Campus Humanities Calendar

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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.

    • 2:00 - 3:00 pm    2/25/2025
    • Main Library 314

    This interactive workshop covers Microsoft Copilot AI, a university-approved tool designed to enhance your research, writing, and presentations. Copilot can assist with lesson planning, note-taking, and organizing information efficiently. Learn to find peer-reviewed articles, proofread your work, summarize meetings, create PPT presentations, or manage data in spreadsheets.

    • 2:00 - 4:00 pm    2/25/2025
    • Krannert Art Museum

    Join us for Global African Art Gallery Talk and Tour as part of the Global Relations’ Diaspora Talk series celebrating Black History Month! Explore the powerful stories behind the art—from historical forms to contemporary creations—and learn about the global connections these works represent.

    • 4:00 pm    2/25/2025
    • 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana

    Dr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston.

    • 4:00 pm    2/25/2025
    • 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana

    This lecture by Dr. Ussama Makdisi will kick off a year-long series focused on Palestinian history and culture. Don't miss out on this insightful event to explore the significance of Palestine in a global context!

    • 5:00 pm    2/25/2025
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center

    We are excited to announce that Dr. Robert P. Jones, founder and director of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and NYT best-selling author of White Too Long, The End of White Christian America, and The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future will be presenting the Department of Religion’s annual Thulin Lecture at 5 pm on Feb.25.

    • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm    2/26/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois, Room 210

    Please join us for presentations by recent CAS Associates! 11am, John Levi Barnard, The Edible and the Endagered; Noon, Lindsay Rose Russell, Queens, Queers, and Dictionaries.

    • 4:00 - 6:00 pm    2/27/2025
    • Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL 61801

    Come lift a glass in celebration as we share the collective vision of our exciting mission! The Office for Arts Integration (OAI) is an initiative of Chancellor Robert J. Jones, spearheaded by the Special Advisor for Arts Integration Dr. M. Cynthia Oliver to amplify creative practice across our many domains.

    • 5:00 - 6:30 pm    2/27/2025
    • Native American House, 1206 W. Nevada St, Urbana

    Are you interested in being a part of a critical reading collective? Consider registering for the Spring 2025 Native American House (NAH) Book Club!

    • 5:30 pm    2/27/2025
    • Room 66, Main Library (1408 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801)

    This powerful documentary reveals intercepted calls from Russian soldiers, exposing the brutality of war and Russia’s imperialist aggression. Juxtaposed with footage of Ukraine’s destruction and resilience, it captures the war’s devastating human toll.

    • 5:30 - 7:30 pm    2/27/2025
    • Krannert Art Museum

    Join us for a special evening presented in partnership with the Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County. Free and open to all. We look forward to welcoming you!

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    • 7:30 pm    2/27/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Based on two years of ethnographic interviews with patients of chronic illness and participant observation with practitioners of complementary medicine in California, this talk examines what “sensitivity” can provide as a source of information about the relationship between the individual and the environment, and how this impacts health.

    • 8:30 am - 5:00 pm    2/28/2025
    • Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon St, Urbana, IL 61801

    The goal of the symposium is to take stock of creative frameworks for design educators (in architecture and landscape architecture in particular) to collaborate with communities. We will reflect on existing models and speculate on new directions for university-community partnerships in the built environment.

    • All Day    2/28/2025 - 3/2/2025
    • On-Campus, TBD

    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 an experiential format. Join us on campus for a detox-weekend!

    • 5:00 pm    2/28/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, 210

    Dwight Reynolds (UC Santa Barbara) ~ People often sing in languages they cannot speak and often listen to songs in languages they do not understand. The result is a complex network of lyrics and melodies performed by musicians, and for audiences, who may or may not understand the language of the words.

    • 10:00 am    3/1/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, 210

    William Stroebel (University of Michigan) ~ The Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923 was the first internationally legitimated project of forced deracination in modern history.

    • 4:00 pm    3/3/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    I propose postcards of defense practices for migrant communities in Mexico, as well as latent and manifest migrant struggles occurring in Mexico City in the 21st century. I call for Research with Implicating Passion (IPI) to study what we have called the 'global government of migrations.’

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm    3/3/2025
    • BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street)

    The What Now? Series continues March 3rd (Monday) from 5:15-6:45pm at BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street). Confirmed speakers include Ciro Incoronato and Jessica Greenberg.

    • 5:30 pm    3/3/2025
    • 316 Art & Design Building

    "Face and Myth: Some Soviet Theories of the Portrait," Samuel Johnson, Associate Professor, Syracuse University. Monday, March 3, 5:30 pm, Art & Design 316.

    • 12:00 pm    3/4/2025
    • 1064 Lincoln Hall or VirtualDo you travel to present research in other countries? Do you collaborate with researchers at foreign institutions? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, your research may be subject to export control policies. Join LAS Office of Research and Office of Research Security Director Linda Lee Drozt to learn more about requirements and regulations affecting research. Click here to learn more or register for this event.

    Do you travel to present research in other countries? Do you collaborate with researchers at foreign institutions? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, your research may be subject to export control policies.

    • 11:00 - 11:45 am    3/5/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois, Room 210

    Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate David Wright Faladé on his new work, a non-fiction treatment of his novel The New Internationals, based on his parents.

    • 3:30 - 5:00 pm    3/5/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    The Humanities Research Institute and Women & Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline that changed the field in important ways.

    • 5:00 pm    3/5/2025
    • Illini Union, Room 210 (1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)

    This presentation will highlight some of the central dilemmas that scholars of antisemitism face today and propose one possible avenue for the potential resolution of the intersecting interests and pressures that influence the study and understanding of antisemitism and other contemporary issues that straddle the academic and public realms.

    • 7:30 - 9:00 pm    3/6/2025 - 3/8/2025
    • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

    Studiodance re-imagines the relationships between space, sound, and movement as choreographers reinvent the visual environs of the magical “black box” theatrical laboratory.

    • All Day    3/7/2025 - 3/8/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center RM 210

    What does it mean to imagine and implement climate justice? This interdisciplinary symposium is driven by the urgent need for a range of interventions and tools: critique, experimentation, imagination, pragmatics and policy.

    • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm    3/7/2025
    • Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium

    Speakers will address the history, mechanism, and goals of political protest, looking at it from the various perspectives of ethics, efficacy, communication, strategy, solidarity, public policy, parliamentary channels, and law.

    • 9:45 am - 4:30 pm    3/7/2025
    • Lucy Ellis Lounge in the Foreign Languages Building

    Now Unfashionable is a symposium that will be hosted in the Lucy Ellis Lounge on Friday, March 7. Invited panelists will address ostensibly outmoded methods of literary study in the field of American literary history. The event will be open to the public. Food and refreshments will be served.

    • 1:00 pm    3/11/2025

    The Cline Center will be holding a Zoom information session for faculty interested in the AY2025-26 Linowes Faculty Fellows Program. If you would like to attend, email Scott Althaus to receive a Zoom link for the session.

    • 5:30 pm    3/11/2025
    • Campus Instructional Facility, Room 4025

    Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with John Durham Peters. Both in journalistic coverage and everyday life, there is now a striking level of detailed judgment about the minutiae of nonverbal and nonpublic expression.

    • 7:30 pm    3/12/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Community Speaker Series panelists: Traci Barkley (Director, Sola Gratia Farm) Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education) Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction)

    • 12:00 pm    3/13/2025
    • University Archives (room 146, Main Library) or via Zoom

    Dr. Jog, Associate Research Scientist in the Wetland Science Program at the Prairie Research Institute will present “Using plants to understand wetland health.”

    • 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.

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    • 7:00 pm    3/26/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    Join us for an evening of jazz and poetry with award-winning poet Janice N. Harrington (Creative Writing/English) and musician Charles “Chip” McNeill (Music). Harrington will read selections from her book Yard Show with musical accompaniment by McNeill and student musicians from the University of Illinois School of Music.

    • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm    3/28/2025
    • Levis 210

    Keynote speakers: Dr. Rituparna Roy and Vishwajyoti Ghosh.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    4/10/2025
    • University Archives (room 146, Main Library) or via Zoom

    Dr. Winful, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and a participant in the DRIVE Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Program, will discuss her research on the biological mechanisms linking stress to health, with a focus on inflammation.

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    • 12:00 pm    4/16/2025
    • Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)

    Free lunch and informal talk for undergraduates of any major. With poet and essayist Ross Gay.

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    • 7:30 pm    4/16/2025
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center BallRoom

    A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay.

    • 5:00 pm    4/24/2025
    • Siebel Design Center

    Photographers Ara Oshagan and Levon Parian will present a two-part art exhibit from their iWitness project at the Siebel Design Center in the spring culminating in a moderated talk at 5pm on April 24th at the Siebel Center.

    • 12:00 pm    4/30/2025
    • 1064 Lincoln Hall or Virtual

    Join the LAS Office of Research to learn more about grant support for faculty researchers in LAS. Our team will share information on pre-award services, such as budgeting, document review, and preparing for submission to SPA. This session will be particularly helpful for faculty without access to dedicated unit-based grant support staff.

    • 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.

    • 4:00 - 6:00 pm    5/8/2025
    • Spurlock Museum Atrium

    Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.