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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is organizing the first-ever U.S. Universities Midwest Arabic Debate Championship!
Dates: April 19-21, 2024
Saturday Location: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
306 N Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801
Sunday Location: Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
1405 W Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Funders and Sponsors
The Midwest Arabic Debate Championship is funded by the following organizations, departments, centers, and programs:
School of Literatures, Languages, and Linguistics
Illinois International Program
Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program
Land Acknowledgement
We would like to begin today by recognizing and acknowledging that we are on the lands of the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankashaw, Wea, Miami, Mascoutin, Odawa, Sauk, Mesquaki, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Chickasaw Nations. These lands were the traditional territory of these Native Nations prior to their forced removal; these lands continue to carry the stories of these Nations and their struggles for survival and identity.
As a land-grant institution, the University of Illinois has a particular responsibility to acknowledge the peoples of these lands, as well as the histories of dispossession that have allowed for the growth of this institution for the past 150 years. We are also obligated to reflect on and actively address these histories and the role that this university has played in shaping them. This acknowledgement and the centering of Native peoples is a start as we move forward for the next 150 years.