Social and Behavioral Sciences Master Calendar

Monday, October 5, 2026

• First Monday: The Supreme Court's New Term

  Time

  12:00 - 1:15 pm

  Location

  Max L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820

  • Lecture

  

• Brown Bag Lecture Series: Ensuring Non-Interference, Maintaining Resilient Democracy: Contemporary Challenges in Legislation on Countering Covert Foreign Influence

  Time

  1:00 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  • Lecture

  

• Brown Bag Series- Ensuring Non-Interference, Maintaining Resilient Democracy: Contemporary Challenges in Legislation on Countering Covert Foreign Influence by Maxim Krupskiy

  Time

  1:00 - 2:00 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall

  • Lecture

  

• Linguistics Series Seminar: Roumyana Pancheva (UCSC)

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  LCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Jr. Lecture Series: Dr. Jennifer Nájera

  Time

  4:00 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility, Room 4025

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

• University Primary School Fall Open House

  Time

  9:00 am

  Location

  2202 Kirk Drive, Children's Research Center Champaign, IL 61820

  • Informational

  

• "Host-microbe interactions mediating adverse effects of maternal environmental exposures on offspring neurodevelopmental health," Shelly A. Buffington, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Center for Precision Environmental Health, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  **Beckman Institute 5602**

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• ICTW Fall Regional Workshop: East Peoria

  Time

  9:30 am - 2:30 pm

  Location

  Holiday Inn & Suites East Peoria

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Reproductive Justice Symposium

  Time

  5:00 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility, Room 4025

  Join the Departments of Latina/Latino Studies and Gender and Women's Studies for the Reproductive Justice Symposium: a space for conversation between leading scholars of reproduction and the campus community.

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Beyond Borders: Global Mental Health Research and Services Conference 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Course Accessibility Working Session

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  Education Building, Room 10

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• 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

  

• CSGGE Lunch Series: Shaimaa Khanam

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall or via Zoom

  CSGGE Lunch Series, "Gender Equity in an Inequitable Era" will host Shaimaa Khanam, Graduate Student in the Department of Communication. Her talk, "Audiences interpretations of gender problems based on Netflix show, Adolescence”, will take place on October 8th at 12pm in person at 306 Coble Hall and virtually. Lunch provided for in-person attendees.

  • Lecture

  

• The Phoenix Rises: Renewing Justice Through Pro Bono - Presented by Chief Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr., Illinois Supreme Court

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Max L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820

  • Lecture

  

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• 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

  

• Black and Transgender Migrations and Visions of Sanctuary

  Time

  6:00 - 9:00 pm

  Location

  Latzer Hall, University YMCA 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  This inaugural event by the Borders of Sanctuary Working Collective presents a public facing panel that pairs Professor Willie Mack (Black Studies, University of Missouri) on Black migration with Devin Lowe from the Black Trans Travel Fund, which serves Black and Transgender migrants.

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• Beyond Borders: Global Mental Health Research and Services Conference 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Cornelius W. Queen, co-author of A Daring Enterprise: A US-Egyptian Partnership and the Case for Soft Power

  Time

  11:00 am

  Location

  306 Coble Hall

  • Lecture

  

• Friday Forum & Conversation Café: Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  Friday Forum & Conversation Cafe: Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence October 9 | 12pm - 1pm | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

• GGIS Colloquium | Between White and Black, Chinese-owned Grocery Stores in the Deep South

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 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

  

Saturday, October 10, 2026

• Reentry Simulation and Panel Discussion hosted by Education Justice Project

  Time

  9:30 am - 12:00 pm

  Location

  University YMCA, 1001 S Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820

  • Other

  

Monday, October 12, 2026

• Indigenous Peoples' Day

  Time

  10:00 am - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Locations Vary

  This year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day examines how Native mascots, logos, and stereotypical imagery perpetuate colonial narratives and cause harm. Through programs and dialogue, we will challenge notions of “honor,” center Indigenous voices, and explore how self-representation can affirm the diversity, humanity, sovereignty, and contemporary presence of Indigenous peoples.

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• “When Does AI Tutoring Support Reasoning? Learner Differences and Agency”

  Time

  12:15 pm   Central Time

  Location

  Online and Room 22, Education Building, 1310 S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL

  • Lecture

  

• Brown Bag Series- Before Neorealism: Attentive Cinema between Mexico and Italy by Monica Garcia- Blizzard

  Time

  1:00 - 2:30 pm

  Location

  108 Coble Hall

  • Lecture

  

• Indigenous Peoples' Day Dinner

  Time

  4:30 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Illinois Street Dining Center (1010 W. Illinois, Urbana)

  • Other

  

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

• CQI Conference 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  iHotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. 1st Street, Champaign, IL

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Community-Engaged Research in Action

  Time

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  Heritage Room (107) of the ACES (Funk) Library

  The panel will share how community-engaged research has fostered student leadership, professional growth, and meaningful community partnerships. Students will discuss how they developed agency to make a difference, while faculty share how they empower students to become leaders and changemakers beyond the classroom.

  • Informational

  

• Panel on "Fostering Student Agency for Community Engagement"

  Time

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Location

  Heritage Room, ACES Library, 1101 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana IL

  Join us for a conversation with current and former students who have taken active roles in community-engaged research and leadership. Three students/alums will be joined by their faculty mentors. Presented by the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, this session will be facilitated by Dr. Kevin Tan (Social Work).

  • Lecture

  

• Women in Science Lecture Series: Professor Kelli Trei

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Main Library Room 146 and Zoom

  Women in Science Lecture Series: Professor Kelli Trei October 13 | 12pm - 1pm | Main Library Room 146 or Zoom

  • Lecture

  

• "Small-Molecule Antagonists of Voltage Gated Calcium Channel Auxiliary Subunits," by Samy Meroueh, Biochemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• CQI Conference 2026

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  iHotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. 1st Street, Champaign, IL

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• CSGGE Lunch Series: Tingting Zhang

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall or via Zoom

  Dr. Tingting Zhang, School of Labor and Employment Relations gives lunch talk, "Pushed out and Boxed In: Gendered Silence and Exit Orientation in China's Tech Industry" on Thursday, October 15th. She argues that silence in such environment is not a uniform response to constrained institutional conditions, but it shaped by the gendered social positions workers occupy.

  • Lecture

  

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• REEEC New Directions Lecture: Mara Hunter, The Sea of Azov in Historical Percpective

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)

  • Lecture

  

• Online DSW Program Virtual Info Session

  Time

  5:30 pm

  • Informational

  

Friday, October 16, 2026

• Friday Forum & Conversation Café: LGBTQ Advocacy: Past & Present

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  Friday Forum & Conversation Café: LGBTQ Advocacy: Past & Present October 16 | 12pm - 1pm | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

• AAG West Lakes Regional Division Meeting

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Saturday, October 17, 2026

• AAG West Lakes Regional Division Meeting

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• 2026 Salute to Education

  Time

  10:00 am - 12:30 pm

  Location

  I Hotel and Illinois Conference Center, 1900 S. First St. Champaign, IL 61820

  • Ceremony/Service

  

Monday, October 19, 2026

• Workshop on Nuclear Energy and Applications

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  University of Illinois

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Screening: Those 4 Years

  Time

  6:00 pm

  Location

  Spurlock Museum

  • Film Screening

  

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• Workshop on Nuclear Energy and Applications

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  University of Illinois

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• Book Talk | Untamed Unicorns: Why Startup Finance is Broken and How to Fix It

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Kirkland & Ellis Classroom (A), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL

  • Lecture

  

• "From Molecular Pathogenesis to 4 phenylbutyrate rescue in Genetic Epilepsies associated with Impaired GABA receptor and transporter,," by Professor Jingqiong Kang, Department of Neurology & Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt Brain Institute

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Dinner On Us: Renewed Geographies of Belonging: Anishinaabe Natural Resource Sovereignty in Michigan

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Asian American Cultural Center (1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana)

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• “Reformist Muslim Thought: Rethinking the Quran and Islamic Tradition from the19th Century to Today”, Youssouf Sangare

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street , Champaign IL 61820

  • Lecture

  

• Demography Workshop

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Room 3111

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• The American Jury—The Triumph of Our Democracy

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Max L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820

  • Lecture

  

• Writing Effective Fellowship Proposals for Research Abroad

  Time

  12:00 - 2:30 pm

  Location

  Illini Room A; 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801

  Graduate Student Workshop, "Writing Effective Fellowship Proposals for Research Abroad" will be Wednesday, Oct. 21 12-2:30pm in Illini Room A, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana. Lunch provided for registered attendees at 12 pm with workshop 12:15-2:30pm. The workshop will be led by Dana Johnson, PhD, Director of External Fellowship Office, Graduate College

  • Informational

  

• NAH Book Club

  Registration

  Register now!

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Native American House (1206 W. Nevada Street, Urbana)

  • Other

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Fall Regional Workshops - Effingham

  Time

  9:30 am - 2:30 pm

  Location

  Thelma Keller Convention Center at the Holiday Inn

  • Conference/Workshop

  

• CSGGE Lunch Series: Maria Hadjipolycarpou

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall or via Zoom

  Dr. Maria Hadjipolycarpou, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Director of Modern Greek Studies will give lunch talk, "Class, Gender, and Secularization in Costas Montis’ Afentis Batistas and the Other Things" on Thursday, October 22nd.

