General Events
Sunday, November 9, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346The 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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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignWith 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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All DayMain Library GalleryCelebrating American Music Month 2025 we have installed a new exhibit, Strange Wonders from the Band World, in the Library Gallery. Many exotic and unusual musical instruments created by ingenious inventors ranged the world’s concert stages during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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10:00 am - 2:00 pmCommunity Fab Lab: 1301 S Goodman Avenue, Urbana, ILThis Spurlock Sunday activity will take place at Skeuomorph Press, located within UI’s on-campus Community Fabrication Laboratory. Entrance to Skeuomorph Press and the ‘Fab Lab’ is free to the public.
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1:30 pmSpurlock Museum of World Cultures, 1059 W California Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Inspired and informed by the groundbreaking Turnaway Study, conducted by Dr. Diana Greene Foster, a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and researcher at the UCSF, this play uses the words and experiences of real people to bust myths and reduce abortion stigma. Drama, humor, and audience participation make it an engaging and thought-provoking theatrical event.
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1:30 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Musuem: 600 S. Gregory St. Urbana, IL 61801
The Turnaway Play is about what really happens when people are denied access to abortion. Urbana-Champaign Reproductive Justice presents a staged reading of an urgent issue through humor, drama, and audience participation.
Monday, November 10, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
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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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
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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All DayMain Library Gallery
Celebrating American Music Month 2025 we have installed a new exhibit, Strange Wonders from the Band World, in the Library Gallery. Many exotic and unusual musical instruments created by ingenious inventors ranged the world’s concert stages during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building
Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.
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12:00 pmMax L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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1:00 - 2:00 pm
Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.
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3:00 - 4:30 pmIUB 503 (5th Floor of the Illini Union Bookstore Room 503)
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5:00 pmGender and Sexuality Resource Center, Suite 202
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7:00 pmIllini Union Courtyard Café
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
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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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
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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All DayMain Library Gallery
Celebrating American Music Month 2025 we have installed a new exhibit, Strange Wonders from the Band World, in the Library Gallery. Many exotic and unusual musical instruments created by ingenious inventors ranged the world’s concert stages during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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9:00 - 11:00 amMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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11:30 amChez Veterans Center | 908 W. Nevada St. Urbana, IL 61801 RM 1020
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Nicholas Wu, PhD Department of Biochemistry; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Deciphering antibody sequences”
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12:00 - 1:00 pmAsian 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 - 1:30 pm
This workshop gives participants a grounded, practical understanding of generative AI. Through a series hands-on exercises participants will explore how these tools generate responses, where their limits show up, and how to use them creatively without overestimating their abilities.
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12:00 - 4:00 pmInnovation Studio, Rm 172, Armory Building
Come visit Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at Illinois Innovation Studio between Noon and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays in the Armory building room 172. You will be able to interact with generative AI and virtual reality (VR), create a gift with a 3D printer or laser cutter, and interact with our new digital resources.
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12:00 pmMax L. Rowe Auditorium, College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820
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12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Underground
Stop by every Tuesday during lunch and play Trivia in the Illini Underground. This is a great time to grab some friends, grab lunch from one of the Union restaurants, and play TRIVIA for prizes!
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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2:00 - 4:00 pmIUB 503 (5th Floor of the Illini Union Bookstore Room 503)
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3:00 pm1005 Forbes Natural History Building, 1816 S Oak Street, Champaign -
3:00 - 4:00 pmCoble Hall 108 -
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
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3:30 pmCollege of Education 1310 S. Sixth St. Champaign, Room # 2 (Lower- Level) -
3:45 - 4:45 pm134 Astronomy Building -
4:30 - 7:00 pmLincoln Avenue Residence (LAR) Halls (100 Clark Hall, 1203 South Fourth Street, Champaign)In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, University Housing will bring a taste of Native food flavors to LAR.
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5:00 pmSpurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S Gregory St. Urbana -
5:00 pmLucy 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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7:00 pmIllini Union Courtyard Café
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
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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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
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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All DayMain Library Gallery
Celebrating American Music Month 2025 we have installed a new exhibit, Strange Wonders from the Band World, in the Library Gallery. Many exotic and unusual musical instruments created by ingenious inventors ranged the world’s concert stages during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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10:00 - 11:00 amChampaign Public Library (Robeson Pavilion A/B) - 200 W. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820Join us on Wednesday, November 12 from 10-11 a.m. for a workshop on Canva 201 at the Champaign Public Library with Scott Clanin of Clanin Creative.
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10:00 - 11:00 am
Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Room 220Are you looking to get into reading for fun but don’t know where to start? Are you a moderate-to-avid reader looking to take your recreational reading practice to the next level? Then join us on Wednesday, 11/12 from 11 am-12 pm in room 220 of the Main Library for our Recreational Reading App & Journaling Workshop!
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12:00 - 1:00 pmIllini Union Underground
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Mapping RNA Biology Across Dimension" Diptatanu Das, PhD Candidate Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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3:00 - 5:00 pmMain 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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4:00 pmGregory Hall 810 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 223 -
5:00 - 7:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, 210 -
5:00 - 7:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, 210
Join us for a festive reception to celebrate new books published this fall! The authors will each offer brief remarks and there will be an informal Q&A about the research and writing process. All are welcome!
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5:00 - 7:00 pmLevis Faculty Center, 210Join us for a festive reception to celebrate five new books published this year! The authors will each offer brief remarks and there will be an informal Q&A about the research and writing process. All are welcome!
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5:00 - 7:00 pmCampbell Hall, 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Join Illinois Public Media and the Friends of WILL for our 5th Annual Friendsgiving Open House. Stop by Campbell Hall from 5:00 - 7:00 PM for a behind-the-scenes peak into the magic of public media. Staff members — including your favorite on-air talent! — will be in attendance to answer your questions and explain the importance of local independent public media.
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5:30 - 7:00 pm1210 West Nevada Street, Urbana (AACC/IE) -
5:30 - 6:30 pm31 Gregory HallCollege of Media students are invited to two wellness events led by Dr. Becky Cook, DIA sport psychologist for the Illinois women's basketball team since 2023, on Wednesday, Nov. 12 and 19.
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7:30 pmVirginia Theatre, 203 W. Park Ave., Champaign, IL 61820
Step into Black Violin’s Full Circle Tour, where GRAMMY-nominated duo Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus redefine the possibilities of music by merging classical depth with hip-hop’s pulse.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
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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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
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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All DayMain Library Gallery
Celebrating American Music Month 2025 we have installed a new exhibit, Strange Wonders from the Band World, in the Library Gallery. Many exotic and unusual musical instruments created by ingenious inventors ranged the world’s concert stages during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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8:30 - 11:30 amMartens Center, 1515 N. Market St., ChampaignThe Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is hosting a hands-on workshop designed to introduce community-based organizations to program evaluation on Nov. 13, 8:30 - 11:30 a.m., at the Martens Center in Champaign.
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm
CITL's Master Course in Online Teaching (MCOT) is a deep dive into online teaching strategies that extends what was presented during previous teaching academies. Prior participation in an instructional development series is not required but professional experience with university level instruction is strongly encouraged.
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12:00 - 1:30 pmLevis 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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12:00 - 1:00 pmWhat happens when writers, archivists, and preservationists join forces? At the University of Illinois, this partnership transforms ordinary records into stories that bridge generations. Writers capture the immediacy of campus life through interviews, profiles, and features while archivist. Join us for a special presentation by Josh Harris, Kim Schmidt, and Abigail Bobrow.
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12:00 - 1:00 pmLa Casa Cultural Latina | 1203 W. Nevada Street Urbana IL 61801
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12:00 pm612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
"Web Hosting" David Slater, CNRG Associate Director of High Performance Computing
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12:00 - 1:00 pmMain 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 pmJoin us on Zoom (registration link below) or at the University Archives (146 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana)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.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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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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2:00 - 3:00 pm
Get up to speed quickly on making your MS Excel spreadsheets accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we'll work together, hands-on, with practical strategies for naming tables, labeling header cells and workbook titles and sheets, creating accessible links, and working with colors and color testing tools.
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2:00 - 5:00 pmIllini Union Underground
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3:00 - 5:00 pmLAS HUB (Lincoln Hall)
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3:00 - 5:00 pmLAS HUB (Lincoln Hall, behind the marble staircase) -
3:30 - 5:00 pm230 Davenport Hall -
4:15 - 5:15 pmIDEA Lab, Basement of Grainger Library
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5:30 - 7:00 pmNative American House (1206 W. Nevada St., Urbana)This gathering is intended to cultivate meaningful connections, foster a sense of community, and encourage intellectual exchange. It also serves as an inclusive environment where participants can share their academic journeys, engage in collaborative research discussions, and build supportive kinship networks within academia and beyond.
