College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff
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5:30 pm 1/22/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana -
5:30 pm 1/22/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana, ILAttend a lecture by Joseph P. Gone, a member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre Tribal Nation of Montana and the Faculty Director of the Harvard University Native American Program, in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Spring Lecture Series "At Risk U: The Past, Present, and Future of Academic Freedom."
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12:00 pm 1/30/2026108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
2:00 pm 2/6/2026Gregory Hall 223Please join us for an event in the Timbuktu Talks series with Aly Drame titled "Return to Success": New Paradigms of Islamization in Senegambia.
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12:00 pm 2/13/2026Lucy Ellis Lounge, Room 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (707 S. Mathews St., Urbana, IL 61801) -
5:30 pm 2/19/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock MusuemAttend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Tristan Ahtone, editor at large for Grist magazine.
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4:00 pm 2/26/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 422Erin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
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4:00 pm 2/26/2026306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
7:30 pm 3/3/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 422Dr. Justin R. Garcia is an evolutionary biologist and sex researcher. He is executive director and senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Ruth N. Halls Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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5:30 pm 3/5/2026Lincoln Hall 1002Attend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Rachel Ida Buff (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
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5:00 pm 3/10/2026Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLBJoin the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for a lecture by Melissa Frazier about her new book "Signs of the Material World: Dostoevsky, Science and the 19th Century Novel."
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/11/2026Gregory Hall 319Please join us for a lecture with Jennifer Chuong, an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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5:30 pm 3/24/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock MuseumAttend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Laura Helmuth (Slate, Scientific American, Washington Post).
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4:00 pm 3/26/2026306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
4:00 pm 3/30/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
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3:00 pm 4/7/2026NCSA AuditoriumAttend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Dr. Jonathan Holloway, the president and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation.
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4:00 pm 4/16/2026306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
5:00 pm 4/20/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 208Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
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5:30 pm 4/21/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock MuseumAttend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Chris Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation, London).
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12:00 pm 5/7/20263057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, ILDr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology Duke University
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1:00 pm 5/7/2026Knight Auditorium, Spurlock MuseumAttend a lecture in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar "At Risk U: The Past, Present, & Future of Academic Freedom" lecture series with Chris Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation, London).

