Anna's Calendar
Friday, February 6, 2026
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2:00 pmGregory Hall 223 or ZoomPlease join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Ismael M. Montana (Northern Illinois University) titled "Ahmad b. al-Qāḍī al-Timbuktāwī: Pilgrimage, Intellectual Exchange, and Condemnation of the Enslaved Religion of the Blacks of Tunis."
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:15 pmRoom 4045, 614 E. Daniel Street & ZoomDashun Wang will present "Airplanes for the mind" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.
Friday, February 13, 2026
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6:00 - 9:00 pmRoom 126, 501 E. Daniel Street & ZoomA documentary screening of "Are You A Librarian?" with a question and answer panel featuring Rodney Freeman (director), Asia Harris (writer), and iSchool Interim Dean Emily Knox.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock MusuemAttend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Tristan Ahtone, editor at large for Grist magazine.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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1:00 pmRoom 126, 501 E. Daniel StreetWayne A. Wiegand, the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University, will present "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Missing Stories in American Library History. A reception will follow the lecture.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210Join us for the 24th annual Women's and Gender History Symposium. Featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Arunima Datta (Associate Professor of History, University of North Texas) and Eric McDuffie (Associate Professor of History, UIUC).
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11:00 am - 12:15 pmRoom 4045, 614 E. Daniel Street & ZoomJoel Waldfogel will present "AI and the quantity and quality of creative products: have LLMs boosted creation of valuable books?" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.
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5:30 pmLincoln Hall 1002
Attend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Rachel Ida Buff (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
Friday, March 6, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Join us for the 24th annual Women's and Gender History Symposium. Featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Arunima Datta (Associate Professor of History, University of North Texas) and Eric McDuffie (Associate Professor of History, UIUC).
Saturday, March 7, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Join us for the 24th annual Women's and Gender History Symposium. Featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Arunima Datta (Associate Professor of History, University of North Texas) and Eric McDuffie (Associate Professor of History, UIUC).
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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5:00 pmSpurlock AuditoriumAttend a film screening of of award-winning Zimbabwean film, "Flame" with discussion with director Ingrid Sinclair and producer Simon Bright, led by led by history and gender and women's studies professor Teresa Barnes.
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
Join the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for a lecture by Melissa Frazier about her new book "Signs of the Material World: Dostoevsky, Science and the 19th Century Novel."
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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3:30 - 5:00 pmGregory Hall 319
Please join us for a lecture with Jennifer Chuong, an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
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All DaySpurlock Museum 600 S. Gregory St. Urbana, IL 61801
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Attend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Laura Helmuth (Slate, Scientific American, Washington Post).
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmPlease join Library Trends for a thoughtful discussion on how the intersection of technology and reality is reshaping the roles of librarians in education. The guest editors and authors of select articles from 74 (3), "Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality" will be presenting their research.
Friday, April 3, 2026
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Please join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Aly Drame titled "Return to Success": New Paradigms of Islamization in Senegambia.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
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3:00 pmNCSA Auditorium
Attend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Dr. Jonathan Holloway, the president and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation.
Thursday, April 9, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:15 pmRoom 4045, 614 E. Daniel Street & ZoomAlex Moehring will present "Designing Human-AI Collaboration: A Sufficient Statistic Approach" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.
Friday, April 17, 2026
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All DayIllini Union, 1401 W Green St. Urbana, IL 61801The Undergraduate History Journal at Illinois presents the second Undergraduate History Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The conference will feature undergraduate student presentations and keynote speaker Carol Symes.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
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All DayIllini Union, 1401 W Green St. Urbana, IL 61801
The Undergraduate History Journal at Illinois presents the second Undergraduate History Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The conference will feature undergraduate student presentations and keynote speaker Carol Symes.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Attend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Chris Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation, London).
Saturday, April 25, 2026
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4:00 - 6:00 pm314AB Illini UnionJoin us for our annual awards ceremony celebrating the accomplishments of our students, faculty, and staff.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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4:00 - 6:00 pmIllini Union, Room TBDJoin us as our seniors present their honors theses.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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1:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Attend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Chris Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation, London).