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, November 12, 2026
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This event will highlight the collaborative project involving Emblematica Online (U of I), a digital library of emblem books, and Compositor (U of Birmingham), a database of printers’ ornaments. Dr. Hazel Wilkinson hypothesizes that “emblem-literacy” caused historical readers to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted-for in scholarship.
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Drawing on lessons from a career spanning health literacy, patient safety, human factors, risk communication, patient engagement and regulatory science, James (Jay) Duhig presents a lecture on Navigating Complexity: Health Literacy as a Foundation for Health Equity.
Friday, November 13, 2026
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Structure-Preserving Learning for Autonomy in Complex Physical Environments by M. Ani Hsieh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania
Sunday, November 15, 2026
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Professor Olha Khometa and MFA Candidate Malina Infante will be leading a joint lecture on Ukrainian Modernists Pavlo Tychyna, Lesya Ukraïnka, and Olha Kobylianska. Malina will finish the lecture with a reading of her poetry inspired by the Ukrainian modernist movement. A reception will follow after the event.
Monday, November 16, 2026
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"Elizabeth Vartkessian works with criminal defense teams as a mitigation specialist. She isn't part of the Innocence Project; her clients are often legally guilty, and often of terrible crimes. Rather, her job is to spend hundreds of hours per case talking to the parents, siblings, teachers, and neighbors of a defendant, situating their crimes in context.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
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Drawing on more than a decade of Truth Hounds' Work in Ukraine, Dr. Dmytro Koval of Kyiv Mohyla Academy will examine how documentation can be transformed into investigations, legal analysis, case-building, and engagement with national and international justice mechanisms.
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Please join the Unit for Criticism for a Modern Critical Theory lecture by Thomas Davis (English, Ohio State) on Environmental Humanities.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Thursday, November 19, 2026
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This Faculty-Graduate seminar, hosted by Prof. Melamed, will explore the idea that to truly and effectively call capital into question, we need approaches outside the liberal epistemologies that dominate Western and scholarly modes of understanding and analysis. Register now (required) to gain access to the texts.
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The 2026 Stewart Young Humanitarian Speaker Series features esteemed guest is Luis Jaimes-Illanes, co-founder of Conecta Mentora, a program that brings together youth from urban, rural, and Indigenous communities with world-class mentors and institutions, and a Senior Network Engineer at Altaeros. In his fireside chat, he will share how his involvement on campus helped pre
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Please join us for a talk by Prof. Melamed. The talk will argue that the repressive strategies used by Marc Rowan and others against Palestine on the UPenn campus serve to institute pro-power pedagogies at U.S. universities and beyond.
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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 Agnes Callard. Her talk, titled "Welcome to the Unicontext" explores how we increasingly expect one set of norms to govern all situations and all people.
Thursday, December 3, 2026
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Join us for our December Town Hall with special Guest Speaker Shad Bradbury, Animator with Pixar Animations Studios. Shad Bradbury has worked in animation for over 20 years at studios like Pixar, Sony, Tippet, and Rhythm and Hues. His credits include, "Elio", "Coco", "Finding Dory", "Inside Out", "Hotel Transylvania", and "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2".
Friday, December 4, 2026
Tuesday, December 8, 2026
Wednesday, December 9, 2026
Monday, January 25, 2027
Thursday, February 4, 2027
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In this CAS/MillerComm event, documentary photographer and filmmaker Louie Palu discusses distinct representations of the Arctic in literature and the visual arts, exploring this often-misunderstood region as both imagined otherworld and real-life landscape.
Friday, February 5, 2027
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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.
Tuesday, February 9, 2027
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Join us for talks by Sameh Tawfick (Mechanical Science & Engineering) and Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture.)
Thursday, February 11, 2027
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Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights
Friday, February 12, 2027
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Haohan Wang, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will give the next Mind in Vitro seminar February 12 at 4:00pm in 612 Conference Center, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology on "Agentic AI for Genomic Science: Searching for Shared Mechanisms Across Diseases, Patients and Tissues."
Tuesday, February 16, 2027
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At the February Town Hall we will speak with VFX Artist Lisa Starc, Principal VFX Artist, at Monumental. Lisa Starc is a highly technical real time VFX artist with 20+ years of experience in the video game industry. She has worked as a VFX artist at Netflix Games, Boss Fight Entertainment, Amazon Games, and High Voltage Software.
Friday, February 19, 2027
Wednesday, March 3, 2027
Thursday, March 4, 2027
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Patricia Owens Book Talk: Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.
Friday, March 5, 2027
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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.
Tuesday, March 9, 2027
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Join us for talks by Shelley Weinberg and Josue David Cisneros.
Wednesday, March 10, 2027
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Please join us for a presentation and discussion with Mitch Cronin, Senior Tech Producer, Santa Monica Studio. Mitch Cronin is a Senior Producer and Release Manager with nearly 19 years of game development experience. He's worked on the development side as well as publishing. Over his long career he has worked on many AAA titles as well as indie titles.
Thursday, March 25, 2027
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Join us for talks by Liviu Mirica and Cristian Proistosescu.
Thursday, April 1, 2027
Friday, April 2, 2027
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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.
Thursday, April 15, 2027
Friday, April 16, 2027
Monday, April 26, 2027
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“Once Upon a Time in the Jazira: Archaeology and the Mass Graves of the Armenian Genocide”. Professor Lori Khatchadourian, Departments of Near Eastern Studies & Anthropology, Cornell University. Director, Cornell Institute of Archaeology & Material Studies.