MDF Test Calendar

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Monday, September 29, 2025

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Friday, October 3, 2025

Saturday, October 4, 2025

    • All Day
    • Art Coop Gallery, 150 Lincoln Square Village, Urbana

    • All Day
    • Main 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.

    • 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
    • Krannert 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.

    • 11:00 am - 3:30 pm
    • Multiple locations

    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.

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Monday, October 6, 2025

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Friday, October 10, 2025

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Sunday, October 12, 2025

    • 2:00 pm
    • Spurlock 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

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

    • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
    • Institute 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.

    • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
    • Allerton Park & Retreat Center - Arboretum Parking Lot

    • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
    • Campus 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

Friday, October 17, 2025

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Monday, October 20, 2025

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Friday, October 24, 2025

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Friday, October 31, 2025

Saturday, November 1, 2025