  • Lecture

  

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• Book Talk - Diana Oskov

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  TBD

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 23, 2026

• "On care and community: India’s frontline health workers", Vrinda Marwah

  Time

  11:00 am

  "On care and community: India’s frontline health workers" Vrinda Marwah is assistant professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida.

  • Lecture

  

• Friday Forum & Conversation Cafe: Beautiful Struggle: How One American High School Took on Systemic Racism

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  Friday Forum & Conversation Cafe: Beautiful Struggle: How One American High School Took on Systemic Racism October 23 | 12pm - 1pm | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

• GGIS Colloquium | Annual Faculty & Grad Student Ethics Panel

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Islam in France: Minority Religion, Laïcité, and the Politics of Muslim Identity

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

• Youssouf Sangaré | Islam in France

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Monday, October 26, 2026

• Halloween Movie: Monster in Paris

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Knight Auditorium at Spurlock Museum

  • Film Screening

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• "Physiology under pressure: Sensory circuits of body-brain physiology," by Michael Schappe, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Neuroscience Program, Affiliate Faculty, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Dinner On Us: Our Relationship with Our Food and Ourselves

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm   5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

  Location

  Asian American Cultural Center (1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana)

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• AAS Major-Minor Lunch

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Asian American Cultural Center

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• Ethnography Workshop

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Room 3111

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• CSGGE Lunch Series: Yeaseul Hur

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  306 Coble Hall or via Zoom

  CSGGE Lunch Series, "Gender Equity in an Inequitable Era" will host Yeaseul Hur is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk, "When Women Are Ideal Workers: The Gendered Impact of Overwork on Wages and Promotion”, will take place on October 29th at 12pm in person at 306 Coble Hall and virtual.

  • Lecture

  

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, October 30, 2026

• School of Social Work First-Year Student Visit

  Time

  8:30 - 10:00 am

  Location

  School of Social Work Room 2000P

  • Informational

  

• Book Talk: Professor Sanjay Joshi, "Brahmins of the Himalaya"

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

• Friday Forum & Conversation Café: Fighting Oligarchy and Fascism in the 21st Century

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  Friday Forum & Conversation Café: Fighting Oligarchy and Fascism in the 21st Century October 30 | 12pm - 1pm | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

• School of Social Work First-Year Student Visit

  Time

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  School of Social Work Room 2000P

  • Informational

  

• GGIS Colloquium | Dracula Urbanism Panel Discussion

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

• SfN Preview Poster Night

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute Atrium

  • Exhibition

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• Flu Shot Clinic at the College of Education

  Time

  10:00 am - 2:00 pm

  Location

  North Lobby

  • Community Service

  

• Colloquium: Dr. Victor Ray

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Room 3057

  • Lecture

  

• Visiting Scholar, Professor Sergei Ivanov; REEEC and Medieval Studies

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall 108

  • Lecture

  

• 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

  

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

• LLS Speaker Series: Laura Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  Campus Instructional Facility, 2039

  Join us for a lecture by Laura Chávez-Moreno, an associate professor of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education at the University of California Los Angeles about her book "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America"

  • Lecture

  

• Native American Heritage Month Dinner

  Time

  4:30 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls (906 W. College Ct., Urbana)

  • Other

  

• Piotr Florczyk, University of Washington, Seattle

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge

  • Lecture

  

• Slavic Department Lecture: "Whose Tongue Is it Anyway?: On Poets Translating Themselves and Others"

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• Book Talk: Becoming Allies: Civil Liberties Activism in India, Ankita Pandey

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

• “Performance and the Making of Religious Imagery in Early and Medieval India (Buddhist, Hindu, Jain)”, Anna Tosato

  Time

  11:00 am

  • Lecture

  

• Friday Forum and Conversation Café: Vine City as the World Trade Center: Subproletarianization as Structural Violence from Atlanta to Champaign

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  Friday Forum & Conversation Café: Vine City as the World Trade Center: Subproletarianization as Structural Violence from Atlanta to Champaign November 6 | 12pm - 1pm | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium: Johnnie Kallas, Assistant Professor, Labor and Employment Relations

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  Beckman Auditorium

  The Psychology Department is excited to continue the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2026-2027 academic year, a monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.

  • Lecture

  

• GGIS Colloquium | Bobby J. Smith II, African American Studies

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

• "Illuminating neurochemical signaling with non-genetically encoded sensors," by Natsumi Komatsi, Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• Mikulás̆ Pešta, Historian, Charles University (Prague)

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall, Room 306

  • Lecture

  

• Native American Heritage Month Dinner

  Time

  4:00 - 8:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Avenue Dining Hall (1005 S. Lincoln, Urbana) & Ikenberry Dining Center (301 E. Gregory Drive, Champaign)

  • Other

  

• NAH Book Club

  Registration

  Register now!

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Native American House (1206 W. Nevada Street, Urbana)

  • Other

  

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Women in Science Lecture Series: Dr. Mary Caruso Dailey

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Main Library Room 146 and Zoom

  Our November lecture will be on Thursday, November 12 from 12pm-1pm with Dr. Mary Caruso Dailey. Dr. Dailey earned her PhD in Chemistry in 2010 and is currently a Lead Product Development Specialist for 3M. She will discuss her research on adhesives for electronics bonding and experiences as a graduate student in Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

  • Lecture

  

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• "‘Imagining Capital in the City: Urban Life in DLF’s Public Projection, 1949-1960", Anish Vanaik, Purdue University

  Time

  11:00 am

  ‘Imagining Capital in the City: Urban Life in DLF’s Public Projection, 1949-1960’

  • Lecture

  

• Friday Forum & Conversation Café: Feeding our Neighbors: A Panel of Faith-Driven Organizations Fighting Food Insecurity in our Community

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  Friday Forum & Conversation Café: Feeding our Neighbors: A Panel of Faith-Driven Organizations Fighting Food Insecurity in our Community November 13 | 12pm - 1pm | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

  • Lecture

  

Saturday, November 14, 2026

• NO SEMINAR: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 16, 2026

• Book Talk - Sarah Craycraft, Harvard University

  Time

  9:30 am   1:30 pm

  Location

  Coble Hall, Room 306

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

• Dmytro Koval, Legal Scholar, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

  Time

  4:30 pm

  Location

  Lucy Ellis Lounge

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Dinner On Us: Tlingit Perspectives: Indigenous Knowledge, Culture, and Community

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Room 612

  • Informational

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• Ethnography Workshop

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Room 3111

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, November 20, 2026

• School of Social Work First-Year Student Visit

  Time

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  School of Social Work Room 2000P

  • Informational

  

Saturday, November 21, 2026

• Thanksgiving Break - No Classes / No Seminar

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Monday, November 30, 2026

• School of Social Work First-Year Student Visit

  Time

  1:30 - 3:00 pm

  Location

  School of Social Work Room 2000P

  • Informational

  

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• "Brain-wide metabolomic imaging with cellular specificity," by Fan Lam, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Full-time faculty at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Beckman Institute 1005

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, December 4, 2026

• GGIS Colloquium | Maria Alejandra Garcia, Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

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

  

• "Assessment and Remediation of Discourse Reading Difficulties from the Information-Processing Perspective," by Professor Shuo Lu, Neurolinguistics Laboratory, Shenzhen University, China

  Time

  3:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Room 104

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

• Neuroscience Program's Winter Holiday Party

  Time

  4:00 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union's South Lounge

  • Festival/Celebration

  

Thursday, December 10, 2026

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Saturday, December 12, 2026

• December Doctoral Hooding Reception

  Time

  11:30 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  O'Leary Learning Center

  • Reception/Open House

  

Monday, December 14, 2026

• School of Social Work First-Year Student Session (Virtual)

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm

  • Informational

  

Thursday, January 21, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

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, January 28, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Wednesday, February 3, 2027

• Colloquium: Dr. Abigail Saguy

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Room 3057

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, February 4, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, February 5, 2027

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium: Cherie Avent, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  TBA

  The Psychology Department is excited to continue the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2026-2027 academic year, a monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, February 11, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, February 18, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, February 25, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

• Colloquium: Dr. Christy Erving

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Lincoln Hall Room 3057

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, March 4, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, March 5, 2027

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium: Wendy Rogers, Shahid and Ann Carlson Khan Professor of Applied Health Sciences

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  TBA

  The Psychology Department is excited to continue the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2026-2027 academic year, a monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, March 11, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, March 18, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, March 25, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, April 1, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Friday, April 2, 2027

• First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium: Fatima Husain, Professor, Speech and Hearing Science

  Time

  3:00 - 4:30 pm

  Location

  TBA

  The Psychology Department is excited to continue the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2026-2027 academic year, a monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, April 8, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, April 15, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, April 22, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, April 29, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Thursday, May 6, 2027

• Snack & Study

  Recurring

  Time

  1:00 - 4:00 pm

  Location

  1208 W Nevada St

  • Social/Informal Event