College of LAS Events
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7:30 - 9:30 pm 1/30/2025 - 2/1/2025Krannert Center for the Performing ArtsFebruary 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.
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9:00 - 11:00 am 2/1/2025Champaign Public Library
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9:00 - 11:00 am 2/1/2025 - 4/5/2025Nevada Dance StudioCreative Dance for Children is an innovative community program provided by the University of Illinois Department of Dance under the direction of Betty Allen. Instructors collaborate to design and deliver creative dance classes tailored for children ages 4-10.
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3:00 pm TBD 2/3/2025Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801) -
4:00 pm 2/3/2025116 Roger Adams Lab
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 2/3/2025 - 2/5/2025Salaam MENA Cultural Center
The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
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2:00 pm 2/4/2025815 Psychology
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2:30 - 4:00 pm 2/4/2025306 Coble Hall -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/4/2025116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:30 - 5:30 pm 2/4/20251080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB) -
5:30 pm 2/4/2025Bruce D. Nesbitt, African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St, Urbana -
5:30 - 6:30 pm 2/4/2025Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana)This presentation discusses what we can learn from Zapotec literary magazines published in Mexico and Oaxaca in the 20th century. Angelica will share about the personal connections to her research, her journey as a researcher, and her current book project, highlighting the relationship between Zapotec knowledge, language, and literature.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/5/2025Chemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/5/2025LLS Building (1207 W. Oregon St., Urbana), Room 133 -
5:00 pm 2/5/20251080, Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB
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11:00 am 2/6/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/6/2025
Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work. Whether you're looking to collaborate with international universities or explore global research opportunities, we’re here to support your efforts.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/6/2025
Are you interested in expanding your global connections, working abroad, or learning about funding opportunities for international projects? Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/6/2025306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
4:00 pm 2/6/2025Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S. Wright St. -
4:00 pm 2/6/2025Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S. Wright St. -
6:00 - 7:30 pm 2/6/2025Spurlock MuseumA reading and book launch by Creative Writing faculty members David Wright Faladé and Chris Kempf.
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9:00 - 10:00 am 2/7/20252004 Natural History Building
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12:00 pm 2/7/2025306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
12:00 pm 2/7/2025306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St.)Anastasiia Strakhova (Associate Director, Program of Jewish Culture & Society) explores the little-known reality that 75–90% of Jewish emigration from the late Russian Empire occurred illegally. This lecture examines the widespread practice of clandestine border crossings and why so many Jewish emigrants chose illegal routes despite legal options being available.
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1:00 - 2:00 pm 2/7/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080)
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2:00 pm 2/7/2025612 IGB Conference CenterRecalling My Higher Education Journey and Pathway Into Stem: Insights from an Indigenous scientist. Friday, Feb.7, 2025. 2 PM
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2:00 pm 2/7/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology -
2:00 - 7:00 pm 2/7/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) Room 4036 and 4039 (1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801) -
3:00 pm 2/7/20252049 Natural History Building and via ZoomThe rise of the global logistics industry has profoundly impacted global workers' struggles by organizing goods movement through a politics of just-in-time circulation. Although scholars have often dubbed this phenomenon "the revolution in logistics," Dr. Chua argues that the so-called 'logistics revolution' is better understood as a counter-revolution.
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3:00 pm 2/7/20252049 Natural History Building
On February 7, the Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA) and the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS) will host Dr. Charmaine Chua (Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara) to deliver a talk titled The Logistics Counter-revolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation. This will be a hybrid event.
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/7/2025306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
9:00 - 11:00 am 2/8/2025Champaign Public Library
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 2/8/2025The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library -
5:00 - 6:30 pm 2/10/2025Salaam MENA Cultural CenterHRI Social Movements Reading Group invites you to join us Mon Feb 10, 5-6:30 PM at Salaam Center to discuss what Sudanese organizers have called “counter-revolutionary war” in Sudan. Readings focus on history, political economic interests, and revolutionary movements leading to the current moment. Open to all, food provided. Sponsored by CU Muslim Action Committee (MAC) and GEO. RSVP to join email list and access readings: bit.ly/READMOVEMENTS
HRI Social Movements Reading Group invites you to join us Mon Feb 10, 5-6:30 PM at Salaam Center to discuss what Sudanese organizers have called “counter-revolutionary war” in Sudan.
