History Department Public Events

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• History Book Club with PhD Alumni Juan Ignacio Mora, Michael Staudenmaier & Robert M. Rouphail

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Gregory Hall 223

  Join us to celebrate the new books of three history PhD alumni.

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Friday, October 23, 2026

• MillerComm Lecture: Islam in France: Minority Religion, Laïcité, and the Politics of Muslim Identity

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 919 W. Illinois St, Urbana

  Join us for a lecture by George A Miller Visiting Scholar Youssouf T. Sangaré titled "Islam in France: Minority Religion, Laïcité, and the Politics of Muslim Identity."

  • Lecture

  

Friday, October 30, 2026

• Timbuktu Talks: Islam in Africa: Between Sufism, Salafism, and Indigenous Religious Authority

  Time

  2:00 - 3:30 pm

  Location

  Gregory Hall 319

  Join us for a lecture by George A. Miller Visiting Scholar Youssouf Sangaré. His talk examines the case of Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara and the Ançar Dine movement in Mali as a window into the dynamics of contemporary African Islam.

  • Lecture

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• Crowds as Scarce Resource: Collective Behavior in Early Medieval Europe with Shane Bobrycki (University of Iowa)

  Time

  5:00

  Location

  Gregory Hall, Room 319

  Please join us for this talk by Professor Shane Bobrycki (University of Iowa), author of The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages (2024).

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• "Edifying Tales": Stories of Everyday Twists & Turns from Medieval Byzantium -- Prof. Sergey Ivanov (Northwestern)

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  TBA

  Join the Program in Medieval Studies for a lecture from professor Sergey Ivanov (Northwestern) titled "'Edifying Tales': Stories of Everyday Twists & Turns from Medieval Byzantium."

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 19, 2026

• At Risk U Speaker Series: Resurging Pro-Power Pedagogies

  Time

  5:00 pm

  Location

  Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

  • Lecture