Campus Humanities Calendar
Sunday, November 16, 2025
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10:00 am - 6:00 pmActivities & Recreation Center (ARC), Multipurpose Room 7Celebrate the festival’s grand finale with a kugel cook-off and taste-off! Featuring a performance by our local Papashoy Klezmer Band and guest judges Gioconda Guerra Perez (UIUC Interim Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion), Deb Feinen (Mayor of Champaign), and Deshawn Williams (Mayor of Urbana)...
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1:30 - 3:30 pmThe Activities and Recreation Center (ARC), Multipurpose Room 4
This lecture series features short talks on a variety of subjects related to Yiddish, featuring UIUC's Anastasiia Strakhova on immigration, YIVO Chicago's Ben Schacht on Chicago's garment workers, the University of Michigan's Emma Lerman on children's literature illustrations, local musician Frances Harris on Klezmer today...
Monday, November 17, 2025
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6:00 - 8:00 pmThe Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St. Urbana
Women have largely been written out of the ancient world. Dealing with the silences of the archive requires new and innovative tools, and in this talk, Dr. Emily Hauser surveys the many different approaches she has taken across her fiction and non-fiction writing to recover women.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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4:00 pm306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign
Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled the country, with nearly half dying in flight. Vietnamerica follows Master Nguyen Hoa as he returns to former refugee camps in Southeast Asia after three decades abroad to search for the graves of his wife and two children.
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5:15 pmLevis Faculty Center 210
John Levi Barnard (English, UIUC) and Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture, UIUC) will deliver lectures on the topic of Environmental Humanities as the conclusion of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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12:00 pmRoom 212 / Center for Children's Books, 501 E. Daniel St., School of Information Sciences
Dr. Patricia Kennon (Maynooth University), the general editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature, will be giving a brief lecture on Asexuality in Contemporary YA Literature at the Center for Children's Books. Come learn!
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12:00 pm108 Coble Hall
Join the European Union Center for the next installment in its brown-bag series: "Europe and the World Today." This event is cosponsored by the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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7:30 - 9:00 pmKrannert Center for the Performing Arts, DRK, Level 2
The Department of Dance will present full of woe & far to go, an evening of new dances by emerging student choreographers. The concert will include works created by MFA students Paula De Oliveria E Sousa and Sophia Vangelatos as well as BFA students Jayla Anderson, Gabriella Quaresima, and Anna Brady.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
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7:30 - 9:00 pmKrannert Center for the Performing Arts, DRK, Level 2
The Department of Dance will present full of woe & far to go, an evening of new dances by emerging student choreographers. The concert will include works created by MFA students Paula De Oliveria E Sousa and Sophia Vangelatos as well as BFA students Jayla Anderson, Gabriella Quaresima, and Anna Brady.
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2:00 - 3:00 pmHybrid: IGB Room 612 or Zoom
Discover how to transform your research into a compelling story that communicates the significance of your work, connects with diverse audiences, and strengthens grant proposals and publications. Speakers from STEM and the Humanities will demonstrate approaches to crafting engaging, persuasive research narratives.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
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10:30 - 11:00 amKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Join us for a Talk & Tour with Curator Maureen Warren. Gain insights about 100+ extraordinary prints—including artwork by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—on display as part of Imagination, Faith, and Design: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475–1800 (on view through February 28).
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1:00 - 3:00 pmKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
Join us for Artventures—an interactive afternoon designed for children (ages 5+) with their families and caregivers. Enjoy stories inspired by artworks on view, playful gallery exploration that connects the stories to the art, and artmaking led by guest artists.