Usual or Crisis of Confidence

  • Lecture
• 

  • 12:30 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC New Directions Lecture: Eli Feiman, Public Opinion in Wartime Russia: Business as Usual or Crisis of Confidence

  • Lecture
• • 7:00 - 9:15 pm
    
  • 319 GH

  History Movie Night: Chungking Express - Undergraduate Program

  • Meeting
• • 7:15 pm
    
  • 600 S Gregory St., Urbana (Spurlock Museum)

  Film Screening: The Price of Conflict

  • Film Screening

Friday, October 6, 2023

• • All Day
    
  • University of Illinois Main Library

  Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference ("Ukrainian Studies Today: History, Memory, Representations, and Collections")

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 8:30 am   8:30 pm
    
  • University of Illinois Main Library

  Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St

  Fellowship Information Session "American Association of University Women"

  • Informational
• • 7:30 pm
    
  • Smith Memorial Hall, 805 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  Piano Recital: Performance by Pavlo Gintov

  • Performance

Saturday, October 7, 2023

• • All Day
    
  • University of Illinois Main Library

  Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference ("Ukrainian Studies Today: History, Memory, Representations, and Collections")

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 8:30 am   1:45 pm
    
  • University of Illinois Main Library

  Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference

  • Conference/Workshop

Sunday, October 8, 2023

• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Spurlock

  Ken Burns’ American Buffalo: A Conversation about Indigenous Environmental History at UIUC

  • Film Screening

Monday, October 9, 2023

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    

  Charlas Políticas: Elections in Guatemala

  • Lecture

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • 108 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820

  Between Mughal and Rajput, Muslim and Hindu: The Intertwined Histories of Shah Begum and the chhatri

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

• 

  • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820

  Study and Destress with the EU Center

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 3057 Lincoln Hall

  Dr. Dorina Rosca

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
    
  • Illini Union Room A

  Domestic Violence Awareness 101 Workshop with Lovern Gordon

  Join Lovern J. Gordon, President and Founder of Love Life Now Foundation, Inc for this Domestic Violence Awareness Workshop on October 11th from 4:00-5:30pm. This workshop will be interactive and include time for discussion. There are limited number of complimentary copies of her book, The Legacy He Left Me, that are available through pre-registration.

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Chris Fang-Yen (Ohio State University)

  • Lecture

Thursday, October 12, 2023

• • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1020 Lincoln Hall

  History Department NCFDD Group

  • Meeting
• • 5:30 - 6:30 pm
    
  • La Casa Latina

  Luso Brazilian Association: Brazilian Conversation Group (Bate Papo)

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 7:30 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

  Ada Limón: Working in the Service of Poetry

  • Lecture
• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum 600 South Gregory, Urbana

  MILLERCOMM LECTURE | Ada Limón | Working in the Service of Poetry Film Screening

  • Lecture

Friday, October 13, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright

  Can Institutional Factors Affect Intergenerational Family Transfers?

  Join the Lunch talk on October 13th 12pm by PhD Candidate Mayra Saenz, Agricultural and Consumer Economics with discussant Professor Elizabeth Powers, Department of Economics. Lunch provided with RSVP.

  • Lecture

Saturday, October 14, 2023

• • 1:00 - 2:30 pm
    
  • The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library

  Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration 2023 !/ ¡Celebración del mes de la herencia hispana 2023!

  • Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 16, 2023

• 

  • 3:00 pm
    
  • Coble Hall 306

  Gilberto Rosas | Unsettling: the El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border

  • Lecture
• 

  • 5:00 pm
    
  • Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium (600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  AsiaLENS - GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening: "Above and Below the Ground"

  • Film Screening

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    

  A Boat from Gaza: Poetry Reading with Yahya Ashour

  • Lecture
• 

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
    
  • 108 Coble Hall

  Towards a European Green Deal: Green Central Banking and the Strategic Partnership

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

• • 3:30   5:00 pm
    

  Undergraduate Studies Committee meeting

  • Meeting
• • 3:30   5:00 pm
    
  • GH 213

  Visiting Professor Lecture

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Andrew Cleland (UChicago) Title: TBA

  • Lecture

Thursday, October 19, 2023

• • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1020 Lincoln Hall

  History Department NCFDD Group

  • Meeting
• • 7:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

  A Victorian Parliament of Animals: or, the Biocultural as Imperial Political Form

  • Lecture

Friday, October 20, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Robert Collis, "Unorthodox Visions: Magnetic Somnambulism, Clairvoyance and Prophecy among the Petersburg Nobility, 1820s-1830s"

  • Lecture

Monday, October 23, 2023

• 

  • 3:00 pm
    
  • Coble Hall 306

  Susan Aguinaga

  • Lecture

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    

  Desiccation of the World's Second Largest Salty Lake in Northwest of Iran: A Serious Ecological threat to the region

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

• • 3:30 - 5:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • 100 Gergory Hall

  Associate Professor Lecture, Claudia Brosseder

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Maissam Barkeshli (Maryland)

  • Lecture

Thursday, October 26, 2023

• • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1020 Lincoln Hall

  History Department NCFDD Group

  • Meeting
• 

  • 4:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC New Directions Lecture: Julia Vaingurt, "The Weakling, the Genius, the Bomb, and the Globe: Andrei Bitov on Writing Amidst Nuclear Ecologies"

  • Lecture
• • 5:30 - 6:30 pm
    
  • La Casa Latina

  Luso Brazilian Association: Brazilian Conversation Group (Bate Papo)

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, October 27, 2023

• 

  • 1:00 - 2:30 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright Street) and Zoom

  CEAPS Speaker | Paul Christensen "Symptomatic Trauma: Japan, Drug Addiction, and the Limits of Treatment"

  • Lecture

Monday, October 30, 2023

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    

  Charlas Políticas: Elections in Argentina

  • Lecture

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    

  Uncanny Journeys: Magical Realism and the Narrative of the Refugee in Exit West and What Strange Paradise

  • Lecture
• 

  • 4:30 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

  Halloween Film Screening: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920)

  • Film Screening

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Dani Nutting, "Flutes as Time Shelters: Bulgarian Becomings and the Instrumental Past"

  • Lecture
• • 3:30 pm   5:00
    
  • GH 213

  Faculty Meeting

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Steven Girvin (Yale) Title: TBA

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 2, 2023

• • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1020 Lincoln Hall

  History Department NCFDD Group

  • Meeting

Friday, November 3, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures

  Film Screening | Paula Cuellar | Añil

  • Film Screening
• 

  • 2:00 - 4:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St

  Graduate Student Workshop "Writing Effective Fellowship Proposals"

  • Informational
• 

  • 4:00 - 4:30 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St

  Graduate Student Workshop "Tips for Applying for Fellowships"

  • Informational

Saturday, November 4, 2023

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • The Urbana Free Library (210 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801)

  Slavic Story Time at The Urbana Free Library

  • Informational
• • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
    
  • 215 GH

  Junk History (A SourceLab Forum)

  • Conference/Workshop

Sunday, November 5, 2023

• 

  • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    

  TED Global STEM Conference

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 6, 2023

• 

  • 4:00 pm
    
  • 108 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820

  Legislative Elections in Lebanon: Democratic Choices or Power Struggle?

  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

• • 4:30 pm
    
  • Illinois Union Bookstore Author's Corner, 2nd floor, 809 S. Wright Street, Urbana, IL-61801

  Reading by Laila Lalami

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 9, 2023

• • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1020 Lincoln Hall

  History Department NCFDD Group

  • Meeting
• • 5:30 - 6:30 pm
    
  • La Casa Latina

  Luso Brazilian Association: Brazilian Conversation Group (Bate Papo)

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, November 10, 2023

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Food for Thought: Sonali Shah and Helga Varden

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Marija Fedjanina

  • Lecture

Saturday, November 11, 2023

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • The Urbana Free Library

  Latin American Story Time: My Two Border Towns

  • Other

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

• 

  • 4:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • 2039 Campus Instruction Bldg, 1405 Springfield Ave.

  Undergraduate Instructional Workshop: "Creating content in women’s history: contesting gender and colonialism bias in the digital humanities"

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

• 

  • 4:00 pm
    
  • 210 Levis Faculty Center

  Gender Violence and the Woman Worker in Brazil and the United States

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm   6:00
    

  History Showcase

  • Exhibition
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Paul Selvin (UIUC) Title: TBA

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 16, 2023

• • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1020 Lincoln Hall

  History Department NCFDD Group

  • Meeting
• • 2:00 pm   3:00 pm
    
  • 300c GH

  Graduate Admissions Meeting

  • Meeting

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

  • Lecture

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    

  Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)

  • Informational
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    

  Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Virtual Information Session

  • Informational

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

• 

  • All Day
    
  • TBD

  LAC Cities Collective: Priscilla Ferreira

  • Lecture
• • 3:20 - 5:00 pm   5:00 pm
    
  • 300C

  Undergraduate Studies Committee meeting

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: Young-Kee Kim (UChicago) Title: TBA

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 30, 2023

• • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1020 Lincoln Hall

  History Department NCFDD Group

  • Meeting

Monday, December 4, 2023

• 

  • 4:00 pm
    
  • 4:00 pm at the Illini Union Bookstore 2nd Floor Author’s Corner 809 S. Wright St, Champaign

  Book Talk: On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus

  • Meeting
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    
  • Gregory Hall 205

  Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)

  • Informational
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    
  • Gregory Hall 205

  Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Session

  • Informational

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

• • 3:30 pm   5:00
    
  • GH 213

  Faculty Meeting

  • Meeting
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom

  Physics Colloquium: No Colloquium

  • Lecture

Thursday, December 7, 2023

• 

  • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
    
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820

  Study and Destress with the EU Center

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, January 19, 2024

• • 9:00   1:00 pm
    
  • 300c

  History Graduate Admissions meeting

  • Meeting

Monday, February 5, 2024

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    

  Charlas Políticas: Elections in El Salvador

  • Lecture

Thursday, February 22, 2024

• 

  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    
  • Coble Hall 306

  Andrea Ballestero | TBD

  • Ceremony/Service

Thursday, February 29, 2024

• • All Day
    

  WGHS and Admitted Students Day

  • Other

Friday, March 1, 2024

• • All Day
    

  WGHS and Admitted Students Day

  • Other

Saturday, March 2, 2024

• • All Day
    

  WGHS and Admitted Students Day

  • Other

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    

  China's Current Involvement in the Middle East

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    

  History Showcase

  • Exhibition

Saturday, April 20, 2024

• • 4:00 pm
    

  Awards

  • Ceremony/Service

Thursday, April 25, 2024

• 

  • All Day
    
  • TBD

  Ruth Behar

  • Lecture

Thursday, May 2, 2024

• • All Day
    

  Student Appreciation

  • Other

Saturday, May 11, 2024

• • All Day
    

  Graduation

  • Ceremony/Service