Fall 2019

Date Concentration Event Speaker Location/Time Event Sponsors
09/06/2019 Multiple The Future of Work and Education in the Digital Age: Recommendations from the Japanese G20 and Beyond Dr. Angela Lyons 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge - 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Center for East Asia and Pacific Studies
09/12/2019 Physical Tiananmen: The People Versus The Party PBS Documentary Film Screening 7:00 pm
The Art Theatre; 126 W. Church St., Champaign
Center for Advanced Study
9/16/2019 Multiple BREXIT: Implications for Human Welfare Baroness Ruth Deech 12:00 - 1:00 pm
College of Law, Rm. D
European Union Center
9/17/2019 Physical Conversations on Europe Videoconference series: "Understanding the Gilet Jaunes/Yellow vests movement in France" "Top Experts from around the United States and Europe" 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
International Studies Building, Rm. 232
European Union Center
9/18/2019 Environment Panel: Amazon Burning Penato Paes de Almeida

James Best

Francina Dominguez
1:00 pm
International Studies Building, Rm 101
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
09/18/2019 Multiple "Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids in the United States: the Journey and the Destination" Lauren Aronson 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Main Library, Rm 106
Center for Global Studies
09/18/2019 Environment Flooding and the Poor in South Africa: Analyzing Urban Environments Using the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index Professor Lance Larkin 12:00 pm
International Studies Building, Rm 101
Center for African Studies
09/19/2019 Physical How to Realize China: 30 Years After Tiananmen Square Wand Dan and Ronald E. Yates 6:30 pm
Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium; 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Center for Advanced Study
09/24/2019 Physical Becoming an Activist in Morocco: Political Socialization and Intergenerational Transmission in the Biographies of Young Protesters Christoph Schwarz and Phillips (Universitӓt Marburg) 12:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge; 707 S. Mathews Ave.; Urbana
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
09/26/2019 Energy
Environment
CLACS Movie Night. "Blackout in Puerto Rico" FRONTLINE and NPR 6:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge - 1080 Foreign Language Building
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
10/01/2019 Multiple Rule of Law, Belief Systems, and Economic Development: The Case of Turkey Dr. Fuat Oğuz (Visiting Scholar) 12:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge; 707 S. Mathews Ave.; Urbana
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
10/01/2019 Nuclear WMD Nonproliferation and Arms Control: Challenges, Opportunities, and Careers Sarah Bidgood and David Schmerler 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
1002 Lincoln Hall
Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center
10/02/2019 Nuclear ACDIS Luncheon on Opportunities for Women in Arms Control Sarah Bidgood and David Schmerler 12:00 pm
Armory Building, Room 345
Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security
10/07/2019 Physical Puerto Rican Nationalism, Latin American Solidarity, and the 1930s: How Good Was the Good Neighbor Policy? Dr. Margaret Power (Illinois Institute of Technology) 3:00 pm
101 International Studies Building; 910 S Fifth St, Champaign
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
10/08/2019 Physical Who Spoke for Russia’s Muslims? Turkic Sources on Russian Empire in the Caucasus Dr. Sean Polluck (Wright State University) 12:00 pm
101 International Studies Building
Russian. Eastern Europe, and Eurasian Center
10/15/2019 Cybersecurity Computer Security for Victims of Abuse Thomas Ristenpart(Cornell University) 3:00 pm
Coordinated Science Lab Auditorium
Information Trust Institute - Grainger College of Engineering
10/16/2019 Multiple ACDIS Student Chat on Foreign Policy US Ambassador to Niger Eric Whitaker 3:00 - 4:00 pm
436 David Kinley Hall
Center for African Studies
10/17/2019 Physical Framing the Global Immigrant Challenge: Evidence from Tweets Sent by Elected Representatives Professor David Laitin (Stanford University) 4:00 pm
Auditorium, National Center for Supercomputing Applications; 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana
Center for Global Studies
10/18/2019 Physical ACDIS Student Chat on WMDs and Emerging Technologies Dr. Margaret Kosal (Georgia Institute of Technology) 9:30 - 10:00 am
345 Armory
Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security
10/18/2019 Multiple 2019 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law: Cold War Property Law Prof. Emeritus Hendrik Hartog (Princeton University) 12:00 pm
Law Building, Room D
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Champaign
College of Law
10/22/2019 Environment/ Cyber Supporting Practitioners and Analysts in Making Decisions about Data Analytics to Study Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations Dr. Jana Diesner 3:00 pm
1030 NCSA Building
Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute
10/23/2019 Environment Climate Action Game Experiment (CAGE) Prof. Emeritus Cliff Singer 12:00 -1:00 pm
Main Library, Room 106
1408 W Gregory Dr., Urbana
Center for Global Studies
10/25/2019 Physical The Geopolitics of Northeast Asia: Continuing Conflicts, Popular Memory, and Economic-Cultural Interdependence Professor John Lie (University of California, Berkeley) 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge - 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies;
Department of Sociology
10/28/2019 Environment Following The Water that Evaporates from the Amazon Forest Dr. Francina Dominguez 3:00 pm
101 International Studies Building; 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
10/29/2019 Multiple Constructing Race, Enacting Empire at the 1939 Fez Congress of Moroccan Music Elizabeth Matsushita 12:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge; 707 S. Mathews Ave.; Urbana
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
10/29/2019 Food What Factors Drive the Changes in Water Withdrawals in the U.S. Agriculture and Food Manufacturing Industries? Sandy Dall'erba 12:00 pm
Music Room at Levis Faculty Center, Suite 200
Center for Advanced Study
10/29/2019 Physical Trump, Ukraine, Impeachment: How does the World Talk about It John Lie 4:00 - 5:30 pm
DKH Rm 114
European Union Center
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
10/30/2019 Food Reviewing an Ethnographic Account from the Central Highlands of Ethiopia with Deleuzian Concepts Tesfaye Wolde-Medhin 12:00 pm
International Studies Bldg, Rm 101
Center for African Studies
10/30/2019 Multiple Making Sense of Hybrid Cultural Production in the Russian Empire: The Case of Nikolai Gogol Yuliya Ilchuk 5:00 pm
International Studies Building, Rm 101
Ukrainian Studies Program
10/31/2019 Multiple Research on Migration and Education in Sweden Professor Nihad Bunar & Professor Anna Lund 11:00 am
College of Education, Rm 4F
Research collaboration funded through an Illinois-Sweden Program for Educational & Research Exchange (INSPIRE) grant
11/05/2019 Physical Is the European Union driving increasing demands for secession in Scotland and Catalonia? Gemma Sala 5:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB
School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
11/07/2019 Biosecurity
Environment
Editing Nature: Governance Hurdles and Ethical Holes in Genetic Engineering Natalie Kofler (Yale University) 5:00 pm
Knight Auditorium Spurlock Museum; 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
11/11/2019 Physical The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America Dr. Noelle Brigden (Marquette University) 3:00 pm
101 International Studies Building; 910 S. Fifth St, Champaign
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
11/12/2019 Physical The Evolution of Iran’s Judicial System Under the Islamic Republic Dr. Milad Azizi 12:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge - 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
11/12/2019 Water Challenges of Water Security in Myanmar Seinn Lei Aye 10:30 - 11:30 am
Natural Resource Building, Rm 101
Illinois Water Resources Center
11/13/2019 Multiple Migration & Game Design Working Group Amanda Henderson and Danielle Hernandez 12:00 pm
Informatics, Rm 210A
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
11/14/2019 Physical Cline Symposium Keynote Address: The Growing Militarization of US Foreign Policy Ambassador Karl Eikenberry 7:30 pm
Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom
Cline Center for Advanced Social Research
11/14/2019 Physical Cline Symposium Roundtable: Boots, Bombs, or Bargains - Weighing the Costs and Benefits of US Interventions Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Scott Althaus, Xinyuan Dai, Alyssa Prorok, & John Vasquez 3:00 pm
Illini Union, Rm 314
Cline Center for Advanced Social Research
11/14/2019 Physical Anti-semitism: Historical Perspectives Peter Fritzche, Mark Roseman, and Harriet Murav 4:00 pm
Levis Faculty Center, Rm 300
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH)
Jewish Culture & Society
11/14/2019 Environmental / Biological Editing Nature: Governance Hurdles and Ethical Holes in Genetic Engineering Paul Sutter (University of Colorado Boulder) 7:30 pm
Levis Faculty Center, IPRH Lecture Hall
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
Environmental Humanities Research Group
11/19/2019 Physical Remote Sensing Religiosity in the Muslim World: The Case of Turkey Prof. Avital Livny 12:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge - 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies