Events of Interest to Global Studies Majors

Monday, October 30, 2023

- 7:30 pm
- FMC is located at the corner of Lincoln & Springfield in Urbana
Leading the Way for Energy Sovereignty for Native America: Chief Henry Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Nation, Pine Ridge, S.D.
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright Street
Lemann Lecture Series | Julia Fonseca | Financial Inclusion, Economic Development, and Inequality: Evidence From Brazil

Julia Fonseca is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2019. Her research interests include household finance, development finance, and labor and finance. Her work focuses on topics like financial development, consumer financial markets, and inequality.
- 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
Job Talks
- Meeting
- 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
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Drafting Your Application
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
First Steps Workshop
- Informational
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- LLS Classroom, Room 103, 1207 W. Oregon St. Urbana
Loss and Grief Presentation for Día de los Muertos
- Social/Informal Event
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- University YMCA (1001 S. Wright Street Champaign, IL)
Día de Muertos
- Festival/Celebration

Thursday, November 2, 2023

- 12:00 pm 1:00pm
- 1203 W Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801
Lunch on Us

Applying to MA/PhD Programs: A comprehensive guide and step by step approach
- Other
- 5:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 210
Keynote Lecture for the Race, Migration, Memory Symposium: Debarati Sanyal: “Arts of the Border: Kino-Aesthetics and the Movement of Refugees”
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, November 3, 2023

- 9:00 am 5:00pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 210, and Zoom
Race, Migration, Memory Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 12:30 pm
APPtitude | Pre-Law Program Information Session
- Informational
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St
Graduate Student Workshop "Writing Effective Fellowship Proposals"

Graduate Student Workshop "Writing Effective Fellowship Proposal" Led by: Dana Johnson, PhD, Assistant Director of External Fellowships, Graduate College
- Informational
- 4:00 - 4:30 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St
Graduate Student Workshop "Tips for Applying for Fellowships"
- Informational

Sunday, November 5, 2023

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
TED Global STEM Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
- 1210 W. Nevada St. Urbana
International Potluck
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, November 6, 2023

- 12:00 pm
Truman Campus Deadline
- Informational
- 3:00 pm
- Coble 306
CLACS Lecture Series Social "Inequity and SARS-CoV-2 dynamics"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Illini Union Rooms A-C
Travel Around the World
- Festival/Celebration
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Table 1867 in ISR
International Cook-Off
- Performance
- 5:30 pm
- 331 Art & Design Building
Edvard Munch and the "Great Cause": Abortion, Eugenics, Whiteness
- Lecture

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- AACC, 1210 W Nevada St
Food for Thought: Celebrating Diwali - The Festival of Lights
- Conference/Workshop
- 6:00 pm
Munch Map Journey
- Social/Informal Event
- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Taste of Language
- Informational

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

- 12:00 pm
Farhana Sultana (Professor of Geography at Syracuse University), "From Climate Coloniality to Climate Revolution"
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
Job Talks
- Meeting
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Pre-Law 101 | Session One
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:00 pm
- Illini Union Courtyard Café
IGI International Music Night 2023
- Performance
- 3:00 - 5:30 pm
- Illini Union Courtyard Cafe (1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Illinois Global Institute International Music Night 2023
- Performance
- 3:00 - 5:30 pm
- Illini Union Courtyard Cafe
International Music Night
- Performance
- 3:00 - 5:30 pm
- Illini Union's Courtyard
International Music Night 2023

International Music Night 2023, November 8th, 3 - 5:30 PM, Illini Union's Courtyard PROGRAM: 3:00 - 3:05 Intro 3:05 - 3:45 Brazilian Ensemble 3:55 - 4:15 Cagri Haksoz (Ashiq Delili) 4:25 - 4:55 Latin American Ensemble 5:05 - 5:30 SPICMACAY
- Performance
- 3:00 - 5:30 pm
- Illini Union Courtyard Cafe
International Music Night 2023
- Religious/Cultural
- 7:00 pm
- Illini Union Courtyard Cafe
International Karaoke Night
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Interseminars | Courtney Morris: "Marxists and Priestesses"
- Lecture

Thursday, November 9, 2023

- 12:00 pm 1:00pm
Lunch on Us

Code Red
- Other
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building
Udall Scholarship Information Session
- Informational
- 4:00
I AM READY Information Session
- Informational

Friday, November 10, 2023

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
ONLINE Udall Scholarship Information Session
- Informational
- 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, "Holy Trickster in Foolish Times: 'Alternative' Masculinity of the Late Soviet Union and the Transition Era"
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building
Udall Scholarship Workshop
- Meeting

Saturday, November 11, 2023

- 2:00 pm
- The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library
Latin American Story Time: "ABC El Salvador"
- Other
- 5:30 - 10:30 pm
- Main Quad
Diwali on the Quad
- Festival/Celebration
- 7:30 pm
- Smith Recital Hall
Latin American Ensemble ¡Fiesta y canción!
- Performance

Monday, November 13, 2023

- 4:30
I AM READY Information Session
- Informational

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"

This will be a three-hour workshop. During the first half of the workshop, Dr. Elisa Fruhauf Garcia (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) will present to the students how we can edit Wikipedia in order to make women's history less underrepresented there and to have more biographical entries about them, but also including them in general history entries.
- Conference/Workshop
- 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Exploring Gap Year Opportunities (11-14-23)
- Informational

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

- 12:00 pm
Job Talks
- Meeting
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Pre-Law 101 | Session Two
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 pm
- 210 Levis Faculty Center
Gender Violence and the Woman Worker in Brazil and the United States

This talk will focus on how our research explores sexual harassment over time and space and how society frames the relationship between body, gender, and race in colonial and postcolonial societies.
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- 1207 W. Oregon St., Urbana
Horas de Encuentro: Evening Study Session with LLS Faculty & Advisor
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, November 16, 2023

- 12:00 pm 1:00pm
- 1203 W Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801
Lunch on Us
- Other
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
REEES Graduate Programs Information Session
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- Main Library Room 146
Women in Science Lecture Series: Dr. Sayeepriyadarshini “Sayee” Anakk

Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Dr. Anakk will discuss her research on how bile acids and nuclear receptors affect liver metabolism and liver disease.
- Lecture
- 12:30 pm
I AM READY Information Session
- Informational
- 5:30 pm
- 62 Krannert Art Museum
Matisse and the Sea
- Lecture
- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
First Steps Workshop
- Informational

Friday, November 17, 2023

- 2:00 pm
I AM READY Information Session
- Informational

Sunday, November 19, 2023

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
Bringing Student Worlds Together (Fall 2023 Transatlantic Educators Lecture Series)
- Lecture

Monday, November 20, 2023

- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Pre-Law for Parents and Families
- Informational

Monday, November 27, 2023

- All Day
Instruction resumes
- Other
- 12:00 pm
Goldwater Campus Deadline
- Informational

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

- 4:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Climate | Change: Untimely Infrastructure
- Informational
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
First Steps Workshop
- Informational

Thursday, November 30, 2023

- 12:00 pm 1:00pm
- 1203 W Nevada St. Urbana IL 61801
Lunch on Us
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
Talk on Gender in Development

'Gender in Development' Standards and Real-life Limiting Beliefs, Structures, and Practices. Thursday, November 30th, 4 PM, Coble Hall, Room 306.
- Lecture

Friday, December 1, 2023

- 12:00 - 2:30 pm
- Cobel Hall, Room 306
Graduate Student Workshop on Evaluation Design

Graduate Student Workshop on Evaluation Design with Gender Focus: Lift gender-blindness in development evaluations. Friday, December 1st, 12 PM - 2:30 pm at 306 Coble Hall.
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Strategies for Application Success
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, December 2, 2023

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
Adult Education and Learning in Prison: The Example of the Second Chance School of Nigrita (Fall 2023 Transatlantic Educators Lecture Series)
- Lecture