Center for Advanced Study

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Stephanie O'Rourke | Landscapes of Dis-placement: Mining and Mapping the 19th-century British Empire

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Justin Jackson | Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Nicholas Jackson and Stefan Vogler

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

• Black and Transgender Migrations and Visions of Sanctuary

  Time

  6:00 - 9:00 pm

  Location

  Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• Brent Roberts | Studying Lives and Living a Life: Personality Development Across the Life Course

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Youssouf Sangaré | Islam in France

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Jui-Chung Yao and Chien-Hui Kao in conversation: Landscape as Storytelling: The Journey of "Yao’s Black Divine Comedy"

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Food For Thought | Fahad Mahmood and Aleksei Aksimentiev

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Food For Thought | Kimberly Mack and Laura Hetric

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Tess McNulty and Alex Shakar

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Monday, January 25, 2027

• Elizabeth Rodini | A Walk through the Layered Lives of Rome

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture