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Monday, November 3, 2025
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This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
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The HRI Social Movements Reading Group will hold two sessions on higher ed labor organizing with the Campus Faculty Association on Mon Oct 27 & Mon Nov 3, 5:30-7 PM (central time) at Lincoln Hall 3057 (use one of the entrances on Wright Street).
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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Jungsu Kim, PhD P. Michael Conneally Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Dept. of Medical and Molecular Genetics; Indiana University School of Medicine "Leveraging Neurogenetics to Decode Functional Mechanisms in Alzheimer’s Disease"
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Stephen M. Best (English, University of California, Berkeley) will deliver a lecture, titled "The Limits of Racial Critique" as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates. The Box folder of readings for each lecture is available here.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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Join ADA Coordinator Kiara Drake and Accessibility Specialist Heather Mihaly for a discussion of service animals and emotional support animals on campus. We will review basic concepts, inclusive practices, and the similarities and differences between the rights of employees, students, and visitors to campus. All are welcome to attend and bring your questions!
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"Introducing ZEISS Lightfield 4D: One Snap, One Volume" Matt Curtis, Product Application Sales Specialist, Life Sciences Midwest, Zeiss Research Microscopy Solutions
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In Civilizing Contention, Rana B. Khoury asserts that to understand civilian and refugee activism in war, we must regard the international actors and organizations that enter the scene to help.
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.
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This talk will trace the journeys of the artists and activists who converged at Memorial Stadium in September 1985 to make the inaugural Farm Aid concert a landmark event in the history of popular music.
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Prof. Ryan Low (University of North Dakota) ~~ In fourteenth-century Provence, the volume of written contracts increased from thousands each year to million, involving even the region's most remote rural communities and serving the interests of marginalized actors, including women, peasants, and religious minorities.
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SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
Friday, November 7, 2025
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Drawing on original data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a landmark long-term study, “Debt’s Grip” uses the words of bankruptcy filers themselves to shed light on their financial battles, making a powerful case for the U.S. to confront the structural inequities that cause so many to struggle. Join us for a panel discussion featuring bankruptcy experts and commentary
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Please join us for a virtual event with Dr. Se-Mi Oh, a cultural historian of modern and contemporary Korea teaching at the University of Michigan. Her work investigates how history interacts with space in cities, through interdisciplinary approaches to history, visual/media studies, urban humanities, and art and architecture.
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Join us for a lecture from Tempest Henning, an associate professor at Fisk University. She will offer a conception of Black feminist logic (BFL) that is not simply a variant of feminist logic. Rather, it is founded on distinct systems rooted in African logical traditions and manifested via the linguistic structures of African American English (AAE).
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Join us for a lecture from Tempest Henning, an associate professor at Fisk University.
Saturday, November 8, 2025
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Join us for Pause + Play held in conjunction with Krannert Art Museum’s Rest Lab 8: Greenspace exhibition. Kids (ages 4–8) will dive into playful, drop-off art activities, while their caregivers get a guided tour exploring the museum's galleries and artworks on view.
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Join us to celebrate Rest Lab 8: Greenspace (on view through Jan 31), with curators Kamila Glowacki and Ishita Dharap. The reception will feature live music, cupcakes, and a chance to explore all of Rest Lab’s offerings including sensory tools and a response wall.
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The Annual Tagore Festival commemorates the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's visit to the UIUC campus in 1912 when he delivered a series of lectures at the Channing Murray Chapel. For the 2025 celebration, there will be a keynote lecture by Professor Michele Louro on “India's Anticolonial Struggle from Swadeshi to Independence".
Sunday, November 9, 2025
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This concert by Urbana's newest period instrument ensemble directed by Professor Emerita Charlotte Mattax Moersch, celebrates the elegance and grandeur of the French Baroque, with works by Leclair, Couperin, and Rameau.
Monday, November 10, 2025
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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Join us as we honor Veterans Day with keynote speaker Major General (Ret.) James H. Mukoyama, Jr., a University of Illinois alumnus, decorated combat Veteran, a proud Illinois alumnus and trailblazing U.S. Army leader.
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Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”
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AsiaLENS presents a free screening of Echoes of Home followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Mirshad Ghalip. This documentary explores the Uyghur American Cup, the largest event for Uyghur diaspora communities in North America. In the tournament, soccer becomes a medium to foster community, maintain language, and help younger members of the diaspora connect with their heritage.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
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Stop by the WRC on 2nd & 4th Wednesday afternoons for one-on-one drop-in career coaching sessions and document reviews (resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profiles).
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Gillen D’Arcy Wood will present his new book about the Victorian-era voyage of the HMS Challenger. From 1872-1876, its naturalists explored the oceans, encountering never-before-seen marvels of marine life. They had no way of knowing that the incredible undersea aquarium they were documenting was on the verge of catastrophic change.
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Dr. Angie Bonilla will examine how humanitarian and artistic media transform migrant life into spectacles of empathy and control. Through films, photographs, and installations, she traces how Latinx visual practices expose the racial politics of visibility and imagine endurance and solidarity beyond cages, beyond crisis.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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In this new research project, Prof. Handman (Anthropology, UT Austin) explores the different ways that AI is transforming our ideas about language and humanness by seeing how people are imagining some kind of AI-enabled interspecies communication.
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In contrast to the moral panics about the ways that AI chatbots may be shrinking people’s social worlds by replacing human-to-human interaction, there is an incredible optimism in some corners that AI will radically open up the social world to include animals, enhancing or enabling new forms of interspecies communication.
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"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
Friday, November 14, 2025
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Please join us for a hybrid CEAPS Brown bag with two PhD student Conference Travel Grant recipients. Jiwon Oh (Institute of Communications Research) will be presenting her talk “Navigating Gendered Anthropomorphism in AI Ethics: The Case of Lee Luda in South Korea.”
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Yiddish literature is deeply connected to the print technologies that made it possible, especially letterpress and block printing. Join us for a presentation on the historical Yiddish press and a hands-on workshop at our campus print shop. Come print a postcard and poster using authentic Yiddish type and historical printing presses! Registration is required.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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Featuring an all-star ensemble made up of beloved Yiddish vocalists Lorin Sklamberg and Sasha Lurje, plus five leading string players from the klezmer scene, this project blends techniques and soundscapes from klezmer music, Yiddish theatre, folk song, cantorial repertoire, and classical music in a program that is equal parts storytelling...
Sunday, November 16, 2025
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Celebrate the festival’s grand finale with a kugel cook-off and taste-off! Featuring a performance by our local Papashoy Klezmer Band and guest judges Gioconda Guerra Perez (UIUC Interim Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion), Deb Feinen (Mayor of Champaign), and Deshawn Williams (Mayor of Urbana)...
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This lecture series features short talks on a variety of subjects related to Yiddish, featuring UIUC's Anastasiia Strakhova on immigration, YIVO Chicago's Ben Schacht on Chicago's garment workers, the University of Michigan's Emma Lerman on children's literature illustrations, local musician Frances Harris on Klezmer today...
Monday, November 17, 2025
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Women have largely been written out of the ancient world. Dealing with the silences of the archive requires new and innovative tools, and in this talk, Dr. Emily Hauser surveys the many different approaches she has taken across her fiction and non-fiction writing to recover women.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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Iain Cheeseman, PhD Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology; Core Member, Whitehead Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Unlocking the Hidden Proteome”
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Dr. Patricia Kennon (Maynooth University), the general editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature, will be giving a brief lecture on Asexuality in Contemporary YA Literature at the Center for Children's Books. Come learn!
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"Why kill the Fluorescence? Let it Power your Raman" Seemesh Bhasker, IGB Fellow Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Friday, November 21, 2025
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
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Stop by the WRC on 2nd & 4th Wednesday afternoons for one-on-one drop-in career coaching sessions and document reviews (resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profiles).
Friday, December 5, 2025
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Join us for a lecture by Aaron Garrett, a professor of philosophy at Boston University.
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Campus Fellowship applications are due.
Saturday, December 6, 2025
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Thursday, December 11, 2025
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Come and celebrate the semester’s end with hot apple cider, sweet and salty treats, and some of our favorite winter-themed materials from the RBML vault. Make a button, relax with a coloring sheet, and leave with a live-printed linocut card! This event is part of the library's Reading Day De-Stress Fest; it is open to the public and refreshments will be served.
Friday, December 12, 2025
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
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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, January 28, 2026
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The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity!
Thursday, January 29, 2026
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Eleven faculty members from the School of Art & Design will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie. The exhibition considers how people make and define place through stories, and how stories carry out a kind of labor, maintaining narratives about the places we live—and about us.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
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Stop by the WRC on 2nd & 4th Wednesday afternoons for one-on-one drop-in career coaching sessions and document reviews (resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profiles).
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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How does recognizing the fundamental entanglements of humans and the more-than-human world impact notions of "justice"? Drawing on perceptions from diverse communities, disciplines, and social, political, and historical contexts, this symposium will provide a space for us to grapple with the question: What might a more just world or worlds look like in the 21st century?
Friday, February 13, 2026
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How does recognizing the fundamental entanglements of humans and the more-than-human world impact notions of "justice"? Drawing on perceptions from diverse communities, disciplines, and social, political, and historical contexts, this symposium will provide a space for us to grapple with the question: What might a more just world or worlds look like in the 21st century?
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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Stop by the WRC on 2nd & 4th Wednesday afternoons for one-on-one drop-in career coaching sessions and document reviews (resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profiles).
Thursday, February 19, 2026
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Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
Friday, February 20, 2026
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
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Stop by the WRC on 2nd & 4th Wednesday afternoons for one-on-one drop-in career coaching sessions and document reviews (resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profiles).
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International Women’s Day celebration with speakers from the campus and community.
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.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
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Monday, March 23, 2026
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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Stop by the WRC on 2nd & 4th Wednesday afternoons for one-on-one drop-in career coaching sessions and document reviews (resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profiles).
Friday, March 27, 2026
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HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
Monday, March 30, 2026
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Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk 4pm
Friday, April 3, 2026
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
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Stop by the WRC on 2nd & 4th Wednesday afternoons for one-on-one drop-in career coaching sessions and document reviews (resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profiles).
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–95); Creative Writing, University of Virginia Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
Friday, April 17, 2026
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Monday, April 20, 2026
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Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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Stop by the WRC on 2nd & 4th Wednesday afternoons for one-on-one drop-in career coaching sessions and document reviews (resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profiles).
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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Annual Armenian Genocide Event Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University). Time and location TBD
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Annual Armenian Genocide Event, featuring Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University)
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
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Stop by the WRC on 2nd & 4th Wednesday afternoons for one-on-one drop-in career coaching sessions and document reviews (resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profiles).
Thursday, May 7, 2026
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Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology Duke University
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Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception
