Campus Humanities Calendar
Monday, April 13, 2026
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7:00 pmSpurlock MuseumThe Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) invites you to an intimate live performance with Be Steadwell on Monday, April 20, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Spurlock Museum. A queer pop composer, filmmaker, and author, Be Steadwell blends music, narrative, and reflection into soulful, affirming performances that center queer love, Black girlhood...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
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7:00 pmSpurlock Museum
The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) invites you to an intimate live performance with Be Steadwell on Monday, April 20, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Spurlock Museum. A queer pop composer, filmmaker, and author, Be Steadwell blends music, narrative, and reflection into soulful, affirming performances that center queer love, Black girlhood...
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3:00 - 6:00 pmWomen's Resources Center, 616 E Green St #202, Champaign, IL 61820“Bridging Ancestral Knowledge and Scientific Research: Community Perspectives from the Caribbean”. During this session, students will work in small groups to read one or more selected articles that we will provide beforehand.
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6:00 - 7:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
2026 Indian Languages and Cultures Lecture by Professor Andrew Ollett, University of Chicago, on "Context, from 7th century India to today". NO REGISTRATION required.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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7:00 pmSpurlock Museum
The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) invites you to an intimate live performance with Be Steadwell on Monday, April 20, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Spurlock Museum. A queer pop composer, filmmaker, and author, Be Steadwell blends music, narrative, and reflection into soulful, affirming performances that center queer love, Black girlhood...
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12:00 pmBruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. She was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm614 East Daniel Street, 4th Floor, Room 4045, (Multipurpose Room)Please join us for an in-person information session on the new MS in Game Development online program, launching this fall. Snacks provided. Please also reach out to ms-gamedevelopment@illinois.edu with questions and we will follow up shortly. Please check the I School events calendar here as we begin hosting monthly virtual information sessions...
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7:30 pmAlice Campbell Alumni CenterJoin us for a free public reading by award-winning poet Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, and was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
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7:00 pmSpurlock Museum
The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) invites you to an intimate live performance with Be Steadwell on Monday, April 20, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Spurlock Museum. A queer pop composer, filmmaker, and author, Be Steadwell blends music, narrative, and reflection into soulful, affirming performances that center queer love, Black girlhood...
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11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St
Join us for presentations by our recent CAS Associates. At 11am Ramón Soto-Crespo (English) discusses the origin of Puerto Rico's ecological literature and at noon, Alison Bell (Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior) presents the evolution of family life in a small fish.
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4:00 pmBruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada, Urbana
Join CSGGE for a lecture by Dr. Frieda Ekotto. Dr. Ekotto is an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in 20th and 21st-century Anglophone and Francophone literature and in the cinema of West Africa and its diaspora, she concentrates on contemporary issues of law, race and LG BTQIA2S+ issues.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana
How does Greek tragedy respond to and reflect the concerns of modern communities? Drawing on his experiences staging and reimagining Greek literature in theatres, online and within community settings, Paul O’Mahony explores the issues and opportunities these ancient texts present.
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
"Quilt Whisperer" Connie Martin, MA provides an American historical information presentation from research on her family history to reveal secret codes in quilts as a 6th generation descendant of enslaved Africans in Kentucky.
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5:30 - 7:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Join us for a talk by Peruvian archaeologist and curator Luis A. Muro Ynoñán, as part of the Living Legacies series, presented in conjunction with the Fragmented Histories; Andean Art Before 1600 exhibition. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*
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7:15Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum.2026 Screening and Discussion: Zinda Bhaag (2013), will be an event of film screening and introduction followed by Q/A with Professor Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University. A reception will follow. NO REGISTRATION required.
Friday, April 17, 2026
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7:00 pmSpurlock Museum
The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) invites you to an intimate live performance with Be Steadwell on Monday, April 20, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Spurlock Museum. A queer pop composer, filmmaker, and author, Be Steadwell blends music, narrative, and reflection into soulful, affirming performances that center queer love, Black girlhood...
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
This public event will begin with a lecture by Dr. Warren C. Brown (California Institute of Technology discussing medieval textuality and materiality. A reception and open house will follow where visitors may view our recently acquired Merovingian manuscript and Greek papyrus. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served.
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4:30 - 6:00 pm1080 LCLB
Dr. Sidney Lu (Associate Professor of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University) will deliver the keynote based on his recently published book, Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
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7:00 pmSpurlock Museum
The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) invites you to an intimate live performance with Be Steadwell on Monday, April 20, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Spurlock Museum. A queer pop composer, filmmaker, and author, Be Steadwell blends music, narrative, and reflection into soulful, affirming performances that center queer love, Black girlhood...
