College of LAS Events

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Sunday, April 28, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational

Monday, April 29, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- 12:30 - 2:30 pm
- 2090 B, LCLB
PhD Defense by Julien Berthelon: "“Descendants of Charles Bovary: Male Anxieties Through the Figure of the Cheated Husband in French Fin-de-Siècle Novel and Silent Film”
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- LCLB 3092C
Computational Linguistics Reading Group
- Meeting
- 2:30 - 3:30 pm
- 2090 B, LCLB
Practice talk (Italian Studies Conference) by Soraya Cipolla: "Blackness, Whiteness and Queerness in Igiaba Scego's Work: A Journey Toward the Transnational Queer"
- Lecture
- 3:00 pm
- Beckman 3269
Professor Luke Chao, Harvard University, "Ultrastructural regulation of the mitochondrial inner-membrane"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- TBD
Linguistics Seminar Series: Amanda Brown
- Lecture
- 5:00 - 7:00 pm
- LCLB 4080A
Lecture by Lawrence Kritzman (Dartmouth College): “Modiano’s Remembrance of Things Past: Dora Bruder and the Shoah”
- Lecture
- 6:00 pm
- Plym Audiorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Zaida Muxi: Beyond the Threshold. Women, Houses and Cities
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- ARMORY FREE THEATRE, ROOM 160, Armory Building
INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre AUDITIONS for FALL 2024
- Performance
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center 424
Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 109 English Building
Yom HaShoah Workshop
- Conference/Workshop
- 1:00 pm
- 279 Davenport Hall
Amie Lanzendorf, Final Defense, UIUC, "Development of Small Molecules Toward Therapeutic Applications for Myotonic Dystrophy and Cancer"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Laboratory
CHBE 565-International Paper Co Seminar, Prof. Priya Shah, University of California, Davis (Shukla) "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Integrating Virology and Engineering to Drive Discovery"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Distinguished Inorganic Lecture: Professor A. Dean Sherry, University of Texas - Dallas, "Next Generation MR Contrast Agent Designs for Imaging Physiology & Metabolism"(I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm 5:00 p.m.
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Student Seminar: Angelica Caserio/Metcalf Lab and Courtney Hill/Hatoum-Aslan Lab
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Knight Auditorium in the Spurlock Museum
Science, Health, & Equity Series: Unintended Consequences of Premature Black Death

Please join us for the first event of the Science, Health, and Equity Series: Unintended Consequences of Premature Black Death at the Spurlock Museum on Tuesday, Apr. 30 at 4 p.m.
- Lecture

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- ARMORY FREE THEATRE, ROOM 160, Armory Building
INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre AUDITIONS for FALL 2024
- Performance
- All Day
Instruction Ends
- Other
- 10:00 - 11:30 am
- 2090 B, LCLB
FRIT Faculty Meeting
- Meeting
- 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Beckman Institute - Rooms 1005 and 3269
Undergraduate Research Experience in Statistics (URES) Symposium
- Conference/Workshop
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
Cell and Developmental Biology Career Development Seminar: Chirag Shah
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
Arthur G. Nikelly Annual Lecture: Southern European Societies After Authoritarianism: Greece, Spain, and Portugal in Conversation
- Lecture
- 12:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis
Southern European Societies After Authoritarianism Greece, Spain & Portugal in Conversation
- Lecture
- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B-102
Professor Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University, "Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:30 5:00 pm
- GH 321
Faculty Meeting
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- LCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge
Linguistics Student Award and Graduate Recognition Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- 4080 A, LCLB
Pause Café: Discussion and French cuisine
- Social/Informal Event
- 4:00 pm
Q&A with Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele
- Lecture
- 5:00 pm
- LCLB Lucy Ellis Lounge
Chin-Woo Kim Phonetics Laboratory Naming and Dedication Ceremony
- Ceremony/Service

Thursday, May 2, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- Illini Union
GASLA-17: the 17th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
Reading Day/IT No Change Period in effect
- Other
- All Day
Student Appreciation
- Other
- 12:00 pm
Dr. Cecilia Menjivar: Annual Florian Znaniecki Lecture
- Lecture
- 3:30 pm
- Chem Annex 1024
Professor Jesus Velazquez, University of California - Davis, "Development of Structure-Function Correlations in 2D and 3D Metal Sulfide Electrocatalysts to Guide the Selective Conversion of CO2 and CO to Alcohols" (M)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Rooms 422-424
HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception
- Other
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Rooms 422-424
HRI Prizes for Research Ceremony & Year-End Reception
- Other

Friday, May 3, 2024

- All Day
Fulbright U.S. Student Program: April Events for Undergrad & Grad Students
- Informational
- All Day
- Illini Union
GASLA-17: the 17th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
- Conference/Workshop
- All Day
Final Exams Begin
- Other
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Dr. Roberto Zoncu (University of California - Berkeley) - "The Lysosome in Nutrient Sensing and Cellular Growth Control"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Fall-Deadline Funding Opportunities: Strategy Session for Faculty
- Informational
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Laura Sanchez, University of California Santa Cruz "Visualizing Microbial Chemistry in situ"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni BA Award
- Ceremony/Service
- 4:00 pm
Sociology 2024 Outstanding Alumni PhD Award
- Ceremony/Service

Saturday, May 4, 2024

- All Day
- Illini Union
GASLA-17: the 17th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
- Conference/Workshop