HRI

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Justin Jackson: “Occupying America: War and the Infrastructure of US Power in a Globalizing World”

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, October 8, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Nanna Bonde Thylstrup: “Staying with the Trouble of Preservation: The Ambivalent Politics of Deletion in Digital Societies”

  Time

  7:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

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Friday, October 9, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Panel Discussion: The Ends of Percival Everett’s "Erasure"

  Time

  2:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  This is a panel discussion with artists and scholars on Everett’s "Erasure." Each panelist will provide a different window into what’s beyond Erasure or what reading Erasure inspires (broadly conceived).

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Thursday, October 15, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Faculty Reading: Ángel Garcia

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 422

  Professor Ángel Garcia (English/Creative Writing) will read from his latest collection, Indifferent Cities.

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Thursday, October 29, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | Faculty Book Talk: Gillen D'Arcy Wood

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  Professor Gillen D'Arcy Wood (English and Earth Science & Environmental Change) will discuss his book, The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans’ Decline.

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, November 5, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | HumetricsHSS Events

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  • Lecture

  

Friday, November 6, 2026

• Up Against Erasure | HumetricsHSS Events

  Recurring

  Time

  All Day

  Location

  TBD

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, February 11, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Faculty Book Talk: Jessica Greenberg

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, February 25, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Mitsuki: the In-Between Film Screening and Discussion

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  TBD

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

• International Women’s Day Celebration

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, March 4, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Patricia Owens Book Talk

  Time

  12:00 pm

  • Lecture

  

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

• International Women’s Day Celebration

  Time

  3:30 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 300

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, March 4, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Patricia Owens Book Talk

  Time

  12:00 pm

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, April 1, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Siobhan Somerville Book Talk

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, April 1, 2027

• Up Against Erasure | Siobhan Somerville Book Talk

  Time

  4:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center 210

  • Lecture

  

Thursday, April 15, 2027

• Inside Scoop | Layli Long Soldier

  Time

  12:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

  • Lecture

  

• Public Reading | Layli Long Soldier

  Time

  7:30 pm

  Location

  Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Lecture