Campus Humanities Calendar

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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

  • Catherine Hall and Jennifer Morgan
    • 12:00 pm
    • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Krannert Room (between the Great Hall and Tryon Festival Theatre)

    Graduate students: join us to learn from two guest scholars about their experience publishing for different audiences: Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London; fellow of the British Academy) and Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University).

    • 7:00 pm
    • Rm. 331 Art + Design Building

    This engaging documentary is less about religion and doctrine, than it is about a cultural throughline of the African American community from enslavement to our current Racist crisis in the United States. Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the series details how Black Americans adopted and adapted Christianity to create a liberating faith and the church became...

  • Catherine Hall
    • 7:30 pm
    • Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium

    Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) will present the lecture “Land, property, and the story of 18th century race-making: displacement and belonging between the Caribbean and Britain.” With Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University) responding.

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Friday, September 26, 2025

    • 10:00 am   10am - 12pm & 3pm - 4pm
    • Siebel Center for Design, Room 1000

    The Center for Writing Studies is happy to host Dr. Bernadette Calafell! She will be hosting a workshop titled "Using Critical Auto-methodological and Performative Methods in Our Scholarship," and giving a lecture titled "Revolutions are Built on Hope: Cassian Andor and the Revolutionary Politics of Hope in the Star Wars Universe."

    • 1:30 - 3:00 pm
    • [Hybrid] Coble Hall 306 & Zoom

    Join us for our first CEAPS Brown Bag of the 25-26 school year with Faculty Travel Grant recipient Sarah Park Dahlen & Michelle Lê for their talk, "Keeping Afloat: Water, War, and Vietnamese Diaspora in Picture Books." Sarah Park Dahlen 박사라 is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences.

    • 4:00 - 6:30 pm
    • Japan House (2000 S Lincoln Ave Urbana, IL 61802)

    Japan House will be open from 4–6:30pm for Homecoming on Friday, September 26. Please stop by and have a bowl of tea and sweet at our Homecoming Matcha Café, view progress on the Ogura-Sato Annex, and enjoy the gardens!