Tagore Festival 2025
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- South Asian Studies, Comparative and World Literature, Department of Religion, School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics, Humanities Research Institute, Asian American Cultural Center
- Location
- Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon St Urbana, IL 61801
- Date
- Nov 8, 2025 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- Speaker
- Professor Michele Louro
- Contact
- Ragini Chakraborty
- raginic2@illinois.edu
- Views
- 37
- Originating Calendar
- South Asia General Events
The Festival is observed every year in honor of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poet, dramatist, musician, philosopher, and humanist, who became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. The Annual Tagore Festival commemorates the Nobel Laureate’s visit to the UIUC campus in 1912 when he delivered a series of lectures at the Channing Murray Chapel, the first Unitarian Church of Urbana.
2025 EVENT SCHEDULE:
XXXIV TAGORE FESTIVAL November 8, Saturday, 5-7 PMKEYNOTE:
Professor Michele Louro
“India's Anticolonial Struggle from Swadeshi to Independence"
Performance based on Tagore’s songs by students and community members(Tea and snacks will be served)
Sponsors: Comparative and World Literature, Department of Religion, School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics, Humanities Research Institute, Asian American Cultural Center