American Indian Studies Program

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• MCT Lecture Series: Gender

  Time

  5:15 - 6:45 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

• Dinner On Us: Renewed Geographies of Belonging: Anishinaabe Natural Resource Sovereignty in Michigan

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Asian American Cultural Center (1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana)

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• NAH Book Club

  Registration

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  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Native American House (1206 W. Nevada Street, Urbana)

  • Other

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• Dinner On Us: Our Relationship with Our Food and Ourselves

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm   5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

  Location

  Asian American Cultural Center (1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana)

  • Informational

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Faculty Book Talk: Gillen D'Arcy Wood

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  Professor Gillen D'Arcy Wood (English and Earth Science & Environmental Change) will discuss his book, The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans’ Decline.

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• MCT Lecture Series: Orientalism

  Time

  5:15 - 6:45 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• 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

  

• Native American Heritage Month Dinner

  Time

  4:30 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls (906 W. College Ct., Urbana)

  • Other

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• MCT Lecture Series: Indigeneity

  Time

  5:15 - 6:45 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• Native American Heritage Month Dinner

  Time

  4:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Avenue Dining Hall (1005 S. Lincoln, Urbana) & Ikenberry Dining Center (301 E. Gregory Drive, Champaign)

  • Other

  

• NAH Book Club

  Registration

  Register now!

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Native American House (1206 W. Nevada Street, Urbana)

  • Other

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• MCT Lecture Series: Environmental Humanities

  Time

  5:15 - 6:45 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

• Dinner On Us: Tlingit Perspectives: Indigenous Knowledge, Culture, and Community

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Room 612

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• HWW Grand Research Challenge Showcase

  Time

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Join us as we highlight the incredible work of each of Humanities Without Walls' Reciprocity and Redistribution Grand Research Challenge projects in four virtual showcases over the 2026-27 academic year. During each event, 2-3 teams will present their projects and share a bit about the centrality of reciprocal and redistributive methods to their work.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, April 15, 2027

• Poetry Reading | Layli Long Soldier

  Time

  7:30 pm

  Location

  Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Lecture