College of LAS Events
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2:00 pm 11/1/2025Urbana 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 pm 11/1/2025The Literary, 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/1/2025The 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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1:30 - 2:50 pm 11/3/2025100 Gregory Hall
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4:00 pm 11/3/2025Illini Union, Room 210This 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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4:00 pm 11/3/2025Illini Union, Room 210This 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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4:00 pm 11/3/2025116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:00 pm 11/3/2025Illini Union, Room 210
Erik McDuffie ( African American Studies and History) will discuss his book The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom. Part of the Story & Place event series.
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5:30 - 7:00 pm 11/3/2025Lincoln 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).
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/4/2025Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306.
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3:30 pm 11/4/2025Chem Annex 1024
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3:30 pm 11/4/2025Chem Annex 1024
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/4/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
5:15 pm 11/4/2025Levis Faculty Center 210
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.
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 11/4/2025TBD
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12:00 pm 11/5/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 pm 11/5/2025Room 306 Coble Hall -
12:00 pm 11/5/20251208 W Nevada St, Urbana, ILThis talk examines the radical potential of quiet as aesthetic and material practice in relation to gendered forms of Asian American embodiment. Weaving together personal narrative alongside readings of authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Annelise Chen, and Simon Han, Geng explores notions of reclaiming quiet, of leaning into pauses, and of collect
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 11/5/2025Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
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4:00 pm 11/5/2025Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
4:00 pm 11/5/2025llini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
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.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/5/20251080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
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5:30 pm 11/5/2025Temple Buell Hall Atrium | Temple Buell Hall Room 134 Plym Auditorium -
6:30 - 8:00 pm 11/5/2025ISR 94 A/BStudents can join professors Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck for dinner and conversation at ISR.
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12:00 pm 11/6/2025Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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12:00 pm 11/6/2025Noyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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1:00 - 4:00 pm 11/6/20251208 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 pm 11/6/2025Chem Annex 1024
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/6/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/6/2025English 109
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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4:30 pm 11/6/2025Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
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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4:30 pm 11/6/2025Spurlock Museum
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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5:00 pm 11/6/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
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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5:00 pm 11/6/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge -- room 1080, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
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6:00 - 7:30 pm 11/6/2025Krannert 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.
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm 11/7/2025BNAACC Main Multipurpose Room -
12:00 pm 11/7/2025306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
12:00 pm 11/7/2025Max L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
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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1:30 - 3:00 pm 11/7/2025
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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3:00 - 4:30 pm 11/7/2025Beckman 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 - 5:00 pm 11/7/2025Gregory Hall 321
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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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 11/8/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
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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2:00 - 4:00 pm 11/8/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
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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5:00 - 7:00 pm 11/8/2025Channing Murray Foundation
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".
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3:00 pm 11/9/2025Chapel of St. John the Divine, Champaign
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.
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1:00 - 1:50 pm 11/10/2025157 Noyes Lab
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11:30 am - 12:30 pm 11/11/2025908 W. Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801
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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3:00 - 4:00 pmCoble Hall 108 -
3:30 pm 11/11/2025College of Education 1310 S. Sixth St. Champaign, Room # 2 (Lower- Level)
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 11/11/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
5:00 pm 11/11/2025Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St. Urbana
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.
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5:00 - 6:00 pm 11/11/2025UNTIL 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 pm 11/11/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
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12:00 pm 11/12/2025Room 306 Coble Hall -
12:00 pm 11/12/2025W109 Turner Hall
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12:00 pm 11/12/20253057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 11/12/2025Chemical Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave, CLSL B102 Auditorium
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 11/12/2025Main Library, Room 346
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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4:00 pm 11/12/2025Gregory Hall 810 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 223 -
4:00 pm 11/12/2025Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 1090
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4:00 - 5:30 pm 11/12/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4039 -
DESPUÉS DE LAS ELECCIONES: ¿RE-MILITARIZACIÓN EN PUERTO RICO? HISTORIA, PODER Y FUTURO EN EL CARIBE.
5:00 - 6:30 pm 11/12/2025Zoom -
5:00 - 7:00 pm 11/12/2025Levis Faculty Center, 210
Join us for a festive reception to celebrate three new books published this fall! The authors will each offer brief remarks and there will be an informal Q&A about the research and writing process. All are welcome!
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5:30 pm 11/12/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4039
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.
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11:00 am 11/13/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssociate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 11/13/2025Levis Faculty Center, Rm 208
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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1:00 - 4:00 pm 11/13/20251208 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 pm 11/13/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
12:00 pm 11/14/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
12:00 pm 11/14/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB) -
1:30 - 3:00 pm 11/14/2025[Hybrid] 306 Coble Hall & Zoom
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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2:30 - 4:00 pm 11/14/2025CU Community Fab Lab
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.
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7:30 pm 11/15/2025The Venue CU
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...
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10:00 am - 6:00 pm 11/16/2025Activities & Recreation Center (ARC), Multipurpose Room 7
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)...
