College of LAS Events
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Friday, January 16, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080)
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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4:00 pmRoger Adams Lab, 600 S Mathews Ave., Room 116
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Thursday, January 22, 2026
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, ILJoin 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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5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana, ILAttend a lecture by Joseph P. Gone, a member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre Tribal Nation of Montana and the Faculty Director of the Harvard University Native American Program, in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Spring Lecture Series "At Risk U: The Past, Present, and Future of Academic Freedom."
Friday, January 23, 2026
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
Saturday, January 24, 2026
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1:00 - 3:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Do you weave, crochet, knit, felt, or embroider? Krannert Art Museum invites you to Knit & Sit! Bring your project and join us for a weaver’s circle in the "Art Since 1948" exhibition at the museum. All ages and experience levels are welcome! Free and open to everyone. *Parking nearby is free on weekends.*
Monday, January 26, 2026
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4:00 - 5:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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5:00Alice Campbell Alumni Center (601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana)Hear from Ambassador Shapiro as a distinguished diplomat and foreign policy expert with over two decades of experience in senior U.S. government positions. RSVP is required for this event. If you have not registered in advance, you will not be allowed into the event.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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12:00 - 2:15 pmCoble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306. -
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
7:00 pmG58 LCLB- Film Classroom
Lee Miller was an incredible photographer who was present at the liberation of some concentration camps. Trigger warning: some parts of this film display graphic images of survivors and victims of the Holocaust. 7 pm Holocaust Remembrance Day screening of Lee. Location TBD.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
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12:00 - 1:30 pmThe Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity!
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12:00 - 1:30 pmThe Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity!
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmLAS Paul Lisnek Hub Lincoln HallA friendly Arabic roundtable where participants learn useful phrases and vocabulary through relaxed conversation. All levels are welcome.
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5:00 pmGregory Hall 111Join Stefan Djordjevic and Marco Jaimes for an info session about HIST 354: Study Abroad in Prague.
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7:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, UrbanaAward winning experimental theater artists Holly Hughes (one of the NEA Four) and Katie Pearl are building a new performance about the Supreme Court and sexual violence and plan to premiere the piece in the fall of 2026.
Thursday, January 29, 2026
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12:30 - 2:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 424This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Stop by to listen, chat, and share lunch!
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12:30 - 2:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 424This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Stop by to listen, chat, and share lunch!
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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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3:30 - 5:30 pmRoom 215 (Faculty Lounge), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, IL 61820
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
5:00 - 7:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignEleven faculty members from the U of I School of Art & Design will be featured in this upcoming exhibition: Ryan Griffis, Emmy Lingscheit, Melissa Pokorny, Sharath Ramakrishnan, Stacey Robinson, Joel Ross, Stephen Signa-Avilés, Blair Ebony Smith, Nekita Thomas, Deke Weaver, and Brooke C. White.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmKrannert Art MuseumEleven faculty members from the School of Art & Design will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie. The exhibition considers how people make and define place through stories, and how stories carry out a kind of labor, maintaining narratives about the places we live—and about us.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignCelebrate opening night of the museum’s latest exhibition Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie | School of Art & Design Faculty, featuring new work by 11 artists. Enjoy a salon talk with the curators, music, and a dessert bar. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm.*
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7:30 - 9:30 pmKrannert Center for the Performing ArtsJanuary Dance is directed by Assistant Professor Alexandra Barbier, who will also be premiering a new characteristically humorous theatrical work. MFA candidate Nik Owens premieres his thesis work, an athletic, probing romp into black queerness. Distinguished alumni guest artists, Laina Reese Werner-Powell and Ty Lewis round out this show, premiering new group works.
Friday, January 30, 2026
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11:15 am - 12:15 pm1024 Chemistry Annex
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
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12:00 pm108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
3:00 - 5:00 pm
In her book Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self, philosopher Ladelle McWhorter (U. of Richmond) describes the agony of trying and failing to be a good person. In a globalized capitalist economy, personhood makes unfulfillable demands.
Monday, February 2, 2026
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Thursday, February 5, 2026
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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 -
6:05 - 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. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*
Friday, February 6, 2026
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11:30 am - 1:00 pmThe Corner, Main Library 220
Researchers will share work in progress from "The Virality of Racial Terror in U.S. Newspapers, 1863-1921," a Mellon-sponsored project. VRT uses digital humanities methods to trace the circulation of reports about anti-Black violence in US newspapers in the late 19th & early 20th centuries.
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12:00 pmCoble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign IL Room 306 -
1:30 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB building -
2:00 pmGregory Hall 223
Please join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Aly Drame, a professor of history at Dominican University. His lecture will call attention to the need to better reframe the rise and development of Islam in the wider Senegambia, considering the role played by the Mandinka Muslim settlements in the Middle Casamance in this process through intermarriage...
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2:00 pmGregory Hall 223
Please join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Aly Drame titled "Return to Success": New Paradigms of Islamization in Senegambia.
Monday, February 9, 2026
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5:00 pmBruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center- BNAAC kitchenExplore Arabic language and culture while making Dubai-style chocolate in a fun, interactive social event.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
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5:30 - 7:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility, Room 2035
A lecture in the Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age series featuring Brett Robinson(University of Notre Dame). Drawing on thinkers such as Wendell Berry, Paul Kingsnorth, and James Carey—as well as emerging experiments in digital fasting and community-building.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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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 pmIllini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Friday, February 13, 2026
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
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12:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, Room 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (707 S. Mathews St., Urbana, IL 61801) -
1:00 - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210How does recognizing the fundamental entanglements of humans and the more-than-human world impact notions of "justice"? Drawing on perceptions from diverse communities, disciplines, and social, political, and historical contexts, this symposium will provide a space for us to grapple with the question: What might a more just world or worlds look like in the 21st century?
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3:00 - 5:00 pm223 Gregory Hall
Northwestern University philosopher Sandford Goldberg explores how we might modify or expand Stalnaker’s Common Ground framework to capture the normative dimension of inquiry and conversation. Goldberg suggests that we should make room for normative expectations both within common ground and about common ground, with far-reaching implications for epistemology.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
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8:30 am - 3:00 pmChapel of St. John the Divine, 1011 S. Wright Street, Champaign, IL
Join in the fun as Urbana’s newest period instrument ensemble, directed by internationally renowned harpsichordist Charlotte Mattax Moersch explores the musical puzzles in Bach’s great masterpiece, The Musical Offering, along other gems of the Baroque.
Monday, February 16, 2026
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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1:00 - 2:00 pmSkeuomorph Press & BookLab
Wagner's talk, “'As Usual You Have Produced Yet Another Installment Worthy of Archiving': The Persistence of Obsolescence in Queer Information & Media Technologies," uses archival object case studies to call attention to how data exists within the objects of queer history...
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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4:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, LCLBinteractive discussion of different Arabic dialects, with a special focus on Levantine Arabic.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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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 -
4:30 pmIllini Union Bookstore | Author's Corner
A reading by Callie Siskel made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series. Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, and Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.
Friday, February 20, 2026
Monday, February 23, 2026
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4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
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4:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge_ LCLBJoin us for a screening of Wadjda (2012), a groundbreaking Saudi Arabian film that follows a young girl challenging social norms in pursuit of independence.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
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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 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422Erin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422Erin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Chicago-based artist Oscar Joyo will discuss his vivid and colorful public murals, underscoring the purpose of art and understanding the power of art to create narratives and tell stories about the history of place, the significance of the present, and the hopes for the future. He will also share details of his local engagement with students from Stratton Elementary School
Friday, February 27, 2026
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
11:55 pmPhD students in the humanities at Illinois: make an impact using your humanities training this summer through the Summer Bridge Program! Support a community organization in Champaign-Urbana while learning new skills and exploring new career paths.