MDF Test Calendar
Monday, December 1, 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
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5:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St. UrbanaAsiaLENS presents a free screening of the film Hug Me Tight: A Robot Story, followed by a virtual Q&A with filmmakers Heesun Shin and Chihyung Jeon. In South Korea, thousands of older adults are living with Hyodol, a doll-shaped robot. Following the journey of Hydol from production to use, this film asks: Can robots take care of older adults? Can older adults take care of
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6:00 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignSPEAK 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. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*
Friday, December 5, 2025
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5:00 pmOnline application portalCampus Fellowship applications are due.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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5:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility, Room 2039Join us for a lecture in the Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age series with Matthew DeCamp (University of Colorado). Drawing on insights from medical practice, philosophy, and the social sciences, his lecture will explore the use of AI in medicine and argue that AI has the potential to change who we are and what we value.
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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12:00 - 3:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Take a break from finals and unwind with art, snacks, DIY projects, good vibes, and more! Recharge and get inspired before finals week begins. In collaboration with the College of Fine & Applied Arts (FAA) and Ricker Library for Art and Architecture, Krannert Art Museum is proud to host FAA Finals Fest...
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1:00 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
You deserve to take care of yourself! Whether you've got finals on your mind, or the frenzy of the holiday season, or some combination of those and so many other things, scheduling time for joy and creativity can make all the difference.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346Come 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 -
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.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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All DayLevis Faculty Center, Room 210How 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?
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
Thursday, February 26, 2026
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4:00 pmTBDErin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
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
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.
Friday, March 27, 2026
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9:00 am - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
Monday, March 30, 2026
Friday, April 3, 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 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 US 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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7:30 pmAlice Campbell Alumni CenterJoin us for a free public reading by award-winning poet Rita Dove. Dove served as US 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
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
Thursday, April 30, 2026
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8:00 am - 3:30 pmKAM Loading dock
Friday, May 1, 2026
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8:00 am - 3:30 pmKAM Loading dock
Monday, May 4, 2026
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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4:00 - 6:00 pmTBDPrizes for Research Ceremony and Reception