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4:00 - 6:00 am 2/11/2025Illini Union Ballrooms A, B, and C
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Grainger College of Engineering will host the LAS/ENG Undergraduate Research Opportunities Fair. We are seeking representatives from research groups, centers, institutes, and programs to present and promote undergraduate research opportunities in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM.
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All Day 2/11/2025 - 2/20/2025Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St.)The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, Ukrainian Students Association, and Spurlock Museum invite you to visit Unissued Diplomas in the Central Core Gallery at Spurlock.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 2/11/2025Main Library 314
Are you having trouble organizing all of your sources but don’t know where to start? A citation manager can help you store your files, create citations, and insert formatted citations into papers.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/11/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 2/12/2025CITL Innovation Studio, Armory 172
We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression?
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12:00 pm 2/12/2025109 English
Lunch launch of HGMS and German Professor Anke Pinkert’s new book, Remembering 1989.
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12:00 pm 2/12/2025Charles G. Miller Auditorium
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12:00 pm 01:30 pm 2/12/2025Room 306 Coble Hall -
4:00 pm 2/12/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 422 or LivestreamAlthough its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
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4:00 pm 2/12/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 422 or Livestream
Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
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4:00 pm 2/12/2025School of Information Sciences, Room 126 | 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign, ILJoin creative writer Sun Yung Shin and scholar Kimberly D. McKee, PhD, for a discussion on the subjectivities, stories, and narratives revolving around adoptions and exploring what it means for adoptees to own their voices.
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4:00 pm 2/12/2025School of Informational Sciences | Room 126 | 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign IL
Join creative writer Sun Yung Shin and Scholar Kimberly D. McKee, PhD, for a discussion on the subjectivities, stories, and narratives revolving around adoptions and exploring what it means for adoptees to own their voices.
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10:00 am - 2:30 pm 2/13/2025Illini Union 314B
The LAS Office of Research and Department of History will offer the spring program, “From Scholars to Storytellers” an introduction to the world of trade publishing. Sessions will be led by Dr. John Ghazvinian, an author, historian and former journalist. Space is limited. To learn more or register for any part of this event, visit our website by Feb. 6th.
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10:00 am - 2:30 pm 2/13/2025314B Illini Union
The LAS Office of Research, Department of History, and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation are excited to collaborate and offer the spring program, “From Scholar to Storytellers” for faculty researchers.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/13/2025Coble Hall, Room 306. (801 S Wright St. Champaign IL 61801) -
4:00 pm 2/13/2025116 Roger Adams Lab
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4:15 pm 2/13/2025Rm 1000 Lincoln Hall
Join us for a lecture by Dr. John Ghazvinian an author, historian and former journalist specializing in the history of US-Iran relations.
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4:15 - 5:45 pm 2/13/2025Lincoln Hall Rm 1000
Dr. John Ghazvinian is an author, historian and former journalist specializing in the history of US-Iran relations. This lecture examines Iran’s controversial nuclear program from the critical perspective of history...
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5:30 - 7:00 pm 2/13/2025School of Art & Design, Room 331
Conversation with exhibiting artist Millie Wilson and curator David Evans Frantz, in conjunction with Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams at Krannert Art Museum, on view through March 1. Wilson has deftly examined feminism, queerness, and the historical erasure of such positions from institutions of art. Frantz is an independent curator based in Los Angeles.
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6:00 pm 07:30 pm 2/13/2025LATZER HALL -
6:00 - 7:30 pm 2/13/2025The University YMCA | Latzer Hall (1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820)Join us for a discussion on global collaboration and period poverty as we come together to watch the trailer for the compelling documentary Uman Tok.
