Center for Global Studies

Champaign County Welcoming Week 2026

Recurring

Time: All Day 9/9/2026 - 9/19/2026
Location: Champaign County

Festival/Celebration

Nathan Hensley | No Escape, No Ending: Gesture, Improvisation, Solidarity

Time: 4:00 pm 9/23/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

Lecture

GGIS Colloquium | Gabriela Valdivia, "Where Thought and Place Are One: Yakui Yachana and the Art of Mapping With Amazonian Places"

Time: 3:00 pm 9/25/2026
Location: 2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

Lecture

GGIS & CLACS Present: "Where Thought and Place Are One: Yakui Yachana and the Art of Mapping with Amazonian Places", by Professor Gabriela Valdivia, Professor in the Department of Geography at UNC Chapel Hill and Assistant Dean at Honors Carolina. Event will take place on September 25th at 3:00 pm in 2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

“Thinking Beyond Borders: Tagore and the Question of Home”, Tagore Festival Keynote Lecture – Pranav Jani

Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm 9/26/2026
Location: Channing Murray Foundation

Conference/Workshop

Stephanie O'Rourke | Landscapes of Dis-placement: Mining and Mapping the 19th-century British Empire

Time: 5:30 pm 9/30/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

Lecture

Justin Jackson | Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World

Time: 4:00 pm 10/1/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

Lecture

MillerComm 2027: Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World

Time: 4:00 pm 10/1/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center Room 210 919 W Illinois St Urbana

Lecture

Book Talk: James Lawson: Teacher of Satyagraha, Rajmohan Gandhi

Time: 11:00 am 10/2/2026

Lecture

Election Panel I

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/6/2026
Location: Coble Hall 306

Informational

CLACS & CEAPS Present: Narratives of youth, violence and drugs. Comparing “mano dura” in Ecuador and the Philippines

Time: 3:00 pm 10/7/2026
Location: Coble Hall 306

Lecture

CLACS Talk Series presents "Narratives of Youth, Violence and Drugs: Comparing 'Mano Dura' in Ecuador and the Philippines. Event will take place on October 7th at 3:00 PM in Coble Hall Room 306. The speaker, Cristina Cielo, is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Gender Studies at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencas Sociales (FLACSO) in Ecuador. The evented is cohosted by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS).

Food For Thought | Nicholas Jackson and Stefan Vogler

Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 10/8/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

Lecture

Black and Transgender Migrations and Visions of Sanctuary

Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm 10/8/2026
Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

Lecture

Brent Roberts | Studying Lives and Living a Life: Personality Development Across the Life Course

Time: 5:00 pm 10/9/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

Lecture

“Reformist Muslim Thought: Rethinking the Quran and Islamic Tradition from the19th Century to Today”, Youssouf Sangare

Time: All Day 10/21/2026
Location: 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street , Champaign IL 61820

Lecture

Youssouf Sangaré | Islam in France

Time: 4:00 pm 10/23/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

Lecture

Election Panel II

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/26/2026
Location: Coble Hall 306

Informational

Book Talk: Professor Sanjay Joshi, "Brahmins of the Himalaya"

Time: 11:00 am 10/30/2026

Lecture

CLACS Speaker Series presents: Matthew S. Winters, "Persistent Citizens: Pursuing Social Welfare Benefits in Brazil and Argentina"

Time: 3:00 pm 11/2/2026
Location: Coble Hall 306

Lecture

Jui-Chung Yao and Chien-Hui Kao in conversation: Landscape as Storytelling: The Journey of "Yao’s Black Divine Comedy"

Time: 5:00 pm 11/4/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

Lecture

Food For Thought | Fahad Mahmood and Aleksei Aksimentiev

Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 11/5/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

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“Performance and the Making of Religious Imagery in Early and Medieval India (Buddhist, Hindu, Jain)”, Anna Tosato

Time: 11:00 am 11/6/2026

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CLACS Speaker Series presents: María Alejandra García Otero (Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences)

Time: 3:00 pm 11/9/2026
Location: Coble Hall 306

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CLACS Speaker Series presents: Angharad Valdivia

Time: 3:00 pm 11/16/2026
Location: Coble Hall 306

Lecture

Food For Thought | Kimberly Mack and Laura Hetric

Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 12/3/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

Lecture

Food For Thought | Tess McNulty and Alex Shakar

Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 12/8/2026
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

Lecture