College of LAS Events
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Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Monday, November 16, 2026
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Monday, March 22, 2027
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The Poet as Seismograph: Ukrainian and Yiddish Poetry of the 1920s and Beyond” explores the intersections between Ukrainian and Yiddish literature through the metaphor of the poet as sounding board and listening device.

Tuesday, March 23, 2027
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The Poet as Seismograph: Ukrainian and Yiddish Poetry of the 1920s and Beyond” explores the intersections between Ukrainian and Yiddish literature through the metaphor of the poet as sounding board and listening device.

Friday, March 26, 2027
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ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work. The ILLS annual conference is proud to be entirely student-organized and operated by the Linguistics Student Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Learn more about the conference here: https://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/

Saturday, March 27, 2027
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ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work. The ILLS annual conference is proud to be entirely student-organized and operated by the Linguistics Student Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Learn more about the conference here: https://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/

Thursday, April 8, 2027
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Balkan Research Forum
Recurring
Friday, April 9, 2027
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Balkan Research Forum
Recurring
Thursday, April 15, 2027
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Please join us for a four-day Yiddish arts and culture festival held April 15-18 across Champaign-Urbana. This regional celebration features live music, cooking and art workshops, Yiddish 101, children’s story time, scholarly lectures, and more. The Midwest Yiddishfest is an intergenerational, all-ages festival, and is open to everyone, including those new to Yiddish lang


