LAS Global Studies Master Calendar

Monday, September 29, 2025

- 8:00 am
- National and International Scholarships Program
Fulbright Final Submittal Deadline
- Informational
- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Dr. Kasia Szremski: "Playing Both Sides: Cerro Blanco – Sayan and the Chimu – Inka War"
- Lecture

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

- 1:30 - 3:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
CEAPS Speaker | “Cybernetics with Chinese Characteristics: Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Reform” | Uluğ Kuzuoğlu (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Lecture

Thursday, October 2, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
CEAPS Speaker | "Global Challenges: The View from Down Under" | Prof. John Blaxland
- Lecture

Friday, October 3, 2025

- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center 210
An Envoy State: Turfan and the Integration of Medieval Eurasia -- Prof. Xin Wen (Princeton University)
- 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

- 12:00 pm
- National and International Scholarships Program
Churchill Campus Deadline
- Informational
- 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

- 12:00 pm
- 108 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
From Brexit to Trump: The Rise of Jacobin Nationalism
- Lecture

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

- 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
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
Goldwater Scholarship Information Session
- Informational

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
- 9:00 - 10:00 am
ONLINE Goldwater Scholarship Information Session
- Informational
- 3:00 pm
- 2049 NHB
Dr. José Atiles - Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
Goldwater Scholarship Workshop
- Informational

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 pm
- 2090B LCLB
Slavic Dept Lecture: "PRL Noir: Specters of Communism in Contemporary Polish Cinema"
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- 2090B LCLB
Slavic Dept Lecture: "PRL Noir: Specters of Communism in Contemporary Polish Cinema"
- Lecture

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
Critical Language Scholarship Information Session
- Informational
- 5:15 pm
- Main Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
PJCS Film screening: SHTTL
- Film Screening

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
ONLINE Critical Language Scholarship Program Information Session
- Informational
- 1:30 - 3:00 pm
- Hybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM
(POSTPONED, NEW DATE TBA) CEAPS Brown Bag | “Zhou Zuoren at Tiger Bridge”| Jingling Chen
- Lecture
- 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
- 4:00 - 6:30 pm
- Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
AsiaLENS | "Black Box Diaries" Screening + Q&A with filmmater Shiori Itô
- Film Screening
- 4:00 pm
Virtual Talk: ESMA Survivors
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

- 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
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities
- Informational

Thursday, October 23, 2025

- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
Boren (Undergraduate) Information Session
- Informational
- 7:00
- Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S Gregory St. Urbana
Roger Ebert Screening: Piccadilly (1929)
- Film Screening

Friday, October 24, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
ONLINE Boren (Undergraduate) Information Session
- Informational
- 2:00 pm
- Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S Gregory St. Urbana
Roger Ebert Lecture | "A Yellow Spot on the Silver Screen" | Yiman Wang
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building, 807 S Wright St Champaign IL, 61820
Boren (Undergraduate) Workshop
- Informational

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Transitional Justice in Mexico: Sisyphus on the Hill / Dr. Francisco Javier Ramírez Treviño
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 7:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Halloween Film Screening: "Pan's Labyrinth"

Halloween Film Screening: "Pan's Labyrinth" | October 29 at 4 pm | Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Film Screening

Friday, October 31, 2025

- 1:30 - 3:00 pm
- Hybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM
VASP Brown Bag | “Morality and Sentiment: Female Ci Poets and Cultural Transformation in Late Ming China” | Baiheng Qian
- Lecture