National Resource Centers

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 12:30 pm
"The Powerful Role of Spatial Planning in Conflictual Zones: From Violent to Hopeful Urbanisms." Yosef Jabareen
- Webinar
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- Davenport Hall 230
Comportments of Kurdish Pleasure: Interjecting Leisure as a Necessary Archive
- Lecture

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana
IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St.
Why is Palestine Important? (IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World)
- 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 (Portuguese)
- Other

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Hilton Garden Inn
Why Refugee-Led Organizations Must Be At The Forefront of Leading Change
- Lecture

Thursday, February 27, 2025

- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Brazilian Women Defenders of the Amazon: Virtual Talk
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana
IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:30 pm
I-MMAS CHAIR/CÁTEDRA Cooperation, Multiculturalism and Respect to Diversity in Mexico and the United States
- Webinar
- 5:30 pm
- Room 66, Main Library (1408 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801)
Film Screening: Intercepted (2024)
- Film Screening
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building Atrium (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
The Taste of Language 2025
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, February 28, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom
“Damocles's Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control”
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 9:00 pm
- University YMCA
CARNALVAL 2025!
- Festival/Celebration
- 5:00 pm
- 210 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois
Multilingualism and Multimusicality in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
- Lecture

Saturday, March 1, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 10:00 am
- 210 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois
Literature's Refuge at the Aegean Borderscape
- Lecture

Monday, March 3, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
LAC Women Justice: Maria Jose Mendez "Embroideries of War: Salvadoran Women Refugees’ Memories of Care"
- Lecture
- 5:15 - 6:45 pm
- BNAAC (Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center)
What now?
- Lecture
- 5:15 pm
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL
What Now?
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
CSAMES Event: "On Translating Arabic Poetry," A Discussion with Huda Fakhreddine and Eric Calderwood
- Lecture

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom
(POSTPONED) China's Global Implications: The Past and Present of European Debates
- Lecture

Thursday, March 6, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1066 Lincoln Hall (702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Alexis Peri, "Diplomacy of the Heart: Soviet and American Women's Cold-War Correspondence"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 1066 Lincoln Hall (702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Diplomacy of the Heart: Soviet and American Women's Cold-War Correspondence
- Lecture

Friday, March 7, 2025

- All Day
- Davenport Hall Room 230
Archaeology Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
- Levis Faculty Center 210
SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
- 210 Levis Faculty Center
SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Conflict and Power in the DRC: Who Benefits, Who Suffers?
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture

Saturday, March 8, 2025

- All Day
- Davenport Hall Room 230
Archaeology Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
- Levis Faculty Center 210
SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
- 210 Levis Faculty Center
SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Megan's Reading Room, The Urbana Free Library (210 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Latin American Story Time: Quechua
- Other

Sunday, March 9, 2025

- 3:30 pm
- Smith Recital Hall
Viola al-Mashura (The Enchanted Viola)
- Performance

Monday, March 10, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
CLACS Series: Alex Borucki "Silver and the Slave Trade in the Spanish Americas during the Age of Imperial Fracture"
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

- 4:30 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 308. 801 S. Wright St, Champaign
HOW TO MOVE FORWARD AS A COMMUNITY
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- Illini Union Room 104
Open Forum On The University Library (hybrid event)
- Informational
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven [Табор уходит в небо] (Russian)
- Film Screening

Friday, March 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture

Friday, March 21, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
Prof. Ellen Moodie - Book Talk: Indignant Liberalism: Protest, Political Change, and El Salvador’s Post-postwar Generation.
- Lecture

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 Mathew Ave Urbana
CSAMES Lecture: "The sight that I offer is the fairest of sights’: Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba.” Abigail Balbale

Abstract: Of the many beautiful objects associated with Madinat al-Zahra and the Cordoban Umayyad caliphate, perhaps none are as celebrated as a series of ivory pyxides and caskets produced for members of the royal family. Several of them were made for royal mothers, formerly enslaved concubines who earned their freedom by bearing the caliph's children. Caliphal concubines
- Lecture
- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
2025 Global Reads Webinar for K-12 Educators
- Webinar
- 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 (Q'anjob'al)
- Other

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- College of Law Faculty Lounge, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue (second floor), Champaign, IL 61820
Restoring the Rule of Law after Democratic Decay: Lessons from Poland
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 2090B School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
EUC Brown Bag Event: Croatia's EU Path and the Prospects of Future EU Enlargement
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- 112 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright St. Champaign
Film screening: "Lyd"

Directors: Sarah Ema Friedland, Rami Younis It is a story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become. A discussion by Professor Laura Goffman, Department of History at the Univesity of Illinois followed this.
- Film Screening
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: Aftermath [Pokłosie] (Polish)
- Film Screening

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
3rd Illinois Global Institute (IGI) Career Day!
- Conference/Workshop
- 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
Illinois Global Institute Career Day
- Professional Development
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL 61801
Tracing Media Histories Through Videographic Criticism
- Film Screening

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 12:00 pm
Book Talk: Transnational Palestine. Nadim Bawalsa
- Webinar

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 10:00 am
- 220 Smith Memorial Hall (805 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Mackenzie Pierce, "Sounds of Survival: Polish Music and the Holocaust"
- Lecture
- 7:00 - 8:30 pm
- Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory St. Urbana, IL 61801)
Let's Talk About...Resistance
- Lecture

Friday, April 4, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture