Anna's Calendar

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• A Book in Common

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  314B Illini Union

  Join us for a discussion of the book Windrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England by Michael Collins.

  • Meeting

  

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• Phi Alpha Theta Ice Cream Social

  Time

  7:00

  Location

  Gregory Hall 307

  Join Phi Alpha Theta for an ice cream social event.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, September 18, 2026

• A Conversation on the Modern University, the Mind, and Well-Being With Venerable Pomnyun Sunim (법륜스님)

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Rooms A, B, & C at 1401 W. Green St. Urbana, IL 61801

  Join us for a timely dialogue with Venerable Pomnyun Sunim on the critical challenges facing today’s universities and communities.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

• Phi Alpha Theta Hispanic Heritage Month Event

  Time

  7:00 pm

  Location

  Gregory Hall 307

  Join Phi Alpha Theta for an event celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• MillerComm Lecture: 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 Urbana

  Join us for a lecture by Justin Jackson titled "Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World."

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• History Book Club with PhD Alumni Juan Ignacio Mora, Michael Staudenmaier & Robert M. Rouphail

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Gregory Hall 223

  Join us to celebrate the new books of three history PhD alumni.

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• MillerComm Lecture: Islam in France: Minority Religion, Laïcité, and the Politics of Muslim Identity

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

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

  Join us for a lecture by George A Miller Visiting Scholar Youssouf T. Sangaré titled "Islam in France: Minority Religion, Laïcité, and the Politics of Muslim Identity."

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 30, 2026

• 2026 iSchool Research Showcase

  Time

  12:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Union, Illini Rooms B & C

  The iSchool Research Showcase shares human-centered, interdisciplinary research through a keynote speech and a series of short presentations and posters by School of Information Sciences faculty, staff, and graduate students. All are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Timbuktu Talks: Islam in Africa: Between Sufism, Salafism, and Indigenous Religious Authority

  Time

  2:00 - 3:30 pm

  Location

  Gregory Hall 319

  Join us for a lecture by George A. Miller Visiting Scholar Youssouf Sangaré. His talk examines the case of Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara and the Ançar Dine movement in Mali as a window into the dynamics of contemporary African Islam.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Webinar: Cultural Heritage in Crisis

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Webinar

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• At Risk U Speaker Series: Resurging Pro-Power Pedagogies

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, March 4, 2027

• 2027 Gryphon Lecture: School Book Lists and the Civic Education of U.S. Teens: from 1950 to Texas

  Time

  1:30 pm

  Location

  Room 126, 501 E. Daniel Street

  Jonna Perrillo, education historian and professor of English education at the University of Texas at El Paso, will deliver the 2027 Gryphon Lecture hosted by the Center for Children's Books in the School of Information Sciences. She will present "School Book Lists and the Civic Education of U.S. Teens: from 1950 to Texas."

  • Lecture