College of LAS Events
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Want to know more about career paths that involve working with data? This spring the Graduate College Career Development office is hosting a special series of informal conversations with data professionals from industry, academia, and the nonprofit sector.
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This curator talk features Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public. Please visit http://kam.illinois.edu for more information.
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Illinois is home to many incredible women, and several of them are working towards gender equity right here on campus. Join the WRC as we converse with Dr. Isabel Molina-Guzman, Dr. Mary Arends-Kuenning, Dr. Christine Shenouda, and Jessica Robinson about their careers and the work they are doing to elevate the voices of women.
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The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. While many may know the details, AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. A discussion with Director Myron Dewey will follow the screening.
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The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. While many may know the details, AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. A discussion with Director Myron Dewey will follow the screening.
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SPEAK Café is an open-mic public space for hip-hop, activism, music, poetry, empowerment, and expression of the black experience at Illinois.
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Stephanie LeMenager, Moore Endowed Professor, Department of English, University of Oregon.
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Stephanie LeMenager, Moore Endowed Professor, Department of English, University of Oregon.
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This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
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A Symposium on the Role of Text in Creating Movement, Music, and Performance. Sponsored by the College of Fine and Applied Arts.
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Symposium keynotes: Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Grad Center, CUNY) and Michael Dawson (U Chicago)
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This colloquium is the culmination of a year-long interdisciplinary faculty-graduate student IPRH research cluster, “Transmission, Translation, and Directionality in Cultural Exchange (TTDCE).” Keynote Speakers: Gabriela Currie, University of Minnesota (Music) and Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma (English).
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This colloquium is the culmination of a year-long interdisciplinary faculty-graduate student IPRH research cluster, “Transmission, Translation, and Directionality in Cultural Exchange (TTDCE).” Keynote Speakers: Gabriela Currie, University of Minnesota (Music) and Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma (English).
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The following scholars have accepted our invitation to come to campus for this one-day symposium discussing 21st Century Jewish Writing: Sarah Phillips Casteel, Dean Franco, and Benjamin Schreier.
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A Friday lunchtime series of free yoga classes introduces participants to the fundamentals of hatha yoga at Krannert Art Museum. Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public. Please visit http://kam.illinois.edu for more information.
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Join the WRC and the AACC for a movie night and discussion! We will be watching the 1993 movie, The Joy Luck Club. Free food and conversation provided!
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Curious about faculty careers at liberal arts colleges and other teaching-focused institutions? Want to learn what those institutions look for when hiring? Join us at 11am on April 1 for a conversation with Illinois alum Allen Schwab. Free coffee and snacks provided. Register by March 29.
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Applications are currently open for APAC's 2019-2020 Executive Board! Click through to access the event page and application.
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What the Genetics of Complex Behavior Can (and Can't) Accomplish: The Phenotypic Null Hypothesis
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Adam Sutcliffe (King's College, London) joined the department in 2005 as Lecturer in Early Modern History, following six years teaching at the University of Illinois. He became Head of Department in August 2012.
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Spring 2019 Curious and Eclectic Seminar Series: African-American Studies and Sociology
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Rosina Neginsky will speak about the birth of Vrubel’s images, in what way they are different from images of many of his contemporaries. She will demonstrate how the knowledge of certain philosophies and views on art that are found in works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Emmanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Vladimir Soloviev influenced Vrubel’s creativity.
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Please make plans to attend one of two upcoming “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meetings to join the conversation about how IPRH might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future. A second session will be held April 4 at 12 p.m.
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Please make plans to attend one of two upcoming “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meetings to join the conversation about how IPRH might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future.
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Join the Department of AAS for a lecture by Juliana Hu Pegues on the figure of China Joe. Click through for full abstract.
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French film screening.
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Krannert Art Museum invites you to hear from and speak with art and history experts, featuring Kirstin M. Gotway, curatorial intern and doctoral student in Art History. This Gallery Conversation is titled “A Civilized Table: The Visual Power of 19th Century Transferware” and explores themes related to the exhibition Blue and White.
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Harvard University historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is author of a recent book on early Mormonism, much of it set in Nauvoo, Illinois.
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Renowned filmmaker and feminist postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha will introduce her most recent film Forgetting Vietnam and take questions from the audience afterwards.
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Trinh T. Minh‐ha’s lyrical film essay commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of the war draws inspiration from ancient legend and from water as a force evoked in every aspect of Vietnamese culture.
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Prof. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, recipient of the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes in history, will be speaking about her most recent work, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870.
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Film Screening: "Forgetting Vietnam" with introduction by filmmaker/theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of Rhetoric and Gender & Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
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In 1980s Communist Czechoslovakia, an emerging generation took inspiration from alternative culture to create their own worldview, politics and eventually, a revolution. 25 years later, this unique generational perspective is explored for the first time. The film's producer, Jeffrey Brown, will give opening remarks and answer questions following the screening.
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This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
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Keynote address by Allen Turner (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media) "Cultivating Voice: An exploration of metabolizing narratives in the quest to create parables of play," and a featured panel conversation with Stuart Moulthrop &Chris Klimas, "Interactive Narrative from Victory Garden to Twine."
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Keynote address by Allen Turner (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media) "Cultivating Voice: An exploration of metabolizing narratives in the quest to create parables of play," and a featured panel conversation with Stuart Moulthrop &Chris Klimas, "Interactive Narrative from Victory Garden to Twine." Free and open to the public.
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Please make plans to attend one of two upcoming “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meetings to join the conversation about how IPRH might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future. A second session will be held April 2 at 4 p.m.
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Please make plans to attend one of two upcoming “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meetings to join the conversation about how IPRH might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future.
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Playful by Design hosts a special exhibit opening on Thursday, April 4, 2:00–4:45 pm. Allen Turner, a game designer from the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media, presents a keynote address at 3:00.
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Trinh T. Minh-ha is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. A world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist postcolonial theorist, she has published twelve books and has made eight feature-length films.
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Trinh T. Minh-ha is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. A world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist postcolonial theorist, she has published twelve books and has made eight feature-length films.
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GWS 40th Anniversary lecture; Trinh T. Minh-ha, "The Everyday Interval of Resistance".
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David Kaiser (Professor of Physics and History of Science at MIT) will give a talk on April 4, time and location TBD (likely around 4:30 pm). His talk will be titled ""Einstein's Legacy: Studying Gravity in War and Peace."
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A popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged with politics throughout his life. This talk examines ways in which research on general relativity was embedded in, and at times engulfed by, the tumult of world politics over the course of the twentieth century.
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Join campus museum leaders in an informal conversation as they examine current museum topics and trends, and discuss the role of the university museum on campus and in the community.