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International and Area Studies Library - Campus Events

Monday, October 28, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Carna Brkovic: "Willing Suspension of Disbelief: The Work of Imagination in Sustaining Moral Projects"
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
REEEC New Directions Lecture: Čarna Brković: "Willing Suspension of Disbelief: The Work of Imagination in Sustaining Moral Projects"
- Lecture
- 5:30 - 6:30 pm
- Huff Hall Room 1001, 1206 S. 4th Street, Champaign, IL 61820
"Free to Exist: Insights into the Participation of LGBTQIA + Young People in Sport and Physical Activity"
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

- All Day
- 306 Coble Hall 801 S. Wright Street Champaign
Black Iraqi Heritage: Seminar and Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana
Associate Professor of History Dr. Tithi Bhattacharya: “I Forgot to Die”, Thinking through Social Reproduction of Palestinian Life
- Lecture
- 3:30 - 5:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
Dr. Laura Goffman's Book Talk: "Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 4:40 pm
- Coble Hall 108
Kazakh Language Speaking Club
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

- All Day
- 306 Coble Hall 801 S. Wright Street Champaign
Black Iraqi Heritage: Seminar and Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 31, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (LCLB)
Arab Cafe
- Social/Informal Event
- 3:00 pm TBD
- Coble Hall, room 306. 801 S Wright St, Champaign IL 61820
“La transition qui en finit pas"/ Haiti’s transition(s) to democracy and stability: a critical review of international, regional and sub-regional efforts in crisis management.
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Halloween Film Screening: "Let the Right One In"
- Film Screening
- 3:30 pm
- Davenport Hall 230
Photographic Refusal: The Politics of Indigeneity and Multispecies Relating in Photography Tourism
- Lecture

Friday, November 1, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building, 707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Empowering Democracy: The Agonistic Potential of Rebetika Music in Greece (John S. Latsis Public Lecture)
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
- 2049 Natural History Building
Hybrid GGIS Colloquium | A Political Economy of Urban Informality Under Racial Capitalism
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 2233 Everitt Lab
FA24 Korean Conversation Table
- Other

Saturday, November 2, 2024

- 12:00 - 2:30 pm
- 2000 S Lincoln Ave Urbana, IL 61802
Onigiri Action Workshop

Join the Japan House interns on an interactive exploration of onigiri, their history, their culture, and preparation methods! Support #OnigiriAction during this tasty workshop!
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, November 4, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Latzer Hall (inside University YMCA) - 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign
"Peaceworks on Campus"
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- 210 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
Film Screening: Touristic Intents—Can a Building be Guilty?
- Film Screening

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

- 12:00 pm
Dr. Hassan Elhaj: "Hybridity, Contention, and War in Sudan"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 4:40 pm
- Coble Hall 108
Kazakh Language Speaking Club
- Social/Informal Event

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

- 2:30 - 4:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 LCLB
EALC Study Abroad Info Session
- Other
- 5:00 - 8:00 pm
- Collaboration and Community Gallery, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
From "Stories" to "Comics": A Creative Rendezvous with Sumit Kumar
- Conference/Workshop
- 6:00 pm
- 1092 Lincoln Hall
How did Global Events Shape the 2024 Presidential Election?
- Lecture
- 6:00 pm
- Room 1092, Lincoln Hall
How did Global Events Shape the 2024 Presidential Election?
- Lecture

Thursday, November 7, 2024

- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 2090B LCLB
EALC Monthly Mixer
- Other
- 4:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Elena Guzman: “From Reel to Ritual: Worldmaking through Cinéritual in African Diasporic Film”
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
"The Struggle to Govern the Oceans: The Past, Present, and Future of the Law of the Sea"
- Lecture

Friday, November 8, 2024

- 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
- 1010 Multipurpose Room, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL, 61801
Black Europe Symposium: Formations
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Tetyana Dzyadevych, "Voices of Political Revival in Post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian Cultural Field"
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 2233 Everitt Lab
FA24 Korean Conversation Table
- Other

Saturday, November 9, 2024

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library
Latin American Story Time: "Spanish is the Language of my Family/ El español es la lengua de mi familia"
- Other

Monday, November 11, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- 2090B Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
EUC Brown Bag: Leveling and Spotlighting: How the European Court of Justice Favors the Weak to Promote its Legitimacy
- Lecture
- 4:30 - 5:30 pm
- BNAACC Multipurpose room, 1212 W. Nevada Street
What Now?
- Lecture

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
Lemann Lecture Series | Sonia Guimarães | Unlocking Potential Through Diversity: A Call to Action
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 4:40 pm
- Coble Hall 108
Kazakh Language Speaking Club
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (LCLB)
Movie Night
- Film Screening
- 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

