HRI

  • International Women's Day event speakers collage
    3:30 - 5:00 pm    3/4/2026
    Levis Faculty Center 300

    The Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and the Humanities Research Institute host the annual campus celebration of International Women's Day with “12 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories.”

  • 8:30 am    3/7/2026
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    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. Light refreshments will be provided. This edition of Scholarship Out Loud will be part of the 2026 Women’s and Gender History Symposium.

  • 12:00 - 1:30 pm    3/30/2026
    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. Bring your lunch and stop by to listen and chat!

  • Anke Pinkert and book cover
    4:00 pm    3/30/2026
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk

  • Justin Garcia
    4:00 pm    4/6/2026
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    This talk will highlight the Kinsey Institute’s founding and multi-disciplinary history, continued cultural impact, current research program, and reflect on the ways in which today’s social and political climate presents new challenges for multi-disciplinary sex research.

  • Rita Dove
    12:00 pm    4/15/2026
    Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)

    Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. She was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.

  • Rita Dove headshot
    7:30 pm    4/15/2026
    Alice Campbell Alumni Center

    Join us for a free public reading by award-winning poet Rita Dove. Dove served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, and was a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the 2023 honorary National Book Award.

  • 5:00 pm    4/20/2026
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

    Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.

  • 4:00 - 6:00 pm    5/7/2026
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception