College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Center for Global Studies

Center for Global Studies

Monday, September 29, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Dr. Kasia Szremski: "Playing Both Sides: Cerro Blanco – Sayan and the Chimu – Inka War"
- Lecture

Saturday, October 4, 2025

- 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
- Different locations (see description)
Tango at the 2025 CU Folk & Roots Festival
- Festival/Celebration
- 11:00 am - 3:30 pm
- Multiple locations
Humanities Open House
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, October 5, 2025

- 10:00 am - 10:00 pm
- Different locations (see description)
Tango at the 2025 CU Folk & Roots Festival
- Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 6, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall Room 306
Sofía Saavedra - "El cruce hacia los sueños: un hogar en tránsito y un ritual de identidades nómadas"
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 208
Food For Thought | Ripan Malhi and Yurii Vlasov
- Lecture

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave, Urbana
Climate Change and the Urgency of Hope, Action, and Joy

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
- 4:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Conference Center Room , 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801
Film screening: "From Ground Zero", Part of the "Palestine in the World" Series
- Film Screening

Thursday, October 9, 2025

- 8:30 am
- Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
III Encuentro sobre Migración y Pueblos Originarios
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Xiomi Ortiz, Context Before Engineering – Learning from a Community-Led Water Project in the Navajo Nation
- Lecture
- 7:00 - 8:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
CAS Annual Lecture | Catherine Murphy, The Golden Future of Nanotechnology

Catherine Murphy | The Golden Future of Nanotechnology
- Lecture

Friday, October 10, 2025

- 9:00 am
- Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
III Encuentro sobre Migración y Pueblos Originarios
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:00 pm
- 2049 NHB
Dr. José Atiles - Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4036
Hispanic Heritage Month - Celebration of Scholarship
- Reception/Open House

Saturday, October 11, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium
Latin American Storytime at Urbana Free Library
- Community Service
- 7:30 pm
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
National Arab Orchestra w/ Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
- Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
CLACS Series: "Language and Life in Q’anjob’al Communties" Adan F. Pascual
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 163
Angelica Waner: Zines in the Diaspora: Connecting Literary Threads Across Colonial Borders
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Temple Buell Hall
Lecture: Gabriella Carrillo – Craft, Context, and Sensitivity in Design
- Lecture

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080)
Fall Lecture Series - Dr. Rena Torres Cacoullos
- Lecture

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- JW Eater JR. High, 400 E Wabash Ave, Rantoul, IL 61866
Rantoul City Schools Hispanic Heritage Celebration ; Celebración del mes de la Herencia Hispania de RCS
- Festival/Celebration

Monday, October 20, 2025

- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- 314b Illini Union
International Students Navigating the U.S.: Immigration, Rights, and Resources
- Informational
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 336 Gregory Hall
Frank Center Student Workshop: Investigative Journalism with María Inés Zamudio
- Conference/Workshop
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Virtual Talk: Ser Mujeres en la ESMA / Being Women at ESMA
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Panel on “Community-Engaged Research in Action: Insights for Graduate Students”
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Professor Gino Pauselli (Political Science, UIUC), "Critical Ties: How Reliable Information Suppliers Influence International Organizations' Propensity to Criticize States"
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 108
Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies Reading Group: Juliana Freire’s “Indigenous Documentaries: Art, Self-Representation, and the Environment in Huni Kui Films”
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, Language, Cultures and Literatures Building (LCLB 1080)
Between Amsterdam and the Antilles: Diaspora and Community in Colonial Curaçao
- Lecture

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

- 12:30 - 3:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
Graduate Workshop on "Effective Fellowship Writing"
- Conference/Workshop

Thursday, October 23, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 210
Climate | Change: Fredrik Jonsson on the historical roots of the climate crisis
- Lecture

Monday, October 27, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
CLACS Talk Series: Disordered Domestication: Colonial Logics of Wildness and Domestication in Cusco, Perú. Prof. Amanda Cortez
- Lecture

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Transitional Justice in Mexico: Sisyphus on the Hill / Dr. Francisco Javier Ramírez Treviño
- Lecture

Friday, October 31, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 210
Tropical Polar Bears | Juno Salazar Parreñas

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

Center for Global Studies

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Coble Hall

801 South Wright Street—Second Floor

Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: (217) 265-5186

Email: global-studies@illinois.edu