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.

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    Altgeld 141

  • 5:15 pm
    Main Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)

    An award-winning film, SHTTL (Ukraine, 2022), portrays the lives of people in a small Ukrainian Jewish town (shtetl) at the Polish border, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion. It is a touching story of a filmmaker who returns from Kyiv to his native shtetl to marry the love of his life and disrupts the balance of the entire town.

  • Nadine Naber
    7:30 pm
    Illini Union, Room 210

    Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.

  • Nadine Naber
    7:30 pm
    Illini Union, Room 210

    Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.

Friday, October 17, 2025

Saturday, October 18, 2025

  • 9:30 - 10:30 am

    Save the date for a webinar focused on navigating mental health during a cancer diagnosis.

  • 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
    Lincoln Square Mall, 201 Lincoln Square, Urbana, IL 61801

    Join us for a fun day of hands-on science! Talk with scientists and explore exhibits and activities including learning how organisms relate to each other on the Tree of Life, extracting strawberry DNA to make necklaces, and understanding how genomics pervades every aspect of our daily lives. Although designed for K-12 children, all members of the community are welcome.

  • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
    Japan House (2000 S Lincoln Ave Urbana, IL 61802)

    Japan House's Fall Open House features artists Seiran Chiba, Masaji Hashimoto, Shinya Terasawa, and Hirohisa Saito to present on Fukushima traditional arts and crafts. Japanese tea ceremonies will be offered at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm. At 3pm, the artists will be giving a free presentation about their work.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

    Come experience immersive sound as you view artworks at Krannert Art Museum! Members of Improvisers Exchange Ensemble will create soundscapes within the museum through site-specific solo performance and collective improvisation in reflection and response to artwork on display. Museum visitors are invited to experience viewing the art in these sonic locations.

Monday, October 20, 2025

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Friday, October 24, 2025

Monday, October 27, 2025

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Friday, October 31, 2025

Monday, November 3, 2025

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Friday, November 7, 2025

Saturday, November 8, 2025

Sunday, November 9, 2025

  • 3:00 pm
    Chapel of St. John the Divine, Champaign

    This concert by Urbana's newest period instrument ensemble directed by Professor Emerita Charlotte Mattax Moersch, celebrates the elegance and grandeur of the French Baroque, with works by Leclair, Couperin, and Rameau.

Monday, November 10, 2025

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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Friday, November 14, 2025

Monday, November 17, 2025

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Thursday, November 27, 2025

Friday, November 28, 2025