College of LAS Events
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Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Monday, September 29, 2025
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3:00 pmCoble Hall 306
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmCoble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306. -
1:30 - 3:00 pm[Hybrid] Coble Hall 306 & ZoomJoin us for a hybrid event with Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, a historian of modern China and the world, currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the history of non-Western information and communication technologies, spanning from printing devices to artificial intelligence, and their intersections with political ideologies and social imaginaries.
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4:00 pmRoger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
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12:00 pmRoom 212, 501 E. Daniel St, School of Information Sciences
Visiting professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University) will give a brown bag lecture on the transnational history of Sesame Street. Come and learn with the Center for Children's Books!
Thursday, October 2, 2025
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All DayMain Library
Join us for the three days of academic discussions and cultural events at the biennial Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference. The conference brings together Ukrainian Studies scholars and researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to explore the theme of Continuities and Ruptures in Ukrainian Culture and Society.
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssistant Professor, Dept. of Comparative Biosciences
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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6:00 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
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, October 3, 2025
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All DayMain Library
Join us for the three days of academic discussions and cultural events at the biennial Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference. The conference brings together Ukrainian Studies scholars and researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to explore the theme of Continuities and Ruptures in Ukrainian Culture and Society.
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
3:00 - 4:30 pmBeckman Auditorium
The Psychology Department is excited to announce the launch of the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2025-2026 academic year, a new monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.
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3:00 - 4:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and Zoom
On October 3, the Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA) and the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS) will host Dr. Rebecca Lave (Indiana University) to deliver a talk titled Critical interdisciplinarity: Our depth perception improves when we combine biophysical and social lenses. This event will be hybrid.
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3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via ZoomThe widening gap between critical human and physical geography raises concerns about the long-term viability of our field and spurs regular calls for reintegration. Even a brief review of these calls makes two points glaringly clear: this discussion has been going on for a long, long time and, given its regular reoccurrence, it would seem we have little to show for it.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
2nd annual Lux Veritatis Lecture with Prof. Xin Wen (Princeton) ~~ The Central Asian kingdom of Turfan clothed the bodies of the dead with used papers which reveal that an extraordinary number of travelers from all over Eurasia converged there.
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5:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Please join us for the 2nd Annual Lux Veritatis Lecture and plan to stay for a gala reception!
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5:00 - 7:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Saturday, October 4, 2025
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All DayMain Library
Join us for the three days of academic discussions and cultural events at the biennial Dmytro Shtohryn International Ukrainian Studies Conference. The conference brings together Ukrainian Studies scholars and researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to explore the theme of Continuities and Ruptures in Ukrainian Culture and Society.
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All DayIllini Union; Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building; Lincoln Hall Theater
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10:00 am - 10:00 pmDifferent locations (see description) -
10:30 am - 12:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Hands-on art activities for children ages 3+ and their caregivers! Throughout the galleries, enjoy art activities, family tours, and demonstrations on Saturday from 10:30 am until 12:30 pm celebrating the reinstallation of Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600.
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11:00 am - 3:30 pmMultiple locationsJoin 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.
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11:00 am - 3:30 pmMultiple locationsJoin 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.
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11:00 am - 3:30 pmMultiple locations
Undergraduates and friends of the humanities—save the date for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s first ever Humanities Open House! 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. More details will be added as th
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11:00 am - 3:30 pmMultiple locationsUndergraduates and friends of the humanities—save the date for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s first ever Humanities Open House! 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. More details will be added as th
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2:00 - 3:30 pmLincoln Hall Theater 702 S. Wright St, Urbana
Join us for an alumni panel at the Humanities Open House featuring history alum Christina Brodbeck (History '01).
Sunday, October 5, 2025
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10:00 am - 10:00 pmDifferent locations (see description)
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11:00 am - 3:00 pmCenter for Children's Books / Room 213
Brand new books at heavily discounted prices! Including: young adult, graphic novels, middle grade, and picture books. Proceeds will go to support the Center for Children's Books and the Bulletin. The sale will run from Sunday, Oct 5th - Tuesday, Oct 7th, at various times.
Monday, October 6, 2025
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3:00 pmCoble Hall Room 306
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
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12:00 pm108 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820 -
2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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3:30 pm 10/07/2025Chem Annex 1024
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:30 - 5:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, ILDrawing on her recent book, The Heartland (an NPR best book of the year), Hoganson challenges perceptions of the rural Midwest as quintessentially local prior to World War I. Her starting point is Champaign County, but the stories she has uncovered are surprisingly global in scope.
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum - 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL 61801
Drawing on her recent book, The Heartland (an NPR best book of the year), Professor Kristin Hoganson challenges perceptions of the rural Midwest as quintessentially local prior to World War I. Her starting point is Champaign County, but the stories she has uncovered are surprisingly global in scope.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLincoln Hall 1000
François Proulx (French & Italian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will deliver lecture on Post-structuralism as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLincoln Hall 1000
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
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12:00 pmRoom 306 Coble Hall -
12:00 - 1:00 pm
EJP accepts applications every fall from individuals interested in working with our college-in-prison program at Danville Correctional Center, on our reentry and deportation guides, and with our policy and research team. We seek tutors, workshop instructors, and more for part-time, uncompensated roles in our vibrant learning community at the prison.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmChemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
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2:00 - 4:00 pmLa Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 W Nevada St, Urbana
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4:00 pm1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB) -
4:00 pm1080 Lucy Ellis Conference Center Room , 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 -
4:00 pmBallroom, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave
In this CAS/MillerComm talk, Professor Reyes Mason will discuss examples of climate injustice in the U.S. and abroad, then suggest ways to multi-solve the climate crisis with other societal problems, discuss strategies for action including collaborating across sectors and silos and offer touchstones of hope and joy.
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7:00 pmSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
Join Spurlock Museum staff as we explore erotica in our collection. Take a guided tour of some of our galleries, get a closer look at some of our artifacts, and enjoy some cupcakes. Audience: University Students/Adults
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7:00 pmRm 331 A + D Building 408 E Peabody • Rm. 331 Art + Design Building 7:00 PM
In adjacent male and female prisons, inmates communicate by "pecking" messages by hand. New prisoner Julian forges an alliance with the hot-tempered Manaury and learns to become a "woodpecker." Complications arise when Yanelly, Manaury's girlfriend, becomes more interested in communicating with Julian.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
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All DayChampaign/Urbana - more details to come
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.
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8:30 amInstituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) -
11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
Emma Guo CHEM 575 Seminar "CRISPR - inspired Strategies for RNA - Protein Interactome Investigation"
12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL -
12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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12:00 - 1:00 pmUniversity Archives Main Library Room 146
Please join us for the University Archives' monthly Women in Science Lecture Series, Oct 9, from 12 -1 pm. Dr. Karen Terio, Professor and Interim Assistant Director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and Chief of the Zoological Pathology Program, will present “Wildlife Pathology: Dead animals tell tales”
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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3:30 pm1320 Digital Computer Laboratory
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
6:00 pmHundley Central Core Gallery, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, ILSo, you think you can sing? Now’s your chance to get behind the mic. Sign up on arrival to sing songs performed during and inspired by Farm Aid concerts. JJ from Nowhere Karaoke is hosting this fun-filled evening. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Friday, October 10, 2025
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All DayChampaign/Urbana - more details to come
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.
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9:00 amInstituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) -
12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via ZoomDr. Atiles book Crisis by Design (Stanford, 2024) offers an interdisciplinary sociolegal analysis of the role of law, emergency powers, and anticorruption mobilizations in Puerto Rico’s ongoing multilayered crisis.
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4:00 - 6:00 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
In honor of LGBTQ+ History month, come by Spurlock for guided explorations of some of our exhibits and collections that document LGBTQ+ histories and cultures. Drop in any time between 4:00 and 6:00. Free admission. Everyone is welcome.
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5:00 - 6:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4036
Saturday, October 11, 2025
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10:00 am - 4:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
You are invited to enter a playful, restorative greenspace inside the museum. Soft artificial turf covers the gallery floor, inviting visitors to slow down and stretch out. By creating a visual and tactile interruption in typical museum spaces, Rest Lab 8: Greenspace, provides a calm, grounding atmosphere for people to gather.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmUrbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium -
7:30 pmKrannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Sunday, October 12, 2025
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2:00 pmSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
In September 1985, almost 80,000 fans packed Memorial Stadium on the UIUC campus to hear the first Farm Aid concert. Over 50 musical acts came together to raise awareness of the economic crisis facing American family farms. Our exhibit curator will offer a guided look at the exhibit commemorating Farm Aid's 40th anniversary. Free admission. No registration required.
Monday, October 13, 2025
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11:00 - 11:50 amSpurlock Museum of World Cultures, Knight Auditorium 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
Professor Rosalyn LaPier will give a keynote talk titled "Anti-trans Policies Jeopardize Indigenous Peoples’ Rights & Religious Expression" at this year's events for Indigenous People's Day.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmNoyes Laboratory, 163 -
4:00 pm1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
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4:00 - 5:00 pmNoyes Laboratory, 163 -
4:00 - 5:00 pmNoyes Laboratory, 163
Angelica Waner, assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese argues that Zapotec literary magazines published in Mexico City and Oaxaca across the 20th century can be read as sites of autonomy for Isthmus Zapotec intellectuals.
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5:00 - 6:30 pmTemple Buell Hall -
5:00 pm2090B LCLBThis lecture examines the phenomenon of “PRL Noir”: a series of tele-cinematic returns to Poland’s socialist period (PRL standing for “People’s Republic of Poland”) that channel present-day anxieties over communism’s grim legacy through the highly stylized medium of crime drama.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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4:00 pmLoomis Laboratory of Physics, Room 141
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4:00 pmRoger Adams Lab, 600 S. Mathews Ave, 116 RAL
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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5:00 - 6:00 pmUNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Sofía Zaragocín (Geography & GIS, UIUC) will deliver a lecture on Feminism (Latin America/Latinx Feminist Geographies) as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates.
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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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12:00 pm1210 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801Join us on Wednesday, October 15th for our major-minor lunch! You do NOT have to be a part of our program to attend lunch- all students are welcome. Come learn about our department, chat with folks from AAS, and m
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12:30 - 1:30 pmInstitute of Communications Research
Media scholars John D. Peters (Yale) and Ben Peters (UTulsa) will reflect on the digital media sometimes called artificial intelligence. They will share insights from ongoing research projects, including Ben’s research on the Soviet prehistory of AI. Among his working points: AI today is Soviet and ChatGPT hallucinates because of Stalin’s homophobic purges.
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5:00 pmGregory Hall 311
Join us for an info session about HIST 354 Study Abroad in Prague.
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5:30 - 7:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility, Room 4039
Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with John Durham Peters, the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Yale University.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore, Room 514
The Center for Writing Studies is happy to host Dr. Toby Beauchamp! He will be giving a lecture titled "Embracing Trans Regret under Authoritarianism." Please join us on Thursday, October 16th!
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12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore, Room 514
The Center for Writing Studies will be hosting Dr. Toby Beauchamp for a brownbag talk! Dr. Beauchamp will be giving a lecture titled "Embracing Trans Regret under Authoritarianism." Please join us this week on Thursday, October 16!
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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5:15 pmMain Library Building, Room 66 (1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801)
An award-winning film, SHTTL (Ukraine, 2022), portrays the lives of people in a small Ukrainian Jewish town (shtetl) at the Polish border, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion. It is a touching story of a filmmaker who returns from Kyiv to his native shtetl to marry the love of his life and disrupts the balance of the entire town.
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7:30 pmIllini Union, Room 210Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
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7:30 pmIllini Union, Room 210Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
Friday, October 17, 2025
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10:00 am - 5:00 pmSchool of Art & Design, Room 15
This symposium will explore artistic production, practices, and the agency of printed media before 1750 as they intersect with themes of sexuality and gender. Keynote speaker will be Dr.
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom -
6:00 - 8:00 pmJW Eater JR. High, 400 E Wabash Ave, Rantoul, IL 61866
Saturday, October 18, 2025
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11:00 am - 4:00 pmJapan House (2000 S Lincoln Ave Urbana, IL 61802)
Japan House's Fall Open House features artists Seiran Chiba, Masaji Hashimoto, Shinya Terasawa, and Hirohisa Saito to present on Fukushima traditional arts and crafts. Japanese tea ceremonies will be offered at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm. At 3pm, the artists will be giving a free presentation about their work.
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1:00 - 3:00 pmKrannert 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 within the museum through site-specific solo performance and collective improvisation in reflection and response to artwork on display. Museum visitors are invited to experience viewing the art in these sonic locations.
Monday, October 20, 2025
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm314b Illini Union -
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4:00 - 6:30 pmSpurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Join us for a free screening of the film "Black Box Diaries" followed by an in person Q&A with the filmmaker Shiori Itô. This is first AsiaLENS film of the school year hosted by CEAPS and we hope to see you there on Oct 20, 2025 (4:00-6:30 pm).
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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12:00 - 1:30 pmACES (Funk) Library, Heritage Room (107)
Community-Engaged Research Insights for Graduate Students: Graduate students interested in community-engaged research are invited to join a lunch and panel discussion with like-minded peers on Oct. 21, noon - 1:30 p.m. The panel of experts from Illinois and a local community organization will discuss their experience conducting community-engaged research projects.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210 -
2:00 pm116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 - 6:30 pmSpurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium
This event is FREE. Black Box Diaries traces Itō’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault, an improbable attempt to prosecute a high-profile offender that became a landmark case in Japan. Itô reveals the black boxes and blind spots in Japan’s judicial and social systems.
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, a Distinguished Professor of History at Iowa State University, where she has taught since 2000.
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4:30 - 6:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, ILJoin Spurlock for a lecture by Professor Pamela Riney-Kehrberg titled "The Farm Crisis and Fallout: The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After."
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080)
This talk by Dr. Hilit Surowitz-Israel explores Curaçao's pivotal role at the height of its influence by examining the production and circulation of religious material culture, focusing on the significance of "the gift" within Sephardic communities across the Americas.
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, Language, Cultures and Literatures Building (LCLB 1080)
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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8:30 amOffice of Civic Life
Each year, the Office of Civic Life coordinates the Thanksgiving Meal Drive to support the Big Give with HeartStrong Food Pantry. We are collecting items for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner that will support our goal of feeding 1000 families. Your donations are welcomed thru Friday, November 14, 2025.
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12:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 108
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
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12:00 pmLevis Faculty Center 108
Join this collaborative session with HRI and the Writers Workshop for tips and guidance on preparing your HRI Graduate Fellowship application.
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12:30 - 3:00 pmWomen's Resources Center, 616 E Green St, Suite 213 -
4:00 - 5:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4039 -
4:00 - 5:30 pmCampus Instructional Facility, Room 4039
Join us for a lecture in our postdoctoral colloquium series featuring Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Saraí Blanco Martinez. Her talk "Radical Healing Processes of Latinx Immigrant-Origin Young People" will share about her most recent youth participatory action research collaboration, which used photovoice and plática methodologies.
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7:00 - 9:00 pmRm. 331 3rd Fl. Art + Design Building
During the 1930s in Sweden, indigenous Sami children were systematically removed from their parents. Reindeer-herding teenager Elle-Marja is one of these children, sent to a boarding school where indigenous students are taught Swedish language and customs and made ‘acceptable’ to white society. Elle-Marja is torn between assimilating and her burgeoning sense of self.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain Library, Room 346
Scheide Librarian Emeritus (Princeton) Paul S. Needham will discuss the history and production of the Catholicon, and present his findings that it was printed not from movable type, as previously thought, but instead from two-line castings — a discovery that continues to incite vigorous discussion in the field.
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3:30 pm106B1 Engineering Hall
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4:00 - 5:30 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
4:00 pmCenter for Advanced Study (CAS)
Fredrik Jonsson (History, U of Chicago) proposes a fundamentally new interpretation of Britain's fossil energy economy between the first and second industrial revolutions 1750-1914.
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4:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Lecture by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago. Professor Jonsson will discuss his work on some of the historical dimensions of the climate crisis.
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4:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:30 pmSpurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana
Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985. Our conversation with John Doe will be a chance to reflect on the inaugural Farm Aid concert ...
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4:30 pmSpurlock Auditorium
Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985.
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4:30 pm1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building -
8:00 pmRosebowl Tavern
Join us for a special evening with John Doe, founding member of the iconic punk band X, as he takes the stage for an intimate solo performance at The Rose Bowl Tavern in Urbana, IL.
Friday, October 24, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
The domain-specificity of domain-generality in mathematical cognition: Leaning in to task impurities
1:30 - 2:50 pm819 Psychology
Saturday, October 25, 2025
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9:45 amNate & Lillie Story Room
Monday, October 27, 2025
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5:00 - 7:30 pmLincoln Hall 3057
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). We will read excerpts from Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts for the first session. Light refreshments provided. You can find more in
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge, LCLBThis lecture examines the war diary, the most prominent genre at the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmCoble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306.
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5:00 - 6:00 pmUNTIL NOV: On quad, near Eternal Flame Sculpture bench between Lincoln and English building; DURING NOV & DEC: Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
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5:00 - 6:30 pmAlice Campbell Hall
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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5:15 - 6:45 pmLevis Faculty Center, Room 210
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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1:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via ZoomDespite a decade of economic decline, disasters, and population loss, Puerto Rico’s auto market has demonstrated remarkable resilience, with new vehicle sales consistently surpassing 120K units since 2021. The phenomenon reflects more than consumer preference—revealing a systemic dependence on automobility shaped by colonial political, logistical, and financial structures.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pmChemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
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3:00 - 4:00 pmMain Library Room 321
The International and Area Studies Library, Literatures and Languages Library, Ricker Library of Architecture and Art, Music and Performing Arts Library, and History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library invite you to our "International Studies and Humanities Meet and Greet" on Wednesday, October 29, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM, in Main Library Room 321.
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3:00 pmCoble Hall 306 -
4:00 - 7:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Halloween Film Screening: "Pan's Labyrinth" | October 29 at 4 pm | Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Thursday, October 30, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLProfessor, University of Michigan, Life Sciences Institute
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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3:30 pm106B1 Engineering Hall
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
5:30 - 7:00 pmSiebel Center for Design, Classroom 1002
How might service and volunteer work reinforce structures of inequity? Join We CU and OVCDEI on Thursday, October 30, at 5:30 PM for a workshop on centering equity and humility in service learning. This training will help you develop strategies to promote equity in your own service work, critically examine biases, and center the voices of the communities you are serving.
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6:30 pm 09:00 pmSpurlock Museum of World Cultures -
6:30 - 9:00 pmSpurlock Museum 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
Join us for a spectacular evening of African and other world language(s) poetry
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7:00 - 11:00 pm213 Gregory Hall
Join the Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta for a screening of the film JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991) followed by a discussion.
Friday, October 31, 2025
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12:00 - 1:30 pmNatural History Building 2049
Are you a first-gen student interested in grad school but unsure where to start? Our group of panelists from the Department of Geography & GIScience will answer your questions and share their experiences.
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1:30[Hybrid] Coble Hall 306 & Zoom
Please join us for a hybrid event with Baiheng Qian, a PhD Candidate in Classical Chinese Literature at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China). Her talk examines women's ci poetry and cultural transformation in the mid-to-late Ming dynasty (1522-1644), a period shaped by tensions between hedonistic indulgence and moral rigor.
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2:00 pmRoger Adams Lab 419
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3:00 pm2049 Natural History BuildingThis panel discussion will examine the kinds of ethical standards and dilemmas we face as professional geographers in our interactions with colleagues and students. Attendance is required for graduate students and encouraged for faculty.
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3:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, Rm 210
In 1978, the tropical city-state of Singapore received three polar bears, starting a dynasty of polar bears that ended in 2018. Within the lifespan of these tropical polar bears, the planet has undergone rapid and exponential growth in economies...
Saturday, November 1, 2025
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2:00 pmUrbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium 210 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801Join professors Rosalyn LaPier and David R. M. Beck at the Urbana Free Library to hear the fascinating stories of Native Americans living in Illinois in the early 20th century.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmThe Literary: 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
November 1, 2025 4-5pm - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley: 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. Stop by the museum anytime during open hours to sign up and pick up your free book.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmThe Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
