CGS Master Calendar (New -- unlinked to website)

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Book Launch: Author Meets Readers, "Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights"

3:30 - 5:30 pm

Room 215 (Faculty Lounge), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, IL 61820
- Lecture

Friday, January 30, 2026

REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Joseph Mosse’, "Reimagining a Ukrainian Past: Natalena Koroleva's Old Kyivan Legends"

12:00 pm

108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture

Monday, February 2, 2026

CLACS Talk Series

3:00 pm
- Lecture
Dr. David Smilde - Venezuela & the United States: Keys to Understanding the Conflict

3:00 pm
- Lecture

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Public Speaking Workshop with Dr. Laura Stengrim

12:00 - 1:00 pm

306 Coble Hall
- Conference/Workshop
Teaching with the Arts Webinar: Power, Protest, and Daringness: Snapshots from a Century of Russian and East European Theater

5:30 - 7:00 pm
- Professional Development

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Kazakh Language Speaking Club

4:00 - 4:40 pm

Coble Hall 108
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, February 6, 2026

CSGGE Affiliate Lunch Talk | Muslim Woman and Architectural Patronage by D. Fairchild Ruggles

12:00 pm

306 Coble Hall and virtual via Zoom

Dr. D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor and Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture, will present her lecture "Muslim Woman and Architectural Patronage" February 6|12pm till 1pm (CST) | Coble Hall 306 or Zoom
- Lecture
Summer Graduate Research Fellowship Conference 2026

1:00 - 6:40 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 and 208
- Conference/Workshop
EALC Lecture | "The Islamic Book of Odes (Tianfang shijing) and the Horizon of Translation in Modern China" | Michael Hill

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, & Linguistics Building, 707 S. Matthews Ave., Urbana
- Lecture

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Slavic Story Time at the Champaign Public Library

9:45 am

200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, February 9, 2026

Discovering Europe: A Study Abroad Information Panel

12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Informational
Mochitsuki & Lunar New Year Event

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, & Linguistics Building, 707 S. Matthews Ave., Urbana
- Festival/Celebration

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Global Mafias in the Time of the Pandemic: Extraction, Logistics, Finance

12:00 pm

108 Coble Hall
- Lecture

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Kazakh Language Speaking Club

4:00 - 4:40 pm

Coble Hall 108
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, February 13, 2026

REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Andrei Kureichik, "Voices of Change Reframed. Documentary Theatre of Social Impact"

12:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge, Room 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (707 S. Mathews St., Urbana, IL 61801)
- Lecture

Monday, February 16, 2026

Seminar Series - Michael Hua, Director of Nuclear, Chemical, and Materials Engineering at Helion

5:00 pm

Coble Hall
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Kazakh Language Speaking Club

4:00 - 4:40 pm

Coble Hall 108
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, February 20, 2026

"The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: the Radical Potential of Getting in the Way” by Sara Ahmed

11:00 am

Please join us for a book discussion on, “The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way” by Sara Ahmed. February 20th (Friday) from 11am-12:30pm CST via Zoom. For more information and to register visit https://go.illinois.edu/Feb20bookgroup
- Webinar
CEAPS Brown Bag | “Tales of Asian Boys’ Love: Translanguaging and Transmediality of Romance in Selected Japanese, Thai, and Filipino Series” | Cheeno Marlo M. Sayuno

1:30 - 3:00 pm

306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign
- Lecture
First We Bombed New Mexico - Film Screening

5:00 pm

Illini Union Rooms 314 A&B
- Film Screening

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Film Screening: 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025, Ukraine)

5:00 pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL)
- Film Screening

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Kazakh Language Speaking Club

4:00 - 4:40 pm

Coble Hall 108
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Transcending the In-Between: Provocation, Humor, and Joy in Performance by Anida Yoeu Ali

3:30 - 5:30 pm

Women's Resources Center; 616 E. Green Street Suite 213
- Conference/Workshop
Transcending the In-Between: Provocation, Humor, and Joy in Performance by Anida Yoeu Ali

3:30 - 4:30 pm

Women's Resources Center; 616 E. Green Street Suite 213
- Lecture
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Sophia Wilson, "Maidan: Ukraine’s Democratic Revolution”

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture

Friday, February 27, 2026

CEAPS Brown Bag | “Zhou Zuoren at Tiger Bridge”| Jingling Chen

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Hybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Teaching with the Arts Webinar: From Lullabies to Naive Art: Culture, Memory, and Resilience

5:30 - 7:00 pm
- Professional Development

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

"12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories"

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
- Lecture
Kazakh Language Speaking Club

4:00 - 4:40 pm

Coble Hall 108
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Kazakh Language Speaking Club

4:00 - 4:40 pm

Coble Hall 108
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, March 13, 2026

Slavic Story Time at the Tolono Public Library

10:00 am

111 E. Main St. Tolono, IL 61880
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, March 16, 2026

Slavic Story Time at the St. Joseph Township-Swearingen Memorial Library

6:30 pm

201 N Third St., St. Joseph, IL 61873
- Social/Informal Event

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Slavic Story Time at the St. Joseph Township-Swearingen Memorial Library

10:30 am

201 N Third St., St. Joseph, IL 61873
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, March 26, 2026

REEEC New Directions Lecture: Halyna Padalko, "AI for Disinformation: Threat or Remedy?”

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
10th Annual Korean Speech Contest

7:00 - 8:30 pm

LH 1000
- Other

Friday, March 27, 2026

Kazakh Language Speaking Club

1:00 - 4:00 pm

Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
- Social/Informal Event

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Slavic Story Time at The Urbana Free Library

11:00 am

210 W Green St. Urbana, IL 61801
- Social/Informal Event

Friday, April 3, 2026

CEAPS Speaker | “Finding An Audience: Japan’s First Women Architects and the NHK Ladies' Classroom" | Dr. Michelle L. Hauk (Washington University in St. Louis)

1:30 - 3:00 pm

303 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign
- Lecture

Friday, April 10, 2026

CEAPS Book Celebration | “The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Pensions, Labor Informalization, and Labor Mobility in China” | Yujeong Yang

1:30 - 3:00 pm

306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Seminar Series - Professor Fred Lamb

5:00 pm

Coble Hall
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Talk with Luis Murro

All Day
- Lecture
REEEC New Directions Lecture: James T. Andrews, "Narrating the Soviet Metropolis: The Moscow Metro and the Story of Socialism”

4:00 pm

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Slavic Story Time at the Rantoul Public Library

10:00 am

106 W. Flessner Ave. Rantoul, IL 61866
- Social/Informal Event
Spring Reception

4:30 - 5:30 pm

YMCA Latzer Hall 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, April 24, 2026

REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Jared Meunier, "Sharp Power and the Enjoyment of Crisis: The Mueller Report as Simulated Justice"

12:00 pm

108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture