Speakers
Sunday, October 12, 2025
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The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
Monday, October 13, 2025
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The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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Speaker: Kevin O'Brien, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Speaker: Ken Willyard (UIUC) Title: The imaginary case of the nonabelian Cohen--Lenstra heuristics
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Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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"Aggregation and division aberrations in model archaeon lacking its S-layer" Abigail Finn, PhD Candidate Microbiology
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Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with John Durham Peters: Considering Forgiveness in a Time of Ubiquitous Recording.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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The Center for Writing Studies invites you to our lecture on Thursday, October 16, featuring Dr. Toby Beauchamp, an Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and affiliate faculty in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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The ICR Colloquium Series is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, graduate students, and interested undergraduates to engage in dialogue around some of the most relevant and timely research in our field. Topic: Job Talk with Jennifer Zhang
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What can be weirder that the idea of race? A concept that hasn’t existed in the world for even a millennium and yet has been part of a foundational system of capitalism, and many other global advancements for centuries. “BLXCK Uncanny: Tales of the Black + the Weird” is an exhibition in response to the times we are in.
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Winner of 14 GRAMMY Awards, a UNESCO Ambassador, a Kennedy Center Honoree, and a 2025 Polar Music Prize recipient, pianist Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: at the forefront of world culture, technology, business, and music.
Friday, October 17, 2025
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The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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Explore artistic production and the agency of printed media before 1750 as they intersect with themes of sexuality and gender. Keynote speaker is Dr. Nicole Cook, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This symposium is held in conjunction with "Imagination, Faith, and Desire: Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475–1800," on view at Krannert Art Museum (Sep 25–Feb 28).
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Friday Forum + Conversation Café: LGBTQ + Stories of Change: A Journey Through History by Dywaine Betts, Jr. Time: October 17 at 12 pm Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign
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Affirming Strengths and Questioning Claims: Rethinking NLA/GLP in Speech and Language Therapy
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How do we harness generative AI to elevate, not replace, teaching and learning? This talk surveys current, evidence-informed uses of AI in classrooms and then gets hands-on with faculty-ready workflows. We’ll look at classroom assistants and virtual tutors, AI-supported assessment and feedback, and ways to weave AI literacy into the curriculum.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
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The ancient poet Sappho coined "sweetbitter" in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three millennia later. As with so many ancient figures, the poet is more legend than person today, her story told and retold even as her poetry continues to enchant and move. This exhibit will be on display through mid-August 2026.
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With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—"Imagination, Faith, and Desire" is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums. On view September 25, 2025, through February 28, 2026.
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Please join Japan House for tea ceremonies and for an art show/sale and talks by four visiting artists from Fukushima at Fall Open House!
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Come experience immersive sound as you view artworks at Krannert Art Museum! Members of Improvisers Exchange Ensemble will create soundscapes in the galleries through site-specific solo performance and collective improvisation in reflection and response to artwork on display.