Research Seminars @ Illinois
Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.
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12:00 pm 12/2/2025Coble Hall, room 306 -
3:00 pm 12/3/2025Coble Hall, room 306 -
11:00 am 12/4/2025114 Transportation Building -
3:00 - 5:00 pm 12/5/2025Gregory Hall 223
Join us for a lecture titled "Adam Smith on Slavery" by Aaron Garrett, a professor of philosophy at Boston University.
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5:30 pm 12/9/2025Campus Instructional Facility, Room 2039
Join us for a lecture in the Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age series with Matthew DeCamp (University of Colorado). Drawing on insights from medical practice, philosophy, and the social sciences, his lecture will explore the use of AI in medicine and argue that AI has the potential to change who we are and what we value.
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7:00 pm 1/28/2026Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 1/30/2026Gregory Hall 223
Join us for a lecture by Ladelle McWhorter, a professor of philosophy at the University of Richmond.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 2/13/2026Gregory Hall 223
Join us for a lecture by Sandford Goldberg, the Chester D. Tripp professor in the Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University.
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 2/19/2026TBD
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7:30 pm 2/19/2026TBD
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 2/20/2026Gregory Hall 223
Join us for a lecture by Heather Demarest, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Boulder.
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4:00 pm 2/26/2026TBDErin Brock Carlson’s research centers the relationships between place, technology, and power, focusing on how communities work together to address complex public problems through communication and community organizing. She uses community-based and participatory approaches in her research.
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5:00 - 6:30 pm 3/9/2026TBD
Blewish And Beautiful: Contemporary Black Jewish Voices roundtable with TaRessa Stoval, Marc Perry, David Wright Faladé and other contributors to the Blewish And Beautiful volume co-edited by Sara Feldman, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, and Brett Ashley Kaplan.
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9:00 am - 5:00 pm 3/27/2026Levis Faculty Center 210
HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
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4:00 pm 3/30/2026TBD
Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 4/3/2026Gregory Hall 223
Join us for a lecture by Andrea Scarantino, a professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at Georgia State University.
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5:00 pm 4/20/2026Levis Faculty Center Room 208
Book launch of Ethan Madarieta's Land's Language: On Mapuche Memory, Translation, and the Territorial Aporia.
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5:00 pm 4/23/2026TBD
Annual Armenian Genocide Event, featuring Helen Makhdoumian (Postdoc, Vanderbilt University)