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, March 5, 2026
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10:00 - 11:00 amCIF 2035 -
11:00 am - 12:20 pm4045 School of Information Sciences
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm4045 School of Information Sciences
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11:00 am140 Burrill Hall
Speaker: Jonathan Hanselman (Indiana)
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Biocluster Overview" David Slater Associate Director of High Performance Computing
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12:30 - 1:30 pmSiebel Center for Design- Sunset Studio 1050
The ICR Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates to engage in dialogue around some of the most relevant and timely research in our field.
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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
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 208Join us for the NAIL Lab's inaugural talk and workshop of the "Visiting with and alongside Indigenous Language Workers: Conversations on Ethics and Praxis in Language Work" series. Materials are said to be in cold storage when they are placed where they can be stabilized and cared for long-term.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 5:00 pm1002 Grainger Auditorium
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4:30 - 5:30 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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5:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock MuseumProfessor Buff (Univ. of Wisconsin) traces the rise of private consultancies from 20th-century managerial capitalism and the military-industrial complex to their entry into higher education during neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, expanding further through disaster capitalism after the 2008 Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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5:00 - 6:00 pmRoom 215 (Faculty Lounge), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, IL 61820
Friday, March 6, 2026
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 208
Join us for the NAIL Lab's inaugural talk and workshop of the "Visiting with and alongside Indigenous Language Workers: Conversations on Ethics and Praxis in Language Work" series. Materials are said to be in cold storage when they are placed where they can be stabilized and cared for long-term.
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10:00 - 10:50 amRoom 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
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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
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
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12:00 pmSchool of Labor and Employment Relations
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3:00 - 4:30 pmBeckman Institute Auditorium
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3:00 - 4:15 pm2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom
Permutable Sky: Stratospheric Photosurveillance and the Geopolitics of the Open Secret by Dr. Jerry Zee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University.
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3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom -
3:00 pmW-109 Turner Hall
Saturday, March 7, 2026
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8:30 amLevis Faculty Center, Room 210This 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. Light refreshments will be provided. This edition of Scholarship Out Loud will be part of the 2026 Women’s and Gender History Symposium.
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10:30 - 11:30 amKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Join us for a special tour led by exhibiting artists from Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie. Gain insights into their creative practice and research. Today's tour features Brooke C. White (photography) and Emmy Lingscheit (printmaking). *Parking nearby is free on after 5 pm and on weekends.*
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1:30 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801Come learn about robots and the important women who shaped the field with FRC Team 4096, Ctrl-Z. Alongside Frisbee Bot, our frisbee-throwing robot, visitors will explore the ins and outs of FIRST Robotics Competition robots while also learning about women who profoundly influenced them.
Monday, March 9, 2026
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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4:00 - 4:50 pmHAB 156
Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame
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12:00 - 1:00 pmDr. Giroud will describe new developments in geomembrane design and performance. In particular, he will focus on new developments in the following four areas: (1) stability of geomembrane liner systems on slope, (2) properties of geomembrane liners, (3) leakage control by geomembrane liners, and (4) connection of geomembrane liners to rigid structures.
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3:00 pmForbes Natural History Building -
3:30 pm 12/02/2025Chemistry Annex, Room 1024 -
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.
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4:00 pmNational Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Auditorium
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 pm 01:30 pmConference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL -
12:00 - 1:00 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
12:00 - 1:30 pmCareer Center Conference room 143. 705 S Wright Street -
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.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
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."
Thursday, March 12, 2026
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11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St -
11:00 am140 Burrill Hall
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
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12:00 - 1:30 pmIllini Union Bookstore, Room 514
The Center for Writing Studies will be hosting Dr. Bobby J. Smith II for a brownbag talk! Dr. Smith will be giving a lecture titled "Writing the Forgotten Black Past: Brief Notes on Recovery." Please join us on Thursday, March 12!
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pmLCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080)
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4:00 pm119 Material Science Engineering Building
Friday, March 13, 2026
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10:00 - 10:50 amRoom 1310 Digital Computer Laboratory 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
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2:00 - 3:00 pmChemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Sunday, March 22, 2026
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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
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 - 1:00 pm428 Mumford Hall
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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4:00 - 4:50 pmHAB 156
Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 pmNathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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12:00 - 1:00 pmArnold O. and Mabel M. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, 5602 -
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.
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5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Journalist Helmuth (Slate, Scientific American, Washington Post) will argue that as universities, public health bodies, science agencies, and publishers face growing political attacks, scholars must build public support for academic freedom, long-term research, honest history, and life-saving health policy by engaging journalists and mass media directly.
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5:30 pmAlice Campbell Alumni Center 601 S Lincoln Ave, Urbana, IL
Join us for dinner and a lecture given by Dr. Jerome Galea.This lecture explores the rapidly evolving field of Global Mental Health over the past decade. It examines the reasons behind limited access to mental health services worldwide in the context of the increasing global burden of mental illness leading to the "mental health treatment gap."
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5:30 - 6:30 pmACRC (HUB 3070 - Third Floor, 614 E. Daniel Street, Champaign
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310 -
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana
Merle Bowen, CAS Associate 2024-25 (African American Studies), presents her recent work that sheds light on the hitherto untold stories of Black rural life in Atlantic Canada, analyzing the diverse experiences of people of African descent and by situating them as speakers and agents of their own lives.
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Oraya Zinder, PhD Candidate Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois
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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 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, March 26, 2026
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1:00 - 2:00 pmLoomis 464
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801Dr. Anastassios 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.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 5:00 pm1002 Grainger Auditorium
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4:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)
Friday, March 27, 2026
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9:00 am - 3:30 pmLevis Faculty Center 210Please 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.
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
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4:00 - 7:00 pmTBD
Join us for the Big Ten Trans Studies Initiative's research symposium, March 27-28. Friday, March 27: opening plenary session, featuring past and present University of Illinois Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellows in Trans Studies: Emi Frerichs, Sawyer Kemp, Ava L.J. Kim, and Adrian King. Reception to follow.
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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.
Saturday, March 28, 2026
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9:00 am - 4:30 pmTBD
Join us for the Big Ten Trans Studies Initiative's research symposium, a full day of panels featuring scholars from institutions across the Big Ten network.
Monday, March 30, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm3401 Siebel Center
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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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!
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12:00 - 1:00 pmMax L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
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4:00 pmNathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
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4:00 - 4:50 pmHAB 156
Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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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
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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
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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, April 1, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 1:00 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 pm 01:00pmRoom 306 Coble Hall -
12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
“Tuning surface interactions of two-dimensional materials in dry and wet environments” Gus Greenwood, PhD Candidate Prof. Rosa Espinosa-Marzal’s Environmental Engineering Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois
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3:30 pmHYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Join us to celebrate the book launch of Richard (Chip) Burkhardt's The Leopard in the Garden: Animal and Human Lives in Paris at the First Public Zoo of the Modern Era (U of C Press, April 2026). Professor Burkhardt will share some highlights of the book, then participate in a panel discussion with local and visiting scholars.
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4:00 - 6:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St -
4:00 - 6:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana
The Leopard in the Garden: Animal and Human Lives in Paris at the First Public Zoo of the Modern Era presents the inner workings of the menagerie at the Paris Museum of Natural History and how visions for the zoo collided with the interests of humans and animals alike.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmLoomis Lab 141
Thursday, April 2, 2026
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:30 - 5:30 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:30 pmIllini Union Bookstore: Authors CornerA reading by alumni of the creative writing program, Jessica Tanck and Matthew Gavin Frank. This event is made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series.
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4:30 pmIllini Union Bookstore Author's Corner
A reading by alumni of the creative writing program, Jessica Tanck and Matthew Gavin Frank. This event is made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series.
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5:00 - 6:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility (CIF) Room 1035
2026 Pakistan Studies Lecture by Professor Saad Gulzar, University of Notre Dame on "Politics, Bureaucracy, and the Promise of Better Governance in Pakistan" NO REGISTRATION required.
Friday, April 3, 2026
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9:00 am - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St -
9:00 am - 5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St
Jesse Oak Taylor (U Washington), Jonathan Howard (Yale U), Sarah Dimick (Northwestern U), and Min Hyoung Song (Boston College) join UI faculty in a series of talks and a concluding roundtable, which together will take up the question of how the study of literary history can contribute to our understanding of both the causes of and potential solutions...
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10:00 am - 4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana
This symposium presents a series of four talks and a concluding roundtable, which together will take up the question of how the study of literary history can contribute to our understanding of both the causes of and potential solutions to the crisis of climate change.
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11:00 - 11:50 amBevier Hall- Room 180FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: Stuart Phillips, Ph.D., FACSM, FCAHS, FCSEP, FRSC Distinguished University Professor, Canada Research Chair Chair, Department of Kinesiology McMaster University, Ontario Title: Protein and Muscle: From the Gym to the Lab and Back Agains
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 1:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, Lower Level Auditorium (KAM 62) -
1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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1:30 - 3:00 pm306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign
Join us for a hybrid CEAPS Speaker talk "Finding An Audience: Japan’s First Women Architects and the NHK Ladies' Classroom" with Dr. Michelle L. Hauk (Washington University in St. Louis). Register here!
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1:30 - 3:00 pm306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign -
3:00 - 5:00 pmGregory Hall 223
Join us for a lecture by Andrea Scarantino, a professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at Georgia State University.
Monday, April 6, 2026
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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4:00 - 4:50 pmHAB 156
Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422This talk will highlight the Kinsey Institute’s founding and multi-disciplinary history, continued cultural impact, current research program, and reflect on the ways in which today’s social and political climate presents new challenges for multi-disciplinary sex research.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 422This talk will highlight the Kinsey Institute’s founding and multi-disciplinary history, continued cultural impact, current research program, and reflect on the ways in which today’s social and political climate presents new challenges for multi-disciplinary sex research.
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5:30 pmSpurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801Our 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, April 7, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Zheshen Zhang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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3:00 pmNCSA Auditorium
For this event, Dr. Holloway (President and CEO, Henry Luce Foundation, and former President of Rutgers University) will join Chancellor Charles L. Isbell, Jr. and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor John Coleman for a moderated conversation about their experiences and observations on the role of risk management in leadership for higher education today
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3:30 pm 12/02/2025Chem Annex 1024
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
7:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. GregoryAward-winning Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif explores cyclical political histories and conflicts. In films and installations that move backward and forward in history, between place and non-place, she confronts the legacy of colonialism through satirical, immersive, and lyrical works.
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7:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
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7:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St. Urbana
Award-winning Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif will present early and recent film works, Morgenkreis/Morning Circle (2025, 20:31minutes), which follows a father and son in their intimate rituals as they prepare to start the day and head to kindergarten; Capital (2023, 19 minutes)...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
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9:00 am 03/06/2026117 Roger Adams Lab
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
“Creating Art of Science” Julia Pollack, Creative Program Manager Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois
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12:00 - 1:00 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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4:00 pmCarle's Mills Cancer Center, 3rd floor conference room
Join Carle's Bruce Damon and Dr. Christina Laukaitis for a seminar on, "Mechanistic biomarkers of knee function in hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome."
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4:30 pmTBDA reading by Stephen Markley, made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series. Stephen Markley is the author of The Deluge, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as an Editor's choice. His previous books include the critically acclaimed bestseller Ohio, as well as Publish this Book and Tales of Iceland. He has also written for the hulu comedy
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4:30 pmTBD
A reading by Stephen Markley, made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series. Stephen Markley is the author of The Deluge, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as an Editor's choice. His previous books include the critically acclaimed bestseller Ohio, as well as Publish this Book and Tales of Iceland.
Thursday, April 9, 2026
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11:00 am - 12:15 pm4045 School of Information Sciences
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
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Speaker Taejun Mo - Trade, Trucks, and Landslides: The Impact of Natural Disasters on Domestic Trade
12:30 - 1:30 pm428 Mumford Hall -
1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pmLCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080)
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4:30 - 6:00 pmLevis Faculty Center (919 W Illinois St., Urbana, IL), Room 422
Friday, April 10, 2026
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11:00 amLevis Faculty Center 400
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures invites you to a lunch seminar with celebrated writer Yan Geling on April 10 (Fri), 11:00 AM at Levis Faculty Center (4th Floor). The discussion focuses on her novel Criminal Lu Yanshi, the inspiration for Zhang Yimou’s films Coming Home and One Second. Translator Lawrence Walker will also join.
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11:00 - 11:50 amBevier Hall- Room 180FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: Stephanie Rogus, PhD, RDN Assistant Professor and Extension Nutrition Specialist Texas A&M University and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Title: Leveraging Programs and Policies to Improve Diet Quality Among US Adults
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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1:30 - 3:00 pm306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
Join us to help celebrate Political Science professor & CEAPS Advisory Board member Yujeong Yang on her new book! Refreshments will be served. Please register here!
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1:30 - 3:00 pm306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Monday, April 13, 2026
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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2:00 - 3:20 pm317 David Kinley Hall
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4:00 - 4:50 pmHAB 156
Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar
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4:00 pmNathan M. Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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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.
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4:00 pmBeckman Institute 1005 -
5:30 - 6:30 pmIllini Union, Room C (1401 W. Green St, Urbana) -
6:00 - 7:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
2026 Indian Languages and Cultures Lecture by Professor Andrew Ollett, University of Chicago, on "Context, from 7th century India to today". NO REGISTRATION required.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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All DayHeritage Room, ACES Library -
All DayHeritage Room, ACES Library
Join us as we re-imagine how to best collaborate across departments to work towards global food security. Hear about the current global food security work being conducted in ACES through a series of thematic panels spanning multiple disciplines. All ACES stakeholders and others interested in food security and welcome to attend as many sessions as your schedule permits.
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310 -
12:00 pm 01:30 pmConference Room 1201 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL -
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12:00 pmBruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. She was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
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12:00 pmBruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. She was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
12:00 - 1:00 pmMax L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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2:00 - 3:20 pm317 David Kinley Hall
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7:30 pmAlice Campbell Alumni CenterJoin us for a free public reading by award-winning poet Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, and was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
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7:30 pmAlice Campbell Alumni CenterJoin us for a free public reading by award-winning poet Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, and was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
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All DayHeritage Room, ACES Library
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All DayHeritage Room, ACES Library
Join us as we re-imagine how to best collaborate across departments to work towards global food security. Hear about the current global food security work being conducted in ACES through a series of thematic panels spanning multiple disciplines. All ACES stakeholders and others interested in food security and welcome to attend as many sessions as your schedule permits.
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11:00 amLevis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana
In this talk, Professor Soto-Crespo discusses Enrique Laguerre’s literary works The Blaze (1935) and Montoya’s Plantation (1941), as key roots of ecological thought in Puerto Rico. Laguerre’s ecological viewpoint offers a way to understand the connection between humans and non-human entities within a landscape of harsh exploitation.
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11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St -
11:00 am - 1:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St
Join us for presentations by our recent CAS Associates. At 11am Ramón Soto-Crespo (English) discusses the origin of Puerto Rico's ecological literature and at noon, Alison Bell (Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior) presents the evolution of family life in a small fish.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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3:30 pm 12/02/2025Chem Annex 1024
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St
Join us for a discussion with GAM Visiting Artist Paul O'Mahony, Founder and Director, Out of Chaos Theatre (London, UK).
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana
How does Greek tragedy respond to and reflect the concerns of modern communities? Drawing on his experiences staging and reimagining Greek literature in theatres, online and within community settings, Paul O’Mahony explores the issues and opportunities these ancient texts present.
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4:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
4:30 pmIllini Union Bookstore: Authors Corner
Join us in celebrating the student writers who have won awards this spring!
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5:30 - 7:00 pmStage 5 at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts -
5:30 pm TBDAuditorium (KAM 62)
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7:15Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum.
2026 Screening and Discussion: Zinda Bhaag (2013), will be an event of film screening and introduction followed by Q/A with Professor Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University. A reception will follow. NO REGISTRATION required.
Friday, April 17, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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All DayIllini Union, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801This public event will begin with a lecture by Dr. Warren C. Brown (California Institute of Technology discussing medieval textuality and materiality. A reception and open house will follow where visitors may view our recently acquired Merovingian manuscript and Greek papyrus. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
This public event will begin with a lecture by Dr. Warren C. Brown (California Institute of Technology discussing medieval textuality and materiality. A reception and open house will follow where visitors may view our recently acquired Merovingian manuscript and Greek papyrus. All are welcome, and refreshments will be served.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
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All DayIllini Union, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
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1:00 - 5:15 pmUrbana Dance Company
Sunday, April 19, 2026
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10:00 am - 12:00 pmUrbana Dance Company -
1:00 pmRiggs Beer Company, 1901 S High Cross Rd, Urbana, IL 61802
Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting. Our speaker will be Quang Nguyen, a neuroscientist who leads interdisciplinary projects using biochemical and physiological approaches.
