Campus Humanities Calendar

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Sunday, April 27, 2025

    • 7:00 pm
    • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

    “Tesseract,” the culminating thesis concert of the Bachelor of Fine Arts class of 2025 brings fresh perspectives from the creative mind/bodies of “soon to be” Dance at Illinois alumni.

Monday, April 28, 2025

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

    • 12:00 pm
    • 1064 Lincoln Hall or Virtual

    Join the LAS Office of Research to learn more about grant support for faculty researchers in LAS. Our team will share information on pre-award services, such as budgeting, document review, and preparing for submission to SPA. This session will be particularly helpful for faculty without access to dedicated unit-based grant support staff.

    • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
    • CIF 2039

    This panel convenes energy researchers and activists to reflect on lessons learned from the fight against the Dakota Access Pipelines, and on present-day issues in our energy landscape. Panelists John Albers (Advanced Energy United), Emily Guske (UIUC Climate Jobs Institute), Richard Stuckey (Save Our Illinois Land), Tabitha Tripp (Public Rail Now campaign and SAFE: South

    • 5:30 - 6:45 pm

    Join us for a powerful conversation with Peruvian women environmental defenders as they share firsthand experiences from the frontlines of climate activism in the Amazon. Learn about the challenges they face, the communities they protect, and the urgent realities of defending land, water, and life in one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems.

Thursday, May 1, 2025

    • 7:00 - 7:45 pm
    • Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign

    Enjoy a dance performance at Krannert Art Museum! Anna Sapozhnikov’s evening-length Good House Keep is inspired by and designed to be presented in midcentury modern spaces throughout the Champaign-Urbana community and in conjunction with the Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture exhibition.

Friday, May 2, 2025

    • 9:00 am
    • Latzer Hall YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign

    Michelle Campos is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University—the author of Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth Century Palestine., Charles Anderson is an associate professor of history at Western Washington University and a senior editor at Arab Studies Journal.