College of LAS Events
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Join us Sept 3 from 12 - 1 pm for the Center for Children's Books Open House! You'll get a chance to check out our space, learn about what we offer, and get some free galleys.
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Kick off the semester with lively conversation, delicious refreshments, and the chance to reconnect with the CSAMES and CAS community. Meet our new affiliates, learn about upcoming programs, and toast to another year of groundbreaking scholarship
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Critical Race Theory in Cinema Film Series. Sept. 3rd. 7:00 PM Art + Design building 3rd Floor Rm. 331. This week's film, "I Am Not Your Negro" Directed by Raoul Peck. Written by James Baldwin/Raoul Peck 2017
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Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
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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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Mariana Mora (Associate Professor - Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City) will present “When witnessing isn’t enough: reflections on justice and the transformative potential of research.” This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines...
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Mariana Mora (Associate Professor - Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City) will present “When witnessing isn’t enough: reflections on justice and the transformative potential of research.” This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines...
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The SKY Happiness Retreat is an internationally acclaimed life-skills program that helps participants develop a relaxed, stress-free mind and an energetic, healthy body. The retreat teaches tools such as evidence-based meditation, yoga, breathwork, and self-exploration in a fun and experiential format. The retreat is fully funded for all UIUC students.
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Join us for a conversation with artist Millie Wilson, curators David Evans Frantz and Amy L. Powell, moderated by Jill H. Casid, part of the online series The New Social Environment, organized and hosted by the Brooklyn Rail. Sign up to get the Zoom link: kam.illinois.edu/events. (10 am Pacific / 12 pm Central / 1 pm Eastern)
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Join us for a screening of "In Search of Bengali Harlem" followed by remarks and a Q & A with Vivek Bald (director, producer, writer). This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines: Reconsidering Racism, Movements, and Epistemes in the Americas.
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Join us for a screening of "In Search of Bengali Harlem" followed by remarks and a Q & A with Vivek Bald (director, producer, writer). This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines: Reconsidering Racism, Movements, and Epistemes in the Americas.
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Across rural transportation networks, widening inequalities and limited public transit options mean that even minor disruptions, whether planned or unplanned, often lead to severe delays or make essential trips entirely unattainable.
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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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Join us for a lecture by professor Jennifer Lackey, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Her talk will explore how stories can epistemically wrong a person in life-altering ways and yet also be the source of the corresponding epistemic reparations that are called for in response.
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Please join us in our anti-panel conversations about our vessel works. During this segment of the culminating event, we will interact and think through the concepts of resistance, refusal, and re-existence across color lines. A reception will follow.
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Please join us in our anti-panel conversations about our vessel works. During this segment of the culminating event, we will interact and think through the concepts of resistance, refusal, and re-existence across color lines. A reception will follow.
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Ronnie Grinberg, author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, to offer the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and HGMS kick-off event, generously funded by the Goldberg lecture series
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Ronnie Grinberg examines how masculinity and Jewishness were linked in the minds of the New York intellectuals. Men and women, Jews and non-Jews in the group, all embraced a secular Jewish machismo that at its core prized verbal combativeness, polemical aggression, and an unflinching style of argumentation. Light lunch will be provided.
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The HRI Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis Mondays at 5:30 pm, Lincoln Hall 3057.
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IUC Labor Education Program professor Augustus Wood will join HRI Social Movements Reading Group to discuss his book, Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification on Mon Sept 8 (discussion) and Mon Sept 15 (Q&A) 5:30PM Lincoln Hall 3057.
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Attend this session to learn about the Interseminars Co-Teaching Grant for tenure-stream faculty (application deadline October 3, 2025). Interseminars will fund three interdisciplinary graduate courses in the arts and humanities, each co-taught by two faculty instructors. Each team will receive programming funds for course-related guest speakers and events.
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Attend this session to learn about the Interseminars Co-Teaching Grant for tenure-stream faculty (application deadline October 3, 2025). Interseminars will fund three interdisciplinary graduate courses in the arts and humanities, each co-taught by two faculty instructors. Each team will receive programming funds for course-related guest speakers and events.
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Dive into Nabil Ayouch’s vibrant musical drama following Anas, a former rapper turned teacher, who empowers Casablanca youth to challenge traditions through hip-hop. Post-screening discussion led by Eric Calderwood (Director of CSAMES and Professor of Comparative & World Literature).
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Dive into Nabil Ayouch’s vibrant musical drama following Anas, a former rapper turned teacher, who empowers Casablanca youth to challenge traditions through hip-hop. Post-screening discussion led by Eric Calderwood (Director of CSAMES and Professor of Comparative & World Literature).
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Kicking off this year’s Modern Critical Theory lecture series, Peter Coviello (English, University of Illinois Chicago) will deliver a talk titled “What is Theory? Inside the Fascist Sequence.”
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This weeks movie: Ixcantul
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Riccardo Muti’s Cherubini Orchestra Cello Quartet will perform in Urbana as part of a five-city tour organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
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Join the WRC for a discussion with Katie Simon, journalist and author of Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault. The author's talk will take place on Thursday, September 11, from 12-1 PM at the Women's Resources Center (616 E Green St, Suite #213).
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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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New York–based artist Ronny Quevedo will discuss his solo exhibition Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s, on view at Krannert Art Museum through December 6, 2025. This expansive project includes drawings from several lenders across the United States and a monumental sculpture. He will be joined in conversation by Krannert Art Museum curators Amy L. Powell and Allyson Purpura.
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The Flatlands Dance Film Festival is dedicated to supporting and presenting Dance Cinema, a medium which explores and innovates the intersections between filmmaking and dance making. The festival builds educational platforms, encourages dialogue, and promotes a diverse range of cultural perspectives from around the globe. This year's films coincide with Dance at Illinois'
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Join Phi Alpha Theta for an event titled "Historic Responses to 9/11". All history undergraduates are welcome!
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Dr. Atiles book Crisis by Design (Stanford, 2024) offers an interdisciplinary sociolegal analysis of the role of law, emergency powers, and anticorruption mobilizations in Puerto Rico’s ongoing multilayered crisis.
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National Book Award-winning poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha joins us for an evening of readings and reflection on her luminous collection, Something About Living. This lyrical meditation on Palestinian life, memory, and resistance blends poetic innovation with political insight. Tuffaha will discuss how her work engages with culture, history, and the power of artistic expression.
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of three books of poetry, including Something About Living (UAkron, 2024)/ She is also winner of the 2024 National Book Award.
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Poet, essayist, translator, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of three books of poetry, and a winner of the 2024 National Book Award. Her visit is part of the Illinois Global Institutes "Palestine in the World" series. The IGI Series on Global Responsibilities brings multidisciplinary and global perspectives to major contemporary questions.
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Richard Gilman-Opalsky (Politics & International Affairs, UI Springfield) and Matt Soener (Sociology, UIUC) will deliver lectures on Marxism 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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Join us for an event celebrating the publication of professor Gus Wood's book, "Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Resistance, and Repression under Gentrification."
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Join us for an event celebrating the publication of professor Gus Wood's book, Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Resistance, and Repression under Gentrification.
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Syphilis and other treponemal diseases have been understood as “New World” exports to Afro-Eurasia. But recent demonstrate the presence of these diseases in the “Old World."
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Dr. Kahyun Choi (School of Information Sciences), Maryann Naumann (Arizona State University Libraries), and Erika Immel (New Trier High School) join the CCB in a moderated panel discussion about how schools are using AI and the important considerations for youth, and the role of school libraries in supporting best practices.
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Critical Race Theory in Cinema presents the acclaimed 1992 film Daughters of The Dust. Set in the sea islands of South Carolina, this is the story of three generations of Gullah women.
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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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During this hybrid event, Center for Writing Studies faculty from across disciplines will unpack key terms central to writing research. Join us to hear faculty explore their favorite writing research keywords, the work these terms do in their own scholarship, and how these terms intersect or diverge across fields..
