Campus Humanities Central Calendar
Monday, November 17, 2025
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6:00 - 8:00 pmThe Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St. UrbanaWomen 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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4:00 pm306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled the country, with nearly half dying in flight. Vietnamerica follows Master Nguyen Hoa as he returns to former refugee camps in Southeast Asia after three decades abroad to search for the graves of his wife and two children.
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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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12:00 pm108 Coble Hall
Join the European Union Center for the next installment in its brown-bag series: "Europe and the World Today." This event is cosponsored by the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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7:30 - 9:00 pmKrannert Center for the Performing Arts, DRK, Level 2
The Department of Dance will present full of woe & far to go, an evening of new dances by emerging student choreographers. The concert will include works created by MFA students Paula De Oliveria E Sousa and Sophia Vangelatos as well as BFA students Jayla Anderson, Gabriella Quaresima, and Anna Brady.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
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7:30 - 9:00 pmKrannert Center for the Performing Arts, DRK, Level 2
The Department of Dance will present full of woe & far to go, an evening of new dances by emerging student choreographers. The concert will include works created by MFA students Paula De Oliveria E Sousa and Sophia Vangelatos as well as BFA students Jayla Anderson, Gabriella Quaresima, and Anna Brady.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmHybrid: IGB Room 612 or Zoom
Discover how to transform your research into a compelling story that communicates the significance of your work, connects with diverse audiences, and strengthens grant proposals and publications. Speakers from STEM and the Humanities will demonstrate approaches to crafting engaging, persuasive research narratives.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
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10:30 - 11:00 amKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Join us for a Talk & Tour with Curator Maureen Warren. Gain insights about 100+ extraordinary prints—including artwork by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—on display as part of Imagination, Faith, and Design: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475–1800 (on view through February 28).
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1:00 - 3:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Join us for Artventures—an interactive afternoon designed for children (ages 5+) with their families and caregivers. Enjoy stories inspired by artworks on view, playful gallery exploration that connects the stories to the art, and artmaking led by guest artists.
Thursday, December 4, 2025
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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. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*
Friday, December 5, 2025
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5:00 pmOnline application portal
Campus Fellowship applications are due.
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!
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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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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 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?
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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7:30 pmTBD
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
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7:30 pmTBD
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
Thursday, February 26, 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.
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3:30 - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 300
International Women’s Day celebration with speakers from the campus and community.
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
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.
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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.
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7:30 pmAlice Campbell Alumni CenterRita Dove served as US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award, she also received the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama.
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7:30 pmAlice Campbell Alumni CenterRita Dove served as US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award, she also received the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama.
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.
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)
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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4:00 - 6:00 pmTBD
Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception
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4:00 - 6:00 pmTBD
Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception