Library - Scholarly Commons

This calendar includes events sponsored by the Scholarly Commons as well as those by

our campus partners

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    • 9:00 - 11:00 am    2/1/2025 - 4/5/2025
    • Nevada 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.

    • 12:00 - 12:45 pm    3/26/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois, Room 210

    Please join us for a presentation by newly elected CAS Professor and recent CAS Associate Peter Fritzsche (History) on the fragile nature of human solidarity.

    • 12:00 pm    3/27/2025

    On March 27 at 12 PM, Cara Bertram (Archives Program Officer) will be giving a talk on the American Library Association (ALA) Archives and their history with communities of faith! Registration link is available here.

    • 4:30 pm   EST    3/27/2025
    • Watkins Lecture Hall, Earl V. Moore Building, 1100 Baits Dr Ann Arbor, MI 48109

    The Department of Music Theory hosts a lecture by distinguished guest scholar and SMTD alum Nancy Rao (MM ’89, voice and music theory; PhD ’94, music theory), and author of the forthcoming book, "Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond."

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm    3/27/2025
    • 1002 Lincoln Hall

    David Roediger, Foundation Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas and former UIUC professor, is a leading scholar on race and class in the U.S. The author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness, Roediger offers a critical response to the attack on Critical Race Theory while reflecting on his own upbringing and radicalization in Illinois.

    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm    3/31/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center room 424

    This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Stop by to listen, chat, and share lunch! Light refreshments provided. If you are interested in sharing something, please contact Chloe Parrella.

    • 6:00 - 7:00 pm   EST    3/31/2025
    • Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542

    Connie Goddard discusses her book, "Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity," the intellectual heritage of the Bordentown School; and efforts to reopen the campus as a school and public open space. Registration requested.

    • 10:00    4/2/2025
    • 220 Smith Memorial Hall (805 S Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801)

    Musicologist Mackenzie Pierce examines the role of Polish Jewish musicians in shaping concert music amid antisemitism, Nazi occupation, and postwar rebuilding in his forthcoming book. Reconstructing their lives from the 1920s to the 1950s, he reveals how music became both a means of cultural preservation and a tool for reinvention.

    • 5:30 - 7:00 pm   EDT    4/2/2025
    • Sims Hall, 331, Syracuse, NY 13210

    Miriam Thaggert, author of "Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad" and Professor and Associate Chair of English at SUNY Buffalo, uncovers the overlooked work of African American women on American railroads.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm    4/3/2025
    • 346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr

    The RBML welcomes Justine Murison, editor of a new critical edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel. Murison will discuss the work’s historical and literary contexts, the revolutionary politics with which the novel engages, and the enduring questions it asks about American society. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free, and a

    • 8:00 - 10:00 pm    4/3/2025
    • Spurlock Museum

    The speaker for the India Studies Lecture for 2025 is Vasudha Narayanan. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida and a past President of the American Academy of Religion. Her lecture will be on "Tamil Culture: More sweet than celestial nectar, more precious than one’s breath." It will be held at the Spurlock Museum...

    • 12:00 pm    4/4/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois, Room 210

    Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) on moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical, inside/outside, or status-quo/anti-establishment to better understand youth activism.

    • 4:00 - 5:30 pm   EDT    4/7/2025
    • Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249, 411 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC 27708

    A viewing of the film Playing the Changes, and discussion with Darius and Cathy Brubeck, authors of "Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road."

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm    4/7/2025
    • BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street)

    The What Now? Series continues April 7 (Monday) from 5:15-6:45pm at BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street). Confirmed speakers include Karen Flynn and Julie Pryde.

    • 11:30 am - 1:30 pm    4/8/2025
    • Union League Club of Chicago, 65 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604

    Samantha Ege will be in conversation with Frank Villella on her book, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" and to share stories of the Black women whose creativity, perseverance, and energy transformed Chicago’s South Side into a wellspring of classical music making.

    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm   EDT    4/8/2025
    • Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith FHI, Bay 4, C105, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd. Durham, NC 27701

    Darius and Catherine Brubeck reflect on running a jazz program at the University of Natal (Now Kwazulu-Natal), in the final years of apartheid. Join us for a presentation and discussion on their book "Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road" (University of Illinois Press July 2024).

    • 12:15 - 1:15 pm    4/8/2025
    • 22 Education Building

    The Third Wave of the Asian American Studies Movement: Advocating for & Advancing Asian American Studies in K-12 Classrooms

    • 4:00 pm    4/8/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.

    • 5:00 pm    4/9/2025
    • Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208

    A concert pianist and a leading scholar and interpreter of the music of Florence Price, Samantha Ege is the author of a new book, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene."

    • 4:00 pm    4/10/2025
    • Lincoln Hall, Room 1002; 702 S Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801

    The Department of Asian American Studies welcomes Dr. Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California to present his talk "Mutual Aid and Resisting Carceral Power: Asian American Strategies".

    • 6:00 - 7:30 pm    4/10/2025
    • 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610

    Samantha Ege, author of "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene", will be signing books and speaking at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL about her new book.

    • 12:00 pm    4/18/2025
    • 0359 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL 61801)

    Join us for a lecture by ethnomusicologist Olga Zaitseva-Herz on the role of music in Russia’s war on Ukraine. She explores how state-controlled and grassroots music scenes shape the war’s political and social dynamics. A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Zaitseva-Herz examines music as a tool of resistance, diplomacy, and identity.

    • 7:30 pm   ET    4/18/2025
    • Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508

    Three fun-yet-informative visual presentations about Building Castles, Failed Spelling and the History of Black Westerns. Hear from Dr. Mia Mask, author of "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western."

    • 12:00 - 1:50 pm    4/21/2025
    • School of Labor and Employment Relations, Room 51, 504 E Armory Street

    Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.

    • 5:00 pm    4/23/2025
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana, IL 61801-3759

    A presentation and book signing from Darius and Catherine Brubeck, authors of "Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road."

    • 5:00 pm    4/25/2025
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory

    Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    5/6/2025
    • University Archives (room 146, Main Library) or via Zoom

    Jennifer Teper, Head of Preservation Services at the University of Illinois Library, will discuss how she uses science in her work to conserve library collections and special collections.

    • 6:00 - 7:00 pm    6/4/2025
    • Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall, 60 West Walton Street Chicago, IL 60610

    Join us to hear from Nora Wendl, who will discusses her new book, "Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth." Copies of the book will be sold through the Newberry Bookshop and a book signing will be held after the talk.