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.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Bruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center Multipurpose Room
Joy is Our Superpower: Healing and Therapy with Communities of Color
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center 424
Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
Voices of Nubia
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- Zoom
Voices of Nubia
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Han Li, University of California, Irvine (Zhao) "Engineering the Redox Chemistry of Life"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
- 1080 (Lucy Ellis Lounge) LCLB - Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center
Arabic Music Workshop
- Religious/Cultural
- 3:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Film Screening: "Good Bye, Lenin!"
- Film Screening
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Healing Through Joy: Writing Our Futures Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Movie Screening: "Good Bye Lenin!"
- Film Screening
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m.
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Jessica Hertig/Imlay Lab and Junya Li/Martinez Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:00 - 9:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Ebert Symposium: Representations and Their Critics
- Film Screening
- 7:00 - 8:00 pm
- DKH 119
Phi Alpha Theta Induction
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- Virginia Theatre
Ebertfest
- Film Screening
- 8:30 am
- Room #306 Coble Hal
Perspectives on the Politics of Indigeneity
- Lecture
- 10:00 - 11:00 am
- 215 Gregory Hall
Equity in Graduate Admissions: “The Impact of the SCOTUS Ruling on Graduate Admissions and DEI Programming” with Lisa Abston
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Jonathan Hollis, "Armenian Musicians from Azerbaijan: Legacy, Conflict, and Exile"
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Adam P. Willard, MIT University, "Modeling Exciton Dynamics in Heterogeneous Molecular Environments"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- LCLB G70
Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab Meeting
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Pine Lounge 1401 W. Green St. Champaign
Book Talk: The One State Reality
- Lecture
- 4:00 - 6:30 pm
- 210 Illini Union
History Showcase
- Exhibition
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Espresso Royale, corner of Goodwin and Oregon in Urbana (upstairs)
Pause Café (drop by at any time)
- Social/Informal Event
- 7:00 - 9:00 pm
- Honolulu 1 Room, Hilton Hawaiian Village
GGIS Alumni Reception at AAG 2024 Meeting in Hawai'i
- Social/Informal Event

Thursday, April 18, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- Virginia Theatre
Ebertfest
- Film Screening
- All Day
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 300 (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
- 300 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources Program
- Conference/Workshop
- 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
- 300 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
14th Illinois EU Studies Conference ("Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources") - Day 1
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:00 am
- Noyes Lab 217
2023 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis: Francis Alcorn, "Investigating Nanoscale Dynamics in Light Absorbing Structures Using Electron Microscopy" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
Cultural Codes of the Mount Nemrut Sculptures
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Maria Ines Perez-Millan, University of Buenos Aires "Translating Patient genetic insights to advance the research on pituitary progenitor cell fate"

Associate Professor, Physiology, Molecular, and Cellular Biology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 4:00 pm
- 1208 W Nevada St, Urbana
Snack & Study
- Social/Informal Event
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Chinedum Osuji, University of Pennsylvania (Kuenstler), "Polymer Self-Assembly and Liquid Demixing in the Presence of Liquid Crystals"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- LCLB 4080 A
Experimental Linguistics Group Meeting
- Meeting
- 3:00 pm
Understanding the Public Humanities Discussion Group
- Conference/Workshop
- 3:30 pm
- 1306 Everitt Lab
Statistics/Economics Seminar - Stanislav Volgushev (University of Toronto) - "Comparing many functional means"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Briana Burton, University of Wisconsin - Madison: "Visualizing molecular mechanisms of bacterial natural transformation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:30 - 8:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center Room 208, 919 W. Illinois , Urbana
Coffee, Tea & IP: Indigenous Knowledge, Intellectual Property, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Challenges and Opportunities for Africa
- Informational

