College of LAS Events
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Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
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The RBML welcomes Justine Murison, editor of a new critical edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel. Murison will discuss the work’s historical and literary contexts, the revolutionary politics with which the novel engages, and the enduring questions it asks about American society. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free, and a
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Join us for a panel featuring Mary Arends-Kuenning, “Government Policies and Their Impacts on Women’s Empowerment.” Vernita Pearl Fort, "Forging a Human Rights Economy within Planetary Boundaries: A Response to unprecedented ‘Glocal’ Crises and Opportunities." McKenzie Johnson, “The Work of Women Environmental Defenders in Extractive Economies”...
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The speaker for the India Studies Lecture for 2025 is Vasudha Narayanan. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida and a past President of the American Academy of Religion. Her lecture will be on "Tamil Culture: More sweet than celestial nectar, more precious than one’s breath." It will be held at the Spurlock Museum...
Friday, April 4, 2025
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We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in when you can to learn about the exciting projects undertaken by our faculty.
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Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) on moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical, inside/outside, or status-quo/anti-establishment to better understand youth activism.
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Join us on Friday, April 4th for a Graduate Student Lunch & Learn: Publishing on Gender Related Topics. Please rsvp at https://go.illinois.edu/GradLunchLearn
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On average, English speakers utter around 16,000 words per day, most of it in interactions with other people. Yet, the language sciences have predominately approached language as if we use it for monologue. In this talk, Dr. Christiansen will argue that we should view language as being fundamentally collaborative and improvisational, like a game of charades.
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Join the RBML for a hands-on journey through history! Play historical board games that bring the past to life as you roll the dice, make your moves, and uncover the stories behind them. Perfect for all ages, this interactive in-person event invites families, students, and community members to connect, learn, and have fun. Don’t just study history—experience it through play
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
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Work-in-progress talk and paper: “Little Tech on the Prairie" by Matthew Darmour-Paul, PhD candidate in Sociology at Australian National University and tutor in architecture at the University of Sydney. His research explores place-based computational practices and techno-nationalism in the American Midwest.
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Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
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Dr. Maritza Paredes, Sociology Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, will discuss the complexities of extractive frontier expansion and its intersection with global climate change policies in conservation areas, particularly within indigenous communities. Her research explores the redistributive and justice dimensions of these processes, shedding light...
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This panel will feature Karen Flynn (Terrance & Karyn Holm Endowed Professor, UIC); Julie A. Pryde (C-U Public Health District Administrator); Lauren R. Aronson (Clinical Professor of Law and Immigration Law Clinic Director); and Jessica R. Greenberg (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of EUC).
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Between the late 1920s and mid-1960s, several Jewish social scientists and humanities scholars laid the theoretical groundwork for ethnic and immigration studies in the United States. The concepts these scholars developed – terms such as acculturation, urbanism, assimilation, and cultural pluralism – reshaped the understanding of America as a pluralist society of...
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The Third Wave of the Asian American Studies Movement: Advocating for & Advancing Asian American Studies in K-12 Classrooms
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We welcome you to join us at the iSchool for an in-person panel discussion and informal reception on Tuesday April 8th. Critical data studies takes on one of the most important issues facing society today: how do we build secure, accessible and equitable information infrastructures to support our communities? Join us for a conversation on the concepts, sites of study...
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Join We CU Community Engaged Scholars & the Career Center to learn how you can translate your volunteer experience into a powerful resume or CV.
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Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.
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Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.
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This will be a conversation with Tobias Brinkmann about his recent book, Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe. It tells and contextualizes the stories of Jewish migrants and refugees from Eastern and Central Europe before and after the First World War. It explains how immigration laws in countries such as the United States influenced migration...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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Please join us for a Historians Among Us lecture by Hermann von Hesse, an assistant professor of art history.
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Please join us for a lecture by Herman von Hesse, an assistant professor of art history, titled "Love of Stone Houses: Anxious Transformations, Collateralized Ancestral Spaces and the Ambivalence of Security on the Gold Coast."
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Join us for a free screening of Queendom (2023), followed by a discussion with producer Igor Myakotin. This documentary follows Jenna, a queer artist in Russia, who stages radical public performances to challenge perceptions of beauty and queerness while protesting government oppression. Myakotin, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, brings this powerful story to the screen.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
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Dr. Winful, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and a participant in the DRIVE Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Program, will discuss her research on the biological mechanisms linking stress to health, with a focus on inflammation.
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The Department of Asian American Studies welcomes Dr. Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California to present his talk "Mutual Aid and Resisting Carceral Power: Asian American Strategies".
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The book explores how the centrality of sonic practices and experiences within Islamic traditions stems largely from the orality of the Qur’an and the importance of recitation, while arguing that sound can provide a productive point of entry to human cultures in general.
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The Department of Asian American Studies welcomes Dr. Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California to present his talk "Mutual Aid and Resisting Carceral Power: Asian American Strategies".
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Celebrate the exhibition opening of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR): Red Regalia Project created with Chicago-based Native artist Angel Starr (Omaha, Odawa, Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota) to call attention to violence against Indigenous Peoples. Part of the 2024–2025 Native North American Art Residency...
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SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It’s an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
Friday, April 11, 2025
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The Center for Children's Books will be hosting a mini-book sale in the Main Quad consisting of Young Adult (YA) books! Funds will be used to support CCB staff and programs. This will be a touchless/card only sale. This book sale is open to all students of UIUC.
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Calling all graduate students, how fast can you present your research? Join this event to meet other Illinois graduate students and share your research in 3 minutes or less. Light lunch available for all registered participants. Registration is Required at https://go.illinois.edu/LightningTalk25
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In this colloquium, Dr. Chiu-Shee will be presenting her ongoing field work on the ideals and practices of "the ecological city" and stimulate discussion and new ideas as she proceeds with her research.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Monday, April 14, 2025
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Join us for the next lecture as part of the Proseminar in Antiracist Science. Dr. Lisa Spanierman, Professor in the School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University, will present "Decentering and Recentering Whiteness: One White Scholar’s Journey"
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Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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The Interdisciplinary Sport Studies Research Cluster is pleased to host Dr. Letisha Brown, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Brown will give a guest talk on her upcoming book titled, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, with Rutgers University Press
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Please join us to celebrate the book launch of LLS professor, Aja Y. Martinez's new book The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement, co-authored with Robert O. Smith (University of North Texas). The book weaves together the many sources of critical race theory, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Free lunch and informal talk for undergraduates of any major. With poet and essayist Ross Gay.
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Free lunch and informal talk for undergraduates of any major. With poet and essayist Ross Gay.
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Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Christine Rosen. Her lecture "Defending the Human in a Technological World" will explore what it means to be human in a world that promises near-endless opportunities for virtual, disembodied experience.
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A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay.
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A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay. The book will be available for purchasing and signing.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of life Sciences
Friday, April 18, 2025
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Extracellular Vesicles in the Clinic: Establishing New Partnerships Between Illinois and Mayo Clinic
This workshop sponsored by Beckman Institute, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance and Cancer Center at Illinois will provide the opportunity to learn about the use of EVs as markers of disease progression from Mayo Clinic faculty and become acquainted with newly emerging technologies to capture and detect EVs by faculty at Illinois.
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Join us for a lecture by ethnomusicologist Olga Zaitseva-Herz on the role of music in Russia’s war on Ukraine. She explores how state-controlled and grassroots music scenes shape the war’s political and social dynamics. A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Zaitseva-Herz examines music as a tool of resistance, diplomacy, and identity.
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Join the Department of Philosophy for a lecture with John D. Norton, a distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh. His lecture "How the material theory of induction dissolves the problem of induction" will explore Hume's problem of induction and argues that attempts to revive the problem within material theory fail.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a 2024 political drama film written, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. Its plot centers on Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who grapples with paranoia as nationwide political protests due to the death of a young woman intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears.
Monday, April 21, 2025
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Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.
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Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.
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Join Sourcelab for a session on Library of Congress API.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
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In this evocative conversation, MacArthur Fellow and award-winning artist Taylor Mac—a playwright, actor, songwriter, performance artist, director, and producer whose epic performance work, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, was nominated for a 2017 Pulitzer Prize...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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Join us for an event exploring Lebanese history through the Jesuit archive in Lebanon.
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Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
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Photographers Ara Oshagan and Levon Parian will present a two-part art exhibit from their iWitness project at the Siebel Design Center in the spring culminating in a moderated talk at 5pm on April 24th at the Siebel Center.
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Internationally known jazz pianist Darius Brubeck is joined on stage by University of Illinois students Adib Young (sax), Emma Taylor (bass) and Max Osawa (drums) in a two-set performance that showcases a wide range of jazz styles and offers the audience a chance to hear how jazz music has a universal connection and longevity.
Friday, April 25, 2025
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Join the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies for a lecture with history professor Deepasri Baul.
Monday, April 28, 2025
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Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
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The Master of Science in Psychological Science students invite you to learn about their ongoing research! See posters describing the latest psychological science research and have the opportunity to talk with students about their projects
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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Join the LAS Office of Research to learn more about grant support for faculty researchers in LAS. Our team will share information on pre-award services, such as budgeting, document review, and preparing for submission to SPA. This session will be particularly helpful for faculty without access to dedicated unit-based grant support staff.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Endocrinology
Friday, May 2, 2025
Monday, May 5, 2025
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Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
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Jennifer Teper, Head of Preservation Services at the University of Illinois Library, will discuss how she uses science in her work to conserve library collections and special collections.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Thursday, May 8, 2025
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Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.
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Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.
