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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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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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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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Join the Slavic Reference Service for this workshop intended to assist ILL librarians in working with foreign language materials.
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The fifth annual symposium hosted by International Food Security at Illinois.
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This presentation will look at the challenges and opportunities ahead for Indian agriculture and examine how agricultural policies have hindered the changes needed in the sector.
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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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Those interested in institutional capacity building within international development should plan to attend this presentation. A reception will follow.
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«Асса» / Assa (1987 / in Russian / subs / dir. Sergei Solovyov)
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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." 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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The Midwest Forum on Chinese Literature and Culture is devoted to fostering dialogue on relevant topics among the faculty and graduate students of Indiana University (IU), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and other Midwest universities. The 2019 Forum focuses on pre-modern subjects.
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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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Building Global Partnerships: Sierra Leone is an opportunity to hear from Christian Kamara, CEO of Sierra Leone YMCA, followed by a panel of faculty and community members that are involved in global relationships with Sierra Leone.
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Experts from the US and the EU will speak on transatlantic relations past and present.
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KUKAN, a landmark color film that revealed the atrocities of World War II China to audiences around the world, was the first ever American feature documentary to receive an Academy Award in 1942. When filmmaker Robin Lung discovers a badly damaged film print of KUKAN, she pieces together the inspirational tale of the two renegades behind the making of it.
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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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Iana Markevych will discuss challenges facing researchers of greenspaces in Europe.
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Naureen Butt will use the lens of first-person narrative to discuss the recent history of Pakistan, particularly the challenges faced by women during the rise of the Pakistani Taliban.
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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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Transatlantic Educators Dialogue: Transformative Connectivity and Learning with Teachers from Europe
Hear Jennifer Smith, a local K-12 educator, talk about her experiences collaborating with European colleagues.
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Join the College of Engineering for a reception honoring donors and recipients of the Engineering Visionary Scholarship Initiative.
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Join the College of Engineering as we recognize outstanding students and alumni at the annual Student and Alumni Awards Ceremony.
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Frances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil, and grew up in Miami, Florida. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is the author of the novels THE SEAMSTRESS (2008) and THE AIR YOU BREATHE (2018).
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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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This videoconference will discuss what's at stake in the European Parliamentary elections.
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Hande Ozdinler, PhD, Neuroscientist and painter, inventor of OzdinART, and co-founder of the Art Loves Science Foundation, will speak about OzdinART and the Turkish art of marbling (ebru).
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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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Professor Assata Zerai (Professor of Sociology and Associate Chancellor for Diversity) will be presenting "Adoption of The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the mention of gender in constitutional nondiscrimination clauses in select African countries: law versus practice"
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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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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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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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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.