Friday, April 19, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- Virginia Theatre
Ebertfest
- Film Screening
- All Day
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 300 (919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801)
Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
- 300 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources Program
- Conference/Workshop
- 9:00 am
- 2004 Natural History Building
EEB Colloquium - Dr. Bailey McNichol, Michigan State University, Topic: Responses and Adaptations of Michigan's Forests to Climate Change
- Seminar/Symposium
- 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB) + Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
Midwest Arabic Debate Championship
- Conference/Workshop
- 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
- 300 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801
14th Illinois EU Studies Conference ("Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources") - Day 2
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, SCIM, Room 052
Introduction to Virtual Production
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Prof. Andrew Ward (Scripps Research), - "From structure to sequence: Antibody discovery and profiling using cryoEM"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 161 Noyes Laboratory
Antonio LaPorte, UIUC, Final Defense, "Stereospecific Csp3 Cross-Coupling for Modular Polyketide Synthesis""
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 317 David Kinley Hall
Statistics/Economics Seminar - Jiaying Gu (University of Toronto) - "Identification of Dynamic Panel Logit Models with Fixed Effects"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- 1066 LH
Chelsey Smith "Education in Post-Abolition Jamaica"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Cultivating Chado Abroad: Reflecting on the Transmission of Chado in the US
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 213 Gregory Hall
Department of Philosophy Distinguished Lecture: Richard Schacht
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) + Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
U.S. Universities Midwest Arabic Debate Championship
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, April 20, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- Virginia Theatre
Ebertfest
- Film Screening
- 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB) + Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
Midwest Arabic Debate Championship
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 pm
- Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) + Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
U.S. Universities Midwest Arabic Debate Championship
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
- I-Hotel Conference Center
2024 Bohrer Workshop in Statistics
- Conference/Workshop
- 11:00 am - 3:30 pm
- Japan House 2000 South Lincoln Avenue Urbana, IL 61802
Japan House Spring Open House
- Reception/Open House
- 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Beautiful Words in the Way of Tea: Chakaiki and Toriawase
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- 314 A&B Illini Union
2023-2024 History Awards
- Ceremony/Service

Sunday, April 21, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB) + Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
Midwest Arabic Debate Championship
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 pm
- Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) + Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)
U.S. Universities Midwest Arabic Debate Championship
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
Spring Convocation Registration Form Deadline

Undergrads: Please remember to register for convocation!
- Informational

Monday, April 22, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- Room B, Law Building
Gloria Porras | A Conversation with Former Guatemalan Constiutional Court Justice
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 108 Coble Hall
Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact: Old Wine in a New Bottle?
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- AAS Conference Room, 1208 W Nevada St, Urbana
Tanaka Talk: How Sources of Discrimination Affect Political Participation

This year's Tanaka Talk will be given by second-year Ph.D. student, Qiaoyi Nie. Nie's research focuses on political behavior and race and ethnicity politics, particularly the sociological causes and psychological roots of individuals' political behavior in the American context.
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 4:30 pm
- Coble Hall 306
Ellen Moodie | Liberalism, Political Futures, and El Salvador’s Post-postwar Generation
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- LCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge
Linguistics Seminar Series: Yunwen Su
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- 108 Coble Hall & Online
Health Misinformation on Social Media: Psychological Drivers and Mitigation Strategies Mitigation Strategies"

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a threat to the world in two ways; as an epidemic and an Infodemic. Our study contributes to the understanding of the role of psychological ownership motivation and (SET) in Infodemic and the effect of digital nudging as a moderator.
- Lecture
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center 424
Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Emerging Leaders Seminar: Professor Louise Berben, University of California, Davis, "Using Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry to Control Electron and Proton Processes" (I)
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m.
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Saika Hossain/Imlay Lab and Riley McFarlane/Kehl-Fie Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 - 5:45 pm
Caffettino: Italian Conversational Table
- Social/Informal Event
- 6:00 pm
- Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada St, Urbana
Native American House -- Dinner on Us
- Lecture
- 6:30 - 7:00 pm
- Nate & Lillie Story Room, Champaign Public Library. 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820
Discovering Latin America and the Caribbean: Portuguese/ English
- Other
- 7:30 pm
- In person at Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts OR Live Stream
CultureTalk | Joy Harjo and Jenny L. Davis
- Other
- 7:30 pm
- In person at Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts OR Live Stream
CultureTalk | Joy Harjo and Jenny L. Davis

Join us for an engaging conversation with Joy Harjo (23rd United States Poet Laureate; member of the Muscogee [Creek] Nation) and Jenny L. Davis (American Indian Studies and Anthropology; member of the Chickasaw Nation).
- Other

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar: Dr James Collins, UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Inside Scoop | Joy Harjo

Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Joy Harjo, (23rd United States Poet Laureate; member of the Muscogee [Creek] Nation). Advanced registration required.
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Inside Scoop | Joy Harjo

Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Joy Harjo, (23rd United States Poet Laureate; member of the Muscogee [Creek] Nation). Advanced registration required.
- Other
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
2024 Geerdes Lecture: Benjamin Gilbert, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Modeling Multi-fork Replication and Segregation of Bacterial Chromosomes"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- LCLB G70
Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab Meeting
- Meeting
- 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Annual SLCL Faculty Meeting
- Meeting
- 3:30 - 5:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 422
Floridalma Boj Lopez | Mobile Archives of Indigeneity: Genesis, Methodology, and Application
- Ceremony/Service
- 3:30 - 5:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, room 422
Latina/Latino Studies Speaker Series: Dr. Floridalma Boj Lopez, “Mobile Archives of Indigeneity: Genesis, Methodology, and Application.”
- Lecture
- 3:30 - 5:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 422
LLS Speaker Series: Floridalma Boj Lopez, "Mobile Archives of Indigeneity"
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- 1080 LCLB (Lucy Ellis Lounge)
Italian Movie Night: "Le Otto Montagne"
- Film Screening
- 7:30 pm
- Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom
Public Reading | Joy Harjo
- Performance
- 7:30 pm
- Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom
Public Reading | Joy Harjo
- Performance

Thursday, April 25, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- 8:30 am
Annual SLCL Awards Reception
- Ceremony/Service
- All Day
- TBD
Ruth Behar
- Lecture
- 11:00 am
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Dr. Alexander Johnson, Michigan State University "Neuropeptide and hormonal mediators of ingestive and binge feeding behavior"

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
- Seminar/Symposium
- 1:00 - 4:00 pm
- 1208 W Nevada St, Urbana
Snack & Study
- Social/Informal Event
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- Salaam Center, 700 S Gregory St , Urbana, IL 61801
Arabic Calligraphy
- Social/Informal Event
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Eric Appel, Stanford University (Rogers) "Supramolecular (Bio)materials: From Fundamentals to Advanced Solutions for Pressing Challenges in Society"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- LCLB 4080 A
Experimental Linguistics Group Meeting
- Meeting
- 3:30 - 5:00 pm
- 4045 iSchool Hub
ICR Distinguished Speaker Series: Nicole Ellison
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Oana Luca, University of Colorado, "Electrons as Energy Currency in Sustainable Chemistry" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Laura Mike, University of Toledo -- "Unmasking Klebsiella control of exopolysaccharides"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum 600 South Gregory, Urbana
Sefardita: A Journey from Anthropology to Fiction
- Lecture

Friday, April 26, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- 10:00 am
"A Critical Perspective on AI as an educator in the Global South" Professor Laura Czerniewicz, University of Cape Town
- Conference/Workshop
- 10:00 am
- 1090 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Krutarth Kamani, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am
- 433 Roger Adams Laboratory
Mara Paterson, Final Defense, UIUC, "Design and Synthesis of Acid-Cleavable Monomers for Chemically Degradable Polymeric Materials."
- Seminar/Symposium
- 11:00 am
- 160 English Building
Rebecca Ulrich, UIUC, Final Defense, "Physicochemical Trends of Compound Efflux in Gram-Negative Bacteria and Characterization of Novel Antibacterials"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Armita Nourmohammad (University of Washington) - "Learning the shape of immune and protein universe"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Humanities Research Lab Showcase
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 2:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Humanities Research Lab Showcase
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 pm
- 404 David Kinley Hall
Politics Workshop: Crisis Leadership in the Time of Covid: Effects of Personality Traits on Response Speed
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- Lucy Ellis
Beth Severy-Hoven
- Lecture
- 3:00 - 5:00 pm
- Gregory Hall 319
Department of Philosophy Colloquium Talk: David Gunkel
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
- 2049 Natural History Building
GGIS Colloquium | Irrigating the Plantation State
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
Professor Kyoung-Shin Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Electrochemical Hydrogenation, Hydrogenolysis, and Dehydrogenation for Reductive and Oxidative Lignocellulosic Biomass Upgrading"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:30 - 6:30 pm
- LCLB 2090B
Distinguished Alumni Lecture by Priscilla Charrat-Nelson
- Lecture
- 4:30 pm
- Illini Union, South Lounge
Slavic Department Awards Ceremony

Annual awarding of Slavic Department prizes.
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, April 27, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational

Sunday, April 28, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational

Monday, April 29, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- 8:30 am Time and Location TBD
Zaida Muxi
- Ceremony/Service
- 2:00 pm
- LCLB 3092C
Computational Linguistics Reading Group
- Meeting
- 3:00 pm
- Beckman 3269
Professor Luke Chao, Harvard University, "Ultrastructural regulation of the mitochondrial inner-membrane"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Linguistics Seminar Series: Amanda Brown
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- LCLB 4080A
Lecture entitled “Modiano’s Remembrance of Things Past: Dora Bruder and the Shoah”
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- ARMORY FREE THEATRE, ROOM 160, Armory Building
INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre AUDITIONS for FALL 2024
- Performance
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center 424
Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group
- Lecture
- 1:00 pm
- 279 Davenport Hall
Amie Lanzendorf, Final Defense, UIUC, "Development of Small Molecules Toward Therapeutic Applications for Myotonic Dystrophy and Cancer"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Priya Shah, University of California, Davis (Shukla) "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Integrating Virology and Engineering to Drive Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor A. Dean Sherry, University of Texas - Dallas, "Next Generation MR Contrast Agent Designs for Imaging Physiology & Metabolism"(I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m.
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angelica Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium in the Spurlock Museum
Science, Health, & Equity Series: Unintended Consequences of Premature Black Death

Please join us for the first event of the Science, Health, and Equity Series: Unintended Consequences of Premature Black Death at the Spurlock Museum on Tuesday, Apr. 30 at 4 p.m.
- Lecture

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- ARMORY FREE THEATRE, ROOM 160, Armory Building
INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre AUDITIONS for FALL 2024
- Performance
- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other
- 10:00 - 11:30 am
- 2090 B, LCLB
FRIT Faculty Meeting
- Meeting
- 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Beckman Institute - Rooms 1005 and 3269
Undergraduate Research Experience in Statistics (URES) Symposium
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
Arthur G. Nikelly Annual Lecture: Southern European Societies After Authoritarianism: Greece, Spain, and Portugal in Conversation
- Lecture
- 12:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis
Southern European Societies After Authoritarianism Greece, Spain & Portugal in Conversation
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University, "Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 5:00 pm
- GH 321
Faculty Meeting
- Meeting

Thursday, May 2, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- Illini Union
GASLA-17: the 17th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other
- All Day
Student Appreciation
- Other
- 12:00 pm
Dr. Cecilia Menjivar: Annual Florian Znaniecki Lecture
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Jesus Velazquez, University of California - Davis, (TBD) (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Rooms 422-424
HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception
- Other
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Rooms 422-424
HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception
- Other

Friday, May 3, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- Illini Union
GASLA-17: the 17th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Dr. Roberto Zoncu (University of California - Berkeley) -
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Laura Sanchez, University of California Santa Cruz "Visualizing Microbial Chemistry in situ"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni BA Award
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm
Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni PhD Award
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, May 4, 2024

- All Day
- Illini Union
GASLA-17: the 17th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
- Conference/Workshop

Monday, May 6, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 217 Noyes Laboratory
Chelsea Swartchick, Final Defense, UIUC, "Rational Design of Activity-based Sensing Probes to Reveal the Impact of Inflammation on Human Disease Progression"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center 424
Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 161 Noyes Laboratory
David Ryffel, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
2024 T.S. Piper Inorganic Thesis Award: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student/Postdoc Seminar: Molly Crowder/Blanke Lab and Sharik Khan/Kuzminov Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 6:00 pm
NRC Conflicts and Change: Book Club for Educators
- Other

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

- 1:00 pm
- TBA
FINAL DEFENSE, Paola Baldaguez Medina "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
2024 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Theodore Goodson III, University of Michigan, "Nonlinear Optical and Time-Resolved Properties of Novel Organic Materials"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, May 9, 2024

- 1:00 - 4:30 pm
Capstone Presentations - May 9 Afternoon Session
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, May 10, 2024

- 9:00 am
- 1092 Lincoln Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, David Potts, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 10:00 am - 1:30 pm
Capstone Presentations - May 10 Morning Session
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:30 pm
- TBA
FINAL DEFENSE, Ohsung Kwon, "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 pm
- Room 3083 Natural History Building (SESE Core)
GGIS Class of 2023-24 Reception & Award Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 3:30 - 4:30 pm
- CLSL B102
Alumni Lecture: Dr. H.N. Cheng (PhD, ’74, Gutowsky), USDA Agricultural Research Service - Plastic Pollution: How to Tackle this Problem

Alumni Lectures feature Chemistry at Illinois alumni who have, with the foundation of their chemistry studies at Illinois, made a meaningful impact in their chosen field.
- Lecture
- 4:00 pm
- I-Hotel "Technology" Room
Annual Awards Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 5:00 pm
- Crystal Lake Park Boathouse
TIS Year-End Party!
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, May 11, 2024

- 8:30 am
Commencement
- Ceremony/Service
- 1:30 pm
- Smith Memorial Hall
2024 History Convocation
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:30 pm
- Foellinger Auditorium 709 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801
SLCL Convocation
- Ceremony/Service
- 5:30 pm
- Virginia Theater, Champaign, IL
Spring Convocation

Students graduating with degrees in the following units are invited to participate: African American Studies Anthropology Asian American Studies Gender and Women’s Studies Latina/Latino Studies Sociology This ceremony is int
- Ceremony/Service