College of LAS Events
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Monday, November 3, 2025
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4:00 pmIllini Union, Room 210This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
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4:00 pmIllini Union, Room 210This talk appreciates the importance of Garveyism and the Midwest for understanding the contours, genealogies, and complexities of twentieth-century Black transnational resistance and for imagining that another world is possible in this moment of global crisis.
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4:00 pmIllini 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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5:30 - 7:00 pmLincoln Hall 3057
The HRI Social Movements Reading Group will hold two sessions on higher ed labor organizing with the Campus Faculty Association on Mon Oct 27 & Mon Nov 3, 5:30-7 PM (central time) at Lincoln Hall 3057 (use one of the entrances on Wright Street).
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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12:00 - 1:00 pmCoble Hall, 801 South Wright Street Champaign, Room 306.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
5:15 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
Stephen M. Best (English, University of California, Berkeley) will deliver a lecture, titled "The Limits of Racial Critique" as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates. The Box folder of readings for each lecture is available here.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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12:00 pmCharles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 pm1208 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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2:00 - 3:00 pmChemical & Life Sciences Lab, 601 S Goodwin Ave, B-102
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4:00 pmllini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
In Civilizing Contention, Rana B. Khoury asserts that to understand civilian and refugee activism in war, we must regard the international actors and organizations that enter the scene to help.
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4:00 pmIllini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
4:00 - 5:00 pm1080 Lucy Ellis Lounge - Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
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5:30 pmTemple Buell Hall Atrium | Temple Buell Hall Room 134 Plym Auditorium -
6:30 - 8:00 pmISR 94 A/BStudents can join professors Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck for dinner and conversation at ISR.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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11:00 amCharles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLTanveer Singh, Ph.D.
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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12:00 pmNoyes Lab, 505 S. Mathews Ave, 163 NL
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1:00 - 4:00 pm1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
Join us every Thursday for Snack & Study at AAS! From 1:00-4:00, the AAS building is open for student use. Pull up a seat in our cozy Reading Room and enjoy a quiet space where you can study, read, or just take a break from it all. Free hot drinks and snacks available while supplies last!
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1:30 pmCyberGIS Studio - Room 1062 NHBAccurate, up-to-date delineation of hydrographic features is essential for hydrologic modeling, water-resource management, and climate resilience. But existing workflows for the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) rely heavily on Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and manual editing, limiting scalability, consistency, and the timeliness of updates across diverse landscapes.
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3:30 pm106B1 Engineering Hall
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4:00 - 5:00 pmEnglish 109
Anna Hunt (Professor of German) “Quick! Somebody Get Me A Doctor of German Philosophy,” HGMS workshop, English 109, 4 pm-5 pm.
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4:00 pm 5:00 pmCharles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory -
4:30 pmKnight 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 pmSpurlock 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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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB)
Prof. Ryan Low (University of North Dakota) ~~ In fourteenth-century Provence, the volume of written contracts increased from thousands each year to million, involving even the region's most remote rural communities and serving the interests of marginalized actors, including women, peasants, and religious minorities.
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5:00 pmLucy Ellis Lounge -- room 1080, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building
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6:00 - 7:30 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
Friday, November 7, 2025
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11:30 am - 1:00 pmBNAACC Main Multipurpose Room -
12:00 pmMax L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
Drawing on original data from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, a landmark long-term study, “Debt’s Grip” uses the words of bankruptcy filers themselves to shed light on their financial battles, making a powerful case for the U.S. to confront the structural inequities that cause so many to struggle. Join us for a panel discussion featuring bankruptcy experts and commentary
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12:00 pm306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Please join us for a virtual event with Dr. Se-Mi Oh, a cultural historian of modern and contemporary Korea teaching at the University of Michigan. Her work investigates how history interacts with space in cities, through interdisciplinary approaches to history, visual/media studies, urban humanities, and art and architecture.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmGregory Hall 321
Join us for a lecture from Tempest Henning, an associate professor at Fisk University. She will offer a conception of Black feminist logic (BFL) that is not simply a variant of feminist logic. Rather, it is founded on distinct systems rooted in African logical traditions and manifested via the linguistic structures of African American English (AAE).
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3:00 - 4:30 pmBeckman Auditorium
The Psychology Department is excited to announce the launch of the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2025-2026 academic year, a new monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.
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3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via ZoomThis talk explores how the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians mobilize Anishinaabe relational methodologies to challenge colonial logics of resource governance. Tracing histories from treaty-making through contemporary restoration work, this research demonstrates how relationality and cultural agency reshape resource governance in the Great Lakes region.
Saturday, November 8, 2025
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Join us for Pause + Play held in conjunction with Krannert Art Museum’s Rest Lab 8: Greenspace exhibition. Kids (ages 4–8) will dive into playful, drop-off art activities, while their caregivers get a guided tour exploring the museum's galleries and artworks on view.
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2:00 - 4:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Join us to celebrate Rest Lab 8: Greenspace (on view through Jan 31), with curators Kamila Glowacki and Ishita Dharap. The reception will feature live music, cupcakes, and a chance to explore all of Rest Lab’s offerings including sensory tools and a response wall.
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5:00 - 7:00 pmChanning Murray Foundation
The Annual Tagore Festival commemorates the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's visit to the UIUC campus in 1912 when he delivered a series of lectures at the Channing Murray Chapel. For the 2025 celebration, there will be a keynote lecture by Professor Michele Louro on “India's Anticolonial Struggle from Swadeshi to Independence".