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12:00 pm 10/29/2025Room 306 Coble Hall -
3:00 pm 10/29/2025Coble Hall 306 -
4:00 pm 10/30/2025306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
12:00 - 1:30 pm 10/31/2025Natural History Building 2049Are you a first-gen student interested in grad school but unsure where to start? Our group of panelists from the Department of Geography & GIScience will answer your questions and share their experiences.
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1:30 10/31/2025[Hybrid] Coble Hall 306 & Zoom
Please join us for a hybrid event with Baiheng Qian, a PhD Candidate in Classical Chinese Literature at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China). Her talk examines women's ci poetry and cultural transformation in the mid-to-late Ming dynasty (1522-1644), a period shaped by tensions between hedonistic indulgence and moral rigor.
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3:00 pm 10/31/2025Levis Faculty Center, Rm 210
In 1978, the tropical city-state of Singapore received three polar bears, starting a dynasty of polar bears that ended in 2018. Within the lifespan of these tropical polar bears, the planet has undergone rapid and exponential growth in economies...
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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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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 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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5:15 - 6:45 pm 11/4/2025TBD
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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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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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5:30 pm 11/5/2025Temple Buell Hall Atrium | Temple Buell Hall Room 134 Plym Auditorium -
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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12:00 pm 11/7/2025306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
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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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 - 4:00 pmCoble Hall 108 -
3:30 pm 11/11/2025College of Education 1310 S. Sixth Street Champaign, Room # 2 (lower- level) -
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 11/12/20253057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
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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 - 5:30 pm 11/12/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4039 -
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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12:00 pm 11/14/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB) -
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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1:30 - 3:30 pm 11/16/2025The Activities and Recreation Center (ARC), Multipurpose Room 4
This lecture series features short talks on a variety of subjects related to Yiddish, featuring UIUC's Anastasiia Strakhova on immigration, YIVO Chicago's Ben Schacht on Chicago's garment workers, the University of Michigan's Emma Lerman on children's literature illustrations, local musician Frances Harris on Klezmer today...
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6:00 - 8:00 pm 11/17/2025The Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St. Urbana
Women have largely been written out of the ancient world. Dealing with the silences of the archive requires new and innovative tools, and in this talk, Dr. Emily Hauser surveys the many different approaches she has taken across her fiction and non-fiction writing to recover women.
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4:00 pm 11/18/20251080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 -
5:15 - 6:45 pm 11/18/2025TBD
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12:00 pm 11/19/2025108 Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign 61820
'Pioneers on the wild frontiers of local fascism:' Rethinking U.S. fascism through the Black antifascist tradition" Speaker: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Date and Time: November 19 at 12 pm Location: 108 Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign 61820
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12:00 pm 11/19/2025Room 212 / Center for Children's Books, 501 E. Daniel St., School of Information Sciences
Dr. Patricia Kennon (Maynooth University), the general editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature, will be giving a brief lecture on Asexuality in Contemporary YA Literature at the Center for Children's Books. Come learn!
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 12/2/2025Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306.
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7:00 pm 1/27/2026G58 LCLB- Film Classroom
Lee Miller was an incredible photographer who was present at the liberation of some concentration camps. Trigger warning: some parts of this film display graphic images of survivors and victims of the Holocaust. 7 pm Holocaust Remembrance Day screening of Lee. Location TBD.
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 2/19/2026TBD
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7:30 pm 2/19/2026TBD
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
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7:30 pm 2/19/2026TBD
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026Levis Faculty Center 300
International Women’s Day celebration with speakers from the campus and community.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 3/9/2026TBD
Blewish And Beautiful: Contemporary Black Jewish Voices roundtable with TaRessa Stoval, Marc Perry, David Wright Faladé and other contributors to the Blewish And Beautiful volume co-edited by Sara Feldman, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, and Brett Ashley Kaplan.
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9:00 am - 5:00 pm 3/27/2026Levis Faculty Center 210
HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
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4:00 pm 3/30/2026TBD
Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
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4:00 pm 3/30/2026TBD
Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk 4pm
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5:00 pm 4/20/2026Levis Faculty Center Room 208
Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
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5:00 pm 4/23/2026TBD
Annual Armenian Genocide Event, featuring Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University)
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12:00 pm 5/7/20263057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology Duke University