College of LAS Events
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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12:00 pm1210 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801Join us on Wednesday, October 15th for our major-minor lunch! You do NOT have to be a part of our program to attend lunch- all students are welcome. Come learn about our department, chat with folks from AAS, and m
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12:30 - 1:30 pmInstitute of Communications ResearchMedia scholars John D. Peters (Yale) and Ben Peters (UTulsa) will reflect on the digital media sometimes called artificial intelligence. They will share insights from ongoing research projects, including Ben’s research on the Soviet prehistory of AI. Among his working points: AI today is Soviet and ChatGPT hallucinates because of Stalin’s homophobic purges.
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5:00 pmGregory Hall 311
Join us for an info session about HIST 354 Study Abroad in Prague.
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5:30 - 7:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility, Room 4039
Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with John Durham Peters, the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Yale University.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore, Room 514
The Center for Writing Studies is happy to host Dr. Toby Beauchamp! He will be giving a lecture titled "Embracing Trans Regret under Authoritarianism." Please join us on Thursday, October 16th!
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12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore, Room 514
The Center for Writing Studies will be hosting Dr. Toby Beauchamp for a brownbag talk! Dr. Beauchamp will be giving a lecture titled "Embracing Trans Regret under Authoritarianism." Please join us this week on Thursday, October 16!
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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5:15 pmMain Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
An award-winning film, SHTTL (Ukraine, 2022), portrays the lives of people in a small Ukrainian Jewish town (shtetl) at the Polish border, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion. It is a touching story of a filmmaker who returns from Kyiv to his native shtetl to marry the love of his life and disrupts the balance of the entire town.
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7:30 pmIllini Union, Room 210Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
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7:30 pmIllini Union, Room 210Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
Friday, October 17, 2025
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10:00 am - 5:00 pmSchool of Art & Design, Room 15
This symposium will explore artistic production, practices, and the agency of printed media before 1750 as they intersect with themes of sexuality and gender. Keynote speaker will be Dr.
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom -
6:00 - 8:00 pmJW Eater JR. High, 400 E Wabash Ave, Rantoul, IL 61866
Saturday, October 18, 2025
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11:00 am - 4:00 pmJapan House (2000 S Lincoln Ave Urbana, IL 61802)
Japan House's Fall Open House features artists Seiran Chiba, Masaji Hashimoto, Shinya Terasawa, and Hirohisa Saito to present on Fukushima traditional arts and crafts. Japanese tea ceremonies will be offered at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm. At 3pm, the artists will be giving a free presentation about their work.
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1:00 - 3:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Come experience immersive sound as you view artworks at Krannert Art Museum! Members of Improvisers Exchange Ensemble will create soundscapes within the museum through site-specific solo performance and collective improvisation in reflection and response to artwork on display. Museum visitors are invited to experience viewing the art in these sonic locations.
Monday, October 20, 2025
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm314b Illini Union -
4:00 - 6:30 pmSpurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Join us for a free screening of the film "Black Box Diaries" followed by an in person Q&A with the filmmaker Shiori Itô. This is first AsiaLENS film of the school year hosted by CEAPS and we hope to see you there on Oct 20, 2025 (4:00-6:30 pm).
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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12:00 - 1:30 pmACES (Funk) Library, Heritage Room (107)
Community-Engaged Research Insights for Graduate Students: Graduate students interested in community-engaged research are invited to join a lunch and panel discussion with like-minded peers on Oct. 21, noon - 1:30 p.m. The panel of experts from Illinois and a local community organization will discuss their experience conducting community-engaged research projects.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210 -
2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, a Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State University, where she has taught since 2000.
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4:30 - 6:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, ILJoin Spurlock for a lecture by Professor Pamela Riney-Kehrberg titled "The Farm Crisis and Fallout: The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After."
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080)
This talk by Dr. Hilit Surowitz-Israel explores Curaçao's pivotal role at the height of its influence by examining the production and circulation of religious material culture, focusing on the significance of "the gift" within Sephardic communities across the Americas.
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, Language, Cultures and Literatures Building (LCLB 1080)
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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12:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 108
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
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12:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 108
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
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4:00 - 5:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4039
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
Scheide Librarian Emeritus (Princeton) Paul S. Needham will discuss the history and production of the Catholicon, and present his findings that it was printed not from movable type, as previously thought, but instead from two-line castings — a discovery that continues to incite vigorous discussion in the field.
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4:00 pmCenter for Advanced Study (CAS)
Fredrik Jonsson (History, U of Chicago) proposes a fundamentally new interpretation of Britain's fossil energy economy between the first and second industrial revolutions 1750-1914.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Lecture by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago. Professor Jonsson will discuss his work on some of the historical dimensions of the climate crisis.
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4:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985. Our conversation with John Doe will be a chance to reflect on the inaugural Farm Aid concert ...
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4:30 pmSpurlock Auditorium
Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985.
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4:30 pm1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building -
8:00 pmRosebowl Tavern
Join us for a special evening with John Doe, founding member of the iconic punk band X, as he takes the stage for an intimate solo performance at The Rose Bowl Tavern in Urbana, IL.
Friday, October 24, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
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The domain-specificity of domain-generality in mathematical cognition: Leaning in to task impurities
1:30 - 2:50 pm819 Psychology
Monday, October 27, 2025
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, LCLBThis lecture examines the war diary, the most prominent genre at the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmCoble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306.
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5:00 - 6:00 pmUNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
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5:00 - 6:30 pmAlice Campbell Hall
Ayelet Tsabari’s National Jewish Book Award winning, novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted, traces the story of the history of Yemeni Israelis through a fictional family. Tsabari visited UIUC in 2019, and was interviewed for Ninth Letter.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pmChemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
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3:00 pmCoble Hall 306 -
4:00 - 7:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Halloween Film Screening: "Pan's Labyrinth" | October 29 at 4 pm | Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Thursday, October 30, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLProfessor, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
6:30 pm 09:00 pmSpurlock Museum of World Cultures -
7:00 - 11:00 pm213 Gregory Hall
Join the Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta for a screening of the film JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991) followed by a discussion.
Friday, October 31, 2025
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2:00 pmRoger Adams Lab 419
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3:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Rm 210
In 1978, the tropical city-state of Singapore received three polar bears, starting a dynasty of polar bears that ended in 2018. Within the lifespan of these tropical polar bears, the planet has undergone rapid and exponential growth in economies...
Saturday, November 1, 2025
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4:00 - 5:00 pmThe Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
Monday, November 3, 2025
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmCoble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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2:00 - 3:00 pmChemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
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4:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLTanveer Singh, Ph.D.
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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4:00 - 5:00 pmEnglish 109
Anna Hunt (Professor of German) “Quick! Somebody Get Me A Doctor of German Philosophy,” HGMS workshop, English 109, 4 pm-5 pm.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Prof. Ryan Low (University of North Dakota) ~~ In fourteenth-century Provence, the volume of written contracts increased from thousands each year to million, involving even the region's most remote rural communities and serving the interests of marginalized actors, including women, peasants, and religious minorities.
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6:00 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is 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, November 7, 2025
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11:30 am - 1:00 pmBNAACC Main Multipurpose Room -
12:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
3:00 - 4:30 pmBeckman Auditorium
The Psychology Department is excited to announce the launch of the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2025-2026 academic year, a new monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.
Sunday, November 9, 2025
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3:00 pmChapel of St. John the Divine, Champaign
This concert by Urbana's newest period instrument ensemble directed by Professor Emerita Charlotte Mattax Moersch, celebrates the elegance and grandeur of the French Baroque, with works by Leclair, Couperin, and Rameau.
Monday, November 10, 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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3:00 - 4:00 pmCoble Hall 108 -
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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5:00 - 6:00 pmUNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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12:00 pmW109 Turner Hall
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pmChemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
Gillen D’Arcy Wood will present his new book about the Victorian-era voyage of the HMS Challenger. From 1872-1876, its naturalists explored the oceans, encountering never-before-seen marvels of marine life. They had no way of knowing that the incredible undersea aquarium they were documenting was on the verge of catastrophic change.
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Book Talk: " Education 2.0: Chronicles of Technological and Cultural Change in Egypt." Linda Herrera
4:00 pm1090 Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana -
4:00 pmLincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 1090
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4:00 - 5:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4039 -
5:00 - 7:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, 210
Join us for a festive reception to celebrate three new books published this fall! The authors will each offer brief remarks and there will be an informal Q&A about the research and writing process. All are welcome!
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssociate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Friday, November 14, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
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12:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Monday, November 17, 2025
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4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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6:00 - 8:00 pmThe Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St. Urbana
Women have largely been written out of the ancient world. Dealing with the silences of the archive requires new and innovative tools, and in this talk, Dr. Emily Hauser surveys the many different approaches she has taken across her fiction and non-fiction writing to recover women.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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4:00 pm1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 -
4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 - 1:00 pm108 Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign 61820
'Pioneers on the wild frontiers of local fascism:' Rethinking U.S. fascism through the Black antifascist tradition" Speaker: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Date and Time: November 19 at 12 pm Location: 108 Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign 61820
Thursday, November 20, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Friday, November 21, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Thursday, November 27, 2025
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!