Campus International Events
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, all levels welcome!
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Join us in a discussion of our community's Big Read: "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri. Each weekly discussion sponsored by the International and Area Studies Library will feature a different discussion leader from our local community who will bring their unique perspective to the conversation.
The Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop guides program leaders (faculty, staff, or students leading programs) in preparing for the safest possible experience abroad. This workshop teaches leaders about incident management expectations and facilitates understanding through discussion of real life scenarios of incidents abroad.
Friday, February 22, 2019
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Brooklyn Babylon, composed by Darcy James Argue. Directed by Karen Blackall (DMA candidate, Jazz Studies). Saturday, February 23, 2019, 7:30 pm, Music Building Auditorium, School of Music, 1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana. Free and open to the public. This performance of Brooklyn Babylon will be the first outside those of DJA's Secret Society Orchestra.
Monday, February 25, 2019
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
This videoconference will discuss the World's Fair and international expositions.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
WGGP Faculty Affiliate Annual Lecture by Professor Angharad Valdivia from the Institute of Communications Research. Lunch provided with RSVP by February 21st.
Lecture by Professor Angharad Valdivia from the Institute of Communications Research. Lunch provided with RSVP by February 21st.
“Cinema Komunisto” (2010 / in BCS / subs / dir. Mila Turajlic)
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Join the Slavic Reference Service for this workshop intended to assist doctoral students with their research. This workshop will feature several Slavic librarians as well as perspectives & advice from other graduate students about their experiences conducting research abroad.
Join us in a discussion of our community's Big Read: "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri. Each weekly discussion sponsored by the International and Area Studies Library will feature a different discussion leader from our local community who will bring their unique perspective to the conversation.
Friday, March 1, 2019
Amira Al-Mutairi (Assistant Director, ISSS) will be presenting "Cultural Difference in Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment" as part of the IPRH Reading Group series Cross-cultural Re-understanding of Power Harassment: Title VII and Title IX, Awareness and Action. This project is co-sponsored by IPRH and WGGP
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Monday, March 4, 2019
French film screening.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory will host Nicholson Distinguished Scholar Visitor, Prof. Ananya Roy (Director, Center for Democracy and Inequality, UCLA) on March 5th. She will present a talk titled, "Racial Banishment: A Postcolonial Critique of the Urban Condition in America"
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, all levels welcome!
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Join us in a discussion of our community's Big Read: "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri. Each weekly discussion sponsored by the International and Area Studies Library will feature a different discussion leader from our local community who will bring their unique perspective to the conversation.
This talk will report some of the preliminary results of a large National Science Foundation supported project to define and measure urban sustainability in Arctic conditions.
Friday, March 8, 2019
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
The ACES Office of International Programs welcomes a distinguished guest from the University of Pretoria in South Africa: Dr. Sheryl Hendriks, Head of Department and Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, and Director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Well-being
Celebrate International Women's Day by hearing from 10 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members as they talk about 10 women who changed the world. Each presenter will have 5 minutes to talk about a woman in their field that made a difference.
Celebrate International Women's Day by hearing from 12 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members as they talk about 12 women who changed the world.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Monday, March 11, 2019
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
When Morup Namgyal sparked a movement to preserve his Himalayan culture, he never imagined he would ultimately embrace modernization. Through the lives of three generations of the Namgyal family, "The Song Collector" explores the uneasy relationship between culture and development.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
The Center for Advanced Study MillerComm Series and the Center for Global Studies welcomes Professor Manisha Desai (University of Connecticut) for talk titled, "Constructing Solidarities in the Global Justice Movement: A Feminist Perspective".
Professor Desai will discuss the politics of transnational projects to build links and solidarities between movements of women activists differently situated in local and global systems of power.
«Я шагаю по Москве» / Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964 / in Russsian / subs / dir. Georgii Daneliia)
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Friday, March 15, 2019
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Monday, March 18, 2019
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Thursday, March 21, 2019
AAS Film Expo was established as a conference program in 2011 by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS), an outreach program of CEAPS. Documentary and independent films on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia are projected in a dedicated screening room with a schedule running from Thursday through Saturday.
Friday, March 22, 2019
AAS Film Expo was established as a conference program in 2011 by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS), an outreach program of CEAPS. Documentary and independent films on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia are projected in a dedicated screening room with a schedule running from Thursday through Saturday.
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
The preliminary round for the Midwestern regional Euro Challenge competition.
Saturday, March 23, 2019
AAS Film Expo was established as a conference program in 2011 by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS), an outreach program of CEAPS. Documentary and independent films on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia are projected in a dedicated screening room with a schedule running from Thursday through Saturday.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
AAS Film Expo was established as a conference program in 2011 by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS), an outreach program of CEAPS. Documentary and independent films on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia are projected in a dedicated screening room with a schedule running from Thursday through Saturday.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Мы будем говорить только по-русски! Conversation in Russian, all levels welcome!
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Friday, March 29, 2019
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
Join the Slavic Reference Service for this workshop intended to assist ILL librarians in working with foreign language materials.