MDF Test Calendar

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

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Justin Jackson Lecture

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  “Occupied: Military Structures and Rule” History, Justin Jackson, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

  • 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

  

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Justin Jackson Lecture

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  “Occupied: Military Structures and Rule” History, Justin Jackson, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• 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

  "Staying with the Trouble of Preservation: The Ambivalent Politics of Deletion in Digital Societies." Nanna Thylstrup, Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 9, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Panel Discussion: Percival Everett’s Erasure

  Time

  2:30 pm

  Location

  TBD

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

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 15, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Faculty Reading: Ángel Garcia

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 422

  English/Creative Writing Indifferent Cities

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Faculty Book Talk: Gillen D'Arcy Wood

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  English and Earth Science & Environmental Change The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans’ Decline

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Up Against Erasure: HumetricsHSS Events

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  Watch for more information. Learn about HumetricsHSS.

  • 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, 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

• Up Against Erasure | 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

• Up Against Erasure | 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

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  More info is coming.

  • Lecture

  

• Public Reading | Layli Long Soldier

  Time

  7:30 pm

  Location

  Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Lecture