Center for Global Studies

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

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  • 12:00 pm

  Book Talk: Transnational Palestine. Nadim Bawalsa

  • Webinar
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  • 12:00 pm

  Virtual Book Talk: Transnational Palestine with Nadim Bawalsa

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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  • 7:00 - 8:30 pm
  • Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory St. Urbana, IL 61801)

  Let's Talk About...Resistance

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 3, 2025

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  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, IL -- and Online/Zoom

  Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future * Anita Chan, iSchool & College of Media

  • Lecture
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  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm

  I-MMAS Chair/Cátedra Session: Addressing Key Development Challenges in the U.S. and Mexico

  • Lecture

Friday, April 4, 2025

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  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street

  Graduate Student Lunch & Learn: Publishing on Gender-Related Topics

  • Social/Informal Event

Monday, April 7, 2025

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  • 4:00 pm   TBD

  Nature or Territory? Indigenous Representations of Forest through Critical Cartography. Peru - Dr. Maritza Paredes

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

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  • 12:00 pm
  • English Building 109 (608 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  Conceptualizing (Im-)migration and Making Sense of Diversity in post-WWII America

  • Lecture
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  • 4:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center 210

  Interseminars | Emergent Quilombos: Black Life, Ancestral Knowledges, and Diasporic Cultural Politics in the Americas

  • Lecture
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  • 5:00 pm
  • Illini Union, Room 314A (1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)

  Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe

  • Lecture
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  • 6:00 - 7:30 pm
  • Ikenberry SDRP 301 E. Gregory Dr., Champaign

  The Fever Pitch of the Moment Requires a CounterBalance: A Talk with Dr. Felecia Russell

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

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  • 9:00 - 11:00 am
  • Asian American Cultural Center Lounge 1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana

  Supporting Undocumented Students on College Campuses: Workshop for Staff & Faculty

  • Conference/Workshop
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  • 12:00 pm

  Resisting Digital Surveillance in Brazil: Preliminary Fieldwork on AI and Facial Recognition at Carnaval

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 10, 2025

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  • 4:00 pm
  • Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 1090

  Book Talk: Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition. Lauren Osborne

  The book explores how the centrality of sonic practices and experiences within Islamic traditions stems largely from the orality of the Qur’an and the importance of recitation, while arguing that sound can provide a productive point of entry to human cultures in general.

  • Lecture
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  • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
  • Murphy Art Gallery, University YMCA

  Exhibit Opening Reception: "The Art of Recreating Transnational Solidarity Against Global Apartheids”

  • Exhibition

Friday, April 11, 2025

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  • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street

  "Solidarity with Sudan After Revolt: Reimagining Society, Surviving Vengeance", April 11

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
  • Coble Hall, Room 306. 801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801

  Graduate Research Lightning Talks

  • Ceremony/Service
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  • 6:30 - 8:00 pm
  • Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana

  "Turmoil and Solidarity: Being Palestinian in Champaign-Urbana in a time of genocide"

  • Ceremony/Service
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  • 6:30 - 8:00 pm
  • Channing Murray Foundation in Urbana

  Turmoil and Solidarity: Being Palestinian in Champaign Urbana in a Time of Genocide.

  • Lecture

Saturday, April 12, 2025

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  • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
  • The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library

  Latin American Story Time: "Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son"

  • Other

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • OVCDEI 3080 | 614 E Daniel St., Champaign

  Navigating Federal Challenges Together: Collective Struggles, Collaborative Solutions

  • Meeting
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  • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
  • Huff Hall room 3019 1206 S. 4th Street, Champaign, IL 61820

  Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 17, 2025

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  • 12:00 pm

  POSTPONED - The Current Changes in Global Economic Governance

  • Lecture
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  • 3:00 pm
  • Coble Hall, Room 306. 801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61820

  The Closing of USAID: A conversation about Impacts and Implications

  • Lecture
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  • 4:30 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

  U.S.-China Relations:  How Did We Get Here, Where Are We Going. 

  • Lecture

Friday, April 18, 2025

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  • 5:00 - 8:00 pm
  • Materials Science and Engineering Building:1304 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 (Room 119)

  Film screening: "The Seed of the Sacred Fig"

  The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a 2024 political drama film written, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. Its plot centers on Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who grapples with paranoia as nationwide political protests due to the death of a young woman intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears.

  • Film Screening

Monday, April 21, 2025

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  • 4:00 pm
  • Davenport 230

  Apocalyptic Locas and Garbages of Eden: Travesti Trash Ecologies in La virgen cabeza

  • Lecture

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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  • 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 (Spanish)

  • Other

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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  • 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • International and Area Studies Library, Room 321, 1408 W. Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61801

  Atrocities in the Levant through the Jesuit Archives: The Great Famine in Lebanon 1915-1918

  • Lecture
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  • 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • International Area Studies Library 1408 Gregory Dr. #321, Urbana, IL 61801

  Atrocities in the Levant through the Jesuit Archives: The Great Famine in Lebanon 1915-1918

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, April 24, 2025

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  • 12:00 pm

  A Great Decoupling? Globalization Without the U.S.

  • Lecture
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  • 5:00
  • Siebel Center for Design, Starlight Room 1208 South 4th Street Champaign, IL 61821

  Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies’ Annual Armenian Remembrance Event

  • Conference/Workshop
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  • 6:00 pm
  • Normal Theater, Normal, IL

  Foxtail Film Festival Opening Night: Brujería with Chilean Filmmaker Christopher Murray

  • Film Screening

Friday, April 25, 2025

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  • 5:00
  • Siebel Center for Design, Starlight Room 1208 South 4th Street Champaign, IL 61821

  Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies’ Annual Armenian Remembrance Event

  • Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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  • 5:30 - 6:45 pm

  Peruvian Women Enviromental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon

  • Lecture

Friday, May 2, 2025

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  • 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • Latzer Hall YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign

  Palestine in the World Roundtable with Michelle Campos “Unmixing the Holy City: Religion, Politics, and Neighborhood Segregation in 19th-20th Century Jerusalem” and Charles Anderson "The Palestinian National Movement between Constitutionalism and Revolt, 1929-1939."

  • Lecture