History Department Public Events
Friday, October 23, 2026
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MillerComm Lecture: Islam in France: Minority Religion, Laïcité, and the Politics of Muslim Identity
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."
Friday, October 30, 2026
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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.
Monday, November 2, 2026
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Please join us for this talk by Professor Shane Bobrycki (University of Iowa), author of The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages (2024).
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
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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."
Thursday, November 19, 2026
Friday, March 26, 2027
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ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work. The ILLS annual conference is proud to be entirely student-organized and operated by the Linguistics Student Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Saturday, March 27, 2027
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ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work. The ILLS annual conference is proud to be entirely student-organized and operated by the Linguistics Student Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.