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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

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Puerto Rico Symposium – Encuentro Puertorriqueño de Creación Musical
Recurring

All Day 3/29/2023 - 4/2/2023

Memorial Room, Smith Memorial Hall
- Conference/Workshop
Twenty-Second Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop
Recurring

All Day 3/31/2023 - 4/1/2023

2090B Foreign Languages Building (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
- Conference/Workshop
K-12 PDH "The Arts of Creating Antiracist Immigrant Communities in Champaign IL"

10:00 - 11:30 am 4/1/2023

Murphy Community Gallery, University YMCA. 1001 S Wright Street, Champaign IL 61821
- Professional Development
MillerComm Lecture Series: Playing Across the Tofu Curtain and Other Conversing Intersection

2:00 pm 4/2/2023

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum 600 South Gregory, Urbana
- Performance
Lemann Lecture Series - Ana Gouvea Abras, Merges and Acquisitions and Gender Inequality in Banking Jobs: Did the Tide Lift all Boats?

10:00 am 4/3/2023

Coble Hall 306
- Lecture
LAC Cities Collective. Dr Sofía Zaragocín (Geography, Universidad San Francisco de Quito) "A decolonial feminist geographical framework for critical geography at the hemispheric scale."

5:00 pm 4/3/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
- Lecture
Caught Between Cultures: Book Club for Educators

6:00 - 8:00 pm 4/3/2023
- Informational
Self-Care and Sustainability for Area Studies and Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students

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

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

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

306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St
- Lecture
Self-Care and Sustainability for Area Studies and Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students

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

306 Coble Hall (801 South Wright Street Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Helaine Silverman, "Weaponizing Cultural Heritage: Nationalist Contestations of the Past in Thailand and Cambodia"

12:00 pm 4/4/2023

International and Area Studies Library 309
- Lecture
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: The Global Impacts of The War in Ukraine

4:00 pm 4/4/2023
- Lecture
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities: Margarita Balmaceda, "Russia's War on Ukraine: Impacts on the Global South"

4:00 pm 4/4/2023
- Lecture
Russia’s War on Ukraine: Impacts on the Global South

4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/4/2023
- Lecture
TBA. Dr. Balmaceda will be speaking on energy chains and the Ukraine War's impact on the Middle East and Global South.

4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/4/2023
- Lecture
WGGP Faculty Affiliate Lecture: McKenzie Johnson "Gender in Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding"

12:00 pm 4/5/2023

306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St and via Zoom
- Lecture
The Manuscript Heritage of Sudanic Africa: Issues in Standardisation, Preservation, and Knowledge Generation

12:00 pm 4/5/2023

108 Coble Hall and Zoom
- Lecture
Graduate Student Discussion: "Self-Care in the Classroom" led by Dr. Courtney Dorroll

3:00 pm 4/5/2023

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Graduate Student Discussion: "Self-Care in the Classroom" led by Dr. Courtney Dorroll

3:00 - 4:00 pm 4/5/2023

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Study and Destress with the EU Center

9:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/6/2023

306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
- Social/Informal Event
Nerses Kopalyan: "Armenia's Pivot to the West: Collapse of the Russian-Led Security Architecture in the South Caucasus"

4:00 pm 4/6/2023

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
IGI Series on Global Responsibilities. "Armenia's Pivot to the West: Collapse of the Russian-led Security Architecture in the South Caucasus"

4:00 pm 4/6/2023

306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street, Champaign
- Lecture
Nerses Kopalyan:"Armenia's Pivot to the West: Collapse of the Russian-led Security Architecture in the South Caucasus"

4:00 pm 4/6/2023

306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist

7:00 pm 4/6/2023

210, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
- Lecture
Edu Ribeiro Trio in Concert

7:00 pm 4/6/2023

Allerton Mansion Gallery
- Performance
Martin Nekola, "The Czech Republic, The European Union and the Rise of Populism"

12:00 pm 4/7/2023

International and Area Studies Library 309
- Lecture
CEAPS Speaker | Akira Shimizu - "Grapes that Connected Peasants to the Shogun: A New Perspective on Early-Modern Japanese Society through Regional Brand Food."

1:00 - 2:30 pm 4/7/2023

306 Coble Hall
- Lecture
Timbuktu Talk Series: Ibadi Approaches to Muslim Unity in Tanzania

2:30 - 4:00 pm 4/7/2023

108 Coble Hall and Zoom
- Lecture
Bate Papo (Portuguese Conversation Table)

5:00 pm 4/7/2023

La Casa Cultural Latina. 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana.
- Social/Informal Event
CLACS K-14 Series. Dr Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish & Portuguese). “Food and Culture in Latin America: The Case of Chocolate”

9:30 4/8/2023

Hybrid event. In person at ARC Instructional Kitchen (limited spaces) & via Zoom.
- Professional Development
Latin American Story Time: Quechua!

2:00 - 3:00 pm 4/8/2023

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

3:00 pm 4/10/2023

Coble 306
- Lecture
The Ongoing Struggle to Recover Nazi Looted Art (Conversations on Europe)

11:00 am 4/11/2023
- Seminar/Symposium
Financial Development, Corruption and Shadow Economy: Evidence from the MENA Region.

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/11/2023
- Lecture
Lemann Lecture Series - Mark Tonelli, An American in Brazil

12:00 pm 4/11/2023

Coble Hall 306
- Lecture
Film screening and discussion with Dr. Pilar Egüez Guevara (IL Alumna): "Raspando Coco"

4:00 pm 4/11/2023

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. 600 S. Gregory St. Urbana, IL 61801
- Film Screening
Comidas Que Curan: (Re)discovering Ancestral Wisdom Through Ethnography and Filmmaking

4:00 pm 4/11/2023

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

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
AsiaLENS - “Far East Deep South” (Film Screening & Discussion w/ Filmmaker Baldwin Chiu)

7:00 - 9:00 pm 4/11/2023

Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium (600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801)
- Film Screening
Benjamin Bross, Mexico City Zócalo: Spatial Production and the Ongoing Construction of a National Identity

12:00 pm 4/12/2023

International and Area Studies Library, Room 309
- Lecture
Benjamin A. Bross, "Mexico City Zócalo: Spatial Production and the Ongoing Construction of a National Identity"

12:00 pm 4/12/2023

In person: International and Area Studies Library, Room 309 And on Zoom
- Lecture
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"

12:00 - 1:30 pm 4/12/2023

Room 108 Coble Hall
- Lecture
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"

12:00 - 1:30 pm 4/12/2023

108 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St
- Lecture
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"

12:00 - 1:30 pm 4/12/2023

Room 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
Challenge of Enforcing the laws of War

1:00 pm 4/12/2023

Room-345, Arthur Seminar room, Armory
- Lecture
Student Discussion on "Moving Across Careers as a Versatile Scholar"

4:00 pm 4/12/2023

306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St and via Zoom
- Lecture
Ukrainian Movie Night: "Atlantis" (Атлантида)

5:00 pm 4/12/2023

G24 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building (707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801)
- Film Screening
13th Annual Illinois EU Studies Conference: "Who is European? Inclusion and Exclusion Within and Without Europe"
Recurring

All Day 4/13/2023 - 4/14/2023

306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
- Conference/Workshop
April Lecture with Molly Hathaway Goldstein

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/13/2023

Main Library at 1408 W Gregory Dr. Room 146, Urbana, IL 61801

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

4:00 pm 4/13/2023

Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB
- Lecture
Demystifying Libya: Why the Crisis of Transition Continues

7:00 pm 4/13/2023

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
When Did East Asians Become Yellow?

11:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/14/2023
- Lecture
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/14/2023

1001 S Wright St, Champaign
- Lecture
WGGP Graduate Forum

12:00 - 2:30 pm 4/14/2023
- Conference/Workshop
East Asian Story Time: “Drawn together”

10:00 - 10:30 am 4/15/2023

Champaign Public Library, Nate & Lillie Story Room (200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Community Service
EU Day of Art 2023: Flamenco Workshop and Performance

2:00 pm 4/15/2023

Lincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, Urbana, IL 61801
- Performance
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”

3:30 pm 4/17/2023

Coble Hall, Room 306
- Lecture
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Alyssa Mathias, "Songs from the Silicon Mountains: Music and IT Development in 21st-Century Armenia"

12:00 pm 4/18/2023

0357 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801)
- Lecture
Lemann Lecture Series - Jefferson Belarmino, Brazilians and Race in Chicago

12:00 pm 4/18/2023

Coble Hall 306
- Lecture
Tang Heng, "Diversity: a socioculturally- constructed concept."

12:00 pm 4/18/2023

Room 4-G Education
- Lecture
Rochelle Sennet: Piano Recital at Krannert Center

7:30 pm 4/18/2023

Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801)
- Performance
Away from the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural Shift in Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion: Alex Averbuch and Yuliya Ilchuk

11:00 am 4/19/2023
- Seminar/Symposium
Away from the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural Shift in Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion
Recurring

11:00 am 4/19/2023 - 4/26/2023
- Seminar/Symposium
Decentralization, Local Governance, and Service Delivery in Malawi

12:00 pm 4/19/2023

306 Coble Hall and ZOOM
- Lecture
Bate Papo (Portuguese Conversation Table)

5:00 pm 4/19/2023

La Casa Cultural Latina. 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana.
- Social/Informal Event
Study and Destress with the EU Center

9:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/20/2023

306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
- Social/Informal Event
Kâtip Çelebi and the Transformation of Ottoman Geography

11:00 am 4/20/2023
- Lecture
KATIP CELEBI and the transformation of Ottoman Geography

11:00 am 4/20/2023
- Lecture
Vanessa Zuñiga, Tinkuy: Meeting in Diversity

2:00 pm 4/20/2023

Krannert Art Museum's Auditorium KAM 62
- Lecture
Empowering Digital Equity & Access

3:00 pm 4/20/2023

Zoom
- Lecture
The Good Boss (El buen patrón): Film screening

4:00 pm 4/20/2023

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
- Film Screening
Slavic Lecture, Christy Monet, “Toward a Literary Archive of Russian Liberalism: The Imperial Semeistvennoe Gosudarstvo and the Family Novel.”

5:30 pm 4/20/2023

2090B Foreign Languages Building (707 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)
- Lecture
Away from the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural Shift in Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion: Voldymyr Dubovyk, Oleksandra Deineko, and Olesia Bozhko

11:00 am 4/21/2023
- Seminar/Symposium
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/21/2023

1001 S Wright St, Champaign
- Lecture
Winifred Poster "Women Maintenance Workers for Global Information Highway: Village Data Processing Centers in India"

12:00 pm 4/21/2023

306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St
- Lecture
Latin American Ensemble

7:30 pm 4/21/2023

Recital Hall, Smith Memorial Hall. 1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana
- Performance
CLACS K-14 Series. Dr. Monica González Ybarra (Curriculum & Instruction) & Dr. Juanatano Cano (LAUSD). "Latin American and the Caribbean Cultures of Education"

9:30 - 11:00 am 4/22/2023

Hybrid event. In person at Room 1000, Siebel Center for Design & via Zoom
- Professional Development
Slavic Story Time at The Urbana Free Library

2:00 pm 4/22/2023

The Urbana Free Library (210 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801)
- Informational
VASP Brown Bag - Weihua Li, "The Narrative Ethics of 'Historical Writings' in 'The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons'"

12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/24/2023

Coble Hall 306 (801 S. Wright St., Champaign)
- Seminar/Symposium
Kevork Mourad in Conversation with Helen Makdoumian

4:30 pm 4/24/2023

Spurlock Museum
- Conference/Workshop
Kevork Mourad in Conversation with Helen Makhdoumian

4:30 pm 4/24/2023

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana
- Lecture
Lemann Lecture Series - Vânia Castro, Designing a framework to facilitate the implementation of BNCC in Brazil

12:00 pm 4/25/2023

Coble Hall 306
- Lecture
Film screening: Serán las dueñas de la tierra

5:00 pm 4/25/2023

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
- Ceremony/Service
Away from the Empire: The Linguistic and Cultural Shift in Ukraine in the Wake of the Russian Invasion: Yaryna Zakalska and Serhii Yanchuk

11:00 am 4/26/2023
- Seminar/Symposium
Ethical Foundations of Laws of War

1:00 pm 4/26/2023

Room-345, Arthur Seminar room, Armory
- Lecture
WEB Dubois Annual Lecture

2:00 - 3:30 pm 4/26/2023

Bruce Nesbitt AA. Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St, Urbana
- Lecture
The Culture of Catalonia (Spain)

5:30 - 7:00 pm 4/26/2023

1210 West Nevada Street, Urbana (Asian American Cultural Center / International Education)
- Religious/Cultural
Sanctions on Russia, the War in Ukraine, and the Foreign Service: A Discussion with Director Rob Lee

12:00 pm 4/27/2023

108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
- Lecture
IL-IN East Asian Studies Professionalization and Research Workshops: Modern Chinese Literature Workshop

1:00 - 3:00 pm 4/27/2023
- Seminar/Symposium
Brazil and its exports: Past and present

2:00 pm 4/27/2023

317 David Kinley Hall
- Seminar/Symposium
IL-IN East Asian Studies Professionalization and Research Workshops: Modern Chinese Literature Talk

11:00 am - 1:00 pm 4/28/2023
- Seminar/Symposium
Lemann Lecture Series - Alice Abreu, Bringing Intersectionality to Science: how equity diversity and inclusion impacts scientific policies and practices. A view from Brazil.

12:00 - 1:30 pm 4/28/2023

Coble Hall 306
- Lecture
Yellow Peril Redux speech series | “The Yellow Peril and the Law”

2:30 - 3:30 pm 4/28/2023
- Lecture
Ukrainian Studies Lecture: Mark Andryczyk, “Linguistic Repositioning in a Time of War—Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Mondegreen: Songs About Death and Love”

4:00 pm 4/28/2023

1057 Lincoln Hall (702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801)
- Lecture
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Spring Reception

4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/28/2023

YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
- Reception/Open House
Bate Papo (Portuguese Conversation Table)

5:00 pm 4/28/2023

La Casa Cultural Latina. 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana.
- Social/Informal Event
CU Tango Music Festival 2023

All Day 4/29/2023

Community Center for the Arts (C4A). 202 W Main S, Urbana IL
- Festival/Celebration
CU Tango Music Festival: Tango for All!

10:00 am - 12:00 pm 4/29/2023

Reg Cakes (inside Lincoln Square Mall)
- Festival/Celebration
iCU: Argentina!

12:30 - 2:00 pm 4/29/2023

1210 West Nevada Street, Urbana (Asian American Cultural Center/International Education)
- Social/Informal Event
East Asian Story Time: “Suki's Kimono”

2:00 - 2:30 pm 4/29/2023

Urbana Free Library (210 West Green Street Urbana, Illinois 61801)
- Community Service
Electricidad

2:00 pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
- Performance

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