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Based in life histories of working-class women of rural origin and one in particular, I show the intimate entanglements of violence and value-making in an urban economy marked by informal employment, uncertainty, and attrition.
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Dr. Gaston’s talk will focus on his research from his 2010 book entitled, The Challenge of Bologna: What European Education Has to Teach Us and Why It’s Important That We Learn It (2010).
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"The Walled City of Nicosia, Cyprus: History, Heritage and Visualization." This talk will address aspects of Nicosia’s history, the preservation and definition of its heritage by the British in the early 20th century, the challenges of the contemporary division and the ways digital technologies can help efforts to understand the layered complexities of historic cities.
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Participation in online media has seemingly lost its innocence: What once started as a hopeful promise for media and society in the 1990s, developed into the object of public fears and concerns among media and tech companies. Trolling, bullying and strategic manipulation seem to be very common in comment sections and social media these days.
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Lyudmila Parts is an Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University.
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Dominique Kalifa is a historian and professor at the University of Paris 1, where he heads the Center for 19th-Century History. His latest book,"Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld," is forthcoming in spring 2019 from Columbia University Press.
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TITLE: "Modern Artificial General Intelligence" ABSTRACT: I will introduce the field of modern artificial general intelligence, with the emphasis on explaining a modeling framework that is highly relevant to probabilistic modeling and decision making. I will also introduce some new research opportunities that are relevant to optimization researchers.
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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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The IPRH-Mellon Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Group is a collective of students exploring how matters of the environment can be understood through a humanistic lens. As we do so, we seek to dive into the untold narratives of physical and social environments.
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The IPRH-Mellon Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Group is a collective of students exploring how matters of the environment can be understood through a humanistic lens. As we do so, we seek to dive into the untold narratives of physical and social environments.
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Workshop for graduate students in History and in French and Italian to talk with Prof. Dominique Kalifa about his new book: Vice, Crime and Poverty in the Western Imagination. GRAD STUDENTS: Please email your RSVP for this workshop to tchaplin@illinois.edu.
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A large and rapidly increasing number of devices that are geo-locatable and wirelessly connected to the internet are generating a flood of data that is overwhelming contemporary methods of analysis.
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The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for discussing broad, multi-disciplinary assessments of Oman's development by leading scholars in the field. This is expected to encourage further research on Oman and to offer insights and lessons for the country and the Middle East region.
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Jessie Labov (Resident Fellow, Center for Media, Democracy, and Society and Coordinator of the Digital Humanities Initiative at Central European University; Director of Academic and Institutional Development at McDaniel College Budapest)
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William Hart-Davidson is Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education in the College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University.
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William Hart-Davidson is Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education in the College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University.
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Alexander Marković is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His work explores affective politics, nationalism, and performance culture in the Balkans.
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Aren Aizura is an assistant professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and the author of Mobile Subjects: transnational imaginaries of gender reassignment (Duke UP, 2018).
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This talk investigates political economies of risk logic by looking at how transnational trans and queer studies comprehend trans people’s patronage of “back alley surgeons.”
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Intended for students from across the campus, Inside Scoop conversations invite Illinois undergraduates to engage with the exciting work conducted by scholars whose work helps us understand what it means to be human in a world of rapidly shifting global complexities.
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Intended for students from across the campus, Inside Scoop conversations invite Illinois undergraduates to engage with the exciting work conducted by scholars whose work helps us understand what it means to be human in a world of rapidly shifting global complexities.
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In what used to be the empire of Ghana, Mali, Ashanti, Futa Djallon sit 17 countries today with diverse legal systems. Our speaker, Alpha Diallo, a human rights lawyer, will examine if there is a better way to advocate Human Rights laws.
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With an increasing global population and continuing climate change, food security has become a grand scientific and societal challenge. To tackle this challenge, it is critically important to obtain timely crop information such as yield potential and growing status as crop information is often time sensitive.
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Come hear this special artist talk, a Distinguished Alumni Lecture featuring Louise Fishman, painter. A reception following immediately afterward. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public.
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Poets from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student organizations including The Creative Writing Club, Flor Poetry, and The Collective Magazine will read their work selected around the evening’s theme of “culture.” Additionally, the event includes fun poetry writing activities and the Museum’s galleries will be open for you to explore and seek inspiration.
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Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely; and the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Rankine is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.
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Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely; and the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Rankine is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.
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This symposium is held in conjunction with the 11th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS11). This pre-conference symposium invites abstracts that focus of various semiotic practices.
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This panel examines community experiences related to India’s Partition in 1947. In the aftermath of the British Raj’s decision to leave behind a divided territory in South Asia, the subcontinent was wracked by violent communal aggressions.
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Internationally recognized scholar Cheryl Grills will discuss the applied community research she has conducted over the past three decades to decrease health disparities among African Americans. She will present community intervention efforts that have been proven to reduce distress and promote well-being in the face of racial stress, MillerComm Lecture Series 2019.
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Internationally recognized scholar Cheryl Grills will discuss the applied community research she has conducted over the past three decades to decrease health disparities among African Americans. She will present community intervention efforts that have been proven to reduce distress and promote well-being in the face of racial stress. A CAS MillerComm Lecture.
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This two-day symposium offers us a chance to reflect on what makes our work unique and uniquely valuable. It gives us an opportunity to articulate what our scholarship and creative practice offer to a university seeking ever more social, cultural, and intellectual creativity.
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This is an annual, student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate students a local and friendly venue in which to present and discuss research on any topic related to language and linguistics.
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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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Housing affordability, defined as a financially feasible portion of income spent on housing, is a problem in U.S. cities, including New York City. While housing costs have increased, most Americans' salaries are not increasing at the same rate.
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Prof. Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015).
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Come hear poetry in translation! Listen to how a poem written in one language can be beautifully rendered in another.