Speakers

RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. On display through May 2025.

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!

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

Celebrate Illinois Watches Women's Sports Day with Girl Krush! On Sunday, March 2 @ 12:30 pm, Girl Krush will be cheering on Illinois Women's Basketball vs. Michigan. Join us as we recognize Illinois Watches Women's Sports Day and cheer the Illini to victory in this BIG10 matchup!

Microsoft Copilot AI is a university-approved tool designed to enhance your research, writing, and presentations. Copilot can also assist with lesson planning, note-taking, and organizing information efficiently.

Dr. Arif Alvi, President of Pakistan from 2018 to 2024, will share his insight on Pakistan’s climate-related challenges and the country’s role in the current socioeconomic landscape of South Asia.

In this session, new podcasters learn how to create an intentional, personalized brand to really make their show their own. We cover promoting and marketing podcasts through social media and other ways to get word out!

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.’

Join us for an Open House at the Women’s Resources Center on Monday, March 3, from 4 – 5:30 PM. Stop by the office to learn more about available resources and programming (including Women's History Month!) that the WRC can offer to support you in your role as a student leader on campus. Light refreshments will be provided.

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.

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

Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics and Moore Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech - "Quantum control and error mitigation from geometric space curves",

Speaker: Matilde Lalin (Université de Montréal) Title: The shifted convolution problem in function fields

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.

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

HUDA J. FAKHREDDINE is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She will talk about translating Salim Barakat's book "The Universe All at Once" and Ibrahim Nasrallah's "Palestinian".

Join us for a film discussion on "Funmilayo Ransome Kuti" which is a powerful movie tell the story of a fearless female leader who sparks a revolution against colonialism and patriarchy in Nigeria. The film is based on the renowned Nigerian activiist Fela Kuti. Watch the film on Amazon Prime and then join PhD Student Adetutu Faburoso for discussion.

Funmilayo Ransom Kuti Film Discussion Tuesday | March 4 | 6:30-8:00pm CST | via Zoom Discussion led by: Adetutu Faburoso, Ph.D Student in Human Resource Development (HDR) and minor in Gender Relations and International Development (GRID)

Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use! This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.

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.

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.

Food for the Soul, part of the Lunch on Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the many communities globally within the African Diaspora and our allies. This week's event is "Black Joy and Resistance: A Womanist Panel Discussion" w/ Whitney Clarke, Danisha Moore, and Cherese Waight.

"Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures" Xiaotang Lu, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are co-hosting our eighth annual event, “11 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories” bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.

“11 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories” brings together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.

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.

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.

Join us for dinner and a transformative 60-minute workshop tailored for first-generation college students from diverse backgrounds. In this interactive session at the Women's Resources Center , we will explore the importance of inclusivity in the workplace and equip you with the tools to identify and contribute to inclusive work environments.

Looking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how to identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover chasing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and other strategies to make

With: Rebekah Fitzsimmons (Carnegie Mellon, and iSchool Visiting Research Fellow), Tan Debnath & Glen Layne-Worthey (iSchool). Join our research team to explore data from 78 years of children’s book reviewing in the CCB’s Bulletin! BYOD - Bring Your Own Device. Free donuts will be available.

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

A reading by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, made possible by the Kaplan Family Writer in Residence Series.

SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It’s 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’s 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.

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

ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work.

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.

The 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry.

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.

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.

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.

Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe Defending Immigrants under a Trump Administration: An Immigrant Advocate's Perspective by Diana Rashid, Berkeley Public Interest Law Fellow and Attorney, National Immigrant Justice Center, in conversation with current La Colectiva students March 7, 2025 | 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign

Join us as we hear from five graduate students and recipient of fellowships through the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity. This online forum will include student presentations and Illinois faculty discussants. Research talks include discussions from Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, and Senegambia. Full details at https://go.illinois.edu/GraduateForum.

GRID Student Forum featuring graduate student research projects March 7, 12 pm - 3 pm via Zoom.

Join us for a communal sewing event with artist, Erica Fitzgerald. This special session of Crafternoons will to bring women (and others with any gender identity) together to stitch a 30-ft-long red fabric curtain that will be feature in the upcoming MFA thesis exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum in April.

Please join us for a roundtable discussion featuring distinguished professors Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Agamemnon Tselikas, and George Xenis, who will reflect on their work championing the study of classical and medieval Greek letters and literatures.

Concluding the first annual Global Book History at Illinois workshop, distinguished professors Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Agamemnon Tselikas, and George Xenis will touch on their work championing the study of classical and medieval Greek letters and literatures and reflect briefly on this groundbreaking new program.

Experience a performance in the galleries by video artist ACVilla and keyboardist/vocalist Thollem McDonas, as part of their national tour. The Sudden Sound Concert Series presented by Krannert Art Museum and Improvisers Exchange features leading artists in avant-garde jazz and music improvisation.

Experience a performance in the galleries by video artist ACVilla and keyboardist/vocalist Thollem McDonas, as part of their national tour. The Sudden Sound Concert Series presented by Krannert Art Museum and Improvisers Exchange features leading artists in avant-garde jazz and music improvisation.

Join us for our Dish It Up/Lunch on Us Series at the Women's Resources Center every 2nd & 4th Monday at noon (12 p.m. CST), while listening to speakers, lecturers, and panelists explore a variety of topics at the intersection of gender and other social identities.

Join us for our Dish It Up/Lunch on Us Series at the Women's Resources Center every 2nd & 4th Monday at noon (12 p.m. CST), while listening to speakers, lecturers, and panelists explore a variety of topics at the intersection of gender and other social identities.

Google Scholar is a popular and useful tool for research with several features that scholars may not be familiar with. This workshop will elaborate on the difference between searching in Google Scholar and academic databases, demonstrate how to use Google Scholar’s Advanced Search, explain how to connect your library access to Google Scholar...

Speaker: Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington

Speaker: Xiannan Li (Kansas State University) Title: One level and n-level density for a large orthogonal family of L-functions

Alanna Schepartz, PhD T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry; University of California, Berkeley "Expanding the Functional Proteome"

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.

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

It has been estimated that, for every manuscript now surviving from medieval England, another twenty were lost. Given what we have learned recently about medieval book production, the scale of the loss may be nearly twice that: the conventional understanding has been based on an unrepresentative minority of volumes saved by accident or an individual’s design.

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.