Campus Wellness Events

Saturday, March 21, 2026

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    All Day
    Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

    Exhibitions include: “Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie” and “Memorias de la Mujer Lotina: Arpilleras, Women, and Coal in Chile.” The museum is open Tuesday through Friday (10–5) and Saturday (10–4) during Spring Break. Admission is always free. Parking access is easy during school breaks.

Monday, March 23, 2026

  • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
    University Archives Main Library Room 146

    Please join us for the University Archives' monthly Women in Science Lecture Series, March 23, from 12 -1 pm. Archana Verma, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering, will discuss her research on the development of a Monte Carlo model for doping in organic semiconductors and reflect on her leadership in the Graduate Society of Women Engineers.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 5:30 pm
    Knight 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.

  • 5:30 pm
    Alice 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."

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    Levis 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.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 4:30 pm
    Spurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

    Join Spurlock Museum, SkAI, and University of Illinois faculty in a discussion exploring the use of AI. Topics to be explored will be arts and humanities, science, and ethics.

Thursday, March 26, 2026

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
    Main Library, Room 346

    From its invention in the Bronze Age, glass was conceived as “molten stone” and continuously used to emulate gems, gold, and rare marbles. Drawing on archaeological finds, representations in art works, and written sources, Dr. Anastasios Antonaras (Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki,)

  • 6:00 - 8:00 pm
    Independent Media Center

    On March 26, the Department of Dance will present a special lecture/exhibition entitled "Blacks in Ballet: Embodiment, Representation, Resilience" at the Independent Media Center. This event will feature ballet historian and former Dance Theatre of Harlem company member Dr. Joselli Deans and local visual artist Marilynn Dean Cleveland.

Friday, March 27, 2026

  • 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
    Levis Faculty Center 210

    Please 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.

  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    Natural History Building 2049

    How can we use spatial narrative data to understand resources within diverse communities? Join Dr. AJ Kim from San Diego State University as they explore the threats experienced by marginalized communities facing structural racism in New York and New Orleans.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 1:30 - 3:00 pm
    306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign

    The Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies is hosting UIUC faculty with a connection to or interest in Japan. We will have coffee, tea, & treats to get to know other faculty and CEAPS. Please RSVP here.

  • 4:00 - 7:00 pm
    TBD

    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.

Saturday, March 28, 2026

  • 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
    TBD

    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.

  • 11:00 am
    Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

    Do you weave, crochet, knit, felt, or embroider? Bring your project and join us for a weaver’s circle in the galleries. All ages and experience levels are welcome! First-time knitter? A limited amount of yarn and needles will be available—and anyone wanting to learn can receive a simple knitting lesson. Free and open to everyone. *Parking nearby is free on weekends.*

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    Krannert Art Museum

    Do you weave, crochet, knit, felt, or embroider? Krannert Art Museum invites you to Knit & Sit! Bring your project and join us for a weaver’s circle in the galleries. All ages and experience levels are welcome! Free and open to everyone. *Parking nearby is free on weekends.*

Sunday, March 29, 2026

  • 1:00 pm
    Spurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

    Join us for a leisurely craft to harness your burst of creative energy. We will have all sorts of supplies provided for you to play around with and craft culturally iconic flowers from all over the world.

Monday, March 30, 2026

  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

    This 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!

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    In the fall of 1989, citizens of East Germany took to the streets and, for a few electric months, built something rare: a genuine experiment in radical democracy. Then the West moved in — and that experiment was erased from national and global memory. Remembering 1989 asks why this “time out of joint” was buried, and how the unresolved legacies of post-Cold War...

  • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    Activities & Recreation Center

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Friday, April 3, 2026

  • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
    Levis 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.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 1:30 - 3:00 pm
    306 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).

  • 1:30 - 3:00 pm
    306 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!

  • 2:00 pm
    Gregory Hall 319 or Zoom

    Please join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Aly Drame, a professor of history at Dominican University. His lecture will call attention to the need to better reframe the rise and development of Islam in the wider Senegambia, considering the role played by the Mandinka Muslim settlements in the Middle Casamance in this process through intermarriage...

Saturday, April 4, 2026

  • 10:00 am
    Spurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

    This special guided tour will present how death practices are displayed across different ancient cultures and societies. Through the comparison and contrast of their different displays of death, we will examine the significance of the memorial of past societies through their individual representations. This tour will explore mainly the theme of class/status.

