2025
January 27th, 2025: Women Environmental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon: Brazil - Dr. Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro
February 3rd, 2025: Ignacio Sanchez Prado: "The Aesthetics and Intimacies of Food Sovereignty. Maíz Criollo in Gastronomy and Art"
February 10th, 2025: Legal Briefing on Immigration and Undocumented Student Support
February 14th, 2025: Talk: Comprehensive Sexual Education from an Intercultural and Anti-racist Perspective
February 18th, 2025: Supporting Our Students If ICE Comes to Campus: Webinar for Campus Staff & Faculty
February 19th, 2025: Knowing Your Rights and Responsibilities When Interacting with ICE (For Students)
February 20th, 2025: Celebrating Afro-Cuban Artist Wifredo Lam: A Talk with Lowery Stokes Sims
February 21st, 2025: Grief as a Method: Human and Non-Human Loss and Alternative Forms of Time in Mexico
February 27th, 2025: Brazilian Women Defenders of the Amazon: Virtual Talk
February 27th, 2025: IGI Lecture Series on Palestine in the World: "Why is Palestine Important?" Ussama Makdisi
February 27th, 2025: I-MMAS CHAIR/CÁTEDRA Cooperation, Multiculturalism and Respect to Diversity in Mexico and the United States
February 27th, 2025: The Taste of Language 2025
March 3rd, 2025: LAC Women Justice: Maria Jose Mendez "Embroideries of War: Salvadoran Women Refugees’ Memories of Care"
March 7th, 2025: SMAART Symposium: Climate Justice and Climate Futures (all day)
March 10th, 2025: CLACS Series: Alex Borucki "Silver and the Slave Trade in the Spanish Americas during the Age of Imperial Fracture"
March 11th, 2025: HOW TO MOVE FORWARD AS A COMMUNITY
March 24th, 2025: Prof. Ellen Moodie - Book Talk: Indignant Liberalism: Protest, Political Change, and El Salvador’s Post-postwar Generation.
March 26th, 2025: Talk: 'Indigenous Aymara Communities and the Political Crisis in Bolivia"
March 27th, 2025: Ecuadorian Women Defenders of the Amazon: Virtual Talk
March 27th, 2025: Film Screening: Lyd
April 1st, 2025: Virtual Book Talk: Transnational Palestine with Nadim Bawalsa
April 2nd, 2025: Let's Talk About...Resistance
April 3rd, 2025: Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future * Anita Chan, iSchool & College of Media
April 3rd, 2025: I-MMAS Chair/Cátedra Session: Addressing Key Development Challenges in the U.S. and Mexico
April 4th, 2025: Graduate Student Lunch & Learn: Publishing on Gender-Related Topics
April 7th, 2025: Nature or Territory? Indigenous Representations of Forest through Critical Cartography. Peru - Dr. Maritza Paredes
April 8th, 2025: Interseminars | Emergent Quilombos: Black Life, Ancestral Knowledges, and Diasporic Cultural Politics in the Americas
April 8th, 2025: The Fever Pitch of the Moment Requires a CounterBalance: A Talk with Dr. Felecia Russell
April 10th, 2025: Exhibit Opening Reception: "The Art of Recreating Transnational Solidarity Against Global Apartheids”
April 11th, 2025: "Turmoil and Solidarity: Being Palestinian in Champaign-Urbana in a time of genocide"
April 15th, 2025: Navigating Federal Challenges Together: Collective Struggles, Collaborative Solutions
April 17th, 2025: The Closing of USAID: A conversation about Impacts and Implications
April 21st, 2025: Apocalyptic Locas and Garbages of Eden: Travesti Trash Ecologies in La virgen cabeza
April 24th, 2025: Foxtail Film Festival Opening Night: Brujería with Chilean Filmmaker Christopher Murray
April 28th, 2025: Talk: Mileiconomics: Beating Inflation in an Illiberal Economy by Dr. Sarah Muir
April 30th, 2025: Peruvian Women Environmental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon
May 2nd, 2025: "The Palestinian National Movement Between Constitutionalism and Revolt, 1929-1939"
2023
February 11th, 2023: Latin American Ensemble – A Latin Valentine
April 21st, 2023: Latin American Ensemble
April 29th, 2023: CU Tango Music Festival 2023
April 29th, 2023: iCU: Argentina!
July 18th, 2023: IGI Summer 2023 Global Educators Workshop – "Education at the Edge: Global Challenges in the classroom and beyond"
August 4th, 2023: CLACS Summer 23 Educators & Community Workshop – "Children do well in school when they know their heritage"
August 18th, 2023: Welcome Celebration 2023
August 18th, 2023: LAS Liftoff 2023
August 21st, 2023: Paleta Social
August 28th, 2023: Isadora Lira
August 28th, 2023: FALL 2023 RECEPTION: CLACS & LEMANN
August 29th, 2023: Mental Health and Well-being among Latino/a/e Immigrant Communities
September 7th, 2023: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Murals Symposium and Reception
September 8th, 2023: Sustaining Mesoamerican Indigenous Languages
September 15th, 2023: El Grito de la Independencia!
October 2nd, 2023: Victoria Sanford – Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez
October 12th, 2023: MILLERCOMM LECTURE | Ada Limón – Working in the Service of Poetry Film Screening
October 14th, 2023: Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration 2023 / ¡Celebración del mes de la herencia hispana 2023!
October 28th, 2023: CLACS K-12 Series – Food & Culture in Latin America: Brazilian Bobó de camarão
October 30th, 2023: Dia de Muertos Trick or Treat
November 3rd, 2023: Film Screening | Paula Cuellar – Añil
November 3rd, 2023: Community Data Clinic & Just Infrastructures – Paola Ricaurte
November 7th, 2023: Modern Critical Theory | Ramon Soto-Crespo – Environmental Humanities and the Caribbean
November 8th, 2023: IGI International Music Night 2023
November 9th, 2023: Luso Brazilian Association – Brazilian Conversation Group (Bate Papo)
November 11th, 2023: Latin American Ensemble – ¡Fiesta y canción!
November 15th, 2023: Krannert Center – The Pablo Ziegler Jazz Tango Trio
November 17th, 2023: Politics of Inclusion Symposium
November 29th, 2023: LAC Cities Collective | Priscilla Ferreira – The Economics of Abolition and Community-Engaged Scholarship
December 1st, 2023: Live Performance by the Latin American Ensemble
2024
January 29th, 2024: Debbie Sharnak – Fútbol under Authoritarian Rule and Its Global Implications: The Case of Uruguay
January 31st, 2024: Debbie Sharnak – Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
February 1st, 2024: Adrienne Washington – “A world beyond this one”: Sustaining afro-brasilidade in Northeastern Brazil
February 2nd, 2024: Mollie J. Cohen – How Partisan Poll Watchers Affect Citizen Confidence in Elections
February 5th, 2024: Charlas Políticas – Elections in El Salvador
February 6th, 2024: NRC Book Club – Conflicts and Change
February 8th, 2024: Sidney Chalhoub – Fiction as Archive: Slavery in Literary and Legal Texts
February 10th, 2024: Latin American Ensemble – Valentine’s Day
February 14th, 2024: Daniel Morales-Armstrong – Post-Emancipation Refusal in Puerto Rico
February 22nd, 2024: Andrea Ballestero – Deciphering Aquifers and Stretching the Imagination Downwards
February 24th, 2024: Magdalena Novoa – Black and Latinx Stories of Hope and Care
March 3rd, 2024: Pilar Eguez Guevara & Tereza Quizhpe Guaman – Maize Comfort Food
March 4th, 2024: Tarpuna: el maiz – Film Screening & Conversation
March 5th, 2024: NRC Book Club – “Isla to Island”
March 6th, 2024: Emi Frerichs – Travestis and Monsters in “Las Malas”
March 21st, 2024: Ana Valderrama & Felipe Mesa – Design Build Studios in Latin America
March 25th, 2024: Arpillera Urbana – Memory, Spatial and Women’s Rights in Chile
March 26th, 2024: Taller – Textile Practices of Latina Women
March 27th, 2024: Weaving Threads of Joy – Black and Chilean Quilting Traditions
March 27th, 2024: Chris Blattman – Organized Crime in Medellín
April 3rd, 2024: Transnational Feminist Resistance(s) Against Contemporary Violence(s)
April 4th, 2024: Nieves Ayress & María Teresa Pizarro – On 50 Years of the Chilean Dictatorship
April 9th, 2024: Arturo Galindo – Macroeconomic Challenges in Latin America
April 10th, 2024: Joaquín Prieto – Measuring Economic Insecurity
April 10th, 2024: NRC Book Club – Conflicts and Change
April 11th, 2024: Joaquín Prieto – Vulnerability to Poverty in LAC
April 13th, 2024: Quechua Alliance – 8vo Encuentro Anual
April 15th, 2024: Irina Carlota Silber – Postwar El Salvador
April 17th, 2024: Perspectives on the Politics of Indigeneity
April 18th, 2024: Coffee, Tea & IP – Indigenous Knowledge and the 4IR in Africa
April 19th, 2024: Latin American Ensemble – Bailando en Tres
April 22nd, 2024: Gloria Porras | A Conversation with Former Guatemalan Constitutional Court Justice
April 23rd, 2024: Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean: "Caranguejo não é peixe"
April 29th, 2024: Zaida Muxi: Beyond the Threshold. Women, Houses and Cities
May 2nd, 2024: Florian Znaniecki Annual Lecture: "Immigrant Integration, Exclusion, or Accommodation? Ethnographic Observations from the Rural Midwest"
May 4th, 2024: 2024 CU Tango Music Festival
May 7th, 2024: NRC Conflicts and Change: Book Club for Educators
June 9th, 2024: Mayan Cultural Celebration
July 17th, 2024: IGI Summer 2024 Global Educators Workshop: "Critical Thinking in the Technological World"
September 11th, 2024: II Encuentro sobre Migracion y Pueblos Originarios
September 17th, 2024: El Sabor de Latinoamerica - Taste of Latin America
September 25th, 2024: Intercultural Dialogue Series - Food of the Andes / Comida de los Andes (Colombia/Ecuador)
September 25th, 2024: "The Palestinian Citizens in Israel In Time of Crisis" by Mohammad Darawshe
September 25th, 2024: Las Guaracheras
September 26th, 2024: Women Justice Group Series: Sexual violence against indigenous women and transitional justice. The case of Guatemala
October 1st, 2024: Part I Women Environmental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon Series: La Paz es "Ser Campesina"
October 2nd, 2024: Intercultural Dialogue Series - Food of the Andes / Comida de los Andes (Perú)
October 3rd, 2024: How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design
October 5th, 2024: Youth Literature Festival 2024 - Community Day Celebration!
October 5th, 2024: Celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies with free performance by Gafieira Rio Miami