College of LAS Events

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Thursday, June 6, 2024

- All Day
Biennial Conference of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies: "Hidden Histories: Reshaping Canons, Reimagining Archives, Making Gender Visible"
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, June 7, 2024

- All Day
Biennial Conference of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies: "Hidden Histories: Reshaping Canons, Reimagining Archives, Making Gender Visible"
- Conference/Workshop
- 10:00 am
- 3269 Beckman Institute
FINAL DEFENSE, Tsai-Wei Lin, "Structural relaxation and penetrant diffusion in polymer networks"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, June 8, 2024

- All Day
Biennial Conference of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies: "Hidden Histories: Reshaping Canons, Reimagining Archives, Making Gender Visible"
- Conference/Workshop

Sunday, June 9, 2024

- 2:00 - 5:00 pm
- 500 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana IL 61801
Mayan Cultural Celebration
- Festival/Celebration

Monday, June 10, 2024

- All Day
First Day of Instruction, Summer Term 2
- Other

Thursday, June 13, 2024

- 2:00 pm
- 2233 Everitt Lab
Statistics Seminar - Stephen Portnoy (Illinois) "The 2-envelope paradox"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 14, 2024

- 2:30 pm
- 140 Burrill Hall
FINAL DEFENSE, Vinh Tran, "Exploring Issatchenkia orientalis' potential as a platform organism for the production of organic acids"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, June 21, 2024

- 3:00 pm
- 1002 Lincoln Hall
Marya Ornelas, Final Defense, UIUC, "Methods toward investigating viral RNA capping enzymes and antibody breadth expansion"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, June 22, 2024

- 1:00 - 2:00 pm
- Krannert Art Museum and online via Zoom
That Which We Are Still Learning to Name: A Reading with Jessica Lynne

Join us for a reading with writer, editor, and critic Jessica Lynne in conjunction with the Jen Everett: Could You Dim the Lights? exhibition. She will read from her essay collection in progress, which blends art criticism and elements of memoir to tell a story about the many ways that love—in all its forms—has shaped her life as a Black Southerner.
- Performance
- 5:00 - 6:30 pm
- Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (202 S. Broadway Suite 100; Urbana, IL 61801)
Look for me too: Queer Archives and Bearing Witness. A Workshop with Jen Everett

During this workshop, participants will explore queer archives as sites of possibility, knowledge production, and world building. Beginning with a framework of stewardship, attendees will discuss strategies for recordkeeping and preservation by collectively engaging a variety of materials and texts.
- Conference/Workshop

Sunday, June 23, 2024

- 6:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana)
Burro Bombs and Hanging Dogs: Political Violence, Haunted Archives, and the More-Than-Human in Peru
- Lecture

Monday, June 24, 2024

- 2:00 pm
Fighting for Animals in an Anti-Black World
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: Kritika Mehta (K. Zhang Lab) - "Decoding the intercellular communication mechanism of neuronal protein Arc"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 419 RAL (Rose Room)
Final Defense: T.J Oh (K. Zhang Lab) - "Optogenetic Control Of Necroptosis Pathway"
- Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, June 27, 2024

- 2:30 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana)
Robotic Bees, Insect Bots, and Robotic Cats, Oh My!: Assembling Robotic Animal Agents
- Lecture

Friday, June 28, 2024

- 10:00 am
- 165 Noyes Laboratory
Brenna Budaitis, Final Defense, UIUC, "Title TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium
- 2:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana)
The Evolution of Animal Advocacy: Alternative Strategies to Achieve Animal Welfare Advances
- Lecture

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2024 Summer Curriculum Workshop: “Understanding Contemporary Europe: Spotlighting the Peripheries"
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2024 Summer Curriculum Workshop: “Understanding Contemporary Europe: Spotlighting the Peripheries"
- Conference/Workshop

Thursday, July 11, 2024

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2024 Summer Curriculum Workshop: “Understanding Contemporary Europe: Spotlighting the Peripheries"
- Conference/Workshop

Friday, July 12, 2024

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2024 Summer Curriculum Workshop: “Understanding Contemporary Europe: Spotlighting the Peripheries"
- Conference/Workshop

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

- 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
IGI Summer 2024 Global Educators Workshop
- Professional Development

Thursday, July 18, 2024

- 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
IGI Summer 2024 Global Educators Workshop
- Professional Development

Thursday, August 1, 2024

- 2:00 - 3:30 pm
- Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom, 601 S. Lincoln Ave, Urbana, IL
O/CB (including Snyder Scholars) Undergraduate Research Poster Session
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, August 16, 2024

- 8:00 am
- UIUC
Instructors back on appointment
- Other

Monday, August 19, 2024

- 8:30 am
- UIUC Campus
Orientation Week
- Meeting

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

- 8:30 am
- UIUC Campus
Orientation Week
- Meeting

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

- 8:30 am
- UIUC Campus
Orientation Week
- Meeting
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- 319GH
TA Orientation
- Informational

Thursday, August 22, 2024

- 8:30 am
- UIUC Campus
Orientation Week
- Meeting
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- 205 GH & 217 GH
TA Orientation
- Informational

Friday, August 23, 2024

- 8:30 am
- UIUC Campus
Orientation Week
- Meeting
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- 307GH
New Graduate Student Orientation

Orientation for new incoming History Graduate Students.
- Informational

Monday, August 26, 2024

- 8:00 am
- UIUC
First Day of Instruction in Fall 2024
- Other

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

- 3:30 pm
- 1024 Chem Annex
Professor Lisa Olshansky, UIUC, "Emergent Properties from Dynamicity: Investing Confirmational Control in Bioinorganic Model Systems" (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Fuson Student Talks: Matthew Bock; "Rapid, Homogenous, B-Alkyl Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling of Boronic Esters," Michael Mulligan; "Development of 3-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)Indoline-2-Ones as a Potent Class of Breast Cancer Therapeutics."

Organic New Student Welcome Reception to immediately follow in the 'A' Atrium CLSL
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, August 30, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Susan Lunte, The University of Kansas Title:
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

- 2:00 - 3:00 pm
- CLSL B102
Prof. Alex Mironenko, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 3:00 5:00 pm
Faculty Meeting - Promotions
- Meeting

Thursday, September 5, 2024

- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Jason Peters, University of Wisconsin - Madison -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 6, 2024

- 9:00 - 11:00 am
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1018 LCLB
SLCL New Graduate Student Orientation
- Meeting
- 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- 2090B, LCLB
(All) Graduate Student Lunch Meeting with the Head
- Meeting
- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Aaron Puri (University of Utah) - TBA
- Seminar/Symposium
- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1018 LCLB
SLCL New Faculty Orientation
- Meeting
- 4:00 pm
- Chemistry Annex 1024
Professor Hee-Sun Han, UIUC; "Precision Measurements in Biology 2.0"
- Seminar/Symposium

Monday, September 9, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Professor Matthew R. Golder, University of Washington, "Masquerading Soft Materials: Anomalous Behavior in Macromolecular Design"
- Seminar/Symposium

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

- 9:30 - 10:30 am
- 2090B, LCLB
Faculty Meeting
- Meeting
- 3:30 pm
Professor Michael Green, University of California, Irvine, TBD (I)
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union, Room 103, 1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801
21st Annual European Union Day: Keynote Address by Audra Plepytė, Ambassador of Lithuania to the United States and Mexico
- Ceremony/Service

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

- All Day
- University if Illinois at Chicago, Behavioral Sciences Building 1007, West Harrison, Suite 153
II Encuentro sobre Migracion y Pueblos Originarios
- Conference/Workshop

Thursday, September 12, 2024

- All Day
- University if Illinois at Chicago, Behavioral Sciences Building 1007, West Harrison, Suite 153
II Encuentro sobre Migracion y Pueblos Originarios
- Conference/Workshop
- 4:00 pm 5:00 pm
- Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
Microbiology Seminar: Dr. Nadia Roan, University of California - San Francisco -- "TBA"
- Seminar/Symposium

Friday, September 13, 2024

- 12:00 pm
- Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory
Biochemistry Seminar of Special Interest: Dr. Taras Pogorelov (University of Illinois) - "Capturing biomolecular dynamics in the cell: making a match between simulations and experiments"
- Seminar/Symposium

Saturday, September 14, 2024

- All Day
- Grange Grove at Memorial Stadium
ChBE Homecoming Tailgate

Details TBD
- Social/Informal Event

Monday, September 16, 2024

- 4:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Merck Lecture, Merck rep: TBD
- Seminar/Symposium
- 5:00 pm
- 116 Roger Adams Lab
Merck Lecture w/Professor Franziska Schoenebeck, RWTH Aachen, "Title: TBD"
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center
HRI Opening Reception

We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
- Reception/Open House