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
Thursday, February 12, 2026
-
11:00 am - 12:15 pm4045 School of Information Sciences -
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
-
12:00 - 1:00 pm2312 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory -
12:00 - 1:00 pmMax L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
-
2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
-
4:00 pm119 Material Science Engineering Building
-
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB 1080 -
4:00 pmLCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080)
Friday, February 13, 2026
-
10:00 - 10:50 amRoom 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
-
10:00 - 10:50 amNewmark Lab - Yeh Center Rm 2311
Coral larval settlement is a critical factor in reef restoration strategies. However, it is also a highly selective process governed by the integration of multiple environmental cues. Identifying and controlling these cues will help to maximize restoration outcomes in degraded coral reef ecosystems.
-
11:00 - 11:50 amBevier Hall- Room 180FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: Matthew Stasiewicz, PhD Associate Professor of Applied Food Safety Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Title: Math and models to help people make better food safety decisions
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
12:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, Room 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (707 S. Mathews St., Urbana, IL 61801) -
1:00 - 2:00 pm190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Sam Garratt, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University
-
1:00 - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St -
2:00 - 3:15 pm1214 Siebel Center
-
3:00 - 5:00 pmGregory Hall 223
Join us for a lecture by Sandford Goldberg, the Chester D. Tripp professor in the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University.
-
3:00 - 5:00 pm223 Gregory Hall
Northwestern University philosopher Sandford Goldberg explores how we might modify or expand Stalnaker’s Common Ground framework to capture the normative dimension of inquiry and conversation. Goldberg suggests that we should make room for normative expectations both within common ground and about common ground, with far-reaching implications for epistemology.
-
3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom
Monday, February 16, 2026
-
11:00 am - 12:00 pm3401 Siebel Center
-
1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
-
4:00 pmNathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
-
11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Daniel Shoemaker, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
-
12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Adam Arkin, PHD Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor of Bioengineering University of California, Berkeley "Engineering Microbial Systems for Transformation, Protection, and Function Across Extreme Environment"
-
12:00 - 1:30 pmPart 5 of the 5-Part CQA Series will focus on activities that owners and operators should perform to maintain their liner system after installation. Best practices for locating the leakage source, determining an appropriate action leakage rate, and conducting electrical leak surveys also will be discussed.
-
12:00 - 1:00 pm3269 Beckman Institute
Cutler Phillippe will present on Analysis of Parachute Microstructural Strains in 3D with Micro-Computed Tomography and Image Segmentation
-
1:00 - 2:00 pmSkeuomorph Press & BookLab
Wagner's talk, “'As Usual You Have Produced Yet Another Installment Worthy of Archiving': The Persistence of Obsolescence in Queer Information & Media Technologies," uses archival object case studies to call attention to how data exists within the objects of queer history...
-
3:00 pmForbes Natural History Building -
3:45 - 4:45 pmAstronomy Building -
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
-
4:00 pm100 Material Science Engineering Building
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
-
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310 -
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
-
12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
“Single-Molecule Spatial Organization and Dynamics of Nuclear Speckle Components Revealed by MINFLUX Nanoscopy” Minxue Liu, PhD Candidate – Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
-
2:00 - 3:00 pmCoordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 W Main St, Auditorium (B02) -
4:00 - 5:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422
This is the spring semester installment of the Latina/Latino Studies Speaker Series with Dr. Marla A. Ramírez, assistant professor of History and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Ramírez will discuss her recent book Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025)
-
4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, February 19, 2026
-
12:00 - 1:00 pmCarl L. Vacketta Classroom (Room D), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign IL 61820
-
12:00 pm2005 MEL John Deere Pavilion
-
2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
-
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pm119 Material Science Engineering Building
-
4:30 pmIllini Union Bookstore: Authors CornerA reading by Callie Siskel made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series. Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, and Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poetry appears in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and the New York Review of Books. A
-
5:00 - 6:00 pmRoom 215 (Faculty Lounge), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, IL 61820
-
5:15 - 6:45 pmPlym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell HallOn February 19, Carlos Alberto Torres, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and former director of UCLA's Latin American Center, will give a lecture celebrating the extraordinary humanitarian career of Paulo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, in which he analyzed the analogous relationship of colonizer and colonized to that of teacher and student.
-
5:30 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignJoin us for a special evening at Krannert Art Museum in partnership with Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County. This event celebrates queer art and artists with a mix of engaging experiences, including live music, guided tours, hands-on artmaking, artist demonstrations, and hors d’oeuvres. Free and open to everyone. We look forward to welcoming you!
-
5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
This presentation examines the entangled histories of Indigenous land dispossession, the founding of the land-grant university system, and epistemicide in settler colonial institutions. This talk draws a direct line between the violent expropriation of Indigenous territories to the erasure of Indigenous peoples on campuses and in American institutions at large.
