Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS)

Thursday, October 31, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe: Steve Schwinn

Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from community leaders tackling our most pressing public concerns through an unwavering pursuit of social justice. We are excited to focus the fall series towards Democracy. Steve Schwinn. Free lunch provided.
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
- 2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom
GGIS Colloquium | A Political Economy of Urban Informality Under Racial Capitalism

Urban scholars have long grappled with the complexities of urban informality, and its implications for the realities of urban communities. Informality has often been understood in terms of bounded, unplanned, and unregulated spaces of the poor that require regulation to achieve formality.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 2049 Natural History Building
Hybrid GGIS Colloquium | A Political Economy of Urban Informality Under Racial Capitalism
- Lecture

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe: The Certainty Trap: Democracy’s Existential Threat by Ilana Redstone

Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from Ilana Redstone on The Certainty Trap: Democracy’s Existential Threat. Free lunch provided.
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
- 2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom
GGIS Distinguished Alumnus Award Reception & Colloquium | Broadening Geospatial Computing: Innovation Meets Education
- Seminar/Symposium

- 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: "El mamboretá"
- Other

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- room 146, University Archives, Main Library or via Zoom.
Women in Science Lecture Series: Dr. Supriya Prasanth

The University of Illinois Archives is hosting a monthly Women in Science Lecture Series that will feature speakers from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diverse and multidisciplinary scientific enterprise. The lecture series seeks to highlight the important innovations and contributions of women in the sciences at the University of Illinois.
- Lecture
- 4:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. 600 S Gregory, Urbana
MillerComm Lecture Series - Ancestral Futures: Creating an Aesthetics of Resistance through Indigenous Performance
- Lecture