Monday, December 13, 2021 – Friday, December 9, 2022, All Day, 240 Harding Band Building, Champaign, IL. This recurring exhibit, hosted by The Sousa Archives, examines America’s complicated relationship with the saxophone during the “saxophone craze” (between the years 1900…

Date and Time TBD, Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL. Sponsored by the Unit for Criticism and as part of the Planetary Imaginaries conference, the current incarnation of Sun Ra’s jazz band–the Sun Ra Arkestra, led by Marshall Allen–will be performing a…

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.