Monday, April 20, 2026
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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1:00 pmRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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4:00 - 4:50 pmHAB 156
Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar
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4:00 pm100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
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5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208
Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
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5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208
Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
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5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 208
Please join us for the launch of Ethan Madarieta’s first book, Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
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5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 208
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Yuan Ping, Associate Professor of Physics, UW-Madison
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Csaba Forro, PhD and Daniel Wang, PhD, Group Leaders at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago "Towards Mapping Inflammation in Real Time" "Spatiotemporal Molecular Profiling of Inflammation with Microengineered Devices"
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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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.
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5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Drawing on scholarship about the value of suspending economic incentives in everyday life, Dr. Newfield will argue that public universities must replace a financial model that harms education and erodes solvency. His presentation will also examine and challenge the belief that “learning equals earning” amid deep dependence on debt, asset inflation, and risk management.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 - 1:00 pmW109 - Turner Hall -
1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102 -
5:30 pmLounge at the Illini Union
Please join us for the Department of Philosophy Awards Ceremony.
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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: Steven Bergmark Morgan O'Sullivan William O'Brien
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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All Day
Grad students from all disciplines are invited to the 16th Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium, April 23–24, 2026—an interdisciplinary, student-led event featuring diverse presentations, workshops, and a keynote by Kaia Simon (UW Eau Claire). Proposals on writing, rhetoric, media, education, and more are welcome in traditional or experimental formats.
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All DayCenter for Writing Studies
Grad students from all disciplines are invited to the 16th Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium, April 23–24, 2026—an interdisciplinary, student-led event featuring diverse presentations, workshops, and a keynote by Kaia Simon (UW Eau Claire). Proposals on writing, rhetoric, media, education, and more are welcome in traditional or experimental formats.
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmICT, 1611 Titan Drive, Rantoul, IL 61866
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4:00 pmBeckman Institute AuditoriumJoin the Cancer Center at Illinois for a screening of "Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution." The documentary chronicles the life and career of Nobel Laureate and Illinois alumnus, Phil Sharp. Seating is limited. We recommend you arrive early.
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4:00 pmBeckman Institute AuditoriumJoin the Cancer Center at Illinois for a screening of "Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution." The documentary chronicles the life and career of Nobel Laureate and Illinois alumnus, Phil Sharp, who will attend the event. The film is narrated by Mark Ruffalo and part of the PBS Independent Lens documentary series.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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5:00 pmTBD
Annual Armenian Genocide Event, featuring Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University)
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5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center Room 208
In honor of the annual commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, Helen Makhdoumian will give a talk entitled "On Beginnings, or the Roots and Routes of the Nested Memory Concept.”
Friday, April 24, 2026
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All DayCenter for Writing Studies
Grad students from all disciplines are invited to the 16th Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium, April 23–24, 2026—an interdisciplinary, student-led event featuring diverse presentations, workshops, and a keynote by Kaia Simon (UW Eau Claire). Proposals on writing, rhetoric, media, education, and more are welcome in traditional or experimental formats.
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
12:00 pm108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm319 Gregory Hall
Join us for a lecture by Heather Demarest, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Boulder.
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3:00 pmW-109 Turner Hall
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Monday, April 27, 2026
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 1:00 pm428 Mumford Hall
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12:00 - 1:00 pmESB 190
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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4:00 - 4:50 pmHAB 156
Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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All DayI Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign IL -
11:00 - 11:50 am190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Speaker: Kater Murch, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Scott Fraser, PhD President, Dynamic Imaging, Head of Biohub, San Francisco "Eavesdropping on Biology by Using New Instrumentation and AI to Foster Multiscale Imaging"
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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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.
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5:30 - 6:30 pmhttps://aacc.illinois.edu/
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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All DayI Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign IL
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11:00 amRhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
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12:00 - 12:50 pmEveritt 2310
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
“Fiber Rearrangement Redistributes Energy and Modulates Intrinsic Cutting Energy in Bovine Glisson's Capsule” Shaobo Zhan, PhD Candidate Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois