College of LAS Events

The 4th Annual International Women's Day Celebration – Art Contest
Recurring

All Day 12/2/2022 - 2/2/2023

Festival/Celebration

Savvy Researcher Workshops - Week of 1/30
Recurring

12:00 pm 1/30/2023 - 2/3/2023

Workshops are offered in-person (Main Library + Grainger Engineering) and online (via Zoom, link included in registration confirmation and reminder emails)

Conference/Workshop

2023 Illinois Stalking Prevention and Response Summit: Call for Proposals
Recurring

All Day 2/1/2023 - 2/24/2023

Conference/Workshop

University of Illinois Research in Partnership with Njala University in Sierra Leone: Lightning Presentations on Current Research

12:00 pm 2/1/2023

108 Coble Hall and Zoom

Lecture

Pause Café (French conversation hour)

4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/1/2023

Espresso Royale (1117 W Oregon St, Urbana, corner of Oregon & Goodwin)

Social/Informal Event

LLS Study Hours
Recurring

4:00 - 6:00 pm 2/1/2023

1207 W. Oregon, room 133, Urbana

Other

Graduate Student Informational

5:30 pm 2/1/2023

1207 W. Oregon, Room 133, Urbana

Informational

Allison Witt, "Maintaining Online Connection in a Post-pandemic World; Virtual Exchange as an Accomplice to Mobility"

12:00 pm 2/2/2023

International & Area Studies Library, Room 309, or on Zoom

Lecture

"Consuming the Quinceañera: Culture, Media, and Community Legacies"

12:00 pm 2/2/2023

La Casa Cultural Latina (1203 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801) or on Zoom

Dr. González-Martin (University of Texas at Austin) will talk about an extension of her award-winning book, Quinceañera Style, exploring the tensions and opportunities between celebration and commodification of this important rite of passage. Register for Zoom, or attend in person at La Casa Cultural Latina.

Lecture

Arabic Tutoring
Recurring

1:00 - 1:50 pm 2/2/2023

4100 FLB

Informational

HRI Summer Faculty Fellowships

All Day 2/3/2023

Professional Development

Brand Hub Spring Semester 2023 Workshops

All Day 2/3/2023

Conference/Workshop

Book Talk: "Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin"

1:00 pm 2/3/2023

Coble Hall 306

Lecture

Timothy Precord, UIUC, Final Defense, "Investigation of Radical SAM-Mediated Thioether Installation in RiPP Natural Products"

2:30 pm 2/3/2023

B102 Chem Life Sciences Laboratory (Charles G. Miller Auditorium)

Seminar/Symposium

Virtual Conversation with Moroccans

2:30 - 3:30 pm 2/3/2023

Zoom

Social/Informal Event

From the gates to the islands: examining geographies of transnational urbanisms in the Philippines

3:00 pm 2/3/2023

Transnational mobilities of diasporic citizens are key forces reshaping urban configurations in certain contexts. Attending to postcolonial provocations in urban studies, this presentation foregrounds transnational urbanism as an analytical entry point to trace and examine emergent urban spaces in the Philippines.

Seminar/Symposium

Writing from the Intersections - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

3:00 pm 2/3/2023

Room 242 - School of Information Sciences Building

Lecture

InkWell Academic Writing Workshop | “Unstuck: How to Uncover Your Process & Become the Writer You Already Are”

9:00 am - 3:00 pm 2/4/2023

Open to faculty and graduate students of any discipline at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this workshop you'll unravel the mysteries of your writing barriers, then spend the rest of the day writing and reflecting with other retreaters. And you'll be supported throughout the day by live coaching with InkWell Founder, Michelle Boyd, PhD.

Conference/Workshop

InkWell Academic Writing Workshop | “Unstuck: How to Uncover Your Process & Become the Writer You Already Are”

9:00 am - 3:00 pm 2/4/2023

Open to faculty and graduate students of any discipline at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this workshop you'll unravel the mysteries of your writing barriers, then spend the rest of the day writing and reflecting with other retreaters. And you'll be supported throughout the day by live coaching with InkWell Founder, Michelle Boyd, PhD.

Conference/Workshop

Tales of the Mediterranean Book Club

2:00 - 3:30 pm 2/4/2023

Urbana Public Library, Sattherhwaite Conference Room

Meeting

Arabic Tutoring
Recurring

12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/6/2023

4100 FLB

Informational

Lecture Series: "The Land Question in Brazil: Insights from the Colonial Era and the Present"

3:30 pm 2/6/2023

Coble Hall, Room 306

Lecture

FRIT Faculty Meeting

3:30 - 5:00 pm 2/6/2023

FLB

Meeting

Linguistics Seminar: Spencer Caplan (UT Austin)

4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/6/2023

FLB 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge

Seminar/Symposium

Caffettino (Italian Conversation Hour)

5:00 - 6:00 pm 2/6/2023

Espresso Royale (1117 W Oregon St, Urbana, corner of Oregon & Goodwin)

Social/Informal Event

Materials Faculty Candidate: Dr. Elena Meirzadeh, Columbia University, "From small molecules to infinite superatomic sheets""

10:00 am 2/7/2023

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

Exploring the digital transformation practices in disruptive times: A Case Study from Kuwait

12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/7/2023

Lecture

Ned O'Gorman (UIUC), "How Liberals Lost the (Re)public: World War I and the New American (Inter)nationalism"

12:00 pm 2/7/2023

306 Coble Hall

Lecture

IGPA Faculty Coffee: UN Apparatuses on Elimination of Gender Discrimination

2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/7/2023

1253 S. Halstead, Chicago, IL 60607

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Sangeetha Ramesh/Mitchell Lab

4:00 pm 2/7/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

Truth, Racial Justice, and Healing in Social Studies

4:30 - 5:30 pm 2/7/2023

Lecture

LLS Study Hours
Recurring

5:00 - 7:00 pm 2/7/2023

1207 W. Oregon, room 133, Urbana

Other

Interseminars | Amber Johnson: “Critical Futures: Re-Imagining Academia’s Relevance”

7:30 pm 2/7/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

Futurity, or the intentional imagining and materializing of liberated futures—where freedom from oppression, trauma, violence, and discrimination are realized—inspires this talk. Dr Johnson will discuss their methods for conjuring the world and communities in which we want to live and thrive

Lecture

Interseminars | Amber Johnson: “Critical Futures: Re-Imagining Academia’s Relevance”

7:30 pm 2/7/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

Futurity, or the intentional imagining and materializing of liberated futures—where freedom from oppression, trauma, violence, and discrimination are realized—inspires this talk. Dr Johnson will discuss their methods for conjuring the world and communities in which we want to live and thrive

Lecture

Statistics + Mathematics Spring 2023 Career Forum

10:00 am - 4:00 pm 2/8/2023

Illini Union

Conference/Workshop

Graduate Studies Committee Meeting

3:30 - 4:30 pm 2/8/2023

331 Gregory Hall

Meeting

Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Masha Elkin, University of California, Berkeley, "Synthesis and Catalysis with Predictive Analytics"

4:00 pm 2/8/2023

217 Noyes Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Frontiers in miniature brain machinery: Exercise-brain interactions

4:00 pm 2/8/2023

2269 Beckman Institute

Lecture

LLS Study Hours
Recurring

4:00 - 6:00 pm 2/8/2023

1207 W. Oregon, room 133, Urbana

Other

Medieval Studies Colloqium: Dr. Robert W. Barrett, Jr.

5:00 pm 2/8/2023

422 Levis Faculty Center

Dr. Robert W. Barrett, Jr., University of Illinois, English, "Cherry Trees and More-than-Human Animacies in Zeami's Saigyō-zakura and the N-Town Nativity"

Lecture

Italian Movie Night: "Io sono Li!" (Segre, 2011)

6:00 pm 2/8/2023

Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB

Film Screening

Dr. Sean Fanning, Loyola University, "Unconventional Antagonists Reveal Novel Estrogen Receptor Structure-Transcriptional Relationships in Breast Cancer"

11:00 am 2/9/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology

Seminar/Symposium

Graduate Student Workshop: "Un/Doing Cultural Analysis" with Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle

12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/9/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

This participatory workshop aims to disrupt modes of "doing" scholarly analysis of visual art, performance, film and other cultural productions. Registration required.

Other

Graduate Student Workshop: "Un/Doing Cultural Analysis" with Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle

12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/9/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

This participatory workshop aims to disrupt modes of "doing" scholarly analysis of visual art, performance, film and other cultural productions. Advance registration is required.

Other

Women in Science Lecture Series: Dr. Decker French

12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/9/2023

Main Library Room 146

Lecture

MCB RNA Faculty Search Seminar: Dr. Keith Gagnon (SIU-C), “Making RNA-Guided Genomic Medicines Better with Biochemistry”

2:00 pm 2/9/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory

Seminar/Symposium

Writing from the Intersections - Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

3:00 - 4:30 pm 2/9/2023

School of Information Sciences Building, Room 242

Lecture

Un/Doing | Thea Quiray Tagle: "Un/Doing Art History Through Relational Curation and Ethnic Studies"

4:00 pm 2/9/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 108

This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.

Lecture

Un/Doing | Thea Quiray Tagle: "Un/Doing Art History Through Relational Curation and Ethnic Studies"

4:00 pm 2/9/2023

Levis Faculty Center, Room 108

This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.

Lecture

Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Simon Rossler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Small Molecule Diversification and Drug Discovery Enabled by Molecular Design"

4:00 pm 2/9/2023

116 RAL

Seminar/Symposium

Public Attitudes Toward the Use of Nuclear Weapons in Western Countries

4:00 pm 2/9/2023

Coble Hall 306

Lecture

Linguistics Seminar: Forrest Davis (MIT)

4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/9/2023

FLB 1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge

Seminar/Symposium

Speak Café: Rest and Rejuvenation

6:00 - 8:00 pm 2/9/2023

Krannert Art Museum, Main Level, Cafe, 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, Illinois 61820

Performance

HRI-We CU Research Assistantship

All Day 2/10/2023

Other

Food Security Working Group Meet and Greet

1:00 pm 2/10/2023

I Hotel and Conference Center

Other

Classics Colloquium: Hannah Čulík-Baird

2:00 - 4:00 pm 2/10/2023

Lucy Ellis

Seminar/Symposium

Mapping the Evolving Global Higher Education & Research Landscape

3:00 pm 2/10/2023

2049 Natural History Building

This presentation examines key dimensions of the evolving global higher education & research landscape which, taken together and despite the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, points to the 'denationalization' and 'desectoralization' of higher education.

Seminar/Symposium

Organic Chemistry Faculty Candidate: Dr. Jose Roque, Princeton University, "Development and Application of Bond Cleavage Strategies: Skeletal Editing of Cyclic Amines and Electronically-Controlled C–H Activation"

4:00 pm 2/10/2023

116 Roger Adams Lab

Seminar/Symposium

Webinar II: Resources and Career Prospects for TIS Graduate Students

4:00 - 5:30 pm 2/10/2023

Informational

Latin American Story Time: Guaraní!

2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/11/2023

The Urbana Free Library

Other

Latin American Ensemble – A Latin Valentine

7:30 pm 2/11/2023

Recital Hall, Smith Memorial Hall. 1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana

Other

Inorganic Faculty Candidate Matthew Chalkley, UC San Francisco, "Cooperativity in Chemical Catalysis and Biological Binding" (I)

10:00 am 2/13/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

MCB Special Seminar: Dr. Daniel Wilinski, University of Michigan

12:00 pm 2/13/2023

Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL

Seminar/Symposium

R for Qualitative Data Analysis

12:00 - 12:50 pm 2/13/2023

Main Library 314 and online (via Zoom, links will be sent to registrants one hour before the session)

Informational

Librarian Hour at the Atrium
Recurring

2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/13/2023

Psychology building atrium; look for the “Ask A Librarian” sign on a table near the digital display

Join our librarian, Yali Feng, during her office hours at the Atrium this Spring 2023 on Mondays from 2pm to 3pm.

Other

CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Matthew Albritton, "Direct C(sp2) and C(sp3) Difluoromethylation"

4:00 pm 2/13/2023

RAL 116

Seminar/Symposium

Caffettino (Italian Conversation Hour)

5:00 - 6:00 pm 2/13/2023

Espresso Royale (1117 W Oregon St, Urbana, corner of Oregon & Goodwin)

Social/Informal Event

Workshop: Relationships should be positive, safe, and healthy

5:00 - 6:30 pm 2/13/2023

Psychology Building Room 142

We all play a role in domestic violence prevention. Join us to learn the dynamics of domestic violence, how to recognize unhealthy relationships, and how to help someone experiencing abuse. This workshop will be open to all psychology students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Presented by Courage Connection.

Conference/Workshop

FRIT Valentine's Day Bake Sale

9:00 am - 5:00 pm 2/14/2023

Foreign Languages Building, Atrium

Social/Informal Event

Climate Change: Perspectives from France and Italy (Conversations on Europe)

11:00 am 2/14/2023

Seminar/Symposium

Identity Projection in a Digital and Global World: Moroccan Pop Music as a Case Study

12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/14/2023

Lecture

REEEC Noontime Scholars Lecture: Claire Shaw, "Writing the History of the Soviet Body: Questions and Approaches"

12:00 pm 2/14/2023

Lincoln Hall 1065 (702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801)

Lecture

Writing the History of the Soviet Body: Questions and Approaches

12:00 pm 2/14/2023

1065 Lincoln Hall (702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801)

Lecture

Food for Thought

12:00 - 12:45 pm 2/14/2023

Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada St. Urbana

Lecture

Professor Kimberly See, Cal Tech, "One is the Loneliest Number: Multivalent and Multielectron Processes for Next-Generation Batteries" (I)

3:30 pm 2/14/2023

Chem Annex 1024

Seminar/Symposium

Microbiology Student Seminar: Nic Handy/Wilson Lab and Tongyu "Tony" Liu/Brooke Lab

4:00 pm 2/14/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory Building, Urbana, IL

Seminar/Symposium

CHEM 535 Literature Seminar: Samuel Albright, "Novel Strategies for the Synthesis of β-Amino Acids and their Derivatives"

4:00 pm 2/14/2023

Seminar/Symposium

Experimental Intercultural Collaboration

4:30 pm 2/14/2023

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Lecture

LLS Study Hours
Recurring

5:00 - 7:00 pm 2/14/2023

1207 W. Oregon, room 133, Urbana

Other

My Electric Geneaology, a performance by Sarah Kanouse

5:30 - 7:00 pm 2/14/2023

Art & Design room 331

Performance

AsiaLENS - “CHOSEN” (Film Screening & Discussion w/ Filmmaker Joseph Juhn)

7:00 - 9:00 pm 2/14/2023

Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium (600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801)

Film Screening

Dublin Irish Dance - Wings: A Celtic Dance Celebration

7:30 pm 2/14/2023

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Performance

Fulbright Taiwan: English Teaching Flagship (ETF) Scholarship Program

9:30 - 10:30 am 2/15/2023

Informational

Black Bodies and French Colonial History: Beyoncé and Jay Z’s Apeshit at the Louvre

12:00 pm 2/15/2023

108 Coble Hall and Zoom

Lecture

Professor Siewert-Jan Marrink, University of Groningen, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of an Entire Cell"

2:00 pm 2/15/2023

CLSL B-102

Seminar/Symposium

Arabic Conversation Table

2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/15/2023

Library

Social/Informal Event

Fulbright U.S Scholar Program Webinars

2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/15/2023

Informational

2022 SCS Science Image Challenge Award Ceremony

4:00 pm 2/15/2023

Chemistry Library

A ceremony celebrating the winners and finalists in the 2022 School of Chemical Sciences Science Image Challenge. SCS Director Dr. Paul Kenis will deliver remarks around 4:30 p.m.

Ceremony/Service

Pause Café (French conversation hour)

4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/15/2023

Espresso Royale (1117 W Oregon St, Urbana, corner of Oregon & Goodwin)

Social/Informal Event

LLS Study Hours
Recurring

4:00 - 6:00 pm 2/15/2023

1207 W. Oregon, room 133, Urbana

Other

Bate Papo (Portuguese Conversation Table)

5:00 pm 2/15/2023

La Casa Cultural Latina. 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana.

Social/Informal Event

Building a House United: A Local Conversation in the Land of Lincoln

7:00 - 8:30 pm 2/15/2023

Heritage Hall, I Hotel and Conference Center (1900 1st St., Champaign)

Join us for a campus-community town hall with a panel of experts on political polarization to answer your questions. We will reflect on how we got here and what we can do to move forward.

Other

Inorganic Faculty Candidate Anastasia Manesis, Northwestern, "Metals, Microbes, and Metabolism: A Journey Through the First Row Transition Metals" (I)

9:15 am 2/16/2023

CLSL B102

Seminar/Symposium

Dr. Ilia Karatsoreos, UMass, "Biological Clocks in Health and Disease"

11:00 am 2/16/2023

Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL

Associate Professor, Dept. Psychological and Brain Sciences

Seminar/Symposium

Turkish Coffee Happy Hour

11:00 am - 12:00 pm 2/16/2023

Join us on Zoom as we explore Turkish Coffee, and let's establish a forty-year friendship while having Turkish Coffee together. We'll walk you through this Turkish tradition step by step, and you'll even be able to play Turkish coffee trivia for the chance to win your own Turkish coffee set.