Unit One DEV

Monday, November 3, 2025

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  Faculty Book Talk: Erik McDuffie

  4:00 pm

  Illini Union, Room 210

  Erik 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.

  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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  Dinner and conversation with professors Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck

  6:30 - 8:00 pm

  ISR 94 A/B

  Students can join professors Rosalyn LaPier and David Beck for dinner and conversation at ISR.

  • Social/Informal Event

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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  Destination Champaign - The Roots and Routes of Farm Aid

  4:30 pm

  Knight 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.

  • Lecture
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  The Legal Value of Written Records for Jews and Christians in Medieval Provence

  5:00 pm

  Lucy Ellis Lounge -- room 1080, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building

  • Lecture