Germanic Languages and Literatures

Friday, October 31, 2025

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  Tropical Polar Bears | Juno Salazar Parreñas

  3:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 210

  Juno Salazar-Parreñas, Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Competing Colonialisms in the Great Acceleration

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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  Food For Thought | Lei Zhao and Jozsef Balogh

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 208

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 13, 2025

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  Courtney Handman | AI and the Race for Interspecies Communication

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 208

  In contrast to the moral panics about the ways that AI chatbots may be shrinking people’s social worlds by replacing human-to-human interaction, there is an incredible optimism in some corners that AI will radically open up the social world to include animals, enhancing or enabling new forms of interspecies communication.

  • Lecture

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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  Holly Hughes and Katie Pearl | Culture Wars

  7:00 pm

  Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign

  • Lecture

Thursday, February 12, 2026

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  Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities

  Recurring

  All Day

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, February 13, 2026

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  Multi-Species Justice Symposium: Paradigms, Practices, Possibilities

  Recurring

  All Day

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St

  • Seminar/Symposium