Department of Linguistics Calendar

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

- 4:30 - 5:30 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Arabic Roundtable: Dialects
- Meeting

Friday, February 14, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Movie Night
- Meeting

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

- 4:30 - 6:00 pm
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center - Kitchen
Bake Dubai Chocolate
- Meeting

Friday, February 21, 2025

- 2:00 pm
- David Kinley Hall Room 404, 1407 W Gregory Dr., Urbana
Dr. Marwa Shalaby. “How Parliaments Matter: Policy and Opposition in the Middle East’s Authoritarian Legislatures” (*Hosted by CSAMES)
- Lecture

Monday, February 24, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arabic Tutoring
- Meeting

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Game Night
- Meeting
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm
- 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana
Dr. Ussama Makdisi "Why is Palestine Important?" (*Hosted by CSAMES)
- Lecture

Friday, February 28, 2025

- All Day
- UIUC
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop (*Hosted by CSAMES)
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, March 1, 2025

- All Day
- UIUC
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop (*Hosted by CSAMES)
- Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
Dr. Huda Fakhreddine "On translating Arabic Poetry" (*Hosted by CSAMES)
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Salaam MENA Cultural Center
Intro to Islam
- Meeting

Friday, March 7, 2025

- All Day
- Illini Union
Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17)

ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work.
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
- Illini Union
Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) Conference

The 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry.
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, March 8, 2025

- All Day
- Illini Union
Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17)

ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work.
- Conference/Workshop

Sunday, March 9, 2025

- 3:30 - 5:00 pm
- Smith Recital Hall
Cross-cultural Collaboration Concert: Christina Ebersohl-Van Scyoc and Melissa Terrall
- Performance

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Salaam MENA Cultural Center
Intro to Qur'an
- Meeting

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Salaam MENA Cultural Center
Ramadan Across the World
- Meeting

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- TBD
Film Screening and Discussion of "LYD" from Laura Goffman (*Hosted by CSAMES)
- Performance

Monday, March 31, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arabic Tutoring
- Meeting

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 12:00 pm
Dr. Nadim Bawalsa "Book talk on Transnational Palestine" (*Hosted by CSAMES)
- Lecture

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Henna
- Meeting

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

- 5:00 - 6:00 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Arabic Roundtable: TBD
- Meeting

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Lincoln Hall Room 1090, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana
Dr. Lauren Osborne. Book talk on "Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition" (*Hosted by CSAMES)
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:30 pm
- 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB)
Movie Night
- Meeting

Monday, April 28, 2025

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Arabic Tutoring
- Meeting

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
- TBD
Dr. Michelle Campos and Dr. Charles Anderson. “Palestine in the World Roundtable” (*Hosted by CSAMES)
- Lecture