Thursday – Friday, November 3-4, 2022, Location TBD. Sponsored by the Unit for Criticism, Saidiya Hartman (Columbia), this year’s Nicholson Distinguished Visiting Scholar, will hold a lecture and faculty-graduate seminar. More information to come.

March 26-May 17, 2020, 5-7 PM, University YMCA. Cosponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies, the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, Unit One of Allen Hall, and University YMCA, this exhibition is part of the University Y’s Art…

Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 3:30-5 PM, 1207 W. Oregon, Urbana, Room 133. Sponsored by the Department of Latina/Latino Studies, Dr. Eddie Bonilla will present his article manuscript at this workshop. The paper will be available to participants a week before…

TBD Sponsored by Jewish Culture and Society, the Global Diaspora and Migration Initiative, and IPRH, this symposium focuses on Jewish communities in the Caribbean, during the 18th through 21st centuries. Invited speakers include Aviva Ben Ur, Dara E. Goldman, Laura…

TBD In coordination with the Planetary Imaginaries Symposium hosted by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and sponsored by a variety of UIUC organizations, Virginia Theater will be hosting the Sun Ra Arkestra, the latest iteration of Sun Ra’s…

Monday, Apr. 20, 2020, time and location TBD This panel on Asian American Aesthetics brings together Kandice Chuh (English, CUNY) and Gayatri Gopinath (Gender and Sexuality Studies, New York University). More information, including about Chuh’s and Gopinath’s current research, can…

Rena Potok teaches literature and writing at Villanova University. She has also edited a collection of plays by her father, acclaimed author Chaim Potok. During her visit, Dr. Potok will discuss her father’s work and present excerpts from The Collected…