International and Area Studies Library - Campus Events

Sunday, October 19, 2025

- 10:00 - 11:00 am
Savvy Researcher - Advanced Library Search Strategies (Online)

Looking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how the professionals identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover chasing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and more!
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- 314b Illini Union
International Students Navigating the U.S.: Immigration, Rights, and Resources
- Informational
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 336 Gregory Hall
Frank Center Student Workshop: Investigative Journalism with María Inés Zamudio
- Conference/Workshop
- 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Virtual Talk: Ser Mujeres en la ESMA / Being Women at ESMA
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 6:30 pm
- Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
AsiaLENS | "Black Box Diaries" Screening + Q&A with filmmaker Shiori Itô
- Film Screening

- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Panel on “Community-Engaged Research in Action: Insights for Graduate Students”
- Conference/Workshop
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 108
Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies Reading Group: Juliana Freire’s “Indigenous Documentaries: Art, Self-Representation, and the Environment in Huni Kui Films”
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Savvy Researcher - Survey Research Services with Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (Online)

In this session, we partner with the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning to discuss survey research services and resources. This session is open to all doctoral students. Please complete the form to register for the workshop. It will be conducted through Zoom. We look forward to working with you!
- Conference/Workshop
- 5:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, Language, Cultures and Literatures Building (LCLB 1080)
Between Amsterdam and the Antilles: Diaspora and Community in Colonial Curaçao
- Lecture

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Main Library, Room 314
Savvy Researcher - Creating Citations with Zotero

Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:30 - 3:00 pm
- 306 Coble Hall
Graduate Workshop on "Effective Fellowship Writing"
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 - 4:40 pm
- Coble Hall 108
Kazakh Language Speaking Club
- Social/Informal Event
- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
Henna
- Meeting

- 4:00 - 5:30 pm
- 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
BridgeUSA Fellow Lecture: Oleksandr Kovrov, "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Dnipro University of Technology: Developing Partnerships in the Field of Green Technologies and Land Phytoremediation"
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
Viking Age Clothing and Cloth Cultures

Join us for the second webinar in the Costumes & Customs Lecture Series, sponsored by the Office of Arts Integration and organized in collaboration with the University Library, the Department of Theatre, the Department of Classics, the Spurlock Museum, and the Krannert Art Museum, explores the history and cultural significance of clothing across time and place.
- Lecture
- 7:00
- Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S Gregory St. Urbana
Roger Ebert Screening: Piccadilly (1929)
- Film Screening