LAS Global Studies Master Calendar

Monday, February 3, 2025

- 3:00 pm TBD
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
Ignacio Sanchez Prado: "The Aesthetics and Intimacies of Food Sovereignty. Maíz Criollo in Gastronomy and Art"
- Lecture

Thursday, February 6, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
University Academic Alliance In Taiwan (UAAT) Info Session 1
- Informational
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building
Beinecke Scholarship Information Session
- Informational
- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S. Wright St.
Book Talk: Water on Fire: A Memoir of War. Tarek El Ariss
- Lecture

Friday, February 7, 2025

- 9:00 - 10:00 am
ONLINE Beinecke Scholarship Information Session
- Informational
- 10:00 - 11:30 am
BODIES IN FOCUS: Centering the Body in Pedagogy & Teaching
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 7:00 pm
- Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) Room 4036 and 4039 (1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
Summer Graduate Research Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 514 Illini Union Bookstore Building
Beinecke Scholarship Workshop
- Informational
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
University Academic Alliance In Taiwan (UAAT) Info Session 2
- Informational

Saturday, February 8, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library
Latin American Story Time: "Drummer Boy of John John"
- Other

Monday, February 10, 2025

- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Legal Briefing on Immigration and Undocumented Student Support
- Informational

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

- 10:00 am
- Zoom
SRS Research and Language Learning Workshop: Georgian
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Illini Union Rooms A, B, and C
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Fair
- Informational

Thursday, February 13, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)
IGI Student Q&A Recent Federal Changes
- Informational

Friday, February 14, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
Democratic Erosion and Women’s Political Power: Perspectives from Europe
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
IGI Roundtable | The End of U.S. Foreign Aid?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
IGI Roundtable | The End of U.S. Foreign Aid?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
IGI Roundtable | The End of U.S. Foreign Aid?
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:45 pm
- Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall.
Graduate Student Symposium "Spaces of Nature / Natures of Space"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union
SP25 Korean Conversation Table
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall Room 306 (801 S Wright St. Champaign 61820)
Talk: Comprehensive Sexual Education from an Intercultural and Anti-racist Perspective
- Lecture

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Supporting Our Students If ICE Comes to Campus: Webinar for Campus Staff & Faculty
- Informational

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Latzer Hall, University YMCA 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign
Knowing Your Rights and Responsibilities When Interacting with ICE (For Students)
- Informational

Thursday, February 20, 2025

- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- Main Library 321
Global and Area Studies Meet and Greet
- Social/Informal Event
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- 514 IUB, 807 S. Wright St. Floor 5
Samvid Scholarship Information Session
- Informational
- 5:00 - 8:00 pm
- Temple Hoyne Buell Hall (TBH) Atrium (611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign, IL 61820)
Celebrating Afro-Cuban Artist Wifredo Lam: A Talk with Lowery Stokes Sims
- Performance

Friday, February 21, 2025

- 10:00 - 11:30 am
BODIES IN FOCUS: Body Matters & Liberation in East European and Eurasian Studies
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture
- 12:30 pm
- 404 David Kinley Hall 1407 W Gregory Dr. Urbana
CSAMES Lecture: “Varieties of Power: Women’s Political Representation in Arab Parliaments.” Marwa Shalaby
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building, 707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
EALC/CEAPS Alumni Book Talk | “Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans: Rethinking ‘Women’ in 1970s–1980s Japan” | James Welker
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- 2049 NHB
Grief as a Method: Human and Non-Human Loss and Alternative Forms of Time in Mexico
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union
SP25 Korean Conversation Table
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 12:00
Beinecke Campus Deadline
- Informational
- 12:30 pm
"The Powerful Role of Spatial Planning in Conflictual Zones: From Violent to Hopeful Urbanisms." Yosef Jabareen
- Webinar
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- Davenport Hall 230
Comportments of Kurdish Pleasure: Interjecting Leisure as a Necessary Archive
- Lecture

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 1:30 - 3:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
CEAPS Book Talk | “Home Beyond the House: Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China” | Wei (Windy) Zhao
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana
IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St.
Why is Palestine Important? (IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World)
- Lecture
- 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 (Portuguese)
- Other

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

- 12:00 pm
- Hilton Garden Inn
Why Refugee-Led Organizations Must Be At The Forefront of Leading Change
- Lecture

Thursday, February 27, 2025

- 12:00 pm
Voyager Priority Deadline
- Informational
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Brazilian Women Defenders of the Amazon: Virtual Talk
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana
IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi
- Ceremony/Service
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building Atrium (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
The Taste of Language 2025
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, February 28, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Friday Forum + Conversation Café
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
CEAPS Brown Bag |“Damocles’s Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control” | Meicen Sun
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 210 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois
Multilingualism and Multimusicality in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- Everitt Lab 2233 (except for 4/4 in Everitt Lab 3117), Engineering Hall near Illini Union
SP25 Korean Conversation Table
- Social/Informal Event

Saturday, March 1, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 10:00 am
- 210 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois
Literature's Refuge at the Aegean Borderscape
- Lecture