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10:00 - 10:50 am 11/3/2025CITL Innovation Studio, Armory room 172 and online via ZoomAt-scale programs face a dilemma: how to maintain educational quality and a great experience while keeping programs affordable and sustainable. This presentation demonstrates how AI-assisted grading (where AI helps graders focus their time on students needing more assistance) can resolve this tension through three experiments at the Gies College of Business.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/4/2025Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306. -
12:30 pm 11/4/2025KAM 62, Krannert Art Musem, 500 E Peabody Dr. Champaign, IL -
5:30 pm 11/5/2025Temple Buell Hall Atrium | Temple Buell Hall Room 134 Plym AuditoriumArturo A. Massol-Deyá is the executive director of Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas, a community-based group with 38 years of services in natural resources conservation, education, and sustainable development.
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9:00 am - 3:00 pm 11/6/2025This conference brings together healthcare professionals, educators, and advocates to explore best practices, innovations, and collaborative strategies that enhance safety in perinatal care. Through expert-led sessions and interactive discussions, we aim to foster a culture of continuous improvement in maternal and newborn health.
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10:00 - 10:50 am 11/6/2025CITL Innovation Studio, Armory room 172 and online via ZoomJoin Senior Assistant Director, James Castree from the Career Center at Illinois for a discussion on how generative AI has impacted career services. Learn about its uses in career coaching, its impact on the job search process for our students, and how employers have responded to the AI boom.
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 11/6/2025Levis Faculty Center Room 208 -
5:00 pm 11/6/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge -- room 1080, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics BuildingIn 14th-century Provence, the volume of contracts produced by public notaries increased rapidly from thousands each year to millions. Reliance on writing impacted even the most remote rural communities and marginalized actors, including women, peasants, and religious minorities. Why did written records become so wildly popular so quickly? What were the consequences?
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5:30 pm 11/6/2025KAM 62, Krannert Art Musem, 500 E Peabody Dr. Champaign, IL -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/7/2025Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, ChampaignFriday Forum + Conversation Café: Fighting for Algorithmic Justice in an Age of AI-Driven Surveillance by Clara Belitz Time: November 7 at 12 PM Location: University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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12:00 pm 11/7/2025306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
3:00 - 5:00 pm 11/7/2025Gregory Hall 321Join us for a lecture from Tempest Henning, an associate professor at Fisk University.
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5:30 pm 11/10/2025Temple Buell Hall Atrium | Temple Buell Hall Room 134 Plym Auditorium -
5:00 pm 11/11/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge -- room 1080, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics BuildingThis talk follows the remarkable afterlife of a lie: the accusation that the Jews of Brussels desecrated the Eucharistic Host in 1370. From its thin medieval traces, the story grew into a grand civic myth, told through paintings, processions, and stained glass, that came to define Brussels' religious and urban identity for centuries.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 11/12/2025Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801Gillen D’Arcy Wood will speak about his new book, "The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline".
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/13/2025Main Library Room 146 or via Zoom.School of Integrative Biology graduate student Vivian Cheng will discuss her research using genetics, ancient DNA, and historical archives to understand the effects of climate change and colonialism on narwhals. November 13 |12pm till 1 pm (CST) | Main Library Room 146 or Zoom
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 11/13/2025Levis Faculty Center Room 208In contrast to the moral panics about the ways that AI chatbots may be shrinking people’s social worlds by replacing human-to-human interaction, there is an incredible optimism in some corners that AI will radically open up the social world to include animals, enhancing or enabling new forms of interspecies communication.
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1:00 - 1:50 pm 11/13/2025CITL Innovation Studio, Armory room 172 and online via ZoomDiscover how you can practice and develop your soft skills with the AI-integrated VR application, Ovation VR. This tool gives you an immersive way to practice different speaking skills such as presentations, job interviews, conversations, language learning, and more with in-depth feedback, natural conversation flow, and Q&A.
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 11/13/2025230 Davenport Hall -

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl | The Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging
7:30 pm 11/13/2025Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana)Rabbi Angela Buchdahl is the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi and is now senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York. The daughter of a Korean Buddhist mother and Jewish American father, Rabbi Buchdahl is a prominent voice in national conversations about antisemitism, interfaith dialogue, and the evolving role of faith communities in public life.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/14/2025Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, ChampaignFriday Forum + Conversation Café: In the Deep End by Jameel Bridgewater Time: November 14 at 12 PM Location: University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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12:00 pm 11/14/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB) -
2:30 - 3:30 pm 11/14/2025Illini Rooms | Illini Union | 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
6:00 - 8:00 pm 11/17/2025The Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., UrbanaIn this talk, award-winning classicist and bestselling author Dr. Emily Hauser explores the many different ways in which we can start to uncover the women of the ancient world. Hauser's writings range from deep analysis of Greek texts, to popular contemporary myth retellings, to innovative takes on history that mix fact and fiction to uncover new ways of knowing.
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5:15 pm 11/18/2025Levis 210 -
5:30 - 7:30 pm 11/18/2025Campus Instructional Facility, Room 2039Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Tara Isabella Burton: God-making: Magic and Transhumanism from the Renaissance to the Digital Age.
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12:00 pm 11/19/2025108 Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign 61820'Pioneers on the wild frontiers of local fascism:' Rethinking U.S. fascism through the Black antifascist tradition" Speaker: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Date and Time: November 19 at 12 pm Location: 108 Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign 61820
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 12/2/2025Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306. -
2:00 - 2:50 pm 12/4/2025CITL Innovation Studio, Armory room 172 and online via ZoomIn this upcoming student voices panel, students will provide their own Gen AI perspectives. This will be an informative conversation about the use of Gen AI in student's educational journeys, personal lives, and career preparations.
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5:30 - 7:30 pm 12/9/2025Campus Instructional Facility, Room 2039Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Matthew DeCamp: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: More than a Tool We Use.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 12/11/2025Main Library Room 146 or via Zoom.Dr. Pinshane Huang, Professor and Racheff Faculty Scholar of Materials Science and Engineering, will discuss her research on transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy of two-dimensional materials and soft-hard interfaces. December 11 |12pm till 1 pm (CST) | Main Library Room 146 or Zoom
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7:00 pm 1/28/2026Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign -
12:00 pm 2/6/2026306 Coble Hall and virtual via ZoomDr. D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor and Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture, will present her lecture "Muslim Woman and Architectural Patronage" February 6|12pm till 1pm (CST) | Coble Hall 306 or Zoom
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026Levis Faculty Center, Third FloorThe Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity (CSGGE) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are co-hosting our nineth annual event, “12 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.