College of LAS Events
If you will need disability-related accommodations in order to participate, please email the contact person for the event.
Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Thursday, February 2, 2023
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Dr. González-Martin (University of Texas at Austin) will talk about an extension of her award-winning book, Quinceañera Style, exploring the tensions and opportunities between celebration and commodification of this important rite of passage. Register for Zoom, or attend in person at La Casa Cultural Latina.
Friday, February 3, 2023
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Transnational mobilities of diasporic citizens are key forces reshaping urban configurations in certain contexts. Attending to postcolonial provocations in urban studies, this presentation foregrounds transnational urbanism as an analytical entry point to trace and examine emergent urban spaces in the Philippines.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
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Open to faculty and graduate students of any discipline at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this workshop you'll unravel the mysteries of your writing barriers, then spend the rest of the day writing and reflecting with other retreaters. And you'll be supported throughout the day by live coaching with InkWell Founder, Michelle Boyd, PhD.
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Open to faculty and graduate students of any discipline at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this workshop you'll unravel the mysteries of your writing barriers, then spend the rest of the day writing and reflecting with other retreaters. And you'll be supported throughout the day by live coaching with InkWell Founder, Michelle Boyd, PhD.
Monday, February 6, 2023
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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Futurity, or the intentional imagining and materializing of liberated futures—where freedom from oppression, trauma, violence, and discrimination are realized—inspires this talk. Dr Johnson will discuss their methods for conjuring the world and communities in which we want to live and thrive
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Futurity, or the intentional imagining and materializing of liberated futures—where freedom from oppression, trauma, violence, and discrimination are realized—inspires this talk. Dr Johnson will discuss their methods for conjuring the world and communities in which we want to live and thrive
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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Dr. Robert W. Barrett, Jr., University of Illinois, English, "Cherry Trees and More-than-Human Animacies in Zeami's Saigyō-zakura and the N-Town Nativity"
Thursday, February 9, 2023
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This participatory workshop aims to disrupt modes of "doing" scholarly analysis of visual art, performance, film and other cultural productions. Registration required.
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This participatory workshop aims to disrupt modes of "doing" scholarly analysis of visual art, performance, film and other cultural productions. Advance registration is required.
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This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.
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This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.
Friday, February 10, 2023
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This presentation examines key dimensions of the evolving global higher education & research landscape which, taken together and despite the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, points to the 'denationalization' and 'desectoralization' of higher education.
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Monday, February 13, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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A ceremony celebrating the winners and finalists in the 2022 School of Chemical Sciences Science Image Challenge. SCS Director Dr. Paul Kenis will deliver remarks around 4:30 p.m.
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Join us for a campus-community town hall with a panel of experts on political polarization to answer your questions. We will reflect on how we got here and what we can do to move forward.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
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Associate Professor, Dept. Psychological and Brain Sciences
Friday, February 17, 2023
Monday, February 20, 2023
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Thursday, February 23, 2023
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Join us for a public reading with Creative Writing Professor David Wright Faladé.
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Join us to hear Creative Writing Professor David Wright Faladé read from his work.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Monday, February 27, 2023
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Thursday, March 2, 2023
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In queer spaces, we often use a list of letters to signal coalitional possibility. What does a list make possible? In this talk, I draw on the virtuosic listmaking deployed by dance critic and lesbian feminist activist Jill Johnston to consider what we can and cannot derive from understanding ourselves alongside one another.
Friday, March 3, 2023
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This workshop is open to all faculty and graduate students, no registration required. In this workshop we’ll be experimenting with how a score, an invitation to dancing, is a site where the acts of writing and dancing might touch. Facilitated by Clare Croft, Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan.
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The 21st annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will take place on March 3 and 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Room 108 of Levis Faculty Center and online via Zoom. It will showcase graduate papers that foreground histories of women, gender, sexuality, and/or queerness.
Saturday, March 4, 2023
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The 21st annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will take place on March 3 and 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Room 108 of Levis Faculty Center and online via Zoom. It will showcase graduate papers that foreground histories of women, gender, sexuality, and/or queerness.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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Dr. Joseph Turner, University of Louisville, English, "Revising Plato in the General Prologue"
Thursday, March 9, 2023
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In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century.
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In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century.
Friday, March 10, 2023
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Friday, March 17, 2023
Saturday, March 18, 2023
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Monday, March 20, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Friday, March 24, 2023
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Monday, March 27, 2023
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The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
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The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Thursday, March 30, 2023
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Professor, Dept. Internal Medicine and Molecular & Integrative Physiology
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Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Lecture by Tarren Andrews (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University)
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Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Lecture by Tarren Andrews (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University).
Friday, March 31, 2023
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This lecture debates upon the definition and function of the term, ‘identity’ and ‘culture’ leading to the argument that identity encapsulates difference while culture is a phenomenon by which decolonization occurs. The later part of the presentation reads a few select South Asian works to reveal the nature of identity and culture and the multiple levels at which it exists