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1:00 pmSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
This special guided tour will focus on various textile arts throughout the world. It will take a look at the processes behind creating textiles, as well as the different purposes that textile arts can have in our lives. These may range from everyday wear, to expressing political beliefs, identity, religion, creativity, and more.
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1:00 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
This special guided tour will focus on various textile arts throughout the world. It will take a look at the processes behind creating textiles, as well as the different purposes that textile arts can have in our lives. These may range from everyday wear, to expressing political beliefs, identity, religion, creativity, and more.
Sunday, April 19, 2026
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7:00 pmSpurlock Museum
The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) invites you to an intimate live performance with Be Steadwell on Monday, April 20, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Spurlock Museum. A queer pop composer, filmmaker, and author, Be Steadwell blends music, narrative, and reflection into soulful, affirming performances that center queer love, Black girlhood...
Monday, April 20, 2026
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7:00 pmSpurlock Museum
The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) invites you to an intimate live performance with Be Steadwell on Monday, April 20, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in Spurlock Museum. A queer pop composer, filmmaker, and author, Be Steadwell blends music, narrative, and reflection into soulful, affirming performances that center queer love, Black girlhood...
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5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 208
Please join us for the launch of Ethan Madarieta’s first book, Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Drawing on scholarship about the value of suspending economic incentives in everyday life, Dr. Newfield will argue that public universities must replace a financial model that harms education and erodes solvency. His presentation will also examine and challenge the belief that “learning equals earning” amid deep dependence on debt, asset inflation, and risk management.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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6:00 pmThe Literary, 122 N. Neil, Champaign, ILFree and open to all, two College of Education faculty members will share their recent work in educational leadership. Osly Flores will discuss his book, Race-Conscious Caring in Educational Leadership: A Narrative Ethics, and Rachel Roegman will talk about her newly released book, K-12 Schools and Public Health Partnerships...
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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All DayGrad students from all disciplines are invited to the 16th Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium, April 23–24, 2026—an interdisciplinary, student-led event featuring diverse presentations, workshops, and a keynote by Kaia Simon (UW Eau Claire). Proposals on writing, rhetoric, media, education, and more are welcome in traditional or experimental formats.
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5:00 pmTBD
Annual Armenian Genocide Event, featuring Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University)
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5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 208
In honor of the annual commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, Helen Makhdoumian will give a talk entitled "On Beginnings, or the Roots and Routes of the Nested Memory Concept.”
Friday, April 24, 2026
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11:30 am - 1:30 pmNatural History Building 2049
What makes a map readable? Join Izabela Gołębiowska, PhD of the University of Warsaw to explore factors driving the success of maps and geovisualizations as tools for informed decisions. Dr. Gołębiowska will discuss a range of empirical studies involving map users, addressing the challenges of naïve cartography and CartoAI. Lunch will be provided!
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1:00 - 2:20 pmSpurlock MuseumDance at Illinois presents the research symposium, "Dancing Discourse," featuring four BA candidates, Anna Carlson, Harper Clark, Sofia Corrales, and Jasmine O'Connor. This event is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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5:30 - 7:00 pmGregory Hall 112
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat posits that under the influence of digital technologies and in the shadow of AI, civilization is entering a period of pressure that threatens cultures, communities, and individuals.
Friday, May 1, 2026
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12:00 - 1:30 pm404 David Kinley Hall, 1407 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana
Join us for a hybrid CEAPS Speaker/Political Science Workshop titled “From Correction to Connection: Relational Approaches to Countering Misinformation” with Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan). Register here!
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1:00 - 5:00 pm614 East Daniel Street, 4th Floor, Multipurpose Room 4045Have you created a game, art work, program, poster, class project or research about games and design? If so, we encourage you to showcase your work at the Game Studies and Design Spring Showcase on Friday, May 1. Undergraduate and graduate level projects are welcome. These projects will be included in Undergraduate Research Week and Research Symposium 2026.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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10:00 am - 12:00 pmPlym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
The PhD Program in Architecture and Landscape Architecture hosts a keynote lecture by Hi'ilei Julia Hobart (Native and Indigenous Studies, Yale) as part of the symposium "Creativity in Modern Heritage." Hobart is author of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Duke University Press, 2022).
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3:00 - 5:00 pm
Celebrate the semester’s end with RBML! We are diving into the trendy book decoration world — bring your own books and paint the edges with our supplies, then view various historical fore-edge paintings from the collection in our Reading Room. All are welcome to attend, and refreshments will be served.
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4:00 - 6:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422
Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception