Events of Interest to Global Studies Majors

Monday, April 21, 2025

- 5:30 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
WWII 80th Anniversary Film Screening: "Downfall" (2004)
- Film Screening

- 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Caucasus Research Forum
- Conference/Workshop
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- International and Area Studies Library, Room 321, 1408 W. Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61801
Atrocities in the Levant through the Jesuit Archives: The Great Famine in Lebanon 1915-1918
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 3057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
Sociology Colloquia: Benjamin Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Soros Virtual Information Session - Presented by the Soros Fellowship
- Informational
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S Wright St, Champaign)
Fairytale Workshop
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
First Steps Workshop (Virtual)
- Informational
- 5:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory
Playing the Changes: Jazz and Education in South Africa

Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
- Lecture

- 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Caucasus Research Forum
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 pm
A Great Decoupling? Globalization Without the U.S.
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
Lunch at La Casa
- Conference/Workshop
- 5:00 pm
- Event TypeExhibitionSponsorInitiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies, The Program in Jewish Culture & Society, EU Center, HRI, Comparative and World Literature, CSAMES, REEC, Center for Global Studies through support from the US Department of Education's Title VI NRC Program, SLCL, CASLocationSiebel Center for Design, Starlight Room, 1208 South 4th Street, Champaign, IL 61821
iWitness. Armenian Genocide Commemoration. Artist Talk
- Exhibition

- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
AAUP Illinois Local Chapter Presents: Threats to Higher Education on the Road to Authoritarianism
- Webinar
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 807 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 - Rm IUB 514
Fulbright Scholarship ETA Workshop
- Informational
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign
CSGGE Spring Reception

CSGGE Spring Reception. Please join us as we honor or GRID Graduates and CSGGE Award Recipients. Friday, April 25 | 4:00-5:00 pm | YMCA Latzer Hall. 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign. Remarks at 4:20pm.
- Ceremony/Service
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: Father [Otac] (Serbian)
- Film Screening