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, April 15, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- 208 Art & Design Building
Place Making and Rural Tourism in China Information Session
- Informational
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Irina Carlota Silber | After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Lemann Lecture Series | 10 years of cash transfers paid in a local currency in Maricá, Brazil: origins, evolution, diffusion, and preliminary evidence
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- Zoom
Voices of Nubia
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Movie Screening: "Good Bye Lenin!"
- Film Screening
- 3:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL)
Movie Screening: "Good Bye Lenin!"
- Film Screening

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

- 8:30 am
- Room #306 Coble Hal
Perspectives on the Politics of Indigeneity
- Lecture
- All Day
- VERNON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL/ LIBERTYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
VILLA-LOBOS Goes to School
- Performance
- 12:00 pm
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Jonathan Hollis, "Armenian Musicians from Azerbaijan: Legacy, Conflict, and Exile"
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Pine Lounge 1401 W. Green St. Champaign
Book Talk: The One State Reality
- Lecture

Thursday, April 18, 2024

- All Day
- TBD
19th annual International Conference of Capoeira Angola
- Conference/Workshop
- 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
- 300 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
14th Illinois EU Studies Conference ("Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources") - Day 1
- Conference/Workshop
- 6:30 - 8:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 208, 919 W. Illinois , Urbana
Coffee, Tea & IP: Indigenous Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Challenges and Opportunities for Africa
- Informational

Friday, April 19, 2024

- All Day
- TBD
19th annual International Conference of Capoeira Angola
- Conference/Workshop
- 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
- 300 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
14th Illinois EU Studies Conference ("Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources") - Day 2
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe: Envisioning Reproductive Justice in the Post-Dobbs Landscape

Friday Forum + Conversation Café : Envisioning Reproductive Justice in the Post-Dobbs Landscape Samantha Auerbach, Urbana-Champaign Reproductive Justice Friday, April 19 ⋅ 12:00 – 1:00pm (CDT) 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
- Lecture
- 7:30 pm
- Smith Memorial Hall
Latin American Ensemble: Bailando en Tres
- Performance

Saturday, April 20, 2024

- All Day
- TBD
19th annual International Conference of Capoeira Angola
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- The Urbana Free Library (210 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801)
Slavic Story Time at The Urbana Free Library
- Informational