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Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have To Fight," will be speaking and signing books at the Oxford Conference for the Book.
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Having one or more portfolios focused on learning can give students a huge advantage in understanding their learning style and retaining access to the evidence of their learning while at the University of Illinois. In this workshop we will introduce you to Digication, an ePortfolio tool provided free to all faculty, staff and students, and discuss some ways to think about
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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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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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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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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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CITL Innovation Spaces are hosting a variety of hands-on emerging technology topics for beginners. Workshops are open to everyone. (Note: This workshop counts towards the Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching.)
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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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Michael Metz, the author of "Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois" will give a talk at the YMCA Friday Forum.
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Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, author of "Homeland Maternity: US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime" will sign books at Prairie Lights bookstore.
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Emily Thuma, author of "All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence" will be giving a book talk with members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and Survived and Punished at Skylight Books.
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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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Lara Vapnek, author of "Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence," will be giving an inspired talk entitled "Daughters of Toil: Working Women in Nineteenth Century New York City" at The Morris-Jumel Mansion.
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In this 3 hour course, participants will learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages to images.
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This 6-hour course covers work with transitions and animations; slide masters; and practice skills using audio and video files in their presentations. Finally students will learn about more features and methods for delivery an effective presentation.
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In this session we distill the magic that just might take your next presentation from bland to grand. See full description for more info.
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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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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames.
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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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In this 3 hour course, we will go beyond how the program works to include organizational strategies and tips to hyperlink to other notebooks and files, integrating with the rest of MS Office including linking to Outlook with Tasks to add reminders, Meeting notes that integrate with Skype for Business and other meetings, and other tips to boost the power of OneNote.
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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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InDesign is a desktop publishing program that combines incredible power and flexibility with a surprisingly easy-to-use interface -- for creating or editing everything from simple posters and brochures to multi-chapter books. We will do the basics in this 6 hour class.
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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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Come learn the basics of soldering electrical components with the help of the Illini Gadget Garage. This quick, hands-on workshop will introduce you to common soldering tools and techniques while putting together your own small soldering project.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Andrew E. Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts," will be hosting a workshop as a guest speaker at Colorado State University.
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A three-day celebration of games and gaming at the University of Illinois.
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How does modernity look when read through black diasporic literary production in the long nineteenth century? Speakers examine black reading and writing practices, visual culture, intellectual history, and modernity broadly conceived through abolitionist iconography, transatlantic iterations of the Anglo-African, reprinting, and black tastemakers.
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Andrew E. Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts," will be hosting a workshop as a guest speaker at Colorado State University.
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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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Andrew E. Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts," will be hosting a workshop as a guest speaker at Colorado State University.
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Excel 2016: PivotTables & PivotCharts
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Please join us for a book signing featuring Alice Kessler-Harris, author of "Women Have Always Worked, Second Edition" and Tobie Higbie, author of "Labor’s Mind," at OAH.
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Amy Louise Wood and Natalie J. Ring, the editors of "Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South" will moderate a panel featuring the book's contributors at OAH.
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Join us for a book signing with Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice" and Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area."
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Over the past decade and a half, the U.S. has lost 1,800 newspapers and half of its newspaper journalists, giving rise to news deserts across vast swaths of the country. Abernathy will explore the implications for our society and the collaborative effort that will be needed if we are to reverse the trend.
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Award-winning banjoist and author Stephen Wade, director of the American Roots Music Program at Rocky Ridge Music Center, explores how traditional musicians reinvent songs, tunes, and stories. How in the act of putting their hands on a traditional tune, gifted players transform it while connecting it to its history and to their own communities.
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Extend your InDesign skills even further by learning to use InDesign's more advanced features effectively. We'll work more deeply with styles. You'll use clipping paths to reveal only part of an image, create type outlines, and create Bezier paths. We'll also import layered files, merge data into documents and create a book with table of contents and references.
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Lee Humphreys is Associate Professor of Communication, Cornell University.
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In this 6-hour course, you will import and export data into Excel 2016, work with conditional formatting, and learn about macros. Additional topics will include summarizing data using subtotals and data validation; and analyzing data using Goal Seek and Solver along with what if scenarios. Prerequisite: Completion of Excel 2016 Level 1 or equivalent knowledge
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This talk will explore ways in which people across the Russian Empire transformed the death of Komissarzhevskaia into an occasion for large-scale public grieving, civic activism, and religious controversy.
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This two-hour short course will introduce you to Microsoft's latest version of its relational database application, Access 2016. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports and spend some time working in the most important of all the objects--tables.
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This Distinguished Speaker Lecture offers a revisionist understanding of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter by discerning the disavowal of settler colonial “economies of dispossession” as the precondition for “American Renaissance” interpretations of the romance’s characters, themes, narrative, plot, and scene of writing.
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The Amazon Alexa Skills workshop is a hands-on learning experience that will teach participants how to design, build, program and test their own Alexa Skill. Bring your own laptop to follow along as we dive into the terminology, technical details and design implications of curating an Alexa Skill for consumers. No prior programming experience is necessary.
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Nicole Krauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award and Orange Prize, and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Medicis, and Femina Prizes.
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Steve Hardy, co-author of "Hockey: A Global History" will be speaking and signing books at Western New England University.
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Dr. Mariam Lam is Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Diversity Officer, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of California, Riverside.
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Ashley Adams (UIUC African Studies and Community Health) will discuss quantitative analyses conducted to examine time trends in USAID Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, with a particular focus on women's contraceptive use in Tanzania from 1996-2016.
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In this workshop, we will discuss all the steps necessary for providing a fun, interactive learning experience to all the students in your laboratory class. Topics include: course planning, group work, providing effective demonstrations, experiment review and more.
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Stephen Hardy, author of "Hockey: A Global History," will be speaking at Western New England University about the origins of the sport in Canada in the post-Civil War era, and growth over the past 150 years in the United States and throughout Europe.
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In this talk, Samuel K. Roberts discusses local political protest movements for addiction treatment in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Michéle E J Koven, Professor of Communications, UI
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It’s actually pretty common to teach material that might be a bit of a stretch for you. Using ideas from Therese Huston’s excellent book Teaching What You Don’t Know, we’ll discover some strategies for comfortably and confidently teaching material that is not your specialty.
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CITL innovation spaces will be at Ebertfest this year with a tent hosting VR experiences on Friday, April 12th.
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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 Fashion, Style, & Aesthetics Reading Group (FSA) welcomes Lauren Downing Peters, Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at Columbia College Chicago. She will present on her research on the topic of the history and politics of plus-size fashion.
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Join us for a fun afternoon at Krannert Art Museum. This event makes it easy to explore the museum as a family. Each family can pick up art cards, follow the path at your own pace, and be amazed! This event is geared specially toward caregivers and children ages 6-10.
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You are welcome to the opening reception of a temporary exhibition featuring work from artists in the Master program at the School of Art + Design. The gallery will be open until 7pm on the Saturday, after which the gallery will be open during normal museum hours. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public.
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This 6-hour, hands-on course is an intro to web page design using Dreamweaver CC. Students will become familiar with the Dreamweaver environment, interface elements, layout customization, website creation and publishing. Activities will include creating a new site, laying out basic pages and text, using text styles and containers, inserting images, uploading a simple site.
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The Ethnography of the University Initiative Biannual Student Conference and Odyssey Project Poster Symposium, which is part of Undergraduate Research Week.
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Stefan Peychev is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Illinois.
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In this three-hour workshop attendees will learn how to create and work with Access tables. We will create a table using application parts and also from scratch. We will create a primary key and start entering data. Finally, we will work with fields in a table from adding, deleting, re-arranging to setting field properties and finally lookup fields and calculated fields.
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José Ángel N., author of "Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant," will be giving the keynote speech at the Immigration Project's Fundraising Luncheon.
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Adéyínka Alasadé (CAS Outreach Coordinator) will discuss some significant problems in modern medicine, the Western diet, and the environment and define the components of critical health literacy. She proposes indigenous African systems of medicine as viable and potentially superior alternatives to the iatrogenesis associated with Western (allopatic) medicine.