Research Seminars @ Illinois
Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.
To have your events added or removed from this calendar, please contact OUR at ugresearch@illinois.edu
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
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Join us for the first FACS Seminar session! This week will be a "Welcome Back" meet and greet, where Jared and Maria will go over the plans for the rest of the FACS sessions this semester!
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The University Academic Alliance in Taiwan (UAAT) Mandarin Scholarship Program provides students from the University of Illinois System with the opportunity to study Mandarin and gain career insights in Taiwan. Join CEAPS to learn more about the Mandarin Scholarship Program in Coble Hall Room 306.
Thursday, September 3, 2026
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Join us for the Ebert Center’s first screening of the season: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), directed by Steven Spielberg and attributed as Stanley Kubrick’s final work. The film will be introduced by Ebert Fellows mentor Isaac Feldberg, critic at rogerebert.com. Food truck and concessions will be available at 6 p.m.
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Attend the Ebert Center's first film of the season—a free screening of "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" (2001), attributed as Stanley Kubrick’s final work. RogerEbert.com film critic and Ebert Fellows mentor Isaac Feldberg will introduce the film, which is directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment...
Friday, September 4, 2026
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The Psychology Department is excited to continue the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2026-2027 academic year, a monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.
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The dirty dozen: Bees, soils, and how I spent my summer vacations
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
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IGB Seminar - Director's Office "Biology by Design: From Directed Evolution to Autonomous Experimentation" Huimin Zhao, PhD Steven L. Miller Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Bioengineering; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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Please join the Unit for Criticism and the Mellon Sawyer Seminar for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Chad Wellmon (Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Virginia) on Theory in the University.
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
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Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois.
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Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
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The University Academic Alliance in Taiwan (UAAT) Mandarin Scholarship Program provides students from the University of Illinois System with the opportunity to study Mandarin and gain career insights in Taiwan. Join CEAPS to learn more about the Mandarin Scholarship Program in Coble Hall Room 306.
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Celebrate the launch of “Quinceañeras: Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture” (University of Illinois Press). Edited by Jillian M. Báez (PhD ’09, communications and media, ICR), Diana Leon-Boys (PhD ’20, communications and media, ICR), and Institute of Communications Research Professor Emerita Angharad N. Valdivia (PhD ’91, communications and media, ICR).
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Join the editors of "Quinceañeras: Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture"(external link) for a conversation celebrating the release of their edited collection.
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Prof. Keidrick Roy (Dartmouth College) speaks on the topic of his prize-winning book, American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism (Princeton, 2024), showing how Black intellectuals challenged ideas of “racial feudalism” inspired by the medieval past...
Friday, September 11, 2026
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Friday, September 11 – Micah Cameron-Harp, Assistant Professor, Kansas State University Impacts of intertemporal arbitrage on resource depletion: Evidence from Multi-Year Flex Accounts in Kansas
Monday, September 14, 2026
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Our Mr. Matsura, a feature documentary film, is the story of photographer Frank Matsura who journeyed from his native Japan to live in rural Washington State in the early 1900s. The film presents a picture of the “frontier” that departs from the existing popular culture narrative and celebrates the singular contribution of a community-building immigrant artist in America.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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Sabrina Agarwal, PhD Department of Anthropology; University of California, Berkeley "What Remains: Postcolonial Legacies of the Anatomical and Anthropological Sciences"
