MDF Test Calendar
Monday, November 10, 2025
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5:30 - 7:00 pmFresh Press, 2116 Griffith Dr, Champaign, IL
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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11:30 amChez Veterans Center | 908 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801 RM 1020
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11:30 am - 12:30 pm908 W. Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801
Join us as we honor Veterans Day with keynote speaker Major General (Ret.) James H. Mukoyama, Jr., a University of Illinois alumnus, decorated combat Veteran, a proud Illinois alumnus and trailblazing U.S. Army leader.
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5:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St. Urbana
AsiaLENS presents a free screening of Echoes of Home followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Mirshad Ghalip. This documentary explores the Uyghur American Cup, the largest event for Uyghur diaspora communities in North America. In the tournament, soccer becomes a medium to foster community, maintain language, and help younger members of the diaspora connect with their heritage.
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5:15 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Julian Go (Sociology, University of Chicago) will deliver a lecture on Postcolonial Theory as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates. The Box folder of readings for each lecture is available here. For more information, including the password to access the readings, please contact the Unit.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
Gillen D’Arcy Wood will present his new book about the Victorian-era voyage of the HMS Challenger. From 1872-1876, its naturalists explored the oceans, encountering never-before-seen marvels of marine life. They had no way of knowing that the incredible undersea aquarium they were documenting was on the verge of catastrophic change.
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5:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4039
Dr. Angie Bonilla will examine how humanitarian and artistic media transform migrant life into spectacles of empathy and control. Through films, photographs, and installations, she traces how Latinx visual practices expose the racial politics of visibility and imagine endurance and solidarity beyond cages, beyond crisis.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Rm 208
In this new research project, Prof. Handman (Anthropology, UT Austin) explores the different ways that AI is transforming our ideas about language and humanness by seeing how people are imagining some kind of AI-enabled interspecies communication.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmUniversity Archives Main Library Room 146
Please join us for the University Archives' monthly Women in Science Lecture Series, Nov. 13, from 12 -1 pm. School of Integrative Biology graduate student Vivian Cheng will discuss her research using genetics, ancient DNA, and historical archives to understand the effects of climate change and colonialism on narwhals.
Friday, November 14, 2025
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10:30 am - 12:00 pmTBD
The Critical Disciplinarity Collective convenes faculty of all ranks to reflect on disciplinarity – how it shapes our research + teaching, how we shape-shift to succeed in our disciplines, + how we might reshape our disciplines to be more welcoming to scholars + scholarship underrepresented in the academy. Lunch provided. Contact us to get involved!: azlans2@illinois.edu
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1:00 - 3:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Join us for a preview designed especially for faculty and instructors. View the latest exhibitions and discover how the museum can support and enrich your teaching, research, and community engagement. Meet museum staff, tour the galleries, and learn about curricular partnerships, custom class visits, programming opportunities, and ways to collaborate across disciplines.
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1:30 - 3:00 pm[Hybrid] 306 Coble Hall & Zoom
Please join us for a hybrid CEAPS Brown bag with two PhD student Conference Travel Grant recipients. Jiwon Oh (Institute of Communications Research) will be presenting her talk “Navigating Gendered Anthropomorphism in AI Ethics: The Case of Lee Luda in South Korea.”
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2:30 - 4:00 pmCU Community Fab Lab
Yiddish literature is deeply connected to the print technologies that made it possible, especially letterpress and block printing. Join us for a presentation on the historical Yiddish press and a hands-on workshop at our campus print shop. Come print a postcard and poster using authentic Yiddish type and historical printing presses! Registration is required.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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6:00 am - 12:00 pmArt & Design Building and Krannert Art Museum
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7:30 pmThe Venue CU
Featuring an all-star ensemble made up of beloved Yiddish vocalists Lorin Sklamberg and Sasha Lurje, plus five leading string players from the klezmer scene, this project blends techniques and soundscapes from klezmer music, Yiddish theatre, folk song, cantorial repertoire, and classical music in a program that is equal parts storytelling...
Sunday, November 16, 2025
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10:00 am - 6:00 pmActivities & Recreation Center (ARC), Multipurpose Room 7
Celebrate the festival’s grand finale with a kugel cook-off and taste-off! Featuring a performance by our local Papashoy Klezmer Band and guest judges Gioconda Guerra Perez (UIUC Interim Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion), Deb Feinen (Mayor of Champaign), and Deshawn Williams (Mayor of Urbana)...
