College of LAS Events
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Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Monday, June 16, 2025
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Friday, June 20, 2025
Monday, June 23, 2025
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Friday, June 27, 2025
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Sunday, July 13, 2025
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Professor Holland discusses the ambiguous place between animal and human. This talk is part of the 7th Annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
Monday, July 14, 2025
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Professor McHugh considers the enriching effect of walking with dogs while researching conservation challenges in the Great North Woods. This talk is part of the 7th Annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
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Professor Desmond asks whether the growing assertion by many U.S. owners/guardians that pets are “part of the family” should lead us to conceive of health care for pets as a fundamental right, and/or obligation of the state. This talk is part of the 7th Annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
Thursday, July 17, 2025
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Professor Berenbaum discusses the importance of wasps in providing valuable ecosystem services in the face of general fear and dislike of yellowjackets and hornets in particular. This talk is part of the 7th annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
Friday, July 18, 2025
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Chris Green discusses the creative strategies developed by animal advocacy organizations to effect change in public policy. This talk is part of the 7th annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
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Professor Hornstein considers the lion hunt as both a convention of European painting as well as a political motif that was directly related to French colonial expansion in North Africa, especially in the decades after the 1830 conquest. This talk is part of the 7th Annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Friday, August 1, 2025
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Monday, August 25, 2025
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Ronnie Grinberg, author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, to offer the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and HGMS kick-off event, generously funded by the Goldberg lecture series
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Kick off the semester with lively conversation, delicious refreshments, and the chance to reconnect with the CSAMES and CAS community. Meet our new affiliates, learn about upcoming programs, and toast to another year of groundbreaking scholarship
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Monday, September 8, 2025
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
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Dive into Nabil Ayouch’s vibrant musical drama following Anas, a former rapper turned teacher, who empowers Casablanca youth to challenge traditions through hip-hop. Post-screening discussion led by Eric Calderwood (Director of CSAMES and Professor of Comparative & World Literature).
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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Poet, essayist, translator, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of three books of poetry, and a winner of the 2024 National Book Award. Her visit is part of the Illinois Global Institutes "Palestine in the World" series. The IGI Series on Global Responsibilities brings multidisciplinary and global perspectives to major contemporary questions.
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National Book Award-winning poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha joins us for an evening of readings and reflection on her luminous collection, Something About Living. This lyrical meditation on Palestinian life, memory, and resistance blends poetic innovation with political insight. Tuffaha will discuss how her work engages with culture, history, and the power of artistic expression.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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On Thursday, September 18th at 5 pm. Speaker Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Professor of History at Oregon State University.
Friday, September 19, 2025
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The Environmental Humanities Research Cluster is hosting a symposium called “The Nuclear Environment” from 9am to 4pm on Friday, September 19th. The keynote speaker for that symposium will be speaking the night before, on Thursday, September 18th at 5pm. That speaker is Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Professor of History at Oregon State University.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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S&P: Catherine Hall talk, 7:30 pm, Spurlock Knight Auditorium
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S&P: Catherine Hall talk, 7:30 pm, Spurlock Knight Auditorium
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Saturday, October 4, 2025
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Undergraduates and friends of the humanities—save the date for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s first ever Humanities Open House! Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories. More details will be added as th
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Undergraduates and friends of the humanities—save the date for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s first ever Humanities Open House! Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories. More details will be added as th
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Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.
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Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.
Monday, October 6, 2025
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Thursday, October 9, 2025
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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is excited to invite you to our premiere Beyond Borders: Global Collaborations for Mental Health Research and Services Conference on October 9 and 10, 2025 in Champaign, Illinois. Coinciding with World Mental Health Day, our theme is: From local to global, encouraging creative solutions to transcultural mental health challenges.
Friday, October 10, 2025
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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is excited to invite you to our premiere Beyond Borders: Global Collaborations for Mental Health Research and Services Conference on October 9 and 10, 2025 in Champaign, Illinois. Coinciding with World Mental Health Day, our theme is: From local to global, encouraging creative solutions to transcultural mental health challenges.
Monday, October 13, 2025
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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S&P: Nadine Naber (UIC) and Brooke White (UIUC)
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S&P: Nadine Naber (UIC) and Brooke White (UIUC)
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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Lunchtime Fellowship Workshop with Carolyn Wisniewski
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Lunchtime Fellowship Workshop with Carolyn Wisniewski
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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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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Ayelet Tsabari, author of the award-winning novel, Songs for the Brokenherted, thanks to generous support from the Einhorn family, 5 pm-6:30 pm, Alice Campbell Hall
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Monday, November 3, 2025
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S&P: Faculty Book Talk: Erik Mc Duffie
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S&P: Faculty Book Talk: Erik Mc Duffie
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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Anna Hunt (Professor of German) “Quick! Somebody Get Me A Doctor of German Philosophy,” HGMS workshop, English 109, 4 pm-5 pm.
Monday, November 10, 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Monday, November 17, 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Friday, November 21, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Friday, December 5, 2025
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Campus Fellowships due
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Campus Fellowships due
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
Saturday, December 20, 2025
Monday, December 22, 2025
Friday, January 16, 2026
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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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, February 18, 2026
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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Med Hum lecture: Justin Garcia Kinsey Institute
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Med Hum lecture: Justin Garcia Kinsey Institute
Thursday, February 26, 2026
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HWW Jordan speaker: Erin Brock Carlson
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HWW Jordan speaker: Erin Brock Carlson
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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International Women’s Day, with CSGGE
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International Women’s Day, with CSGGE
Friday, March 6, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
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Blewish And Beautiful: Contemporary Black Jewish Voices roundtable with TaRessa Stoval, Marc Perry, David Wright Faladé and other contributors to the Blewish And Beautiful volume co-edited by Sara Feldman, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, and Brett Ashley Kaplan.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
Friday, March 27, 2026
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HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
Monday, March 30, 2026
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S&P: Anke Pinkert Book Talk 4pm
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S&P: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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National Poetry Month Event
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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Annual Armenian Genocide Event Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University). Time and location TBD
Monday, April 27, 2026
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception
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Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception