Center for Global Studies

Ignacio Sanchez Prado: "The Aesthetics and Intimacies of Food Sovereignty. Maíz Criollo in Gastronomy and Art"

Time: 3:00 pm TBD 2/3/2025
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)

Lecture

Put your study abroad experience to work and explore career opportunities in foreign diplomacy

Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm 2/4/2025
Location: 306 Coble Hall

Lecture

Book Talk: Water on Fire: A Memoir of War. Tarek El Ariss

Time: 4:00 pm 2/6/2025
Location: Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S. Wright St.

Lecture

Friday Forum + Conversation Café

Recurring

Time: 12:00 pm 2/7/2025
Location: University YMCA Building

Lecture

Summer Graduate Research Conference

Time: 2:00 - 7:00 pm 2/7/2025
Location: Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) Room 4036 and 4039 (1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

Conference/Workshop

Latin American Story Time: "Drummer Boy of John John"

Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/8/2025
Location: The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library

Other

Legal Briefing on Immigration and Undocumented Student Support

Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm 2/10/2025

Informational

Building Inclusive Tech with the Global South

Time: 12:00 pm 2/11/2025
Location: Zoom Webinar

Lecture

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Fair

Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm 2/11/2025
Location: Illini Union Rooms A, B, and C

Informational

IGI Student Q&A Recent Federal Changes

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/13/2025
Location: Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801)

Informational

Friday Forum + Conversation Café

Recurring

Time: 12:00 pm 2/14/2025
Location: University YMCA Building

Lecture

IGI Roundtable | The End of U.S. Foreign Aid?

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm 2/14/2025
Location: 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

Seminar/Symposium

Graduate Student Symposium "Spaces of Nature / Natures of Space"

Time: 5:00 - 6:45 pm 2/14/2025
Location: Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall.

Seminar/Symposium

Talk: Comprehensive Sexual Education from an Intercultural and Anti-racist Perspective

Time: 5:00 pm 2/14/2025
Location: Coble Hall Room 306 (801 S Wright St. Champaign 61820)

Lecture

Global Governance of AI: Political and Ethical Challenges Across National, Regional, and International Approaches

Time: 12:00 pm 2/18/2025
Location: Zoom Webinar

Lecture

Supporting Our Students If ICE Comes to Campus: Webinar for Campus Staff & Faculty

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm 2/18/2025

Informational

Knowing Your Rights and Responsibilities When Interacting with ICE (For Students)

Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm 2/19/2025
Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign

Informational

Global and Area Studies Meet and Greet

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm 2/20/2025
Location: Main Library 321

Social/Informal Event

Celebrating Afro-Cuban Artist Wifredo Lam: A Talk with Lowery Stokes Sims

Time: 5:00 - 8:00 pm 2/20/2025
Location: Temple Hoyne Buell Hall (TBH) Atrium (611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign, IL 61820)

Performance

Friday Forum + Conversation Café

Recurring

Time: 12:00 pm 2/21/2025
Location: University YMCA Building

Lecture

CSAMES Lecture: “Varieties of Power: Women’s Political Representation in Arab Parliaments.” Marwa Shalaby

Time: 12:30 pm 2/21/2025
Location: 404 David Kinley Hall 1407 W Gregory Dr. Urbana

Lecture

Grief as a Method: Human and Non-Human Loss and Alternative Forms of Time in Mexico

Time: 3:00 pm 2/21/2025
Location: 2049 NHB

Lecture

"The Powerful Role of Spatial Planning in Conflictual Zones: From Violent to Hopeful Urbanisms." Yosef Jabareen

Time: 12:30 pm 2/24/2025

Webinar

Comportments of Kurdish Pleasure: Interjecting Leisure as a Necessary Archive

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm 2/24/2025
Location: Davenport Hall 230

Lecture

IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi

Time: 4:00 pm 2/25/2025
Location: 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana

Lecture

Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean (Portuguese)

Time: 6:30 - 7:00 pm 2/25/2025
Location: Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820

Other

Food For Thought: John Levi Barnard and Lindsay Rose Russell

Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 2/26/2025
Location: Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois

Join us for 2 talks featuring recent CAS Associates: John Levi Barnard on oppositional trends in human-animal relations and Lindsay Rose Russell on the history of sex and lexicography.

Lecture

Why Refugee-Led Organizations Must Be At The Forefront of Leading Change

Time: 12:00 pm 2/26/2025
Location: Hilton Garden Inn

Lecture

Brazilian Women Defenders of the Amazon: Virtual Talk

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm 2/27/2025

Lecture

IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi

Time: 4:00 pm 2/27/2025
Location: 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana

Lecture

I-MMAS CHAIR/CÁTEDRA Cooperation, Multiculturalism and Respect to Diversity in Mexico and the United States

Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm 2/27/2025

Webinar

The Taste of Language 2025

Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm 2/27/2025
Location: Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building Atrium (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

Conference/Workshop

The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop

Recurring

Time: All Day 2/28/2025 - 3/1/2025
Location: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Conference/Workshop

Friday Forum + Conversation Café

Recurring

Time: 12:00 pm 2/28/2025
Location: University YMCA Building

Lecture

“Damocles's Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control”

Time: 1:00 pm 2/28/2025
Location: 306 Coble Hall and on Zoom

Lecture

CARNALVAL 2025!

Time: 5:00 - 9:00 pm 2/28/2025
Location: University YMCA

Festival/Celebration