General Events
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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‘Imagining Capital in the City: Urban Life in DLF’s Public Projection, 1949-1960’
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About Laia: Laia Balcells is the Christopher F. Gallagher Family Professor of Government at Georgetown University. Her research sits at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations and examines civil war, political violence, nationalism, displacement, transitional justice, and the legacies of conflict.
Monday, November 16, 2026
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Thursday, November 19, 2026
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This presentation leverages the life history of an individual whose multiple displacements and emplacements in, out of, and beyond Europe in the last decade of the 20th century offer opportunities to explore the lived and experiential of dimensions of seeking and finding refuge in modern times.
Wednesday, December 2, 2026
Thursday, December 3, 2026
Friday, December 4, 2026
Tuesday, December 8, 2026
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Our December lecture will be on Tuesday, December 8 from 12pm-1pm with Dr. Carolyn Primus. Dr. Primus, B.S. Ceramic Engineering, will discuss her career in Materials Science and Engineering, including her latest endeavors with dentistry and other medical devices.
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Illinois Alumnus Batamaka Somé, PhD in Anthropology with a CSGGE Minor will give a talk titled "Pillars of Resilience: Rural Women’s Leadership and Farmer-Centered Research for Food System Transformation in the West African Sahel" on December 8, 2026, at 4:00pm in 210 Levis Faculty Center and via Zoom
Monday, January 25, 2027
Thursday, January 28, 2027
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Karen Kramer, Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Studies at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk, "Gender Inequality and Leave Policies: A Cross-National Comparison" will be in-person and also offered virtually through Zoom. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. This talk is co-sponsored by the LAS Office of Inclusive Excellence.
Thursday, February 4, 2027
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On Thursday, February 4th we will hear from Nini Zhou, Ph.D. Student in the College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk, "Becoming Neoliberal Subjects: Algorithmic Governance of Feminist Activism in China" will be in-person and also offered virtually through Zoom. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
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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.
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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On Thursday, February 11th we will hear from Felisa Reynolds, Associate Professor in Department of French and Italian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk, "Maryse Condé: Gender, and the Racial Logic of Francophone Classification " will be in-person and also offered virtually through Zoom. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
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Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights
Thursday, February 25, 2027
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Thank you for your interest in the lunch series on "Gender Equity in an Inequitable Era". On Thursday, February 25th we will hear from Thais Duarte Zappelini, Post Doc with the Brasillinois Initiative at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk, will be offered both online and in person.
Wednesday, March 3, 2027
Thursday, March 4, 2027
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Patricia Owens Book Talk: Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. This event will take place over Zoom on March 4 at 12:00pm.
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Jonna Perrillo, education historian and professor of English education at the University of Texas at El Paso, will deliver the 2027 Gryphon Lecture hosted by the Center for Children's Books in the School of Information Sciences. She will present "School Book Lists and the Civic Education of U.S. Teens: from 1950 to Texas."
Tuesday, March 9, 2027
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Join us for talks by Shelley Weinberg and Josue David Cisneros.
Thursday, March 25, 2027
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Join us for talks by Liviu Mirica and Cristian Proistosescu.
Monday, March 29, 2027
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Brown Bag Lunch and Learn Session with Jacob Thomas as he talks about his book, "Denial, Deterrence, and Disenchantment: Why Many Never Immigrate."
Thursday, April 1, 2027
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Thank you for your interest in the lunch series on "Gender Equity in an Inequitable Era". On Thursday, April 1st we will hear from Maria Alejandra Garcia, Assistant Professor in Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk will be in-person and online.