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9:00 - 10:00 am 2/14/20252004 Natural History Building -
12:00 pm 2/14/2025University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
1:30 pm 2/14/2025819 Psychology
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3:00 - 4:30 pm 2/14/2025306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign -
5:00 pm 2/14/2025Coble Hall Room 306 (801 S Wright St. Champaign 61820) -
5:00 - 6:30 pm 2/14/20251080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (Formerly FLB) -
5:00 - 6:45 pm 2/14/2025Temple Buell Hall Atrium | Plym Auditorium 134The PhD Program in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UIUC will host Spaces of Nature / Natures of Space, an in-house graduate student symposium on Friday, February 14, 2025.
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5:00 - 6:45 pm 2/14/2025Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall. -
9:00 - 11:00 am 2/15/2025Champaign Public Library
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/17/2025116 Roger Adams Lab
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11:55 am 2/18/2025
On Tuesday, February 18th, 12pm CST, three fantasy authors will discuss how their books intersect with religion, culture, and youth literature (Feb 18th registration). On Wednesday, February 19th, 12pm CST, three international scholars will discuss the intersections of religion and culture in youth literature (Feb 19th registration).
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/18/2025University Archives (room 146, Main Library) or via ZoomKrystiana Krupa, Senior Program Officer, NAGPRA, will discuss her work in documenting Ancestors’ remains and cultural items, researching their relationship to Tribal communities, and facilitating repatriation.
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12:00 pm 2/18/2025Zoom Webinar -
12:00 pm 2/18/2025
On Tuesday, February 18th, 12pm CST, three fantasy authors will discuss how their books intersect with religion, culture, and youth literature (Feb 18th registration). On Wednesday, February 19th, 12pm CST, three international scholars will discuss the intersections of religion and culture in youth literature (Feb 19th registration).
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1:00 - 2:00 pm 2/18/2025 -
3:00 - 4:00 pm 2/18/2025Main Library 314
Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 2/18/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:30 - 6:00 pm 2/18/2025Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center - Kitchen -
5:30 pm 2/18/2025Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada St, Urbana -
5:30 - 6:30 pm 2/18/2025Asian American Cultural Center (1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana)This presentation will introduce the work of several Kalaallit Inuit artists whose careers began in the late 1970s, a period of heightened anticolonial activism in their homeland. Examining the connections between art and activism, my talk will discuss how Kalaallit artists have challenged colonial representations and asserted their right to self-definition.
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6:00 - 7:00 pm 2/18/2025Grainger Commons, Rooms 233/235
In this introductory workshop, we will be learning about basic 3D Printing modeling with TinkerCAD. We will provide a walkthrough and activity with this software. After registering, please create a TinkerCAD account. TinkerCAD is a free browser-based software that we will be using in the introductory 3D design workshop.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/19/2025Main Library 314
Looking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how to identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works.
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5:30 - 7:00 pm 2/19/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 424Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.
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5:30 - 7:00 pm 2/19/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 424Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.
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6:00 - 7:00 pm 2/19/2025Latzer Hall, University YMCA 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign -
All Day 2/20/2025 - 2/22/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801Join us for the 23rd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium: Gender and the Law, featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Neil J. Young (Historian, Writer, and Podcaster) and Dr. Laura Goffman (Professor of History, UIUC).
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All Day 2/20/2025 - 2/22/2025Levis 210Join us for the 23rd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium: Gender and the Law, featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Neil J. Young (Historian, Writer, and Podcaster) and Dr. Laura Goffman (Professor of History, U of I). This will be a hybrid event. Learn more and register here: https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/
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All Day 2/20/2025 - 2/22/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Join us for the 23rd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium: Gender, Law, and Politics on February 20th – February 22nd. Featuring four graduate research panels and two keynote speakers Dr. Neil J. Young (Historian, Writer, and Podcaster) and Dr. Laura Goffman (Professor of History, UIUC). This hybrid event is open to all.
