Speakers

This interdisciplinary discussion addresses: What does the book “The Third Reich of Dreams” offer to our reader in contemporary times? Amanda Rubin, Brett Ashley Kaplan and guests explore whether dreams as manifestations of the unconscious mind are random thoughts, inspiration, insights, foreshadowing, evidence of waking experience, or something else.

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

This workshop introduces students, academics and community members to visual storytelling skills and methods, including storyboarding, mood boarding, and writing scripts, as well as working with and adapting archival materials. Amanda Rubin will lead off by discussing the documentary she making on Charlotte Beradt, author of "The Third Reich of Dreams" (2025).

"Acute Exposure to Di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate or Diisononyl Phthalate Leads to Increased Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in the Uterus of Mice" Adriana Rose Andrus, Graduate Student Animal Sciences

Join us Sept 3 from 12 - 1 pm for the Center for Children's Books Open House! You'll get a chance to check out our space, learn about what we offer, and get some free galleys.

Critical Race Theory in Cinema Film Series. Sept. 3rd. 7:00 PM Art + Design building 3rd Floor Rm. 331. This week's film, "I Am Not Your Negro" Directed by Raoul Peck. Written by James Baldwin/Raoul Peck 2017

Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology

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. Topic: TBD

Amanda Rubin, documentary filmmaker and journalist's lecture on The Third Reich of Dreams, shares the incredible untold story of Charlotte Beradt and her legacy of courage as a woman, journalist, and refugee. This hybrid lecture will focus on the power of the irrepressible imagination and the potent symbolism of books, writing and archiving as “witnesses to history".

Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity Thursdsay, September 4, 4 pm - 5 pm YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign Remarks at 4:20 pm RSVP appreciated by Sep. 1.

Mariana Mora (Associate Professor - Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City) will present “When witnessing isn’t enough: reflections on justice and the transformative potential of research.” This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines...

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 experiential format. The retreat is fully funded for all UIUC students.

Emerging contaminants pose critical risks to ecosystems and public health due to their pervasive presence and potential toxicity.

FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: ​Steven Jackson, PhD, RDN ​Adjunct faculty ​​Southern Illinois University, Carbondale ​​and ​​Post-doctoral researcher in Nutritional Toxicology ​Texas A&M University Title: NutriClay strategies against foodborne AMR bacterial pathogens

Join us for a conversation with artist Millie Wilson, curators David Evans Frantz and Amy L. Powell, moderated by Jill H. Casid, part of the online series The New Social Environment, organized and hosted by the Brooklyn Rail. Sign up to get the Zoom link: kam.illinois.edu/events. (10 am Pacific / 12 pm Central / 1 pm Eastern)

Join us for a conversation with artist Millie Wilson, curators David Evans Frantz and Amy L. Powell, moderated by Jill H. Casid, part of the online series The New Social Environment, organized and hosted by the Brooklyn Rail. Sign up to get the Zoom link: kam.illinois.edu/events. (10 am Pacific / 12 pm Central / 1 pm Eastern)

Join us for a screening of "In Search of Bengali Harlem" followed by remarks and a Q & A with Vivek Bald (director, producer, writer). This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines: Reconsidering Racism, Movements, and Epistemes in the Americas.

Join us for a lecture by professor Jennifer Lackey, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Her talk will explore how stories can epistemically wrong a person in life-altering ways and yet also be the source of the corresponding epistemic reparations that are called for in response.

Please join us in our anti-panel conversations about our vessel works. During this segment of the culminating event, we will interact and think through the concepts of resistance, refusal, and re-existence across color lines. A reception will follow.

Enjoy artmaking, stories, and exploring the galleries! You'll get to make a paper modern house and learn about midcentury design. You’ll get to make your own sculpture inspired by artist Frank Stella and learn about colors, textures, and shapes. For ages 5+.

Sepsis Alliance presents the Unite for Sepsis Symposium in partnership with the Grainger College of Engineering and the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois. Topics include regulatory approval of diagnostics, AI tools, clinical trials, and funding pathways to improve outcomes and save lives.

Ronnie Grinberg, author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, to offer the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and HGMS kick-off event, generously funded by the Goldberg lecture series

Ronnie Grinberg examines how masculinity and Jewishness were linked in the minds of the New York intellectuals. Men and women, Jews and non-Jews in the group, all embraced a secular Jewish machismo that at its core prized verbal combativeness, polemical aggression, and an unflinching style of argumentation. Light lunch will be provided.

Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Dr. Ronnie Grinberg, University of Oklahoma September 8, 2025 at noon | Lucy Ellis Lounge (LCLB 1080)

IUC Labor Education Program professor Augustus Wood will join HRI Social Movements Reading Group to discuss his book, Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification on Mon Sept 8 (discussion) and Mon Sept 15 (Q&A) 5:30PM Lincoln Hall 3057.

Cities must be conceived as complex systems capable of integrating multiple levels of connectivity: ecological, urban, social, and metropolitan. Only through such interrelations is it possible to achieve the bioclimatic quality required to mitigate the effects of climate change and to ensure resilient urban environments.

The HRI Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis Mondays at 5:30 pm, Lincoln Hall 3057.

Speaker: Andrei Faraon, William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Ilana Brito, PhD Mong Family Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in Biomedical Engineering, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering; Cornell University "Infection Genomics for One Health"

Attend this session to learn about the Interseminars Co-Teaching Grant for tenure-stream faculty (application deadline October 3, 2025). Interseminars will fund three interdisciplinary graduate courses in the arts and humanities, each co-taught by two faculty instructors. Each team will receive programming funds for course-related guest speakers and events.

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

Dive into Nabil Ayouch’s vibrant musical drama following Anas, a former rapper turned teacher, who empowers Casablanca youth to challenge traditions through hip-hop. Post-screening discussion led by Eric Calderwood (Director of CSAMES and Professor of Comparative & World Literature).

Kicking off this year’s Modern Critical Theory lecture series, Peter Coviello (English, University of Illinois Chicago) will deliver a talk titled “What is Theory? Inside the Fascist Sequence.”

BROWN BAG TALK: The Illinois Partnership for African Women's Health Narratives: A Cross-Continental Transmedia Initiative by Stretch Ledford, Associate Professor of Journalism Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 12 noon (CST) Coble Hall, Room 306 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61801

Bio: Dr. Gabriel Stanovsky is a senior lecturer (assistant professor) in the school of computer science & engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). He did his postdoctoral research at the University of Washington and AI2 in Seattle, working with Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer and Prof. Noah Smith, and his PhD

This weeks movie: Ixcantul

Riccardo Muti’s Cherubini Orchestra Cello Quartet will perform in Urbana as part of a five-city tour organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular & Integrative Physiology

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Join the WRC for a discussion with Katie Simon, journalist and author of Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault. Limited copies of the book will be given to participants who register & attend. Lunch provided.

Join the WRC for a discussion with Katie Simon, journalist and author of Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault. The author's talk will take place on Thursday, September 11, from 12-1 PM at the Women's Resources Center (616 E Green St, Suite #213).

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. Dr. Aguayo will discuss Youth Media Production in the U.S.

stu/dio Director Dan Cermak, Producer Robbie Sieczkowski, and Associate Producer and XR Lead Sep Afshar will present an overview of the studio’s growing portfolio, which now includes 7 XR projects. They will introduce the production pipeline, share real examples from current projects, and highlight the XR design principles guiding development.

New York–based artist Ronny Quevedo will discuss his solo exhibition Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s, on view at Krannert Art Museum through December 6, 2025. This expansive project includes drawings from several lenders across the United States and a monumental sculpture. He will be joined in conversation by Krannert Art Museum curators Amy L. Powell and Allyson Purpura.

New York–based artist Ronny Quevedo will discuss his solo exhibition "Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s," on view at Krannert Art Museum through December 6, 2025. This expansive project includes drawings from several lenders across the United States and a monumental sculpture. He will be joined in conversation by museum curators Amy L. Powell and Allyson Purpura.

The Flatlands Dance Film Festival is dedicated to supporting and presenting Dance Cinema, a medium which explores and innovates the intersections between filmmaking and dance making. The festival builds educational platforms, encourages dialogue, and promotes a diverse range of cultural perspectives from around the globe. This year's films coincide with Dance at Illinois'

South Asian Studies Initiative hosts daytime lectures, (formerly part of CSAMES Brown Bag lectures), organized as South Asia Friday Talks @ 11. All Friday Talks are virtual, on Fridays from 11 AM to 12 PM.

Science on Tap is a monthly seminar series that brings scientists to the public to talk about their research in an informal setting. Our speaker will be Professor Lori Raetzman

"The Crisis of Imagination" Abstract It would be nice to make architecture like trees, in the broadest sense. So the trees are the architecture, and the forest is the city. So, let’s not forget to see the forest for the city. Just as the saying goes “You can’t see the forest for the trees”.

Join the College of Media Frank Center via Zoom for a Q&A with Christian Alicea, director of NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas, where he is responsible for the design and production of the flagship news broadcast of NBC News.

Speaker: Angela Kou, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois

Part of the Cancer Center at Illinois Seminar Series that features the latest research and the center of cancer and engineering.

CSBS is excited to announce the Visionary Voices Lecture Series with inaugural guest Jens Ludwig on September 16. The Visionary Voices Lecture Series highlights scholars whose work demonstrates the essential role of social and behavioral science in addressing complex societal challenges. This talk will discuss the ideas in Ludwig’s new book.

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

Poet, essayist, translator, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of three books of poetry, and a winner of the 2024 National Book Award.  Her visit is part of the Illinois Global Institutes "Palestine in the World" series. The IGI Series on Global Responsibilities brings multidisciplinary and global perspectives to major contemporary questions.

A poetry reading by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha sponsored by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies with support from the Carr visiting author series and creative writing program in the Department of English

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of three books of poetry, including Something About Living (UAkron, 2024)/ She is also winner of the 2024 National Book Award.

Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha | 5 pm - 7 pm | Knight Auditorium Spurlock Museum

Richard Gilman-Opalsky (Politics & International Affairs, UI Springfield) and Matt Soener (Sociology, UIUC) will deliver lectures on Marxism as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates. The Box folder of readings for each lecture is available here.