ACES Office of International Programs

Courtney will use her experience of teaching Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Wofford College along with her expertise on self-care pedagogy to show how scholars and students can address the hard questions from an interdisciplinary angle while also doing so in a way that is generative and sustainable.

Lecture

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/4/2023
306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St

Dr. Courtney Dorroll: "Mindfulness and Self-Care Pedagogy for Area Studies and Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students"

Lecture

12:00 pm 4/4/2023
International and Area Studies Library 309

Helaine Silverman, "Weaponizing Cultural Heritage: Nationalist Contestations of the Past in Thailand and Cambodia"

Lecture

4:00 pm 4/4/2023

IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: The Global Impacts of The War in Ukraine

Lecture

4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/4/2023

Russia’s War on Ukraine: Impacts on the Global South

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

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

3:00 pm 4/5/2023
306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

Graduate Student Discussion: "Self-Care in the Classroom" led by Dr. Courtney Dorroll

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

1:00 - 2:30 pm 4/6/2023

Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop 101

The Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop guides program leaders (faculty, staff, or students leading programs) in preparing for the safest possible experience abroad. Those who lead, or assist, short-term education abroad or other University-related travel abroad for students must attend at least one workshop a year.

Conference/Workshop

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

7:00 pm 4/6/2023
210, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801

Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist

Lecture

12:00 pm 4/7/2023
International and Area Studies Library 309

Martin Nekola, "The Czech Republic, The European Union and the Rise of Populism"

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

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/8/2023
The Urbana Free Library

Latin American Story Time: Quechua!

Other

2:00 - 3:30 pm 4/10/2023

Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop 101

The Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop guides program leaders (faculty, staff, or students leading programs) in preparing for the safest possible experience abroad. Those who lead, or assist, short-term education abroad or other University-related travel abroad for students must attend at least one workshop a year.

Conference/Workshop

3:00 pm 4/10/2023
Coble 306

CLACS Lecture Series. Francisco Rodríguez-Suárez and Isabella Hillman "Puerto Rico: a tale of two systems"

Lecture

11:00 am 4/11/2023

The Ongoing Struggle to Recover Nazi Looted Art (Conversations on Europe)

Seminar/Symposium

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/11/2023

Financial Development, Corruption and Shadow Economy: Evidence from the MENA Region.

Lecture

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

4:00 pm 4/11/2023
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

Comidas Que Curan: (Re)discovering Ancestral Wisdom Through Ethnography and Filmmaking

Join us for film screening of Raspando coco (31 mins.) followed by discussion with filmmaker and Illinois Alumna Dr. Pilar Egüez Guevara on April 11, 2023.

Film Screening

12:00 pm 4/12/2023
International and Area Studies Library, Room 309

Benjamin Bross, Mexico City Zócalo: Spatial Production and the Ongoing Construction of a National Identity

Lecture

12:00 pm 4/12/2023
In person: International and Area Studies Library, Room 309 And on Zoom

Benjamin A. Bross, "Mexico City Zócalo: Spatial Production and the Ongoing Construction of a National Identity"

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

1:00 pm 4/12/2023
Room-345, Arthur Seminar room, Armory

Challenge of Enforcing the laws of War

Lecture

4:00 pm 4/12/2023
306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St and via Zoom

Student Discussion on "Moving Across Careers as a Versatile Scholar"

Lecture

All Day 4/13/2023 - 4/14/2023
306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820

13th Annual Illinois EU Studies Conference: "Who is European? Inclusion and Exclusion Within and Without Europe"

Conference/Workshop

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

4:00 pm 4/13/2023
Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB

"The Making of Standard French," lecture by Professor Olivia Walsh (U of Nottingham) followed by panel discussion

Lecture

7:00 pm 4/13/2023

Demystifying Libya: Why the Crisis of Transition Continues

This talk will address first, the dominant mystifying perceptions of the current crisis of transition in Libya after 2011, then it shall present an alternative critical argument to understand the causes of the civil war, and main internal, regional and international actors behind it.

Lecture

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/14/2023
1001 S Wright St, Champaign

Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe

Lecture

12:00 - 2:30 pm 4/14/2023

WGGP Graduate Forum

Conference/Workshop

2:00 pm 4/15/2023
Lincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, Urbana, IL 61801

EU Day of Art 2023: Flamenco Workshop and Performance

Performance

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
Room 4-G Education

Tang Heng, "Diversity: a socioculturally- constructed concept."

Lecture

11:00 am 4/19/2023 - 4/26/2023

Away from the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural Shift in Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion

Seminar/Symposium

1:00 - 2:00 pm 4/19/2023
507 E Green St, Champaign, Room 411

Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop 201

The Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop 201 offers program leaders (faculty, staff, or students leading programs) discussion questions to reflect and prepare for the safest possible experience abroad. Those who lead, or assist, short-term education abroad or other University-related travel abroad for students must attend at least one workshop a year.

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

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

11:00 am 4/20/2023

KATIP CELEBI and the transformation of Ottoman Geography

Lecture

2:00 pm 4/20/2023
Krannert Art Museum's Auditorium KAM 62

Vanessa Zuñiga, Tinkuy: Meeting in Diversity

Lecture

3:00 pm 4/20/2023
Zoom

Empowering Digital Equity & Access

Lecture

4:00 pm 4/20/2023
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

The Good Boss (El buen patrón): Film screening

Film Screening

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/21/2023
1001 S Wright St, Champaign

Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe

Lecture

12:00 pm 4/21/2023
306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St

Winifred Poster "Women Maintenance Workers for Global Information Highway: Village Data Processing Centers in India"

Lecture

7:30 pm 4/21/2023
Recital Hall, Smith Memorial Hall. 1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana

Latin American Ensemble

Performance

9:30 - 11:00 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

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

4:30 pm 4/24/2023
Spurlock Museum

Kevork Mourad in Conversation with Helen Makdoumian

Conference/Workshop

4:30 pm 4/24/2023
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana

Kevork Mourad in Conversation with Helen Makhdoumian

Lecture

5:00 pm 4/25/2023
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL

Film screening: Serán las dueñas de la tierra

Ceremony/Service

1:00 pm 4/26/2023
Room-345, Arthur Seminar room, Armory

Ethical Foundations of Laws of War

Lecture

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

3:00 - 4:30 pm 4/28/2023

Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop 101

The Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop guides program leaders (faculty, staff, or students leading programs) in preparing for the safest possible experience abroad. Those who lead, or assist, short-term education abroad or other University-related travel abroad for students must attend at least one workshop a year.