College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Illinois Global Institute

Illinois Global Institute

Welcome to the calendar of the Illinois Global Institute. We are home to 10 longstanding international area studies centers and thematic programs. Bringing the units together as part of the IGI will improve organizational support, raise visibility, and foster additional cross-campus collaboration on essential international programs

Monday, October 28, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Siebel Center for Design Room 1000
ISSS Intercultural Spotlight: Kazakhstan
- Informational
- 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
- 2:30 - 4:00 pm
- Engineering Sciences Building #190 (ESB 190)
Science Policy Group - Writing Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

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

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Lemann Lecture Series | Fábio Feldmann | Brazil in the face of Climate Change: the challenge of COP 30 in the Amazon
- Lecture
- 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

- 8:00 - 11:00 am
NPRE Graduate Open House
- Reception/Open House
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe: Steve Schwinn

Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from community leaders tackling our most pressing public concerns through an unwavering pursuit of social justice. We are excited to focus the fall series towards Democracy. Steve Schwinn. Free lunch provided.
- Lecture
- 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

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
- 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

- 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

- 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
- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall, Conference Room 108 -- 801 S. Wright Street
Seminar Series - Dr. Stefanie Bumpus McBride
- Seminar/Symposium

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 - 1:00 pm
- 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe: The Certainty Trap: Democracy’s Existential Threat by Ilana Redstone

Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from Ilana Redstone on The Certainty Trap: Democracy’s Existential Threat. Free lunch provided.
- Lecture
- 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

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

- 8:30 am - 4:45 pm
- Alice Campbell Center, Boardroom. 601 S Lincoln Ave, Urbana, IL 61801.
CLACS legacy and the REAL development challenges for Latin American regional economics
- Conference/Workshop
- 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 - 1:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Lemann Lecture Series | Sonia Guimarães | Unlocking Potential Through Diversity: A Call to Action
- Lecture
- 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
- 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 - 4:00 pm
- 213 Gregory Hall
FLAS Info Sessions
- Informational
- 3:00 pm
- 213 Gregory Hall (810 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information 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
- room 146, University Archives, Main Library or via Zoom.
Women in Science Lecture Series: Dr. Supriya Prasanth

The University of Illinois Archives is hosting a monthly Women in Science Lecture Series that will feature speakers from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diverse and multidisciplinary scientific enterprise. The lecture series seeks to highlight the important innovations and contributions of women in the sciences at the University of Illinois.
- Lecture
- 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
- 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
Ancestral Futures: Creating an Aesthetics of Resistance Through Indigenous Performance
- 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
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: Grbavica (BCMS)
- Film Screening
- 7:00 pm
- Illini Hillel
Learn from two Leading Experts about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Lecture

Friday, November 15, 2024

- 10:00 - 11:30 am
BODIES IN FOCUS: New Directions in Research
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- University YMCA Building
Election 2024 on Campus and Across the Country
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe: Election 2024 on Campus and Across the Country by Prov. John Coleman

Election 2024 on Campus and Across the Country by Prov. John Coleman
- Lecture
- 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

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 306
Fighting Extractivism as War: Mujeres Amazónicas’ Forest Politics in Ecuador
- Lecture
- 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 - 4:00 pm
- 207 Psychology Building
FLAS Info Sessions
- Informational
- 3:00 pm
- 207 Psychology Building (603 E Daniel St, Champaign, IL 61820)
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information 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

Friday, November 22, 2024

- 10:00 - 10:50 am
Finding Government Data and Statistics
- Webinar
- 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

Illinois Global Institute

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

104 Coble Hall

801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820

Phone: (217) 244-1146

E-mail: igi-info@illinois.edu