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

Monday, October 13, 2025

- 3:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
CLACS Series: "Language and Life in Q’anjob’al Communties" Adan F. Pascual
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- Noyes Laboratory, 163
Angelica Waner: Zines in the Diaspora: Connecting Literary Threads Across Colonial Borders
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Temple Buell Hall
Lecture: Gabriella Carrillo – Craft, Context, and Sensitivity in Design
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- 2090B LCLB
Slavic Dept Lecture: "PRL Noir: Specters of Communism in Contemporary Polish Cinema"
- Lecture

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- Coble Hall (801 S. Wright Street, Champaign) - Room 108
Andy Nelson - Sandia National Laboratories
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

- All Day
- Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign
Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant
- Other
- All Day
- Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign
Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant
- Other
- 4:00 - 4:40 pm
- Coble Hall 108
Kazakh Language Speaking Club
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, October 16, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080)
Fall Lecture Series - Dr. Rena Torres Cacoullos
- Lecture
- 5:15 pm
- Main Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
PJCS Film screening: SHTTL
- Film Screening

Friday, October 17, 2025

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign
Friday Forum + Conversation Café: LGBTQ + Stories of Change: A Journey Through History by Dywaine Betts, Jr.

Friday Forum + Conversation Café: LGBTQ + Stories of Change: A Journey Through History by Dywaine Betts, Jr. Time: October 17 at 12 pm Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign
- Lecture
- 6:00 - 8:00 pm
- JW Eater JR. High, 400 E Wabash Ave, Rantoul, IL 61866
Rantoul City Schools Hispanic Heritage Celebration ; Celebración del mes de la Herencia Hispania de RCS
- Festival/Celebration