The Center for African Studies regularly supports special lectures and events at the University of Illinois. These lectures may be part of a regular series or stand alone events. These special lectures have celebrated faculty publications, emerging and new interdisciplinary research in African studies, and visitors from other area campuses.

CAS/MillerComm Lectures

This campus-wide public lecture series on interdisciplinary topics is organized by the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) and the George A. Miller Committee. The Center for African Studies sponsores many of these talks. On our site here we maintain a list of all the lectures, going back to Fall 1995, that we have sponsored. These talks are all on topics related to African Studies.

Below is a summary of upcoming special presentations. CAS/MillerComm lectures are also included below; for more information on past and future lectures sponsored by the Center for African Studies please go to our CAS/MillerComm Lectures page.

Special Presentations
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AUGUST 27, 2009 - JANUARY 3, 2010
On-Screen: Global Intimacy
The exhibition "On-Screen: Global Intimacy" brings together 10 artists--from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the United States--whose works investigate the transnational reach of globalization.
Krannert Art Museum, 500 S. Goodwin, Urbana

Global Lens 2009 Film Series

Our center is cosponsoring the Global Lens 2009 film series at the YMCA, August-October 2009.  While it covers all regions of the world, the two related to Africa are: Sleepwalking Land (Mozambique) on Oct. 8 and What a Wonderful World (Morocco) on Oct. 29.

The Global Lens 2009 Film Series Comes to the University YMCA, August – October, 2009
The Global Film Initiative announced today that its Global Lens film series – ten award-winning narrative, feature films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Morocco and Mozambique –will screen at the University YMCA at the University of Illinois, on Thursdays at 7pm, beginning August 27 through October 29, 2009. The University YMCA is located at the corner of Wright and Chalmers in Champaign, adjacent to the University of Illinois campus. For information, visit: www.universityymca.org, call 217-337-1500, or email Ann Rasmus, Program Coordinator: ann@universityymca.org<mailto:ann@universityymca.org>.

For more information, please go to PDF files: Press Release and Global lens poster

For information on past Special Events please go to: Archive of Past Events: Special Events