  • 10:00 am
    Spurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

    This special guided tour will present how death practices are displayed across different ancient cultures and societies. Through the comparison and contrast of their different displays of death, we will examine the significance of the memorial of past societies through their individual representations. This tour will explore mainly the theme of class/status.

Monday, April 6, 2026

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 3:00 pm
    NCSA 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

  • 5:30 pm
    404 David Kinley Hall, 1407 W Gregory Dr, Urbana

    The Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies will be hosting the 2026 CHINA Town Hall via live webcast, featuring Stephen Biegun, former U.S. deputy secretary of state, and Sarah Beran, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and former senior director for China and Taiwan affairs at the White House National Security Council...

  • 7:00 pm
    Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory

    Award-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.

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Thursday, April 9, 2026

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 5:30 - 7:00 pm
    Campus Instructional Facility, Room 2035

    Love and consciousness seem to differ. But what if it is the conviction that consciousness is divorced from value, from sociality, and from striving for intimacy that gets in the way of making sense of this phenomenon? Philosopher Alva Noë, University of California, Berkeley, argues that consciousness, like love, is bound up with the work of making relationships.

Friday, April 10, 2026

Saturday, April 11, 2026

  • 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
    Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

    The Beckman Institute Open House is an opportunity for Champaign-Urbana community members to encounter the science, meet the people and experience the impact of world-changing discovery.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

    Come experience immersive sound as you view artworks at Krannert Art Museum! Members of Improvisers Exchange Ensemble will create soundscapes in the galleries through site-specific solo performance and collective improvisation in reflection and response to artwork on display.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign

    As part of Boneyard Arts Festival and Mom's Weekend on campus, come experience immersive sound as you view artwork! Members of Improvisers Exchange Ensemble will create soundscapes within Krannert Art Museum’s galleries through site-specific solo performance and collective improvisation in reflection and response to artwork on display.

  • 1:30 - 4:00 pm
    Ice Arena

Sunday, April 12, 2026

Monday, April 13, 2026

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

  • 10:00
    Anniversary Plaza (South patio at Illini Union)

    Bike Census is an effort that began in 2013 as part of ongoing improvement efforts to support the campus’ Bicycle Friendly University status. This Bike Census will help us update the Bicycle Map with the most current bike parking locations and also help us identify locations that need more bike parking.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 6:00 - 7:30 pm
    Knight 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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    12:00 pm
    Bruce 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.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 6:00 pm
    BNAACC

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    7:30 pm
    Alice Campbell Alumni Center

    Join 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

  • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    Levis 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.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 4:00 pm
    Levis 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).

  • 4:00 pm
    Levis 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.

  • 7:15
    Knight 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

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 3:00 - 5:00 pm
    Main 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

Monday, April 20, 2026

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 4:00 - 7:00 pm
    Alma Mater, Green and Lincoln Ave , Flagg Hall Bike Shelter, NSRC

    The Bike Month Planning group is organizing the second Bike for Earth Day event on Tuesday, April 21, 2025 from 4 - 7 pm at four locations: 1. Alma Mater, 2. Intersection of Green and Lincoln, 3. Flagg Hall Bike Shelter, and 4. National Soybean Research Center (NSRC) - Intersection of Dorner and Pennsylvania

  • 5:30 pm
    Knight 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

Thursday, April 23, 2026

  • 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.

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 5:00 pm
    TBD

    Annual Armenian Genocide Event, featuring Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University)

  • 5:00 pm
    Levis 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.”

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Thursday, May 7, 2026

  • 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

    The PhD Program in Architecture and Landscape Architecture hosts a keynote lecture by Hi'ilei Julia Hobart (Native and Indigenous Studies, Yale) as part of the symposium "Creativity in Modern Heritage." Hobart is author of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Duke University Press, 2022).

  • 1:00 - 3:00 pm
    2203 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.

  • 3:00 - 5:00 pm

    Celebrate the semester’s end with RBML! We are diving into the trendy book decoration world — bring your own books and paint the edges with our supplies, then view various historical fore-edge paintings from the collection in our Reading Room. All are welcome to attend, and refreshments will be served.

  • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception

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