College of LAS Events

Are you hosting a Black History Month event? Whether it’s a discussion, performance, or community activity, we want to feature it! We are gathering Black History Month events into one central calendar, so submit your program to https://go.illinois.edu/BHMC2025 by January 8, 2025! Allow us to highlight all the amazing work happening on campus and in the local community!!

Department of Cell Biology

Join us for the 2025 MLK Lecture. Rebecca Ginsburg associate professor and director of the Education Justice Project was chosen as the distinguished faculty member to speak on the ideals and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Instructor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Adult Neurology

A conversation with Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and translator Oksana Maksymchuk on her debut English poetry collection, Still City: A Diary of an Invasion.

Music culled from testimonies will be accompanied by stellar musicians for a unique experience in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Songs from Testimonies brings to life through music how people managed to survive one of the worst experiences in human history.

Join Gilberto Rosas (Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies) for a lunchtime book discussion. Professor Rosas will briefly introduce his book Unsettling: The EI Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism and the US-Mexico Border, and then HRI will moderate a discussion.

Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.

Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.

Join us at McKinley Foundation Artists' Alley for the Opening Reception of Between Us, an exhibition that shines a spotlight on BIPOC communities that have long been marginalized or overlooked, capturing the essence of its people, landscapes, and cultures with honesty and reverence.

Jason Dean (Linda Hall Library) will join us via Zoom to discuss the incident in which John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, burned copies of his own astronomical work, Historia Coelestis.

February Dance 2025 celebrates the fierce commitment to artistic innovation in the Department of Dance. Works by Associate Professor Paige Cunningham Caldarella and MFA alumna Anna Peretz Rogovoy (’24), Professor Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and two MFA thesis works by Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez and Banafsheh Amiri are included in the concert.

The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.

The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.

To deter undocumented immigration in early July of 2023, the State of Texas constructed a 304.8 meters (1,000 foot) line of buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, Texas without first consulting the city, the federal government, or the USACE.