National Resource Centers

Monday, March 24, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 Mathew Ave Urbana
CSAMES Lecture: "The sight that I offer is the fairest of sights’: Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba.” Abigail Balbale

Abstract: Of the many beautiful objects associated with Madinat al-Zahra and the Cordoban Umayyad caliphate, perhaps none are as celebrated as a series of ivory pyxides and caskets produced for members of the royal family. Several of them were made for royal mothers, formerly enslaved concubines who earned their freedom by bearing the caliph's children. Caliphal concubines
- Lecture
- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
2025 Global Reads Webinar for K-12 Educators
- Webinar
- 6:30 - 7:00 pm
- Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820
Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean (Q'anjob'al)
- Other

- 12:00 pm
- College of Law Faculty Lounge, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue (second floor), Champaign, IL 61820
Restoring the Rule of Law after Democratic Decay: Lessons from Poland
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 2090B School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
EUC Brown Bag Event: Croatia's EU Path and the Prospects of Future EU Enlargement
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
Ecuadorian Women Defenders of the Amazon: Virtual Talk
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- 112 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright St. Champaign
Film screening: "Lyd"

Directors: Sarah Ema Friedland, Rami Younis It is a story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become. A discussion by Professor Laura Goffman, Department of History at the Univesity of Illinois followed this.
- Film Screening
- 5:00 pm
- 112 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana
Film Screening: Lyd
- Film Screening
- 6:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Slavic Film Series: Aftermath [Pokłosie] (Polish)
- Film Screening