Tuesday, April 16, 2024

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Food For Thought: Jessie Shelton and Prashant Jain

  • Lecture
• 

  • 3:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL)

  Movie Screening: "Good Bye Lenin!"

  • Film Screening
• 

  • 3:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

  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
• 

  • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
    
  • 125 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign

  Perspectives on the Politics of Indigeneity: A Special Brown Bag

  • Lecture
• 

  • 12:00 pm
    

  REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Jonathan Hollis, "Armenian Musicians from Azerbaijan: Legacy, Conflict, and Exile"

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 18, 2024

• 

  • 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
• • 1:00 pm
    
  • Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science SC 2405

  Controlling (AI-based) Computing Systems

  • Lecture
• 

  • 6:30 - 8:30 pm
    
  • Room 208, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana

  Coffee, Tea & IP: Indigenous Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Challenges and Opportunities for Africa

  • Other
• • 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

• 

  • 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
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • 1214 Siebel Center

  Integrating Human Knowledge in Machine Learning Models and Explanations

  • Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, April 20, 2024

• 

  • 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

Monday, April 22, 2024

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Room B, Law Building

  Gloria Porras | A Conversation with Former Guatemalan Constiutional Court Justice

  • Lecture
• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • 108 Coble Hall

  Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact: Old Wine in a New Bottle?

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 5:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Symposium: Climate Change and the Infrastructure of Research | Dominic Boyer keynote

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 3:00 - 4:30 pm
    
  • Coble Hall 306

  Ellen Moodie | Liberalism, Political Futures, and El Salvador’s Post-postwar Generation

  • Lecture

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

• • 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: Portuguese/ English

  • Other
• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • In person at Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts OR Live Stream

  CultureTalk | Joy Harjo and Jenny L. Davis

  • Other

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

• • All Day
    
  • Zoom

  Slavic Reference Service Caucasus Research Forum "Movement"

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Inside Scoop | Joy Harjo

  Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Joy Harjo, (23rd United States Poet Laureate; member of the Muscogee [Creek] Nation). Advanced registration required.

  • Other
• 

  • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

  Floridalma Boj Lopez | Mobile Archives of Indigeneity: Genesis, Methodology, and Application

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

  • 7:30 pm
    
  • Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom

  Public Reading | Joy Harjo

  • Performance

Thursday, April 25, 2024

• • All Day
    
  • Zoom

  Slavic Reference Service Caucasus Research Forum "Movement"

  • Conference/Workshop
• 

  • All Day
    
  • TBD

  Ruth Behar

  • Lecture
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 (919 W Illinois St., Urbana)

  CEAPS/EALC Speaker | Peter Kornicki “The Edo period as a manuscript culture"

  • Lecture
• 

  • 4:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum 600 South Gregory, Urbana

  Sefardita: A Journey from Anthropology to Fiction

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory

  Sefardita: A Journey from Anthropology to Fiction

  • Lecture

Friday, April 26, 2024

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    
  • 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA

  Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe: Earth Day and Environmental Justice: Allies or Enemies?

  Friday Forum + Conversation Café : Earth Day and Environmental Justice: Allies or Enemies? McKenzie Johnson, College of ACES Friday, April 26 ⋅ 12:00 – 1:00pm (CDT) 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA

  • Lecture
• • 12:00 - 2:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Humanities Research Lab Showcase

  • Seminar/Symposium
• 

  • 12:00 pm
    
  • 404 David Kinley Hall

  Politics Workshop: Crisis Leadership in the Time of Covid: Effects of Personality Traits on Response Speed

  • Lecture
• 

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
    
  • Online

  International Cooking Show featuring Esra Çeltek Coşkun

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    
  • YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign

  WGGP Spring Reception

  WGGP Spring Reception Please join us as we honor or GRID Graduates and WGGP Award Recipients Friday, April 26 | 4:00-5:00 pm | YMCA Latzer Hall 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign

  • Ceremony/Service

Saturday, April 27, 2024

• 

  • 3:00 pm
    
  • Music Building Auditorium, School of Music (1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL 61801)

  Balkanalia - At 25 | Annual Spring Concert: "Jilted Lovers and Runaway Brides: Dancing and Romancing on the Balkan Square"

  • Performance

Monday, April 29, 2024

• 

  • 8:30 am   Time and Location TBD
    

  Zaida Muxi

  • Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

• • 12:30 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building

  Arthur G. Nikelly Annual Lecture: Southern European Societies After Authoritarianism: Greece, Spain, and Portugal in Conversation

  • Lecture
• 

  • 3:30 - 4:30 pm
    
  • 106 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr.

  Writing Historical Fiction: Novelist Kunal Basu Talks About His Creative Process

  • Lecture
• 

  • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • 210 Levis Faculty Center (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, IL 61801)

  REEEC Spring Reception

  • Reception/Open House

Thursday, May 2, 2024

• 

  • 12:00 pm
    

  Dr. Cecilia Menjivar: Annual Florian Znaniecki Lecture

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Rooms 422-424

  HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception

  • Other

Friday, May 3, 2024

• 

  • 4:00 pm
    

  Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni BA Award

  • Ceremony/Service
• 

  • 4:00 pm
    

  Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni PhD Award

  • Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

• • 6:00 pm
    

  NRC Conflicts and Change: Book Club for Educators

  • Other