Speakers

Thursday, September 17, 2026

• 22nd Annual Goldstick Family Lecture in the Study of Communication Disorders

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  University of Illinois Philanthropy Center, Room 102/103, 303 St. Mary’s Road, Champaign IL

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• Nathan Hensley | No Escape, No Ending: Gesture, Improvisation, Solidarity

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, September 24, 2026

• PYGMALION Event

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  Events to be held September 24 - 26. Watch for more information.

  • Lecture

  

Friday, September 25, 2026

• PYGMALION Event

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  Events to be held September 24 - 26. Watch for more information.

  • Lecture

  

Saturday, September 26, 2026

• PYGMALION Event

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  Events to be held September 24 - 26. Watch for more information.

  • Lecture

  

Sunday, September 27, 2026

• PYGMALION Event

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  Events to be held September 24 - 26. Watch for more information.

  • Lecture

  

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

• CAS MillerCom: Justin Jackson Lecture

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  Part of the Up Against Erasure event series.

  • Lecture

  

• 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

  

Sunday, September 27, 2026

• PYGMALION Event

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  Events to be held September 24 - 26. Watch for more information.

  • Lecture

  

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

• CAS MillerCom: Justin Jackson Lecture

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  Part of the Up Against Erasure event series.

  • Lecture

  

• 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

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Food For Thought | Nicholas Jackson and Stefen Vogler

  Time

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St

  • Lecture

  

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

  Time

  7:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• Director's Fellow Event

  Time

  2:30 pm

  Location

  TBD

  Panel and reception organized by Director's Fellow Chris Freeburg. Affiliated with the Black Letters Collective.

  • 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: Ángel Garcia Reading

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 422

  • 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: Gillen D'Arcy Wood Book Talk

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  More information is coming soon.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Up Against Erasure: HumetricsHSS Events

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  Watch for more information. Learn about HumetricsHSS.

  • Lecture

  

• Faculty Research Webinar – Prof. Liviu Mirica

  Time

  5:30 - 6:30 pm   Central Time

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• Up Against Erasure: HumetricsHSS Events

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  Watch for more information. Learn about HumetricsHSS.

  • 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

  

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

  

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

  

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

• International Women’s Day Celebration

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  More information is coming.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, March 4, 2027

• Patricia Owens Book Talk

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Patricia Owens Book Talk: Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

• International Women’s Day Celebration

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  More information is coming.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, March 4, 2027

• Patricia Owens Book Talk

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Patricia Owens Book Talk: Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, April 1, 2027

• Up Against Erasure: Siobhan Somerville Book Talk

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  • 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

  Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)

  More info is coming.

  • Lecture

  

• Public Reading | Layli Long Soldier

  Time

  7:30 pm

  Location

  Ballroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave

  • Lecture

  

Friday, April 30, 2027

• 2027 Flygare Memorial Lecture: Professor Paul Alivisatos, University of Chicago, TBD

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  CLSL B102

  • Lecture