Illini Union Bookstore - Book Events

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

• Book Talk - Renée Jones | Untamed Unicorns: Why Startup Finance is Broken and How to Fix It

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Kirkland & Ellis Classroom (A), College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 22, 2026

• Book Talk - Diana Oskov | Generational Resilience: Breaking Generational Cycles

  Time

  4:00 - 5:30 pm

  Location

  TBD

  • Lecture

  

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

• Dr. Ann Blair: The Long History of Amanuenses in Europe, from Antiquity to the Digital Age

  Time

  3:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Lecture

  

• Daniel Kraus: Night of the Living Dead (1968) Film Screening & Book Event

  Time

  7:00 pm

  Location

  The Virginia Theatre, Champaign

  • Film Screening

  

Monday, November 2, 2026

• Book Event - Nikolas Bowie | Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  Max L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Alumni Reading featuring Chekwube Danladi, Weston Morrow, and Chris Vanjonack

  Time

  4:30 - 6:00 pm

  Location

  Illini Union Bookstore Author's Corner

  • Performance

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• YMCA Friday Forum - Augustus Wood | VINE CITY AS THE WORLD TRADE CENTER: Subproletarianization as Structural Violence from Atlanta to Champaign

  Time

  12:00 - 1:00 pm

  Location

  University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign

  • Conference/Workshop

  

Monday, November 9, 2026

• Book Event - Sari Bashi

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Center, Room 208

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 13, 2026

• Book Event - Siobhan Somerville

  Time

  4:00 - 6:30 pm

  Location

  Asian American Cultural Center

  • Lecture