General Events
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4:00 pm 11/3/2025Illini Union, Room 210Erik McDuffie ( African American Studies and History) will discuss his book The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom. Part of the Story & Place event series.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/4/2025Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/4/2025Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801Food for Thought, a Lunch-on-Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community.
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12:00 pm 11/5/2025Room 306 Coble Hall -
12:00 pm 11/5/20251208 W Nevada St, Urbana, ILThis talk examines the radical potential of quiet as aesthetic and material practice in relation to gendered forms of Asian American embodiment. Weaving together personal narrative alongside readings of authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Annelise Chen, and Simon Han, Geng explores notions of reclaiming quiet, of leaning into pauses, and of collect
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12:00 pm 11/5/2025Join us for the third webinar in the Costumes & Customs Lecture Series, sponsored by the Office of Arts Integration and organized in collaboration with the University Library, the Department of Theatre, the Department of Classics, the Spurlock Museum, and the Krannert Art Museum, explores the history and cultural significance of clothing across time and place.
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4:00 pm 11/5/2025Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
5:30 pm 11/5/2025Temple Buell Hall Atrium | Temple Buell Hall Room 134 Plym Auditorium -
11:00 am - 1:00 pm 11/6/2025Levis Faculty Center Room 208
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/6/2025La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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4:30 pm 11/6/2025Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
This talk will trace the journeys of the artists and activists who converged at Memorial Stadium in September 1985 to make the inaugural Farm Aid concert a landmark event in the history of popular music.
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4:30 pm 11/6/2025Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
This talk with Dan Gilbert will trace the journeys of the artists and activists who converged at Memorial Stadium in September 1985 to make the inaugural Farm Aid concert a landmark event in the history of popular music.
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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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5:00 pm 11/6/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge -- room 1080, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
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5:00 - 6:00 pm 11/6/2025Room F, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
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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) -
12:00 pm 11/7/2025Max L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
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10:15 am 11:30am 11/8/2025141 Loomis Laboratory of PhysicsThis presentation will introduce participants to a groundbreaking project called CraftCells: A Window into Biological Cells. This is the first tool that lets anyone—from researchers to curious students—step inside an accurate 3D model of a cell and see how life is organized at the tiniest scale.
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12:00 pm 11/10/2025Max L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/11/2025Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801Food for Thought, a Lunch-on-Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community.
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3:30 pm 11/11/2025College of Education 1310 S. Sixth St. Champaign, Room # 2 (Lower- Level)
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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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12:00 pm 11/12/2025Room 306 Coble Hall -
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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3:00 - 5:00 pm 11/12/2025Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 346 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana -
4:00 pm 11/12/2025Gregory Hall 810 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 223 -
DESPUÉS DE LAS ELECCIONES: ¿RE-MILITARIZACIÓN EN PUERTO RICO? HISTORIA, PODER Y FUTURO EN EL CARIBE.
5:00 - 6:30 pm 11/12/2025Zoom -
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 - 1:00 pm 11/13/2025La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 11/13/2025Levis Faculty Center Room 208
In 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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3:30 - 5:00 pm 11/13/2025230 Davenport Hall -
4:00 pm 11/13/2025Lucy Ellis, LCLB 1080
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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 11/14/2025404 David Kinley Hall - 1407 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801
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12:00 pm 11/14/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB) -
1:30 - 3:00 pm 11/14/2025Hybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM -
2:30 - 3:30 pm 11/14/2025Illini Rooms | Illini Union | 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
10:15 am 11:30am 11/15/2025141 Loomis Laboratory of PhysicsDid you know the internet is distributed using light? A quantum network uses the smallest possible blips of light, called photons, to share information in a fundamentally different way, based on the concepts of quantum mechanics. This presentation will share the work that led to the launch of the first Public Quantum Network (PQN) at The Urbana Free Library.
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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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/18/2025Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801Food for Thought, a Lunch-on-Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community.
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4:00 pm 11/18/20251080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 S. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 -
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 11/20/2025La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 12/2/2025Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306.
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5:00 - 6:00 pm 12/2/20251092 Lincoln HallJoin the College of Media Frank Center in person or register to join us via Zoom (link to come) for this Q&A with Chris Cillizza, an independent news creator on Substack and YouTube.
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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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7:00 pm 1/28/2026Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, 611 Lorado Taft Dr, Champaign
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/5/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/12/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/19/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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7:30 pm 2/19/2026TBD
Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 2/26/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/4/2026Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
The 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.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/5/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/12/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/19/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/26/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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4:00 pm 3/30/2026TBD
Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/2/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/9/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/16/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/23/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 4/30/2026La Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
