Campus Humanities Calendar
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 10/29/2025Main Library Room 321The International and Area Studies Library, Literatures and Languages Library, Ricker Library of Architecture and Art, Music and Performing Arts Library, and History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library invite you to our "International Studies and Humanities Meet and Greet" on Wednesday, October 29, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM, in Main Library Room 321.
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5:30 - 7:00 pm 10/30/2025Siebel Center for Design, Classroom 1002
How might service and volunteer work reinforce structures of inequity? Join We CU and OVCDEI on Thursday, October 30, at 5:30 PM for a workshop on centering equity and humility in service learning. This training will help you develop strategies to promote equity in your own service work, critically examine biases, and center the voices of the communities you are serving.
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6:30 - 9:00 pm 10/30/2025Spurlock Museum 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
Join us for a spectacular evening of African and other world language(s) poetry
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 10/31/2025Natural History Building 2049
Are 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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4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/1/2025The Literary: 122 N Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820
November 1, 2025 4-5pm - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley: Spurlock Museum is proud to partner with The Literary to present this new community program. Free books will be provided to the first 13 people that sign up for participation. Stop by the museum anytime during open hours to sign up and pick up your free book.
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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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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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5:15 - 6:45 pm 11/4/2025TBD
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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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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 11/6/2025Spurlock 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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6:00 - 7:30 pm 11/6/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
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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 pm 11/9/2025Chapel of St. John the Divine, Champaign
This concert by Urbana's newest period instrument ensemble directed by Professor Emerita Charlotte Mattax Moersch, celebrates the elegance and grandeur of the French Baroque, with works by Leclair, Couperin, and Rameau.
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11:30 am - 12:30 pm 11/11/2025908 W. Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801
Join us as we honor Veterans Day with keynote speaker Major General (Ret.) James H. Mukoyama, Jr., a University of Illinois alumnus, decorated combat Veteran, a proud Illinois alumnus and trailblazing U.S. Army leader.
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 11/11/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
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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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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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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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7:30 pm 11/15/2025The Venue CU
Featuring an all-star ensemble made up of beloved Yiddish vocalists Lorin Sklamberg and Sasha Lurje, plus five leading string players from the klezmer scene, this project blends techniques and soundscapes from klezmer music, Yiddish theatre, folk song, cantorial repertoire, and classical music in a program that is equal parts storytelling...
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10:00 am - 6:00 pm 11/16/2025Activities & Recreation Center (ARC), Multipurpose Room 7
Celebrate the festival’s grand finale with a kugel cook-off and taste-off! Featuring a performance by our local Papashoy Klezmer Band and guest judges Gioconda Guerra Perez (UIUC Interim Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion), Deb Feinen (Mayor of Champaign), and Deshawn Williams (Mayor of Urbana)...
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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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5:15 - 6:45 pm 11/18/2025TBD
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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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5:00 pm 12/5/2025Online application portal
Campus Fellowship applications are due.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 12/11/2025Main Library, Room 346
Come and celebrate the semester’s end with hot apple cider, sweet and salty treats, and some of our favorite winter-themed materials from the RBML vault. Make a button, relax with a coloring sheet, and leave with a live-printed linocut card! This event is part of the library's Reading Day De-Stress Fest; it is open to the public and refreshments will be served.
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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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12:00 - 1:30 pm 1/28/2026The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity!
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5:00 - 7:00 pm 1/29/2026Krannert Art Museum
Eleven faculty members from the School of Art & Design will be featured in the upcoming exhibition, Another Place: Story-making the Entangled Prairie. The exhibition considers how people make and define place through stories, and how stories carry out a kind of labor, maintaining narratives about the places we live—and about us.
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All Day 2/12/2026 - 2/13/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
How does recognizing the fundamental entanglements of humans and the more-than-human world impact notions of "justice"? Drawing on perceptions from diverse communities, disciplines, and social, political, and historical contexts, this symposium will provide a space for us to grapple with the question: What might a more just world or worlds look like in the 21st century?
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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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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 4pm
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9:00 am - 4:00 pm 4/3/2026Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
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12:00 pm 4/15/2026BNAACC U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–95); Creative Writing, University of Virginia Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
U.S. Poet Laureate (1993–95); Creative Writing, University of Virginia Cohosted with the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.
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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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All Day 4/23/2026TBD
Annual Armenian Genocide Event Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University). Time and location TBD
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5:00 pm 4/23/2026TBD
Annual Armenian Genocide Event, featuring Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University)
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4:00 - 6:00 pm 5/7/2026TBD
Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception