College of LAS Events

Monday, November 2, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Matthew S. Winters, "Persistent Citizens: Pursuing Social Welfare Benefits in Brazil and Argentina"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Alison Butler, University of California Santa Barbara

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Sujit Datta, California Institute of Technology (Host: Prof. Ying Diao)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Inorganic Seminar, 2026 John C. Bailar, Jr. Lecture: TBD, Professor Alison Butler, University of California Santa Barbara

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Jiayue Yang/Whitaker Lab and Simrandeep Singh/Imlay Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• MCT Lecture Series: Orientalism

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  Please join the Unit for Criticism for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Chi-Ming Yang (English, University of Pennsylvania) on Orientalism.

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Colloquium: Dr. Victor Ray

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Room 3057

  • Lecture

  

• Charlie Dixon, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 S. Mathews Ave, Room 419

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Workshop dialect: Iraqi

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080), LCLB

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Natalie Shkolnik CHEM 575 Seminar: "Title TBD"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  163 Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Lorenzo Vergari, Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiological Engineering-Illinois

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Andrew Dillin (University of California Berkeley ) - "TBA"

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  180 Bevier Hall

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Seminar: "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Sophie Mazure CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Up Against Erasure | HuMetricsHSS Presentation

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Representatives from the HuMetricsHSS Humane Metrics Initiative will present on the values-based frameworks they’ve developed to guide all kinds of scholarly processes.

  • Other

  

• Up Against Erasure: HuMetricsHSS Presentation

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  Representatives from the HuMetricsHSS Humane Metrics Initiative will present on the values-based frameworks they’ve developed to guide all kinds of scholarly processes. The session will include time for audience questions.

  • Lecture

  

• Carr Visiting Author Series: Alumni Reading featuring Chekwube Danladi, Weston Morrow, and Chris Vanjonack

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore: Author's Corner

  Join us for a reading by Illinois Alumni, Chekwube Danladi, Chris Vanjonack, and Weston Morrow!

  • Performance

  

• Slavic Department Lecture: "Whose Tongue Is it Anyway?: On Poets Translating Themselves and Others"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Translators who translate from their “first” language and into their acquired tongue have been marginalized. This talk aims to build on the work of Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, Adrian Wanner, and others in looking at several Polish and Polish-American poets for whom literary multilingualism and translation are two sides of the same coin.

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Dr. Akane Hatsuda, EEB Postdoc Talk, "Brain Metabolism and Honey Bee Aggression"

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• “Performance and the Making of Religious Imagery in Early and Medieval India (Buddhist, Hindu, Jain)”, Anna Tosato

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

• Ada Doisy Lectures in Biochemistry: Dr. Navdeep Chandel (Northwestern University) - " Mitochondrial signaling in physiology and disease"

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium: Johnnie Kallas, Assistant Professor, Labor and Employment Relations

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Auditorium

  The Psychology Department is excited to continue the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2026-2027 academic year, a monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.

  • Lecture

  

• GGIS Colloquium | Bobby J. Smith II, African American Studies

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, November 7, 2026

• 38th Annual Beak-Pines Organic Area Allerton Conference

  Time

  8:00 am

  Location

  Allerton Park, Monticello, IL

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Monday, November 9, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: María Alejandra García Otero (Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences)

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

• Kenneth L. Rinehart Lecture in Chemical Biology, Professor Christopher J. Chang, Princeton University, "Title: TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• 2026 Emerging Leader in Inorganic Chemistry Speaker/ACS DIC John C. Bailar Coordination Chemistry Award, TBD, Professor Henry La Pierre, Georgia Tech University

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Chem Annex 1024

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Brooke Ebner/Slauch Lab and Lindsey Grady/Hatoum-Aslan Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Paige Drury CHEM 535 Seminar "Title TBD"

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  Time

  5:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080), LCLB

  A friendly Arabic roundtable where participants learn useful phrases and vocabulary through relaxed conversation. All levels are welcome.

  • Meeting

  

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• Decoding the Page: Emblems, Ornaments, and Early Modern Reading

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801

  Emblematica (Illinois) and Compositor (U. of Birmingham) are databases that use digital technologies to explore the early modern text-image interface. Join Dr. Hazel Wilkinson (Birmingham) to learn how historical readers used “emblem-literacy” to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted for in scholarship.

  • Lecture

  

• Pause Café

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  basement of Illini Union

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Benjamin Good, Stanford University -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: Emily Laub, Bell Lab, "Variation in Stickleback Social Networks Across Ecotypes"

  Time

  9:00 - 9:20 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• EEB Colloquium: Francis Dihn, Bell Lab, "Population Structure of the Canadian Maritimes' Sticklebacks"

  Time

  9:20 - 9:40 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Lucas Meirelles (Harvard/Mass General) - "Dynamic Host-Pathogen Co-Adaptation in Chronic Airway Infections”

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• CLACS Speaker Series presents: Angharad Valdivia

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 306

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• CHBE 565-Thomas J. Hanratty Lecture, Prof. Timothy P. Lodge, University of Minnesota (Host: Prof. Alexa Kuenstler) "Spontaneous Fission and Fusion of Block Copolymer Micelles"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay and Yishuo Jiang/Sirk Lab

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• MCT Lecture Series: Environmental Humanities

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  Please join the Unit for Criticism for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Thomas Davis (English, Ohio State) on Environmental Humanities.

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• Faculty meeting

  Time

  9:00 - 10:30 am

  Location

  2090B LCLB

  • Meeting

  

• Soirée Française

  Time

  6:00 - 7:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis 1080LCLB

  • Informational

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar-Prof. Amanda Marciel, Rice University (Host: Prof. Simon Rogers)

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  116 Roger Adams Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Pause Café

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  basement of Illini Union

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Mohammed Kaplan, University of Chicago -- "TBA"

  Time

  4:00 pm   5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• At Risk U Speaker Series: Resurging Pro-Power Pedagogies

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• EEB Colloquium: EEB Community: Discussion of AI in Science

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2004, NHB

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Professor Yangguang Ou, University of Vermont, Analytical Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  RAL 116

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• Fall break begins

  Time

  8:30 am

  Location

  Swanlund Administration Building

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Monday, November 30, 2026

• Instruction resumes

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  I-Hotel

  • Other

  

• Thomas Trzupek, Final Defense, UIUC, "TBD"

  Time

  2:00 pm

  Location

  TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium