Campus Humanities Calendar

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

    • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    • Knight Auditorium Spurlock Museum

    Poet, essayist, translator, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of three books of poetry, and a winner of the 2024 National Book Award.  Her visit is part of the Illinois Global Institutes "Palestine in the World" series. The IGI Series on Global Responsibilities brings multidisciplinary and global perspectives to major contemporary questions.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

    • 11:00 am - 3:30 pm
    • Multiple locations

    Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

    • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
    • Alice Campbell Hall

    Ayelet Tsabari’s National Jewish Book Award winning, novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted, traces the story of the history of Yemeni Israelis through a fictional family. Tsabari visited UIUC in 2019, and was interviewed for Ninth Letter.