College of Media Events Calendar
Monday, August 24, 2026
Thursday, September 3, 2026
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Join us for the Ebert Center’s first screening of the season: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), directed by Steven Spielberg and attributed as Stanley Kubrick’s final work.

Monday, September 7, 2026
Thursday, September 10, 2026
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Celebrate the launch of “Quinceañeras: Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture” (University of Illinois Press), co-edited by two alumni and an emerita professor from the Institute of Communications Research.

Friday, September 11, 2026
Friday, September 18, 2026
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The Sandage Symposium brings together industry experts, researchers, and students who are shaping the future of advertising.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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Join us for a special screening of Night of the Living Dead and book event sponsored Illinois Public Media. George A. Romero’s 1968 horror masterpiece follows a group of panicked survivors trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse as flesh-eating ghouls lay siege to the house. The film will be followed by an on-stage discussion with the author and book signing.



