SLCL Master Calendar of Events (all SLCL unit calendars)

Monday, August 25, 2025

• • 8:00 am
  • UIUC campus

  First day of instruction - Fall 2025

  • Other
• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  • Other

Monday, September 1, 2025

• • All Day

  Labor Day

  • Other

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • UNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  • Meeting

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)

  CSAMES Event: Film Screening, "Casablanca Beats"

  • Film Screening

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • Knight Auditorium Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

  CSAMES Event: An Evening with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Part of the "Palestine in the World" Series

  • Lecture

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:30 am
  • 2090B LCLB

  FRIT Faculty Meeting

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • UNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  • Meeting

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Arabic Roundtable: TBD

  • Meeting

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • UNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  • Meeting

Monday, October 6, 2025

• 

  • 1:00 - 2:00 pm
  • 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building

  Game Night

  • Meeting

Monday, October 13, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building

  CSAMES Event: "Shadowing Empire: Rethinking Bad Feelings and the Everyday" Ghassan Moussawi

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 pm
  • 2090B LCLB

  Slavic Dept Lecture: "PRL Noir: Specters of Communism in Contemporary Polish Cinema"

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:30 am
  • 2090B LCLB

  FRIT Faculty Meeting

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • UNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  • Meeting

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• 

  • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building

  Henna

  • Meeting

Monday, October 27, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Slavic Dept Lecture: Prof. Lyudmila Parts

  • Lecture

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • UNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  • Meeting

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:30 am
  • 2090B LCLB

  FRIT Faculty Meeting

  • Lecture
• • 4:00 pm
  • Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 1090

  CSAMES Event: Book Talk: "Education 2.0: Chronicles of Technological and Cultural Change in Egypt," Linda Herrera

  • Ceremony/Service
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • UNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  • Meeting

Saturday, November 22, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Fall break begins

  • Ceremony/Service

Thursday, November 27, 2025

• • All Day

  Thanksgiving Day

  • Other

Friday, November 28, 2025

• • All Day

  Day After Thanksgiving - Designated Holiday

  • Other

Monday, December 1, 2025

• • All Day

  Instruction resumes

  • Other

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

• • 9:00 - 10:30 am
  • 2090B LCLB

  FRIT Faculty Meeting

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge

  Arabic Roundtable: Conversation Hour

  • Meeting

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

• • All Day

  Last Day of Instruction, Fall Semester

  • Other

Thursday, December 11, 2025

• • All Day

  Reading Day - IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other

Friday, December 12, 2025

• • 8:30 am

  Final Exams Begin

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, December 22, 2025

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Winter Session

  • Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

• • All Day

  Gift Day

  • Other

Thursday, December 25, 2025

• • All Day

  Christmas Holiday

  • Other

Friday, December 26, 2025

• • All Day

  Day after Christmas - Designated Holiday

  • Other

Monday, December 29, 2025

• • All Day

  President Designated Holiday

  • Other

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

• • All Day

  Gift Day

  • Other

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

• • All Day

  Gift day

  • Other

Thursday, January 1, 2026

• • All Day

  New Year's Day

  • Other

Friday, January 16, 2026

• • 8:30 am

  Final Exams Begin

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, January 19, 2026

• • All Day

  Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  • Other

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester

  • Other

Saturday, March 14, 2026

• • 1:00 pm

  Spring Vacation Begins

  • Other

Monday, March 23, 2026

• • 7:00 am

  Instruction resumes

  • Other

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

• • All Day

  Instruction Ends

  • Other

Thursday, May 7, 2026

• • All Day

  Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect

  • Other

Friday, May 8, 2026

• • All Day

  Final Exams Begin

  • Other

Saturday, May 16, 2026

• • 8:30 am
  • Memorial Stadium

  Commencement

  • Ceremony/Service

Monday, May 18, 2026

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 1

  • Other

Monday, May 25, 2026

• • All Day

  Memorial Day Holiday

  • Other

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

• • All Day

  First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2

  • Other

Friday, June 19, 2026

• • All Day

  Juneteenth

  • Ceremony/Service