Events listed here can count toward your 28 hours. Ideally, you will give your full 28 hours to your community partner. However, some students get a late start (through no fault of their own) or encounter other obstacles. Those students need to attend events like this to reach 28 hours. For all other students, these are simply very good learning opportunities! To document your attendance at these events, do the following:

• Take a picture of yourself at the event.
• Go to your work log on the front page of this wiki, write down the event details, briefly summarize what you learned and link to or upload your photo at the event.
• Remember, these events are not a substitute for your work with a community partner. They are to complement that work and fill in gaps in your 28 hours .
  

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Note from Ann: This organization, Cena y Ciencias, hosts one event per month. Reach out to them and participate in one, some or all!

3 de febrero, 2 de marzo, 6 de abril, 4 de mayo

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February 3, 2020, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Refugee Passage: The Spectacle of Magnanimity and the Politics of Nepali-Bhutanese Arrival in the United States (click for more details)
Speaker: Dr. Retika A. Desai, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow

Location: Department of Asian American Studies Conference Room, 1208 W. Nevada Street, Urbana

Sponsor: Department of Asian American Studies

*Note from Ann: This talk can help you gain a more global perspective about the issues we tackle in our course.

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ABOLITION AND IMMIGRANT JUSTICE

February 6, 4pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

In this roundtable discussion, activist organizers will discuss their work in immigrant justice movements in both national and local contexts, particularly in Chicago. The panelists will speak to their personal experiences in becoming grassroots organizers against detentions, deportations, and the criminalization of immigrant and other targeted communities. Providing examples from past and current campaigns, they will also speak to the range of strategies they use to build strong collaborative coalitions and resist racist, xenophobic oppression, including policy work, legal activism, strategic communications, and civil disobedience.

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Friday Forum, a series of noon-hour talks throughout the semester

Fridays at noon, February 7, February 14, February 21, February 28, March 6, March 13, March 27

at the University YMCA  

This semester's theme: "Praxis & the Promise of Public Learning – Spring 2020

“Praxis” comes from the Greek word, “prattein” which means “to do.” It is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. Paulo Freire asserts that praxis is a cycle of learning, reflecting, and acting in order to protect ourselves and our communities from oppressive systems.

*Note from Ann: In this course, you are engaged in public learning. Expand your understanding of public learning and what we can learn when we engage with publics in these talks.

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Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants in the Settler Capitalist State

Feb 10, 2020   3:00 pm  101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St, Champaign, IL 61820

Details at the link above.

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Fourth Annual Grant-a-thon

February 14 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. (You must attend the whole time, and you must register ahead of time. See link above.)

This interactive session will provide students the opportunity to learn the basics of grant writing from local experts, network with professionals from nonprofit agencies, and pracice these skills by working with community partners on current grant applications.

Here's an interview with an English student who participated last year.

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Abolition | Spring 2020 Events Calendar

Of the "Abolition" Initiative at CAS

See details at the link above. February 6, March 3, March 26, April 14

Abolition examines the interconnected power dynamics across prisons, police, immigration, gendered and sexual violence, environmental justice, disability justice, and more, in order to propose an abolitionist democratic present and future.

Professors Toby Beauchamp (Gender and Women’s Studies) and Naomi Paik (Asian American Studies) have been appointed CAS Resident Associates for AY2019-20 in charge of this initiative which includes a public events series and a seminar in Spring 2020 among other activities.

*Note from Ann: All the talks in this series can count toward the 28 hours. Remember, these are are not substitutes for working with your community partner.

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Civic Identity and Engagement among Migrant-Origin Youth  
 

February 26, 1-2pm 
Main Library 106

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Are you interested in the intersection of local politics and immigration? Here are two opportunities.

This is not an endorsement of any candidate, just an opportunity to see the political process in action.

Crimmigation: The Impact of Law on the Immigrant Community

February 27, 5:00 - 7:30 (or part of that time) RSVP requested

Maize at the Station, 100 N. Chestnut St., Champaign.

Real Reforms for Immigrants in Champaign County

February 28, 4:00 - 6:00. Suggested donation of $10

Maize at the Station, 100 N. Chestnut St., Champaign.

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Panel | Race, Place and the Politics of Census 2020

March 2, 4:00 Room 210, Levis Faculty Center (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana)

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Forum | Champaign-Urbana Local Concerns for Census 2020

March 2, 6:30 - 7:30 Third Floor Lecture Hall, Levis Faculty Center (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana)

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Parkland's Dental clinic

Thursday 3/12 and to-be-arranged throughout the semester

In case any of your 332 students are looking for some extra volunteer hours, we have some opportunities to interpret at Parkland's Dental clinic this week (and probably in the months to come). If anyone is available, we still need one volunteer for Thursday, and they can fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1YVTfYVeqNljheBv461I6pJIdfjALVGzhMI7FqEQjbARfUw/viewform?usp=sf_link> . Even if they are not available but would like to know about future opportunities, please have them fill out the form and I can keep them in the loop.

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CLACS Movie Night: "El Norte"

Thursday 3/12 from 4:00-8:00 pm

Location: Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 FLB

Join CLACS for Movie Night!  On March 5th at 6:30 pm, we will be presenting El Norte which focuses on the journey of two indigenous Guatemalan youth who make to arduous journey to the United States after being forced to flee the violence in their home community in the 1980s.  A discussion and Q&A will follow the film and the screening will take place in Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 Foreign Language Building).  Click here for the trailer. 

Q&A following the film

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Champaign Unit 4 parent-teacher conferences

Thursday 3/12 from 4:00-8:00 pm and Friday 3/13 8:00-11:00 am

Location: Champaign Central High School 

Contact: Chevonne Koenig koenigch@u4sd.org

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Migration & Game Design Symposium

April 2, 4th Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois, Urbana

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International MIgration in the 21st Century

April 3, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum