Anna's Calendar

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."

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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

• 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 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