Urbana Campus Research Calendar (OVCRI)
Friday, November 13, 2026
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This presentation provides an overview of how AI is influencing work, employment, HRM, and labor relations. It considers emerging opportunities and challenges for workers and organizations, with attention to changing job tasks, employment practices, workplace governance, and the evolving relationship between technology and work.
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Structure-Preserving Learning for Autonomy in Complex Physical Environments by M. Ani Hsieh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania
Monday, November 16, 2026
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On Monday, Nov. 16 at 3pm in Coble Hall 306, Professor Emerita Angharad Valdivia will present "Emilia Pérez: A Perfect Case Study of the overlap of Latin American and Latinx Studies."
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Thursday, November 19, 2026
Thursday, December 3, 2026
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In this presentation prof. Agate will share how the assignments in RST 460 are structured and the reasoning behind the design, and will also share some preliminary data about students’ experience with the AI integration into the event planning process: what they are finding useful, confusing, or surprising.
Tuesday, December 8, 2026
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Illinois Alumnus Batamaka Somé, PhD in Anthropology with a CSGGE Minor will give a talk titled "Pillars of Resilience: Rural Women’s Leadership and Farmer-Centered Research for Food System Transformation in the West African Sahel" on December 8, 2026, at 4:00pm in 210 Levis Faculty Center and via Zoom
Monday, January 25, 2027
Thursday, February 4, 2027
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In this CAS/MillerComm event, documentary photographer and filmmaker Louie Palu discusses distinct representations of the Arctic in literature and the visual arts, exploring this often-misunderstood region as both imagined otherworld and real-life landscape.
Tuesday, February 9, 2027
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Join us for talks by Sameh Tawfick (Mechanical Science & Engineering) and Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture.)
Friday, February 12, 2027
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Haohan Wang, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will give the next Mind in Vitro seminar February 12 at 4:00pm in 612 Conference Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology on "Agentic AI for Genomic Science: Searching for Shared Mechanisms Across Diseases, Patients and Tissues."
Thursday, March 4, 2027
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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."
Tuesday, March 9, 2027
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Join us for talks by Shelley Weinberg and Josue David Cisneros.
Thursday, March 25, 2027
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Join us for talks by Liviu Mirica and Cristian Proistosescu.