Campus Wellness Events
Saturday, June 7, 2025
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Enjoy artmaking, stories, and exploring the galleries! You'll get to make a paper modern house and learn about midcentury design. For ages 5+.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
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Spurlock Museum is proud to partner with The Literary to present this new community program. Free books will be provided to the first 13 people that sign up for participation. Between now and April 2026, we've chosen 5 books related to Spurlock exhibits. Stop by Spurlock anytime during open hours to sign up and pick up your free book!
Saturday, June 14, 2025
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Join Girls Rock! C-U at Krannert Art Museum for a songwriting workshop inspired by the artwork on display. This free, family-friendly event is open to everyone ages 8-17.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Saturday, June 21, 2025
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Join us for Garden Walk 2025, featuring the beautiful Gelvin Gardens as part of the Illinois Extension’s annual tour featuring seven local gardens.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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Don’t miss the final week of the "Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture" exhibition! On view through Saturday, July 12. During the summer, the museum is open Tuesday–Friday 10–5 and Saturday 10–4. Free admission.
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
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Don’t miss the final week of the "Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture" exhibition! On view through Saturday, July 12. During the summer, the museum is open Tuesday–Friday 10–5 and Saturday 10–4. Free admission.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
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Don’t miss the final week of the "Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture" exhibition! On view through Saturday, July 12. During the summer, the museum is open Tuesday–Friday 10–5 and Saturday 10–4. Free admission.
Friday, July 11, 2025
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Don’t miss the final week of the "Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture" exhibition! On view through Saturday, July 12. During the summer, the museum is open Tuesday–Friday 10–5 and Saturday 10–4. Free admission.
Saturday, July 12, 2025
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Don’t miss the final week of the "Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture" exhibition! On view through Saturday, July 12. During the summer, the museum is open Tuesday–Friday 10–5 and Saturday 10–4. Free admission.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Saturday, July 26, 2025
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Enjoy artmaking, stories, and exploring the galleries! You'll get to make a paper modern house and learn about midcentury design. You’ll get to make your own sculpture inspired by artist Frank Stella and learn about colors, textures, and shapes. For ages 5+.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Ronnie Grinberg, author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, to offer the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and HGMS kick-off event, generously funded by the Goldberg lecture series
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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Poet, essayist, translator, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of three books of poetry, and a winner of the 2024 National Book Award. Her visit is part of the Illinois Global Institutes "Palestine in the World" series. The IGI Series on Global Responsibilities brings multidisciplinary and global perspectives to major contemporary questions.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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On Thursday, September 18th at 5 pm. Speaker Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Professor of History at Oregon State University.
Friday, September 19, 2025
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The Environmental Humanities Research Cluster is hosting a symposium called “The Nuclear Environment” from 9am to 4pm on Friday, September 19th. The keynote speaker for that symposium will be speaking the night before, on Thursday, September 18th at 5pm. That speaker is Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Professor of History at Oregon State University.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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S&P: Catherine Hall talk, 7:30 pm, Spurlock Knight Auditorium
Saturday, October 4, 2025
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Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups, research, resources, and alumni stories.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Thursday, October 9, 2025
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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is excited to invite you to our premiere Beyond Borders: Global Collaborations for Mental Health Research and Services Conference on October 9 and 10, 2025 in Champaign, Illinois. Coinciding with World Mental Health Day, our theme is: From local to global, encouraging creative solutions to transcultural mental health challenges.
Friday, October 10, 2025
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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is excited to invite you to our premiere Beyond Borders: Global Collaborations for Mental Health Research and Services Conference on October 9 and 10, 2025 in Champaign, Illinois. Coinciding with World Mental Health Day, our theme is: From local to global, encouraging creative solutions to transcultural mental health challenges.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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S&P: Nadine Naber (UIC) and Brooke White (UIUC)
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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Lunchtime Fellowship Workshop with Carolyn Wisniewski
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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Ayelet Tsabari’s National Jewish Book Award winning, novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted, traces the story of the history of Yemeni Israelis through a fictional family. Tsabari visited UIUC in 2019, and was interviewed for Ninth Letter.
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Ayelet Tsabari, author of the award-winning novel, Songs for the Brokenherted, thanks to generous support from the Einhorn family, 5 pm-6:30 pm, Alice Campbell Hall
Monday, November 3, 2025
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S&P: Faculty Book Talk: Erik Mc Duffie
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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Anna Hunt (Professor of German) “Quick! Somebody Get Me A Doctor of German Philosophy,” HGMS workshop, English 109, 4 pm-5 pm.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Friday, December 5, 2025
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Campus Fellowships due
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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Lee Miller was an incredible photographer who was present at the liberation of some concentration camps. Trigger warning: some parts of this film display graphic images of survivors and victims of the Holocaust. 7 pm Holocaust Remembrance Day screening of Lee. Location TBD.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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Med Hum lecture: Justin Garcia Kinsey Institute
Thursday, February 26, 2026
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HWW Jordan speaker: Erin Brock Carlson
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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International Women’s Day, with CSGGE
Friday, March 6, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
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Blewish And Beautiful: Contemporary Black Jewish Voices roundtable with TaRessa Stoval, Marc Perry, David Wright Faladé and other contributors to the Blewish And Beautiful volume co-edited by Sara Feldman, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, and Brett Ashley Kaplan.
Friday, March 27, 2026
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HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
Monday, March 30, 2026
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S&P: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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National Poetry Month Event
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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Annual Armenian Genocide Event Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University). Time and location TBD
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception