OVCR Working Groups Calendar

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• Stephanie O'Rourke | Landscapes of Dis-placement: Mining and Mapping the 19th-century British Empire

  Time

  5:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Justin Jackson | 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

  • Lecture

  

• Up Against Erasure | Justin Jackson: “Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World”

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Nicholas Jackson and Stefan Vogler

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

• Up Against Erasure | Nanna Bonde Thylstrup: “Staying with the Trouble of Preservation: The Ambivalent Politics of Deletion in Digital Societies”

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  • Lecture

  

• Black and Transgender Migrations and Visions of Sanctuary

  Time

  6:00 - 9:00 pm

  Location

  Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Panel Discussion: The Ends of Percival Everett’s "Erasure"

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  This is a panel discussion with artists and scholars on Everett’s "Erasure." Each panelist will provide a different window into what’s beyond Erasure or what reading Erasure inspires (broadly conceived).

  • Lecture

  

• Brent Roberts | Studying Lives and Living a Life: Personality Development Across the Life Course

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Faculty Reading: Ángel García

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 422

  Professor Ángel Garcia (English/Creative Writing) will read from his latest collection, Indifferent Cities.

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• Youssouf Sangaré | Islam in France

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Faculty Book Talk: Gillen D'Arcy Wood

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  Professor Gillen D'Arcy Wood (English and Earth Science & Environmental Change) will discuss his book, The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans’ Decline.

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Jui-Chung Yao and Chien-Hui Kao in conversation: Landscape as Storytelling: The Journey of "Yao’s Black Divine Comedy"

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Food For Thought | Fahad Mahmood and Aleksei Aksimentiev

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Food For Thought | Kimberly Mack and Laura Hetric

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, December 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Tess McNulty and Alex Shakar

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Monday, January 25, 2027

• Elizabeth Rodini | A Walk through the Layered Lives of Rome

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, February 11, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Faculty Book Talk: Jessica Greenberg

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, February 25, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Mitsuki: the In-Between Film Screening and Discussion

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  TBD

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

• International Women’s Day Celebration

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, March 4, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Patricia Owens Book Talk

  Time

  12:00 pm

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, April 1, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Siobhan Somerville Book Talk

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, April 15, 2027

• Inside Scoop | Layli Long Soldier

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

• Poetry Reading | Layli Long Soldier

  Time

  7:30 pm

  Location

  Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Lecture