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, October 21, 2026
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Join us for Poetry for Unfinished Revolutions, hosted by Dr. Misha Frazier! Participants will engage in improvised poetry writing inspired by the exhibit, with all poems added to the exhibit’s zine. The evening continues with a revolutionary-themed open mic at 7:00 p.m. Share an original poem or a piece by another writer.
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Learn about our M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering Leadership degree program.
Thursday, October 22, 2026
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CSGGE Lunch talk with Dr. Maria Hadjipolycarpou, Dept of Classics and Director of Modern Greek Studies, "Class, Gender, and Secularization in Costas Montis’ Afentis Batistas and the Other Things". Her talk will delve into unexplored areas and performs an intersectional analysis of gender, class, and religion, challenging stereotypical ideologies around these issues.
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Join the College of Media's Ebert Center for the annual Roger Ebert Lecture. Allyson Nadia Field, professor and chair of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, will focus on her book Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History (2026).
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Dr. Tyson E. Lewis, Professor Art Education in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas, will present a lecture, “Research-Creation and the Alchemical Studio: An Experiment in Studious Drift."
Friday, October 23, 2026
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Please join us for the Game Studies and Design October Town Hall. This month's guest speaker is Amber Holkenbrink, Principal Experience Designer on Apex Legends at Respawn Entertainment. She has worked in the game industry for over 16 years and has contributed to the art, animation, and design of more than 30 titles, including Call of Duty: Warzone.
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Dr. Kendra Sharp will speak about her inspiring journey from aerospace engineering to academia, science policy, and university leadership. Discover how engineers can lead across disciplines, embrace new opportunities, and use engineering and AI to create a more humane, just, and sustainable world.
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The Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies would like to invite interested students to a discussion & coffee, with Billy Tringali in connection to his talk titled, "The Anime Studies Appetizer Sampler". Coffee and treats will be provided.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
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This 45-minute tour explores femininity, masculinity, love, and desire as the people of the ancient mediterranean would have understood them, highlighting the blurry lines drawn in art, worship, commerce, athletics, and hygiene." Drop in every Saturday for a tour given by our student gallery guides! Topics vary weekly. Free admission and all ages welcome.
Monday, October 26, 2026
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Join the WRC on Monday, October 26 at 12 noon to explore University Illinois students' rights and resources regarding sexual misconduct. Learn more about what happens after an incident is reported, from supportive measures to the investigative process to sanctioning. This event features a panel featuring staff from Title IX, OSCR, and the WRC. Lunch provided.
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Daniel Sanz-Alonso (U Chicago) is speaker
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Join the Education Justice Project for an author talk with Rebecca Neusteter, author of 911, What’s Your Emergency? She will discuss the 911 system, its impact on communities of color, and the challenges of relying on police as the default emergency response. Dinner and copies of the book will be provided. For questions or accessibility requests, email policy@educationjust
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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Speaker: Hannah Manetsch
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Heidi Parker, PhD Associate Investigator, National Human Genome Research Institute "The Dog as a Genetic Blueprint: Utilizing Population Structure to Map Complex Traits"
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Youssef Hakiki talks about "The Itô–Stratonovich formula for rough sheets"
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The techniques for making texts have changed across multiple media and historical contexts since antiquity, but a regular feature of the work of authors and scholars through all those changes is the reliance on helpers or amanuenses. Dr. Ann Blair (Harvard) will discuss the factors that have made them both invisible and occasionally visible, and the kind of work they did.
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The cycling of baryonic matter between gas phases and into / out of stellar systems is fundamental to our understanding of many astrophysical processes, from star and planet formation to galaxy evolution.
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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 for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Rob Rushing (European Languages & Transcultural Studies, UCLA) on Biopolitics.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
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In this presentation, José A. de la Garza Valenzuela traces the legal and literary histories of the new legal grammars of U.S. citizenship in an introduction to his recently published book, Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions (University of Texas Press, 2026).
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Join us for our weekly FACS Seminars, given by graduate students, staff, and other ACE Affiliates! Take the opportunity for an excellent meeting to learn about ACE topics, and to meet like-minded peers. This week's speakers will be Flavia Castro Motta and Jawad Khan.
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Join the Department of Philosophy for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Raul Castro Fernandez. His talk, titled "What Should Data Ecosystems Be For?" explores data ecology, its effects, and how data ecosystems are designed.
Thursday, October 29, 2026
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Assistant professors and graduate students are invited to join an informal fireside chat with Dr. Jerome E. Morris, AERA President and professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Join the College of Education for the next installment of the Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Boldly Education: Leading the Future of Education, featuring Dr. Jerome E. Morris, AERA President and professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
