SCD Calendar of Calendars
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
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Objective(s): This course walks people through how to ethically and safely access and use data in a university setting. Topics include: data regulations, data access, data usage, data governance and data literacy Target Audience: People wanting to understand Data at the University of Illinois
Friday, May 23, 2025
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
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Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025
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Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to prevent reading and navigating order culprits, freeze columns and rows, hide unused columns and rows, delete empty rows between elements, create accessible links, and use the Accessibility Assistant.
Friday, May 30, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Monday, June 16, 2025
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Monday, June 23, 2025
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Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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Objective(s): This course walks people through how to ethically and safely access and use data in a university setting. Topics include: data regulations, data access, data usage, data governance and data literacy Target Audience: People wanting to understand Data at the University of Illinois
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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
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Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.
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Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.
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We'll kick off the summer course design series with an overview of backward design, a simple course design method that will help you ensure proper alignment of objectives, assessments, and activities within your course.
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In this session, you will consider the constraints your course might be operating under. Is it part of a larger curriculum? Does your department, college, university, or accreditor require specific outcomes for the course? What are your students likely to expect from your course? What limits might that might place on your course design? But constraints inspire creativity.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
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Objective(s): This course walks people through how to ethically and safely access and use data in a university setting. Topics include: data regulations, data access, data usage, data governance and data literacy Target Audience: People wanting to understand Data at the University of Illinois
Friday, June 27, 2025
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This workshop focuses on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework as a means for making design choices that ensure that all students are able to meet course and developmental goals
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Once the groundwork for your course is set, it is time to start building in earnest. In this session, you will learn the basics for crafting good learning objectives, and then start developing the objectives that will guide the rest of your course design.
Monday, June 30, 2025
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This workshop focuses on developing assessments designed to help students achieve the learning objectives of your course. We will examine different types of assessments and consider their respective strengths and downsides. You will then set to work choosing the assessments for your course.
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In a good course, your activities should count as good practice for your assessments, and since your assessments are well-aligned with your objectives, your activities will also help your students achieve their learning goals. Come learn a few activities in this workshop, how to find even more activities, and then start selecting activities to include in your course.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
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Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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You will want to set fair, clear, and manageable course policies that you can explain and defend the entire semester. In this session, we'll identify a few questions you need to answer to have good course policies, and then you will create policies that are consistent with your course design so far.
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This workshop ties the topics of the previous workshops together by discussing and crafting a syllabus for your newly designed course. We focus on the necessary logistical information for the syllabus, items to include to set student expectations, syllabus language and tone, and how to craft a course schedule with assessments, readings, and other ancillary materials.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
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Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Friday, July 11, 2025
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Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Friday, August 22, 2025
Monday, August 25, 2025
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
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Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Ronnie Grinberg, author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, to offer the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and HGMS kick-off event, generously funded by the Goldberg lecture series
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"The Unofficial ZEN Blue Player's Guide: Advanced Tricks and Secrets" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist
Thursday, September 4, 2025
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
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Web Intelligence is an intuitive, advanced reporting tool available to users in both Web and Desktop interfaces. This live, instructor-led course demonstrates how to use the Web Intelligence report editor to create custom queries and reports. Target Audience: First-Time & Returning Web Intelligence users
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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Poet, essayist, translator, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of three books of poetry, and a winner of the 2024 National Book Award. Her visit is part of the Illinois Global Institutes "Palestine in the World" series. The IGI Series on Global Responsibilities brings multidisciplinary and global perspectives to major contemporary questions.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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On Thursday, September 18th at 5 pm. Speaker Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Professor of History at Oregon State University.
Friday, September 19, 2025
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The Environmental Humanities Research Cluster is hosting a symposium called “The Nuclear Environment” from 9am to 4pm on Friday, September 19th. The keynote speaker for that symposium will be speaking the night before, on Thursday, September 18th at 5pm. That speaker is Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Professor of History at Oregon State University.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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"Dissecting sub-millisecond stepping dynamics of dynein with MINFLUX" Joseph Slivka, PhD Candidate, Yildiz & Limmer Group - Physics, University of California, Berkley
Friday, September 26, 2025
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Saturday, October 4, 2025
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Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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"An Introduction to the LSM 980" Umnia Doha, Research Scientist,Core Facilities Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Thursday, October 9, 2025
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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is excited to invite you to our premiere Beyond Borders: Global Collaborations for Mental Health Research and Services Conference on October 9 and 10, 2025 in Champaign, Illinois. Coinciding with World Mental Health Day, our theme is: From local to global, encouraging creative solutions to transcultural mental health challenges.
Friday, October 10, 2025
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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is excited to invite you to our premiere Beyond Borders: Global Collaborations for Mental Health Research and Services Conference on October 9 and 10, 2025 in Champaign, Illinois. Coinciding with World Mental Health Day, our theme is: From local to global, encouraging creative solutions to transcultural mental health challenges.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Friday, October 24, 2025
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Monday, October 27, 2025
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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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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Ayelet Tsabari, author of the award-winning novel, Songs for the Brokenherted, thanks to generous support from the Einhorn family, 5 pm-6:30 pm, Alice Campbell Hall
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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Anna Hunt (Professor of German) “Quick! Somebody Get Me A Doctor of German Philosophy,” HGMS workshop, English 109, 4 pm-5 pm.
Monday, November 10, 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025
Monday, December 22, 2025
Friday, January 16, 2026
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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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.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Friday, March 6, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
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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.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Monday, March 23, 2026
Friday, March 27, 2026
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HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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Annual Armenian Genocide Event Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University). Time and location TBD