College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Illinois Global Institute

Illinois Global Institute

Welcome to the calendar of the Illinois Global Institute. We are home to 10 longstanding international area studies centers and thematic programs. Bringing the units together as part of the IGI will improve organizational support, raise visibility, and foster additional cross-campus collaboration on essential international programs

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition

Thursday, April 17, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 12:00 pm
The Current Changes in Global Economic Governance
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. 801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61820
The Closing of USAID: A conversation about Impacts and Implications
- Lecture
- 4:30 pm
- Spurlock Museum
Kang Lecture 2025 | Public Talk by Professor Dali Yang | U.S.-China Relations: How Did We Get Here, Where Are We Going
- Lecture
- 4:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
U.S.-China Relations: How Did We Get Here, Where Are We Going.
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
Seminar Series - Susan Caskey, Research and Systems Analyst
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL, 61820
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe: Stories From Her Work as a Tribal Attorney, Land Defender and Founder of the Giniw Collective by Tara Houska, Tribal Attorney and Founder of the Giniw Collective

Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe Stories From Her Work as a Tribal Attorney, Land Defender and Founder of the Giniw Collective by Tara Houska, Tribal Attorney and Founder of the Giniw Collective April 18, 2025 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 0359 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Olga Zaitseva-Herz, "From Stages to Battlefields: The Role of Pop Music in Russia's Full-Scale War on Ukraine"
- Lecture
- 12:30 - 2:00 pm
- Illini Union Room 314 B
Kang Lecture 2025 | Seminar with Professors Dali Yang and Yujeong Yang | Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 - 8:00 pm
- Materials Science and Engineering Building:1304 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 (Room 119)
Film screening: "The Seed of the Sacred Fig"

The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a 2024 political drama film written, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. Its plot centers on Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who grapples with paranoia as nationwide political protests due to the death of a young woman intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears.
- Film Screening
- 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 19, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 11:00 am
- The Urbana Free Library (210 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801)
Slavic Story Time at The Urbana Free Library
- Social/Informal Event

Sunday, April 20, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition

Monday, April 21, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 5:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
WWII 80th Anniversary Film Screening: "Downfall" (2004)
- Film Screening

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Coble Hall Room 306
Between Fragility and Resistance: The Ontology of Vulnerability and Its Relationship with the Brazilian Legal System

This presentation explores the Brazilian legal system's engagement with vulnerability theory, examining how judicial decisions can either reinforce or challenge systemic precarity. Through a comparative perspective, this study encourages dialogue on the judiciary’s responsibility in safeguarding democratic principles and human dignity.
- 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 (Spanish)
- Other

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Caucasus Research Forum
- Conference/Workshop
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- International and Area Studies Library, Room 321, 1408 W. Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61801
Atrocities in the Levant through the Jesuit Archives: The Great Famine in Lebanon 1915-1918
- Lecture
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- International Area Studies Library 1408 Gregory Dr. #321, Urbana, IL 61801
Atrocities in the Levant through the Jesuit Archives: The Great Famine in Lebanon 1915-1918
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 pm
- 180 Bevier Hall ( 905 S Goodwin Ave. Urbana)
EALC Speaker Series Spring 2025 | Rome and China in Kang Youwei’s Reflections on World History | Haun Saussy
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S Wright St, Champaign)
Fairytale Workshop
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, April 24, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Caucasus Research Forum
- Conference/Workshop
- 5:00
- Siebel Center for Design, Starlight Room 1208 South 4th Street Champaign, IL 61821
Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies’ Annual Armenian Remembrance Event
- Conference/Workshop
- 5:00 pm
- Event TypeExhibitionSponsorInitiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies, The Program in Jewish Culture & Society, EU Center, HRI, Comparative and World Literature, CSAMES, REEC, Center for Global Studies through support from the US Department of Education's Title VI NRC Program, SLCL, CASLocationSiebel Center for Design, Starlight Room, 1208 South 4th Street, Champaign, IL 61821
iWitness. Armenian Genocide Commemoration. Artist Talk
- Exhibition

Friday, April 25, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 5:00
- Siebel Center for Design, Starlight Room 1208 South 4th Street Champaign, IL 61821
Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies’ Annual Armenian Remembrance Event
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Markian Dobczansky
- Lecture
- 1:30 - 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306 (801 S. Wright St., Champaign)
VASP Brown Bag | Sun Hyun Kim, "Pansori Narrative and Cultural Contents" + Na An, "Reading activities for Chinese imperial examination scholars from the 14th to 17th centuries"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign
CSGGE Spring Reception

CSGGE Spring Reception. Please join us as we honor or GRID Graduates and CSGGE Award Recipients. Friday, April 25 | 4:00-5:00 pm | YMCA Latzer Hall. 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign. Remarks at 4:20pm.
- Ceremony/Service
- 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
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: Father [Otac] (Serbian)
- Film Screening

Saturday, April 26, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 8:00 pm
- Smith Recital Hall, 805 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL
Balkanalia - Annual Spring Concert: "Buy Me Some Poison: Spirited Songs and Crooked Dances from the Carpathians to the Caucasus”
- Performance

Sunday, April 27, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition

Monday, April 28, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 3:00 pm TBD
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
Talk: Mileiconomics: Beating Inflation in an Illiberal Economy by Dr. Sarah Muir
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 5:30 - 6:45 pm
Peruvian Women Enviromental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon
- Lecture

Thursday, May 1, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- All Day
Indiana University Summer Language Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, May 2, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition
- 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Latzer Hall YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign
Lecture Series 2 | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Lecture
- 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Latzer Hall YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign
Palestine in the World Roundtable with Michelle Campos “Unmixing the Holy City: Religion, Politics, and Neighborhood Segregation in 19th-20th Century Jerusalem” and Charles Anderson "The Palestinian National Movement between Constitutionalism and Revolt, 1929-1939."
- Lecture
- 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Latzer Hall YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign
"The Palestinian National Movement Between Constitutionalism and Revolt, 1929-1939"
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- ARC Instructional Kitchen, Activities and Recreation Center, 201 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Italian Cooking Class with the European Union Center
- Religious/Cultural

Saturday, May 3, 2025

- All Day
- Murphy Art Gallery University YMCA
Exhibition | An IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: "Palestine in the World"
- Exhibition

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- room 146, University Archives, Main Library or via Zoom.
Women in Science Lecture Series: Jennifer Hain Teper

Jennifer Teper, Head of Preservation Services at the University of Illinois Library, will discuss how she uses science in her work to conserve library collections and special collections. May 6 | 12 pm - 1 pm (CTS) | Main Library Room 146, or over zoom
- Lecture

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Latzer Hall, University YMCA (1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign 61820)
REEEC Spring Reception
- Reception/Open House

Thursday, May 8, 2025

- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: The Road to Mother [Анаға апарар жол] (Kazakh)
- Film Screening

Thursday, May 15, 2025

- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
International Development at a Crossroads, Once Again: Global Poverty and the 21st Century
- Lecture

Monday, June 16, 2025

- All Day
Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy
- Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

- All Day
Engineering Destruction: Militarization and the War Economy
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, June 23, 2025

- 9:00 am
- various location
UofI x NCTA East Asian Art, History, & Literature Seminar
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

- 9:00 am
- various location
UofI x NCTA East Asian Art, History, & Literature Seminar
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
- Bangkok, Thailand
Global Forum on the Ethics of AI
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

- 9:00 am
- various location
UofI x NCTA East Asian Art, History, & Literature Seminar
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
- Bangkok, Thailand
Global Forum on the Ethics of AI
- Conference/Workshop

Thursday, June 26, 2025

- 9:00 am
- various location
UofI x NCTA East Asian Art, History, & Literature Seminar
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
- Bangkok, Thailand
Global Forum on the Ethics of AI
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, June 27, 2025

- 9:00 am
- various location
UofI x NCTA East Asian Art, History, & Literature Seminar
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
- Bangkok, Thailand
Global Forum on the Ethics of AI
- Conference/Workshop

Illinois Global Institute

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

104 Coble Hall

801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: (217) 244-1146

E-mail: igi-info@illinois.edu