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

- 3:00 pm
- 213 Gregory Hall
FLAS 1st Info Session
- Informational
- 3:00 pm
- 213 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Session
- Informational
- 6:00 pm
- Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S Gregory St. Urbana
AsiaLENS: "1923 Kanto Massacre" Screening (US Premiere) + Discussion w/ Dr. Jinhee Lee
- Film Screening

Thursday, November 14, 2024

- 12:00 pm
Co-producing counter narratives of radical care, hope, and imagined just futures
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Join us on Zoom (registration link below) or at the University Archives (146 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana)
Women in Science Lecture: Dr. Supriya Prasanth

Professor and Head of Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Dr. Prasanth will discuss her research on eukaryotic DNA replication, chromosome structure and maintenance, heterochromatin organization, and cell cycle control.
- Webinar
- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
REEES Graduate Programs Information Session
- Informational
- 3:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge - 1080 LCLB (707 S. Mathews Ave.)
EALC Speaker Series | Quillon Arkenstone "The Anti-espionage Novel and the Fostering of Wartime Subjectivity in Imperial Japan and Korea"
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 LCLB
EALC Speaker Series: Quillon Arkenstone "The Anti-espionage Novel and the Fostering of Wartime Subjectivity in Imperial Japan and Korea"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Main Library Reading Room
Main Library Reading Room closed from 4 p.m. on Nov. 14 to 2p.m. on Nov. 15

The Main Library’s Reading Room will be closed for a private event from Thursday, November 14 at 4:00 p.m. until Friday, November 15 at 6:00 p.m. Normal hours will resume on Saturday, November 16. Parking in Lot E3 may be limited.
- Other
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall 801 S. Wright St. Champaign IL 61820
Salahaldini Abdourhamane, Poetry In Praise of The Prophet: Bilingual Manuscripts and Their Performance in Timbuktu
- 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

Friday, November 15, 2024

- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Main Library Reading Room
Main Library Reading Room closed from 4 p.m. on Nov. 14 to 2p.m. on Nov. 15

The Main Library’s Reading Room will be closed for a private event from Thursday, November 14 at 4:00 p.m. until Friday, November 15 at 6:00 p.m. Normal hours will resume on Saturday, November 16. Parking in Lot E3 may be limited.
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- 0357 Music Building (1114 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Rochelle Sennet, "On Performing and Teaching Music in Tashkent, Uzbekistan"
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
CEAPS Speaker | Katie Bruhn (ISU) "Alam & Malay Cosmology: Eco-Critical Art Practices in Minangkabau"
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 2233 Everitt Lab
FA24 Korean Conversation Table
- Other

Saturday, November 16, 2024

- 11:00 am
- The Urbana Free Library (210 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801)
Slavic Story Time at The Urbana Free Library
- Social/Informal Event
- 6:00 - 7:30 pm
- Illini Union 1401 W Green St. Urbana Room 104
Documentary screening: Molf-e Gand
- Film Screening

Monday, November 18, 2024

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. 801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801
Fighting Extractivism as War: Mujeres Amazónicas' Forest Politics in Ecuador with Dr. Andrea Sempertegui
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:30 pm
- International Area Studies Library, Third Floor IASL 1408 Gregory Dr. #321, Urbana, IL 61801
Dr. Samuel Llano's Book Talk: "Music, Race, and the Sonic Architecture of Colonial Morocco"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:30 pm
- International Area Studies Library 1408 Gregory Dr. #321, Urbana, IL 61801
Dr. Samuel Llano's Book Talk: "Music, Race, and the Sonic Architecture of Colonial Morocco"
- Lecture

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

- 11:00 am
- University YMCA's Latzer Hall
Talk: Mexican - U.S. Relations in an Era of Global Migration
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
- 207 Psychology bldg
FLAS 2nd Info Session
- Informational
- 3:00 pm
- 207 Psychology Building, 603 E Daniel St, Champaign, IL 61820
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Session
- Informational

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- 801 S. Wright St. Coble Hall room 305
Arabic Tutoring
- Other

Friday, November 22, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge - 1080 LCLB (707 S. Mathews Ave.)
EALC Speaker Series | Adam L. Kern "If the Shoe Fits! The Curious Transnational Case of Mizuki Shigeru’s ‘Japanese Cinderella’ Manga"
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 LCLB
EALC Speaker Series: Adam L. Kern “If the Shoe Fits! The Curious Transnational Case of Mizuki Shigeru’s ‘Japanese Cinderella’ Manga”
- Lecture

Saturday, November 23, 2024

- 8:30 am
Fall break begins
- Ceremony/Service

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