MDF Test Calendar
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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12:30 - 1:30 pmInstitute of Communications ResearchMedia scholars John D. Peters (Yale) and Ben Peters (UTulsa) will reflect on the digital media sometimes called artificial intelligence. They will share insights from ongoing research projects, including Ben’s research on the Soviet prehistory of AI. Among his working points: AI today is Soviet and ChatGPT hallucinates because of Stalin’s homophobic purges.
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4:00 - 5:30 pmAllerton Park & Retreat Center - Arboretum Parking Lot
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5:30 - 7:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility, Room 4039
Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with John Durham Peters, the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Yale University.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore, Room 514
The Center for Writing Studies is happy to host Dr. Toby Beauchamp! He will be giving a lecture titled "Embracing Trans Regret under Authoritarianism." Please join us on Thursday, October 16th!
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12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore, Room 514
The Center for Writing Studies will be hosting Dr. Toby Beauchamp for a brownbag talk! Dr. Beauchamp will be giving a lecture titled "Embracing Trans Regret under Authoritarianism." Please join us this week on Thursday, October 16!
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5:00 - 7:00 pmUniversity YMCA 1001 S Wright St. -
5:15 pmMain Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
An award-winning film, SHTTL (Ukraine, 2022), portrays the lives of people in a small Ukrainian Jewish town (shtetl) at the Polish border, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion. It is a touching story of a filmmaker who returns from Kyiv to his native shtetl to marry the love of his life and disrupts the balance of the entire town.
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7:30 pmIllini Union, Room 210Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
Friday, October 17, 2025
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9:00 am - 4:00 pmArt & Design Building, Room 15
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9:00 - 11:00 amAllerton Park & Retreat Center - Main Parking Lot
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10:00 am - 5:00 pmSchool of Art & Design, Room 15
This symposium will explore artistic production, practices, and the agency of printed media before 1750 as they intersect with themes of sexuality and gender. Keynote speaker will be Dr.
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11:45 am - 1:00 pmEngineering Quad
Saturday, October 18, 2025
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9:30 - 10:30 am
Save the date for a webinar focused on navigating mental health during a cancer diagnosis.
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10:00 - 11:00 amAllerton Park & Retreat Center - Greenhouse Patio
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11:00 am - 4:00 pmJapan House (2000 S Lincoln Ave Urbana, IL 61802)
Japan House's Fall Open House features artists Seiran Chiba, Masaji Hashimoto, Shinya Terasawa, and Hirohisa Saito to present on Fukushima traditional arts and crafts. Japanese tea ceremonies will be offered at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm. At 3pm, the artists will be giving a free presentation about their work.
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1:00 - 3:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Come experience immersive sound as you view artworks at Krannert Art Museum! Members of Improvisers Exchange Ensemble will create soundscapes within the museum through site-specific solo performance and collective improvisation in reflection and response to artwork on display. Museum visitors are invited to experience viewing the art in these sonic locations.
Monday, October 20, 2025
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4:00 - 6:30 pmSpurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Join us for a free screening of the film "Black Box Diaries" followed by an in person Q&A with the filmmaker Shiori Itô. This is first AsiaLENS film of the school year hosted by CEAPS and we hope to see you there on Oct 20, 2025 (4:00-6:30 pm).
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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12:00 - 1:30 pmACES (Funk) Library, Heritage Room (107)
Community-Engaged Research Insights for Graduate Students: Graduate students interested in community-engaged research are invited to join a lunch and panel discussion with like-minded peers on Oct. 21, noon - 1:30 p.m. The panel of experts from Illinois and a local community organization will discuss their experience conducting community-engaged research projects.
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, a Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State University, where she has taught since 2000.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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12:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 108
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
Scheide Librarian Emeritus (Princeton) Paul S. Needham will discuss the history and production of the Catholicon, and present his findings that it was printed not from movable type, as previously thought, but instead from two-line castings — a discovery that continues to incite vigorous discussion in the field.
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4:00 pmCenter for Advanced Study (CAS)
Fredrik Jonsson (History, U of Chicago) proposes a fundamentally new interpretation of Britain's fossil energy economy between the first and second industrial revolutions 1750-1914.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Lecture by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago. Professor Jonsson will discuss his work on some of the historical dimensions of the climate crisis.
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985. Our conversation with John Doe will be a chance to reflect on the inaugural Farm Aid concert ...
Friday, October 24, 2025
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11:45 am - 1:00 pmEngineering Quad
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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4:30 - 7:30 pmMartens Community CenterJoin the Cancer Center at Illinois for a Spooky Science Family STEM Night at the Martens Center! Cancer Center undergraduate students will lead fun, hands-on science activities at Halloween-themed stations while engaging families in conversations about health, science, and cancer prevention.
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5:00 - 6:30 pmAlice 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.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
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11:45 am - 1:00 pmEngineering Quad
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12:00 - 1:00 pmUniversity YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S Wright St. Champaign -
3:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Rm 210
In 1978, the tropical city-state of Singapore received three polar bears, starting a dynasty of polar bears that ended in 2018. Within the lifespan of these tropical polar bears, the planet has undergone rapid and exponential growth in economies...
Saturday, November 1, 2025
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4:00 - 5:00 pmThe Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
Monday, November 3, 2025
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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4:00 - 5:00 pmEnglish 109
Anna Hunt (Professor of German) “Quick! Somebody Get Me A Doctor of German Philosophy,” HGMS workshop, English 109, 4 pm-5 pm.
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Prof. Ryan Low (University of North Dakota) ~~ In fourteenth-century Provence, the volume of written contracts increased from thousands each year to million, involving even the region's most remote rural communities and serving the interests of marginalized actors, including women, peasants, and religious minorities.
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6:00 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Sunday, November 9, 2025
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3:00 pmChapel of St. John the Divine, Champaign
This concert by Urbana's newest period instrument ensemble directed by Professor Emerita Charlotte Mattax Moersch, celebrates the elegance and grandeur of the French Baroque, with works by Leclair, Couperin, and Rameau.
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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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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1:00 - 2:00 pmTBD
Part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series that features the latest research and the center of cancer and engineering.
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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.
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
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
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10:30 - 11:30 amKrannert Art Museum East Gallery
Wednesday, November 26, 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 1030
Part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series that features the latest research and 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
Thursday, January 29, 2026
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12:00 amKAM/Link Gallery
Friday, January 30, 2026
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Sunday, February 1, 2026
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Friday, February 6, 2026
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Sunday, February 8, 2026
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
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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
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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