Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, 6-8:00 PM, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center Presentation and discussion on the ethical questions surrounding the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawai’i. Find out more here.

Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, 5:30 PM, Art + Design Studio Room 316 William J. O’Brien is a Chicago-based artist working in drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramics. Find out more here.

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, 7:30 PM at Levis Faculty Center IPRH Lecture Hall. One of the most important achievements of the U.S. era of canal building in Panama (1904-1914) was the successful control of yellow fever, a disease that had…

A performance choreographed by Dr. C. Kemal Nance and Dr. Endalyn Taylor. Tickets available here.

The year 2019 is a year of commemorations. In 1619, 20 enslaved Africans were imported into Virginia in an act that many people recognize as the beginning of the European slave trade to the Americas. This 400th anniversary is being…

As part of the 1619 Commerotative Series hosted by the Department of African American Studies, the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora will be giving a discussion on the importance of the year 1619. It will be…

As part of the 1619 Commemorative Series hosted by the African American Studies department, Dr. Doris Derby will be giving a lecture on “Life at UIUC in the 1970s.” She received her MA and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University…

Aaron Sachs is Professor of History and American Studies at Cornell University, where he has taught since 2004. His interests range from creative writing to the history of consumer culture, from social and environmental justice to the development of ecology…

Corey Van Landingham will read from Antidote, her award-winning poetry collection. More information here.

An exhibit at the University of Illinois Archives documents his official role on campus and his work on behalf of African-American students, as well as his involvement in the community and his family. The exhibit coincides with the 70th anniversary…