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1:30 - 3:30 pmThe Activities and Recreation Center (ARC), Multipurpose Room 4
This lecture series features short talks on a variety of subjects related to Yiddish, featuring UIUC's Anastasiia Strakhova on immigration, YIVO Chicago's Ben Schacht on Chicago's garment workers, the University of Michigan's Emma Lerman on children's literature illustrations, local musician Frances Harris on Klezmer today...
Monday, November 17, 2025
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6:00 - 8:00 pmThe Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St. Urbana
Women have largely been written out of the ancient world. Dealing with the silences of the archive requires new and innovative tools, and in this talk, Dr. Emily Hauser surveys the many different approaches she has taken across her fiction and non-fiction writing to recover women.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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5:15 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
John Levi Barnard (English, UIUC) and Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture, UIUC) will deliver lectures on the topic of Environmental Humanities as the conclusion of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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12:00 pmRoom 212 / Center for Children's Books, 501 E. Daniel St., School of Information Sciences
Dr. Patricia Kennon (Maynooth University), the general editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature, will be giving a brief lecture on Asexuality in Contemporary YA Literature at the Center for Children's Books. Come learn!
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4:00 - 5:00 pmW115 Turner Hall
Saturday, November 22, 2025
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10:30 - 11:30 amKrannert Art Museum East Gallery
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Friday, December 5, 2025
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5:00 pmOnline application portal
Campus Fellowship applications are due.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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1:00 - 2:00 pmNCSA 1040Part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series that features the latest research at the center of cancer and engineering.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
Come and celebrate the semester’s end with hot apple cider, sweet and salty treats, and some of our favorite winter-themed materials from the RBML vault. Make a button, relax with a coloring sheet, and leave with a live-printed linocut card! This event is part of the library's Reading Day De-Stress Fest; it is open to the public and refreshments will be served.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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7:00 pmG58 LCLB- Film Classroom
Lee Miller was an incredible photographer who was present at the liberation of some concentration camps. Trigger warning: some parts of this film display graphic images of survivors and victims of the Holocaust. 7 pm Holocaust Remembrance Day screening of Lee. Location TBD.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
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12:00 - 1:30 pmThe Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity!
Thursday, January 29, 2026
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12:00 amKAM/Link Gallery
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5:00 - 7:00 pmKrannert Art Museum
Eleven faculty members from the School of Art & Design will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie. The exhibition considers how people make and define place through stories, and how stories carry out a kind of labor, maintaining narratives about the places we live—and about us.
Friday, January 30, 2026
Saturday, January 31, 2026
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Monday, February 9, 2026
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
How does recognizing the fundamental entanglements of humans and the more-than-human world impact notions of "justice"? Drawing on perceptions from diverse communities, disciplines, and social, political, and historical contexts, this symposium will provide a space for us to grapple with the question: What might a more just world or worlds look like in the 21st century?
Friday, February 13, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
How does recognizing the fundamental entanglements of humans and the more-than-human world impact notions of "justice"? Drawing on perceptions from diverse communities, disciplines, and social, political, and historical contexts, this symposium will provide a space for us to grapple with the question: What might a more just world or worlds look like in the 21st century?
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Monday, February 16, 2026
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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6:30 - 7:30 pmThe Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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7:30 pmTBD
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
Friday, February 20, 2026
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Monday, February 23, 2026
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Friday, February 27, 2026
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Monday, March 2, 2026
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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3:30 - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 300
International Women’s Day celebration with speakers from the campus and community.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Friday, March 6, 2026
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
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5:00 - 6:30 pmTBD
Blewish And Beautiful: Contemporary Black Jewish Voices roundtable with TaRessa Stoval, Marc Perry, David Wright Faladé and other contributors to the Blewish And Beautiful volume co-edited by Sara Feldman, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, and Brett Ashley Kaplan.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Friday, March 13, 2026
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Monday, March 16, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Friday, March 20, 2026
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Friday, March 27, 2026
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9:00 am - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Monday, March 30, 2026
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Friday, April 3, 2026
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Thursday, April 9, 2026
Friday, April 10, 2026
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Monday, April 13, 2026
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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12:00 pmBNAACC U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–95); Creative Writing, University of Virginia Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–95); Creative Writing, University of Virginia Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Friday, April 17, 2026
Saturday, April 18, 2026
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4:00 - 5:00 pmThe Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Monday, April 20, 2026
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5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 208
Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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All DayTBD
Annual Armenian Genocide Event Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University). Time and location TBD
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5:00 pmTBD
Annual Armenian Genocide Event, featuring Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University)
Friday, April 24, 2026
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Monday, April 27, 2026
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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Thursday, April 30, 2026
Friday, May 1, 2026
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Monday, May 4, 2026
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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4:00 - 6:00 pmTBD
Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception