General Events
Monday, October 5, 2026
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Please join the Department of Latina/Latino Studies for its annual Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Jr. Lecture Series. Dr. Jennifer Nájera (University of California, Riverside) will discuss her book Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education (Duke University Press, 2024).
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
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Diane Kelly, the Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor in the School of Data and Information Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present "From Finding Information to Feeding the Machine: A Brief History of Interfaces for Online Information Search Systems." A reception will follow the lecture in room 126.
Thursday, October 8, 2026
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CSGGE Lunch Series, "Gender Equity in an Inequitable Era" will host Shaimaa Khanam, Graduate Student in the Department of Communication. Her talk, "Audiences interpretations of gender problems based on Netflix show, Adolescence”, will take place on October 8th at 12pm in person at 306 Coble Hall and virtually. Lunch provided for in-person attendees.
Friday, October 9, 2026
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This is a panel discussion with artists and scholars on Everett’s "Erasure." Each panelist will provide a different window into what’s beyond Erasure or what reading Erasure inspires (broadly conceived).
Monday, October 12, 2026
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
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Join us for a conversation with current and former students who have taken active roles in community-engaged research and leadership. Three students/alums will be joined by their faculty mentors. Presented by the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, this session will be facilitated by Dr. Kevin Tan (Social Work).
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
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Join us to celebrate the new books of three history PhD alumni.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
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Dr. Tingting Zhang, School of Labor and Employment Relations gives lunch talk, "Pushed out and Boxed In: Gendered Silence and Exit Orientation in China's Tech Industry" on Thursday, October 15th. She argues that silence in such environment is not a uniform response to constrained institutional conditions, but it shaped by the gendered social positions workers occupy.
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Professor Ángel Garcia (English/Creative Writing) will read from his latest collection, Indifferent Cities.
Friday, October 16, 2026
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Professor Austin Strange is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He will be presenting his paper titled "Is Soft Power a Zero-Sum Competition?" where he dives into the economic relations between the United States and China. Join us in David Kinley Hall Room 404 to learn more about his findings.
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Friday Forum & Conversation Café: LGBTQ Advocacy: Past & Present October 16 | 12pm - 1pm | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
Monday, October 19, 2026
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Composer Shulamit Ran will have an in-person Q and A session with Percussion Professor Josh Graham as part of the U of I New Music Festival. Shulamit was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, was composer-in-residence with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and is Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Thursday, October 22, 2026
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Dr. Maria Hadjipolycarpou, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Director of Modern Greek Studies will give lunch talk, "Class, Gender, and Secularization in Costas Montis’ Afentis Batistas and the Other Things" on Thursday, October 22nd.
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The 2026 Ebert Lecture will be given by Allyson Nadia Field, professor and chair of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, focusing on her book "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History."
Friday, October 23, 2026
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"On care and community: India’s frontline health workers" Vrinda Marwah is assistant professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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The techniques for making texts have changed across multiple media and historical contexts since antiquity, but a regular feature of the work of authors and scholars through all those changes is the reliance on helpers or amanuenses. Dr. Ann Blair (Harvard) will discuss the factors that have made them both invisible and occasionally visible, and the kind of work they did.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Thursday, October 29, 2026
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CSGGE Lunch Series, "Gender Equity in an Inequitable Era" will host Yeaseul Hur is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her talk, "When Women Are Ideal Workers: The Gendered Impact of Overwork on Wages and Promotion”, will take place on October 29th at 12pm in person at 306 Coble Hall and virtual.
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Professor Gillen D'Arcy Wood (English and Earth Science & Environmental Change) will discuss his book, The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans’ Decline.
Friday, October 30, 2026
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Friday Forum & Conversation Café: Fighting Oligarchy and Fascism in the 21st Century October 30 | 12pm - 1pm | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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Join us for a lecture by George A. Miller Visiting Scholar Youssouf Sangaré. His talk examines the case of Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara and the Ançar Dine movement in Mali as a window into the dynamics of contemporary African Islam.
Monday, November 2, 2026
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Despite demographic and urban decline in post-Roman Europe, the need to assemble groups of people remained strong: gatherings enabled the exchange information, attracting large numbers was a proof of legitimacy, and rulers envisioned themselves as heirs to crowd-filled ancient Rome. How can the history of the crowd a inform us about the early medieval world?
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
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Bruce J. Tromberg, the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health, will give the Beckman-Brown Lecture on Interdisciplinary Science at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in the auditorium of the Beckman Institute.
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Join us for our Dean's Distinguished Lecture: Engineering Leadership in a World of Accelerating Change Featuring Dr. Tsu-Jae Liu, President of the National Academy of Engineering
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"Edifying tales" were stories that flourished in Byzantium from the 4th to the 10th centuries, but which have never been studied as a fascinating literary and historical genre. This lecture explores their surprising, thrilling plots and their eventual survival, not only in Greek, but in Georgian, Armenian, Syriac, Latin, and Slavonic translations.
Thursday, November 5, 2026
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Translators who translate from their “first” language and into their acquired tongue have been marginalized. This talk aims to build on the work of Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, Adrian Wanner, and others in looking at several Polish and Polish-American poets for whom literary multilingualism and translation are two sides of the same coin.
Friday, November 6, 2026
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Join exhibition artists and curators of Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition to gain an understanding of historical ink painting traditions and artmaking today in Taiwan.
Monday, November 9, 2026
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Thursday, November 12, 2026
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This event will highlight the collaborative project involving Emblematica (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.
Friday, November 13, 2026
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‘Imagining Capital in the City: Urban Life in DLF’s Public Projection, 1949-1960’
Monday, November 16, 2026
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Thursday, November 19, 2026
Thursday, December 3, 2026
Tuesday, December 8, 2026
Monday, January 25, 2027
Thursday, February 11, 2027
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Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights
Thursday, February 25, 2027
Wednesday, March 3, 2027
Thursday, March 4, 2027
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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."