Friday, February 20, 2026
-
10:00 - 10:50 amRoom 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
-
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
12:00 - 1:00 pmNCSA 1040
Speaker: Delaney Dunne
-
12:15 - 1:15 pmNathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering LaboratoryRailway vehicles and tracks are complex, sophisticated, and highly nonlinear systems. There is one, singular location where these dynamic systems meet & interact: the wheel-rail interface. The contact pressures and subsurface stresses generated in wheel-rail contact far exceed those seen in many engineering applications, as does the range of environmental conditions
-
1:30 - 3:00 pm306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign -
2:00 - 3:30 pmCenter for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Krannert Art Museum -
2:00 - 3:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignOur partners in Peru will speak about current research on Andean cultural heritage and the ongoing collaborations with Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Krannert Art Museum on the Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600 exhibition project. Presented in person and via Zoom. En español e inglés.
-
3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom
Saturday, February 21, 2026
-
4:00 - 6:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Enjoy live music in the galleries and a reception to celebrate Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Early European Prints from 1475–1800 (on view through Feb 28). The evening will include brief remarks by Curator of European and American Art Maureen Warren. Harpsichordist Charlotte Mattax Moersch and the Urbana Baroque ensemble will perform on period instruments.
Monday, February 23, 2026
-
11:00 amDeep dive into the digitized Domestic Science/Home Economics archival collections. In this edit-a-thon, we'll be transcribing documents, identifying people, and translating information into Wikidata. Each session will have an introduction before working with the documents, and we'll be circulating guides ahead of the session.
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
12:30 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
-
11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Qian Xu, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
-
12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Angad Mehta, PhD Department of Chemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Synthetic biology for evolutionary studies and human health"
-
3:00 - 5:00 pm223 Gregory Hall
While the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy increases over time, in some systems entropy decreases in parts of the system while increasing in others. A zebra resists or exploits the second law by shunting extra entropy into its environment. Philosopher Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
-
3:00 pmForbes Natural History Building -
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
-
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
12:00 pm 01:30 pmConference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL -
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
“Effect of PGC1α expression on mitochondrial biogenesis and pathogenesis in Fragile X syndrome” Vipendra Kumar Visiting Research Scientist, Prof. Nien-Pei Tsai’s lab Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois
-
12:00 - 1:00 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
-
4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, February 26, 2026
-
11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
-
1:00 - 2:00 pm190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Ethan Lake, Miller Fellow, University of California - Berkeley
-
3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801Dr. Elias Petrou will explore the evolution and transmission of the Greek book from East to West, beginning with an overview of the Byzantine educational system, the preservation and transmission of classical Greek knowledge through manuscripts, and how this inherited book culture was transformed through the new technology of print.
-
4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422Erin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
-
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Friday, February 27, 2026
-
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
12:00 - 1:00 pmNCSA 1040
Speaker: Salman Habib
-
1:30 - 3:00 pmHybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM
Monday, March 2, 2026
-
11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St -
12:00 - 1:00 pmKirkland & Ellis Classroom (A), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
-
11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Rahul Trivedi, Research Group Leader, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
-
12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Shai Bel, PhD Azrieli Faculty of Medicine; Bar-Ilan University “Partners in Slime: Host-Microbiota Interactions in the Gut Mucus Layer”
-
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
-
7:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422Dr. Justin R. Garcia is an evolutionary biologist and sex researcher. He is executive director and senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Ruth N. Halls Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
-
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
12:00 pm 01:30 pmConference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL -
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
“Targeted drug delivery to tumor associated macrophages in glioblastoma mouse models" Urbi Saha, PhD Student Department of Neuroscience, University of Illinois
-
4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
The Physics Colloquium: Rafael Fernandes "Altermagnetism: an unconventional quantum state of matter"
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, March 5, 2026
-
11:00 am - 12:20 pm4045 School of Information Sciences
-
11:00 am - 12:15 pm4045 School of Information Sciences
-
1:00 - 2:00 pm190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University
-
2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
-
2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
-
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:30 - 5:30 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
-
6:00 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignSPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*
Friday, March 6, 2026
-
11:00 - 11:50 amBevier Hall- Room 180FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: Brian Imai, PhD Proteomics Laboratory Supervisor Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Title: Proteomics and its applications
-
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Professor Bharat Mehra, University of Alabama, on "From Trauma, Anxieties, and Dislocation at Intersecting Margins in a South Asian Experience and Beyond to Social Justice: “If Life Gives You Bananas Make Mango Shake”
-
3:00 pmW-109 Turner Hall
Monday, March 9, 2026
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
12:00 - 1:00 pmRoom 215 (Faculty Lounge), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, IL 61820
-
1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
-
5:00 - 7:00 pmAlice Campbell Alumni Center (601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana)
Please join us for the launch of Black, Jewish, and Beautiful: Contemporary Blewish Voices (Syracuse University Press, 2026). This anthology, co-edited by Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, Sara Feldman, and Brett Ashley Kaplan, brings together impactful perspectives from diverse Blewish/Black Jewish landscapes in the U.S. and globally.
-
5:00 - 7:00 pmAlice Campbell Alumni Center (601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana)
Please join us for the launch of Black, Jewish, and Beautiful: Contemporary Blewish Voices (Syracuse University Press, 2026). This anthology, co-edited by Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, Sara Feldman, and Brett Ashley Kaplan, brings together impactful perspectives from diverse Blewish/Black Jewish landscapes in the U.S. and globally.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
-
11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame
-
2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
-
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
-
5:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
5:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. GregoryIngrid Sinclair’s feature-length film Flame (1986) tells the story of two young African women who join the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe in the 1970s. The film follows Flame and Liberty as they are faced with sexual harassment by male freedom fighters and later, by the patriarchy of the newly liberated Zimbabwe.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
-
9:00 - 10:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
12:00 pm 01:30 pmConference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL -
12:00 - 1:00 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
3:30 - 5:00 pmGregory Hall 319
Join us for a lecture with Jennifer Chuong, an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the U of I. This lecture examines the invention of carborundum mezzotint by the African American artist Dox Thrash (1893-1965), arguing that the technique's significance lies not only in its aesthetic effects but in the labor surrounding its discovery and production.
-
4:00 pmCarle's Mills Cancer Center, 3rd floor conference room
Illinois' Georgia Malandraki and Brad Sutton will present, "Multimodal Approaches to Understanding Swallowing Control and Developing Plasticity Based Interventions for Dysphagia."
-
4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
7:00 pmGallery Art Bar | 119 W Main St, Urbana, IL 61801
Join us for a reading of creative work my MFA students from the Department of English. This month's reading will feature: Garrett Stack Emory Vens Samuel Cearlock
Thursday, March 12, 2026
-
11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St -
11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208 919 W. Illinois St, Urbana
We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in when you can to learn about the exciting projects undertaken by our faculty.
-
2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
-
2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
-
4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
-
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pmLCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080)
Friday, March 13, 2026
-
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
-
2:00 - 3:00 pmChemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Sunday, March 22, 2026
-
1:00 pmRiggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting.
Monday, March 23, 2026
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
-
3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science and online
-
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
-
3:00 pmForbes Natural History Building -
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional Facility
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
-
5:30 - 6:30 pmACRC (HUB 3070 - Third Floor, 614 E. Daniel Street, Champaign
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
-
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Oraya Zinder, PhD Candidate Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois
-
12:00 pm 01:30 pmRoom 210 – Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, IL -
4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
Thursday, March 26, 2026
-
2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
-
3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801Dr. Anastasios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki,) places Byzantine glass in context to a wider Mediterranean tradition where it emerges as a powerful medium of splendor, authority, and sacred presence.
-
3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
From its invention in the Bronze Age, glass was conceived as “molten stone” and continuously used to emulate gems, gold, and rare marbles. Drawing on archaeological finds, representations in art works, and written sources, Dr. Anastasios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki,)
-
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 5:00 pm1002 Grainger Auditorium
-
4:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Friday, March 27, 2026
-
9:00 am - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Please join us for the seventh annual symposium in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies. The past annual symposia were wonderful, and we hope that this conference will continue to showcase diverse and brilliant work within memory studies (broadly conceived) of graduate students. The keynote will be at 11am by Solomon Brager, author of Heavyweight.
-
11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
-
4:30 pmGregory Hall room 223Join us for a professional development presentation from a visiting literary agent! Rayhané Sanders will give a glimpse at the nuts and bolts of publishing, working in publishing, query letters, and other aspects of the literary trade. This will include some do's and don'ts and plenty of time for questions and answers.
-
5:00 pm0027 Campus Instructional Facility (March 27) - Natural History Building (March 28)
Saturday, March 28, 2026
-
5:00 pm0027 Campus Instructional Facility (March 27) - Natural History Building (March 28)
Sunday, March 29, 2026
-
5:00 pm0027 Campus Instructional Facility (March 27) - Natural History Building (March 28)
Monday, March 30, 2026
-
11:00 am - 12:00 pm3401 Siebel Center
-
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
-
12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 424This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Bring your lunch and stop by to listen and chat!
-
12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 424This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Bring your lunch and stop by to listen and chat!
-
12:00 - 1:00 pmMax L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
-
4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
-
4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk 4pm
-
4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
-
6:00 pm 8:00 p.m.Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
-
11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Henry Yuen, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
-
4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 4:50 pm4025 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
