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Calling all new and returning students! Kick off the school year and celebrate Krannert Art Museum’s newest exhibitions at KAM Fest. Visit the museum from 12–3:30 pm on Tuesday, Aug 25, to pick up your free welcome kit and participate in fun art activities. Pack your own Rest Lab care package and try printmaking with the Noble Print Club. Light snacks provided.

Celebrate opening night of "Centering Clay: Connection and Innovation in American Studio Ceramics" and meet our new director Stephanie Smith. Enjoy new exhibitions, live music, and a dance party in the galleries. Parking nearby is free after 5 pm.

Please join the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory for our Fall 2026 Welcome Reception at Pizzeria Antica. The Director of the Unit, Dede Ruggles, will announce upcoming MCT speakers, Unit events, and more. All are welcome!

The Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity will host its fall reception on September 3rd 4-5:30pm (remarks at 4:30) at YMCA Latzer Hall. RSVP appreciated.

Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois.

Celebrate the launch of “Quinceañeras: Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture” (University of Illinois Press), co-edited by two alumni and an emerita professor from the Institute of Communications Research.

Gather with us in community to celebrate this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year!