Center for Global Studies

Monday, September 29, 2025

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  Dr. Kasia Szremski: "Playing Both Sides: Cerro Blanco – Sayan and the Chimu – Inka War"

  3:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

Saturday, October 4, 2025

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  Tango at the 2025 CU Folk & Roots Festival

  Recurring

  10:00 am - 10:00 pm

  Different locations (see description)

  • Festival/Celebration
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  Humanities Open House

  11:00 am - 3:30 pm

  Multiple locations

  • Ceremony/Service

Sunday, October 5, 2025

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  Tango at the 2025 CU Folk & Roots Festival

  Recurring

  10:00 am - 10:00 pm

  Different locations (see description)

  • Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 6, 2025

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  Sofía Saavedra - "El cruce hacia los sueños: un hogar en tránsito y un ritual de identidades nómadas"

  3:00 pm

  Coble Hall Room 306

  • Lecture

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

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  Food For Thought | Ripan Malhi and Yurii Vlasov

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 208

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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  Climate Change and the Urgency of Hope, Action, and Joy

  4:00 pm

  Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave, Urbana

  Professor Reyes Mason's presentation is grounded in a belief that our collective work on climate change can indeed lead to a healthier and thriving world for all in the midst of disaster and devastation, from our own backyards to communities across the globe.

  • Lecture
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  Film screening: "From Ground Zero", Part of the "Palestine in the World" Series

  4:00 pm

  1080 Lucy Ellis Conference Center Room , 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801

  • Film Screening

Thursday, October 9, 2025

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  III Encuentro sobre Migración y Pueblos Originarios

  8:30 am

  Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

  • Conference/Workshop
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  Xiomi Ortiz, Context Before Engineering – Learning from a Community-Led Water Project in the Navajo Nation

  12:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture
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  CAS Annual Lecture | Catherine Murphy, The Golden Future of Nanotechnology

  7:00 - 8:30 pm

  Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

  Catherine Murphy | The Golden Future of Nanotechnology

  • Lecture

Friday, October 10, 2025

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  III Encuentro sobre Migración y Pueblos Originarios

  9:00 am

  Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

  • Conference/Workshop
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  Dr. José Atiles - Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico

  3:00 pm

  2049 NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  Hispanic Heritage Month - Celebration of Scholarship

  5:00 - 6:30 pm

  Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4036

  • Reception/Open House

Saturday, October 11, 2025

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  Latin American Storytime at Urbana Free Library

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium

  • Community Service
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  National Arab Orchestra w/ Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

  7:30 pm

  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 13, 2025

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  CLACS Series: "Language and Life in Q’anjob’al Communties" Adan F. Pascual

  3:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture
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  Angelica Waner: Zines in the Diaspora: Connecting Literary Threads Across Colonial Borders

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Noyes Laboratory, 163

  • Lecture
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  Lecture: Gabriella Carrillo – Craft, Context, and Sensitivity in Design

  5:00 - 6:30 pm

  Temple Buell Hall

  • Lecture

Thursday, October 16, 2025

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  Fall Lecture Series - Dr. Rena Torres Cacoullos

  4:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080)

  • Lecture

Friday, October 17, 2025

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  Rantoul City Schools Hispanic Heritage Celebration ; Celebración del mes de la Herencia Hispania de RCS

  6:00 - 8:00 pm

  JW Eater JR. High, 400 E Wabash Ave, Rantoul, IL 61866

  • Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 20, 2025

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  International Students Navigating the U.S.: Immigration, Rights, and Resources

  11:30 am - 1:00 pm

  314b Illini Union

  • Informational
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  Frank Center Student Workshop: Investigative Journalism with María Inés Zamudio

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  336 Gregory Hall

  • Conference/Workshop
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  Virtual Talk: Ser Mujeres en la ESMA / Being Women at ESMA

  2:00 - 4:00 pm

  • Lecture

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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  Panel on “Community-Engaged Research in Action: Insights for Graduate Students”

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Conference/Workshop
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  Professor Gino Pauselli (Political Science, UIUC), "Critical Ties: How Reliable Information Suppliers Influence International Organizations' Propensity to Criticize States"

  12:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture
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  Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies Reading Group: Juliana Freire’s “Indigenous Documentaries: Art, Self-Representation, and the Environment in Huni Kui Films”

  2:00 - 3:00 pm

  Coble Hall 108

  • Lecture
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  Between Amsterdam and the Antilles: Diaspora and Community in Colonial Curaçao

  5:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, Language, Cultures and Literatures Building (LCLB 1080)

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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  Graduate Workshop on "Effective Fellowship Writing"

  12:30 - 3:00 pm

  Women's Resources Center, 616 E Green St, Suite 213

  • Conference/Workshop

Thursday, October 23, 2025

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  Climate | Change: Fredrik Jonsson on the historical roots of the climate crisis

  4:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 210

  • Lecture

Saturday, October 25, 2025

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  Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean Storytime Champaign Library

  9:45 am

  Nate & Lillie Story Room

  • Community Service

Monday, October 27, 2025

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  CLACS Talk Series: Disordered Domestication: Colonial Logics of Wildness and Domestication in Cusco, Perú. Prof. Amanda  Cortez

  3:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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  International Studies and Humanities Meet and Greet

  3:00 - 4:00 pm

  Main Library Room 321

  • Reception/Open House
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  Transitional Justice in Mexico: Sisyphus on the Hill / Dr. Francisco Javier Ramírez Treviño

  3:00 pm

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

Friday, October 31, 2025

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  Tropical Polar Bears | Juno Salazar Parreñas

  3:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 210

  Juno Salazar-Parreñas, Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Competing Colonialisms in the Great Acceleration

  • Lecture