Center for Global Studies

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- All Day
  3/29/2023 - 4/2/2023
- Memorial Room, Smith Memorial Hall
Puerto Rico Symposium – Encuentro Puertorriqueño de Creación Musical
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
  3/31/2023 - 4/1/2023
- 2090B Foreign Languages Building (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
Twenty-Second Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
  3/31/2023 - 4/1/2023
- Bardeen and Engineering Quads
Engineering Open House 2023

The Future, Today. Experience exciting exhibits and competitions during Engineering Open House 2023!
- Reception/Open House
- 10:00 - 11:30 am
  4/1/2023
- Murphy Community Gallery, University YMCA. 1001 S Wright Street, Champaign IL 61821
K-12 PDH "The Arts of Creating Antiracist Immigrant Communities in Champaign IL"
- Professional Development
- 5:00 pm
  4/3/2023
- TBA
LAC Cities Collective. Dr Sofía Zaragocín (Geography, Universidad San Francisco de Quito) "A decolonial feminist geographical framework for critical geography at the hemispheric scale."
- Lecture
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
  4/3/2023
Caught Between Cultures: Book Club for Educators
- Informational
- All Day
  4/4/2023 - 4/5/2023
- ACES Library, University of Illinois
“Ensuring Food Security in the Tropics Through Livestock Genetic Improvement”
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
  4/4/2023
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: The Global Impacts of The War in Ukraine
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  4/4/2023
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: Margarita Balmaceda, Title TBA
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  4/4/2023
TBA. Dr. Balmaceda will be speaking on energy chains and the Ukraine War's impact on the Middle East and Global South.
- Lecture
- 7:30 pm
  4/4/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 300
Interseminars | Macarena Gómez-Barris: “Unwriting the Colonial Anthropocene”

Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  4/5/2023
- 3111 Lincoln Hall
Workshop by Mahbubeh Moqadam
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
  4/5/2023
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St and via Zoom
WGGP Faculty Affiliate Lecture: McKenzie Johnson "Gender in Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding"
- Lecture
- 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
  4/6/2023
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
Study and Destress with the EU Center
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 pm
  4/6/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Nerses Kopalyan: "Armenia's Pivot to the West: Collapse of the Russian-Led Security Architecture in the South Caucasus"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  4/6/2023
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street, Champaign
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities. "Armenia's Pivot to the West: Collapse of the Russian-led Security Architecture in the South Caucasus"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  4/6/2023
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Nerses Kopalyan:"Armenia's Pivot to the West: Collapse of the Russian-led Security Architecture in the South Caucasus"
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  4/6/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 424
HRI Undergraduate Coffee Hour
- Other
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  4/6/2023
- 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, Illinois 60606
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Career Opportunities Outside Traditional Tech

Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.
- Professional Development
- 1:00 - 2:30 pm
  4/7/2023
- 306 Coble Hall
CEAPS Speaker | Akira Shimizu - "Grapes that Connected Peasants to the Shogun: A New Perspective on Early-Modern Japanese Society through Regional Brand Food."
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
  4/7/2023
- La Casa Cultural Latina. 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana.
Bate Papo (Portuguese Conversation Table)
- Social/Informal Event
- 9:30
  4/8/2023
- Hybrid event. In person at ARC Instructional Kitchen (limited spaces) & via Zoom.
CLACS K-14 Series. Dr Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese). “Food and Culture in Latin America: The Case of Chocolate”
- Professional Development
- 12:00 - 3:00 pm
  4/8/2023
Latin American Story Time: Quechua!
- Other
- 3:00 pm
  4/10/2023
- Coble 306
CLACS Lecture Series. Francisco Rodríguez-Suárez (School of Architecture).
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
  4/11/2023
The Ongoing Struggle to Recover Nazi Looted Art (Conversations on Europe)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
  4/11/2023
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. 600 S. Gregory St. Urbana, IL 61801
Film screening and discussion with Dr. Pilar Egüez Guevara (IL Alumna): "Raspando Coco"
- Film Screening
- 7:00 - 9:00 pm
  4/11/2023
- Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium (600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801)
AsiaLENS - “Far East Deep South” (Film Screening & Discussion w/ Filmmaker Baldwin Chiu)
- Film Screening
- 7:30 pm
  4/11/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 208
Interseminars | Artist Talk with David Shrobe

Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
  4/12/2023
- Room 108 Coble Hall
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities. "The impact of Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Food and Nutrition Security in Africa: A Call for a More Resilient African Food System"
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
  4/12/2023
- 108 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St
Dr. John Ulimwengu:"The impact of Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Food and Nutrition Security in Africa: A Call for a More Resilient African Food System"
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
  4/12/2023
- Room 108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: John Ulimwengu, "The impact of Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Food and Nutrition Security in Africa: A Call for a More Resilient African Food System"
- Lecture
- 6:00 pm
  4/12/2023
- I Hotel, Chancellor Ballroom
Authors in Conversation: Dave Eggers & Daniel Gumbiner

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He will be in conversation with author Daniel Gumbiner, whose first book, The Boatbuilder, was nominated for the National Book Award and a finalist for the California Book Awards.
- Other
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  4/13/2023
- Main Library at 1408 W Gregory Dr. Room 146, Urbana, IL 61801
April Lecture with Molly Hathaway Goldstein

Teaching Assistant Professor and Product Design Lab Director, Dr. Goldstein will share her research on student-designer trade off decisions and design actions and thinking.
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
  4/13/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Dave Eggers on Working with Community Organizations and Nonprofits

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
- Other
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  4/13/2023
- 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, Illinois 60606
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: What's Your Brand? Developing Your Professional Persona

Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.
- Professional Development
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  4/14/2023
- 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
  4/14/2023
- I Hotel, Chancellor Ballroom
Distinguished Lecture | Françoise Baylis: "Designer Babies: What Are They and Do We Want Them?"

Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI.
- Lecture
- 10:00 - 10:30 am
  4/15/2023
- Champaign Public Library, Nate & Lillie Story Room (200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820)
East Asian Story Time: “Drawn together”
- Community Service
- 3:30 pm
  4/17/2023
- Coble Hall, Room 306
CLACS Lecture Series. Dr. Paulina L. Alberto (History, Harvard University). "Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina”
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
  4/18/2023
- 0357 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801)
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Alyssa Mathias, "Songs from the Silicon Mountains: Music and IT Development in 21st-Century Armenia"
- Lecture
- 7:30 pm
  4/18/2023
- Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801)
Rochelle Sennet: Piano Concert at Krannert Center
- Performance
- 12:00 pm
  4/19/2023
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
Food for the Soul/Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney

Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina
- Other
- 12:00 pm
  4/19/2023
- 3111 Lincoln Hall
Workshop by Fatou Jobe
- Conference/Workshop
- 5:00 pm
  4/19/2023
- La Casa Cultural Latina. 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana.
Bate Papo (Portuguese Conversation Table)
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:30 pm
  4/19/2023
- Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium in person; livestream at go.illinois.edu/culturetalk
CultureTalk | Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown

Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating.
- Other
- 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
  4/20/2023
- 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
Study and Destress with the EU Center
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  4/20/2023
- 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, IL 60606
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Equity and Social Justice in Computing

Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.
- Professional Development
- 7:30 pm
  4/20/2023
- Alice Campbell Alumni Center
Un/Doing | Poetry Reading and Book Signing: Nikky Finney

Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Poetry Reading: Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina Photo by Forrest Clonts
- Performance
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  4/21/2023
- 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe
- Lecture
- 9:30 am
  4/22/2023
- Hybrid event. In person at Room 1000, Siebel Center for Design & via Zoom
CLACS K-14 Series. Dr. Monica González Ybarra (Curriculum & Instruction) & Dr. Juanatano Cano (LAUSD). "Latin American and the Caribbean Cultures of Education"
- Professional Development
- 12:00 pm
  4/22/2023
- 3057 Lincoln Hall
Dr. Tim Bartley - GSAC Annual Conference
- Conference/Workshop
- 2:00 pm
  4/22/2023
- The Urbana Free Library (210 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801)
Slavic Story Time at The Urbana Free Library
- Informational
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  4/24/2023
- Coble Hall 306 (801 S. Wright St., Champaign)
VASP Brown Bag - Weihua Li, "The Narrative Ethics of 'Historical Writings' in 'The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons'"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:30 - 7:00 pm
  4/26/2023
- 1210 West Nevada Street, Urbana (Asian American Cultural Center / International Education)
The Culture of Catalonia (Spain)
- Religious/Cultural
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  4/27/2023
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Graduate Student Town Hall

HRI's Graduate Student Advisory Committee invites graduate students to attend a town hall lunch! Shape the future of the humanities through both open and guided conversation. Share your thoughts about ways that HRI can better support graduate students across campus in humanities-centered research throughout their academic careers. Please register in advance.
- Other
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  4/27/2023
- 200 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 701, Chicago, IL 60606
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Career Opportunities in Big Tech

Part of the Computer Science Speaker Series. Faculty Host: Dr. Nancy Amato.
- Professional Development
- All Day
  4/28/2023
Humanities Research Lab Showcase

Students from HRI-funded Humanities Research Lab courses, SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community and HIST 312: Immigrant America, showcase their community-engaged research as part of Undergraduate Research Week.
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
  4/28/2023
- YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Spring Reception
- Reception/Open House
- 5:00 pm
  4/28/2023
- La Casa Cultural Latina. 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana.
Bate Papo (Portuguese Conversation Table)
- Social/Informal Event
- 2:00 - 2:30 pm
  4/29/2023
- Urbana Free Library (210 West Green Street Urbana, Illinois 61801)
East Asian Story Time: “Suki's Kimono”
- Community Service