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7:00 pmKnight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, UrbanaJoin us for the Ebert Center screening of Ari Aster’s debut feature-length film "Hereditary" (2018), one of the most notable horror films of the 2010s.
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Rabbi Angela Buchdahl | The Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging
7:30 pmFoellinger 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.
Friday, November 14, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
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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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
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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All DayMain Library Gallery
Celebrating American Music Month 2025 we have installed a new exhibit, Strange Wonders from the Band World, in the Library Gallery. Many exotic and unusual musical instruments created by ingenious inventors ranged the world’s concert stages during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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9:00 am - 12:00 pmMain Library Orange Room, or via Zoom
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12:00 - 1:00 pmEnterpriseWorks, 60 Hazelwood DriveJoin the Data + AI User Group on Friday, November 14 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM for their monthly meetup.
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12:00 pm404 David Kinley Hall - 1407 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801
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12:00 - 1:00 pmUniversity YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., Latzer Hall, Champaign
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12:00 - 1:00 pmLatzer 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 pmLucy Ellis Lounge (1080 LCLB) -
12:00 pmThis noontime presentation will examine both historical and contemporary Native perspectives on higher education, with a focus on land-grant institutions broadly and the University of Illinois specifically.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm2203 Beckman Institute
Beckman’s Visualization Lab is open for office hours weekdays between 1-3 p.m. in 2203 Beckman, which is located just across the atrium bridge from the elevator.
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1:30 - 3:00 pmHybrid: 306 Coble Hall & ZOOM -
2:30 - 3:30 pmIllini Rooms | Illini Union | 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
3:00 pm2049 Natural History Building and via ZoomConnecting nineteenth-century mapping to twenty-first-century design pedagogy reframes cartography as a design practice that produces—not merely represents—social and spatial realities. Material intelligence emerges as both a research method and a pedagogical ethos for investigating how visual artifacts shape ways of seeing, knowing, and belonging in the world.
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4:00 - 5:00 pmPlayer Piano room on the 2nd floor of the Music & Performing Arts Library (1300 Music Building, 1114 W Nevada St)Enjoy a free concert featuring the Music & Performing Arts Library’s Steinway Duo-Art Reproducing Piano! See the piano in action and learn more about the instrument and roll collection. This is an informal even and all are welcome!
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4:00 - 8:00 pmSocial Work Building, Room 2015
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5:00 - 6:30 pmLiteratures, Cultures & Linguistics Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana
Join us as we turn off lights across campus for the weekend to save energy, cut utility costs, and avert greenhouse gas emissions!
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7:00 pmIllini Union Courtyard Café
Saturday, November 15, 2025
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All DayMain Library Room 346
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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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign
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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All DayMain Library Gallery
Celebrating American Music Month 2025 we have installed a new exhibit, Strange Wonders from the Band World, in the Library Gallery. Many exotic and unusual musical instruments created by ingenious inventors ranged the world’s concert stages during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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All DayGrainger Engineering undergrads - consider a dual degree! Your primary degree + the ILEE degree.
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All DayKrannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignKrannert Art Museum will be closed for an electrical upgrade on Saturday, November 15. The museum will reopen on Tuesday, November 18, at 10 am. Visit kam.illinois.edu to plan your next visit.
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All DayEverywhereEstablished in 2011, Rock Your Mocs is an annual and global social media event. The Native American House (NAH) encourages you to break out your moccasins for a worldwide celebration of Indigenous cultures!
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8:30 am - 5:00 pmSocial Work Building, Room 2015
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All DayLot 31 Recycling Station at Gies Memorial Stadium
Join us in making Illinois game days greener by helping fans recycle at Memorial Stadium!
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10:00 am - 6:00 pmCRCE (1102 W Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801)Compete against student teams representing countries from all over the world! The 28th Indoor World Cup hosted by ISSS will take place on Saturday, November 15. Register your team now!
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10:15 am 11:30am141 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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1:00 - 6:00 pmNative American House (1206 W. Nevada St., Urbana)The traditional stereotype of the scientist in a white lab coat reinforces a narrow, homogeneous image that doesn't reflect the growing diversity within the scientific community. Students will customize lab coats by incorporating ribbon work, which is meant to amplify the enduring presence of scientists in Indigenous communities.