College of Media Events Calendar
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
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
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Roberson Alphonse, visiting lecturer at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and head of national news at Le Nouvelliste in Haiti, will present "The Price to Pay to Uphold Press Freedom and Democracy."
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
Monday, September 14, 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 20, 2026
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.
Thursday, October 29, 2026
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Join us for the Ebert Center’s DCP (digital cinema package) inauguration film screening featuring "Suspiria" (Italy, 1977, English dub) and see a spectacularly spooky movie with film industry-level resolution standards.
