Speakers

The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.

Please join the HRI Sport Studies Research Cluster for a guest talk by Dr. Anna Baeth, senior research manager for Athlete Ally. Her talk will center on the science of trans athletes. What does bench science empirically prove about transgender athletes and their place in sport?

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

“Targeted drug delivery to tumor associated macrophages in glioblastoma mouse models" Urbi Saha, PhD Student Department of Neuroscience, University of Illinois

Prize-winning filmmaker Simon Bright will present on the challenges of preserving cinematic records of the liberation struggles of Southern Africa.

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.”

We will discuss programming for 2026-27 and plans for the Medieval Studies semimar.

The 24th annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place March 5-7, 2026. This year’s theme is Gender and Labor. This year's conference will feature graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Arunima Datta and Dr. Eric McDuffie.

In collaboration with The Grainger College of Engineering and Siebel Center for Design, the Human-Centered Engineering Consortium is hosting the first symposium on human-centered engineering. The symposium will bring together educators, practitioners and researchers from all engineering disciplines. Attendance is free and all are welcome! Come join us in the conversation.

Featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Arunima Datta (Associate Professor of History, University of North Texas) and Eric McDuffie (Associate Professor of History, UIUC).

Please join us Thursday, March 5th at 9:00 AM for Community Conversations with Cunningham Children’s Home. Parking will be available in the southeast corner of the State Farm Center. This session is part of a series featuring local nonprofits and campus and community colleagues who have given their time and talents to those organizations.

Joel Waldfogel will present "AI and the quantity and quality of creative products: have LLMs boosted creation of valuable books?" as part of the AImpact Speaker Series.

"Biocluster Overview" David Slater Associate Director of High Performance Computing

The ICR Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates to engage in dialogue around some of the most relevant and timely research in our field.

Speaker: Lauren Childs (Virginia Tech)

Speaker: Hong-Ye Hu, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Fellow, Harvard University

The panelists will talk about building AI Literacy for language teachers, both by sharing tools that can support educators and by recognizing the ways AI poses new challenges for teachers. They will also share examples for approaching AI Literacy for learners, including helping students better understand how AI use can impact their language learning, for better or worse.

Technocracy, the Unit for Criticism's spring conference, will be held on March 5, starting at 3:00 PM, and March 6 starting at 9:00 AM and concluding with a keynote at 5:30 PM. The conference concludes with a keynote by Fred Turner (Communication, Stanford) at 5:30 PM, followed by a reception. Full details are available on the Unit webpage.

Join us for the NAIL Lab's inaugural talk and workshop of the "Visiting with and alongside Indigenous Language Workers: Conversations on Ethics and Praxis in Language Work" series. Materials are said to be in cold storage when they are placed where they can be stabilized and cared for long-term.

Professor Buff (Univ. of Wisconsin) traces the rise of private consultancies from 20th-century managerial capitalism and the military-industrial complex to their entry into higher education during neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, expanding further through disaster capitalism after the 2008 Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Through this series of new paintings, Kim Curtis celebrates the ongoing processes of destruction and restoration in our grasslands, forests, and wetlands. The opening reception is March 5, 5:00–7:00 p.m. The exhibition will be on view March 5–April 12.

Curator at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Michelle Joan Wilkinson, will be in conversation with Krannert Art Museum Senior Curator Allyson Purpura and Professor Irvin Hunt, Department of English, about the process of putting together exhibitions and the kinds of stories they tell.

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.

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. *Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*

Studiodance offers two different programs. Program A (at 7pm) features the MFA thesis works of Maggie Segale and e g condon. Program B (at 9pm) features solo works by Assistant Teaching Professors Jacob Henss and Samuel Hanson, a duet by 2nd year MFA candidates Chelsea Wahrendorf and Ethan Rome, and a group work by junior BFA candidate, Anna Brady.

FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: Brian Imai, PhD Proteomics Laboratory Supervisor Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Title: Proteomics and its applications

Professor Bharat Mehra, University of Alabama, on "From Trauma, Anxieties, and Dislocation at Intersecting Margins in a South Asian Experience and Beyond to Social Justice: “If Life Gives You Bananas Make Mango Shake”

Permutable Sky: Stratospheric Photosurveillance and the Geopolitics of the Open Secret by Dr. Jerry Zee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University.

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.

Join us for a special tour led by exhibiting artists from Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie. Gain insights into their creative practice and research. Today's tour features Brooke C. White (photography) and Emmy Lingscheit (printmaking). *Parking nearby is free on after 5 pm and on weekends.*

This special guided tour explores the ways in which societies across time and cultures interact with their belief systems, the physical world, and each other to address illness. Through this tour, we will examine how concepts of healing may shift from culture to culture and critically think about how we may implement expanded ideas of wellness into our own lives.

People often feel an inherent connection to nature. Throughout time, this relationship has become embedded within all aspects of our cultures. When chosen to be depicted physically, there may be a variety of motivations for doing so: politics, trade, and religion are a few examples.

Come learn about robots and the important women who shaped the field with FRC Team 4096, Ctrl-Z. Alongside Frisbee Bot, our frisbee-throwing robot, visitors will explore the ins and outs of FIRST Robotics Competition robots while also learning about women who profoundly influenced them.

Graduate Student Homotopy Theory Seminar

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Please join us at 5pm on March 9th in Alice Campbell Hall on the University of Illinois campus or from anywhere in the world via zoom, for the launch of Black, Jewish, and Beautiful: Contemporary Blewish Voices (Syracuse University Press, 2026). With much gratitude to Deborah Lynch, this event is the 2026 Greenfield Lynch lecture.

Speaker: Dafei Jin, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Notre Dame

Dr. Giroud will describe new developments in geomembrane design and performance. In particular, he will focus on new developments in the following four areas: (1) stability of geomembrane liner systems on slope, (2) properties of geomembrane liners, (3) leakage control by geomembrane liners, and (4) connection of geomembrane liners to rigid structures.

Speaker: Gabriel Provencher Langlois (UIUC)

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

Ingrid Sinclair’s feature-length film Flame (1986) tells the story of two young African women who join the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe in the 1970s. The film follows Flame and Liberty as they are faced with sexual harassment by male freedom fighters and later, by the patriarchy of the newly liberated Zimbabwe.

Join us for a lecture with Jennifer Chuong, an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the U of I. This lecture examines the invention of carborundum mezzotint by the African American artist Dox Thrash (1893-1965), arguing that the technique's significance lies not only in its aesthetic effects but in the labor surrounding its discovery and production.

Illinois Public Media and the Japan House present KOKUHO (2025). Kokuho, meaning "National Treasure," is a highly successful 2025 Japanese epic film by director Sang-il Lee about the intense, decades-long rivalry between two men destined for greatness in the traditional world of Kabuki theater.

We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in when you can to learn about the exciting projects undertaken by our faculty.

The Center for Writing Studies invites you to our lecture on Thursday, October 16, featuring Dr. Toby Beauchamp, an Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and affiliate faculty in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

The Center for Writing Studies will be hosting Dr. Bobby J. Smith II for a brownbag talk! Dr. Smith will be giving a lecture titled "Writing the Forgotten Black Past: Brief Notes on Recovery." Please join us on Thursday, March 12!

The Center for Writing Studies will be hosting Dr. Bobby J. Smith II for a brownbag talk! Dr. Smith will be giving a lecture titled "Writing the Forgotten Black Past: Brief Notes on Recovery." Please join us this week on Thursday, March 12!