Campus Humanities Calendar
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Professor Bilal will provide an overall introduction to an anthology meant to end the invisibility of activist women in Armenian historiography. Then, drawing on Yelbis Gesartin's work, she will discuss the interrelatedness of discourses on gender, sexuality, body, emotion, culture, history, nation, modernity, land and music in 19th century Armenian intellectual narratives
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This talk will provide an overview of open education, explore both sides of the debate, and offer reasons why engaging in open education doesn't—and shouldn't—stop at cost-savings.
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This Yom Ha' Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we are honoring the life and work of Italian author and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi. The evening will feature readings by Kirsten Wynne Pullen (Theatre) and Philip Phillips (Physics) and brief commentaries by Jonathan Druker (Italian, ISU) and Eleonora Stoppino (French & Italian).
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Every year, IPRH celebrates excellence in humanities scholarship by awarding IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities. Please join us in honoring this year's recipients at this year's ceremony.
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This Spring Luncheon and Lecture invites you to hear from Kevin Hamilton, Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts. The public is invited, and reservations are required. Please contact Chris Schaede (217 244 0516 or kam@illinois.edu) for reservation information.
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You are welcome to the opening reception of a temporary exhibition featuring work from artists in the Bachelor 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.
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We invite you to join us for an informative strategy session covering a range of external funding opportunities – including ACLS, Guggenheim, and residential fellowships (e.g., research libraries, arts residencies, institutes for advanced study).
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Every graduate student hears many times “the dissertation is not the book,” but what does that really mean? Dawn Durante, a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press, will discuss the differences between the dissertation and the book and give helpful advice on how to approach revisions.
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This talk reveals the untold story of the transnational efforts the University and its students went to support the war effort in 1917.
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In "The Fabrication, Materials, Design, Cultural Context, Uses, and Miracle of Paper," Sidney E. Berger explores the most extraordinary forms of paper decoration, and offers a look at many of its uses.
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Alumnus St. Elmo Brady was the first African-American to obtain a PhD in chemistry in the US. He received his degree from the University in 1916 for work completed at Noyes Laboratory and continued his career as a professor of chemistry at historically black colleges and universities. This talk will discuss the life and accomplishments of this important educator.
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Through the centuries, people have devised imaginative, even diabolical, puzzles to test our wits. This exhibit is a selection of the world’s most famous mechanical puzzles. Enjoy their artistry and creativity—and try your hand at solving some of them. Join Guest Community Curator Philip Nyman for a talk and demonstrations of some of the puzzles from his collection.
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Bring out your creative side at Krannert Art Museum as we explore the museum gardens. Participants should bring materials that relate to their own art practice —sketching, photography, painting, or other media. We’ll talk with local artist Kelly Hieronymus about using what we see in nature to inspire us creatively, then we’ll spend time making art in the gardens.
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Bring out your creative side in the galleries at Krannert Art Museum. We’ll talk with local artist Kelly Heironymus about the ways patterns and organic forms play a role in the art we see at the museum and the art we create.
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What will 21st century humanities pedagogy look like? How might we strengthen and diversify the humanities and engage and inspire a new generation of learners? This collaborative retreat will begin with a keynote by Ellen McClure, Director of the new Engaged Humanities Initiative (EHI) at UIC. Panels and discussions will follow.
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Information and resource fair for undergraduate students in the humanities.
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The festival opens on Friday, August 30, with the festival's feature length film, La Chana. Saturday, August 31, will be the adjudicated Short Films Competition Program, highlighting sixteen short dance films from a variety of different countries.
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Please make plans to attend this “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meeting to join the conversation about how the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities 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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"Reflections of a former Jerusalem correspondent" will focus on the latest events happening in the region, and the vast implications for the West, including the changing alliances in the Middle East, Israel's elections (take two), and the viability of "economic peace" with the Palestinians.
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Rebecca Ginsburg, associate professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership in the College of Education, and director of the Education Justice Project
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"Historical Archaeology and the Material Expressions of Religiosity in African Diaspora in Brazil in the 18th and 19th Centuries"
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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"Field Work: Deaf Refugee Farmers, Literature, and Public Health Humanities." Based in the disciplinary framework of public health humanities, Garden explores the ways that insights from literature can illuminate understandings of health disparities and clinical healthcare.
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Join us for a School of Art + Design Distinguished Alumni Lecture by pioneering gay conceptual photographer and U of I alumnus Hal Fischer. This event is free and open to the public. An award presentation and reception will follow.
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Lunch and conversation with gender-fluid drag queen and visual artist Sasha Velour for undergraduate students.
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This exhibit, featuring materials loaned by drag performers connected to the local area, steps into the closet of the drag queen and highlights the aesthetic practices of costuming and styling that make her fabulous. Join us for the opening celebration Sunday 9/15, 1:30–4 pm.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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This workshop will explore basic principles of Community Accountability & Transformative Justice and engage in honest conversation about the challenges we face when using this framework.
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This brown bag information session is dedicated to helping interested applicants learn more about this three-year faculty development initiative. Attendees will discover how the program and application process works; hear the experiences of current fellows; and have an opportunity to ask questions.
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Dr. Lance Larkin (CERL, UIUC), an anthropologist, will discuss the challenges of fitting research on the personal experiences of impoverished urban South Africans into projects generally driven by the insights of quantitative research.
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In this lecture, Mariame Kaba will argue that shrinking the prison industrial complex by relying on non-reformist reforms can help move us towards an abolitionist future, offering examples of past and current abolitionist campaigns.
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Join us on as Cheick Diabate, West African historian in the Griot tradition and world-recognized master of the ngoni, a Malian traditional instrument, tells us the musical journey of his life. All are welcome!
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The Spurlock Museum presents the panel discussion Looking Back, Looking Forward. The discussion is held in honor of the 26th anniversary of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Resource Center at the University of Illinois.
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“Mindfulness and Science-Based Approaches to Criminal Justice for the 21st Century.”
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Jason Salavon, new media artist
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Conversations among Gender & Women's Studies Graduate Minors and Interested Graduate Students.
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grandma's medicine, iraganeko zuloa is a performance of diasporic memory that draws together the story of my great grandmother's salve (amumaren medikunza, or grandma's medicine), Basque mythology, and futures made from irretrievable pasts. This performance traces an indigenous memory from Bizkaia to Idaho and Buenos Aires through diasporic memorial pathways.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Celebrate opening night for KAM’s newest exhibitions, including “Art Since 1948,” “All this Beauty and Color: Highlights of the WPA,” and “Revealing Presence: Women in Architecture at the University of Illinois.”
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Known throughout the indie music world for her solo project, Japanese Breakfast, Michelle Zauner will read from her upcoming memoir, Crying in H-Mart, a story of searching for identity in a hybrid culture, to be published by Knopf. A short-form version has appeared in The New Yorker.
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The symposium aims to strengthen the alumni and bring further visibility to issues for women in architecture. For information on keynote speakers, discussion panels, and networking opportunities, visit arch.illinois.edu/arch-womens-symposium.
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The Center for Writing Studies is excited to announce its Fall Symposium—Race, Translanguaging, and Language Ideologies Across the Lifespan, featuring Laura Gonzales and Ramón Martinez.
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Babette B. Tischleder is a professor of North American Studies and Media Studies at the Univ. of Göttingen, Germany. Her books include The Literary Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction (2014) and the coedited volumes Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age (2015) and An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World (2019).
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library will open the exhibit The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Conservation Treatments and Decision Making Through the Ages. The event will include a guest lecture by Consuela (Chela) Metzger, Head of the UCLA Library Conservation Center, who will discuss modern book and paper conservation. Refreshments provided; free and open to the public.
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A live-cinema solo, TIGER is the 5th performance from Deke Weaver’s Unreliable Bestiary: a performance for each letter of the alphabet, each letter represented by an endangered animal or habitat.
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A free, public reading by poets J. Allyn Rosser and Mark Halliday.
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Dr. Oğuz (Visiting Scholar from Yildirim Beyazit University, Antkara) will discuss the relationship between institutional analysis of the rule of law--how social norms, religious attitudes, and their change affect economic development with an emphasis on Ottoman Empire and recent Turkey. After the talk, Dr. Oğuz will answer questions and address comments. All are welcome.
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Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. A scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is the author most recently of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Professor Atoma Batoma (International and Area Studies Library) will explore traditional personal naming practices in precolonial Togo, which were disrupted by colonial-era education and religious systems. After the presentation, Prof. Batoma will answer questions and address comments. All are welcome to attend!
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“The Climate Change Comedy Hour”
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This workshop with Jennifer Monson, Professor of Dance uses the framework of the iLANDing scores (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance) to research works of art in KAM’s collection. We will use these simple instructions to shift our modes of observation with the whole body, eyes touching, ears drawing, and weight coloring. No particular dance or movement
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Melissa Littlefield, professor of English. Interests include sociotechnical studies, “the body,” and culture. She has written about the cultural concept and consequences of technologies such as lie detectors, MRI, and EEG.
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Prof. Winters and Ms. Chen (Dept. of Political Science, UIUC) will explore if a connection between local government revenues and city services increases citizens’ willingness to pay local property taxes in Zomba, Malawi. After the talk, the speakers will answer questions and make comments.
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Please join us for "Financialization at the Margins: Women, Money & Social Capital in Gujarat, India," sponsored by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The talk will be given by Dr. Tara Nair, Visiting Scholar at UIUC College of Media and Professor at Gujarat Institute of Development Research.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Author of the One Book One Campus 2019–2020 selection Heads of the Colored People. Reception and book signing to follow.
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A discussion with undergraduates about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Co-sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies.
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The Library Consultation Working Group, a campus committee charged by the Provost, will host a campus-wide Town Hall presentation and discussion of the 100% submittal of the Main Library Redevelopment Plan Programming and Conceptual Design Study by the firm of JLK/brightspot.
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Omri Drumlevich will be presenting a “first view” of students learning a master work by Ohad Naharin, former Artistic Director of the Israeli company, Batsheva Dance Company. Join us for a sneak preview of the dance and a lively discussion with the artists. Light appetizers and drinks will be served. Please rsvp to masko@illinois.edu if you plan to attend.
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This marquee series of the Visitors Program is designed to showcase notable national and international artists, designers, and scholars whose work or point of view is engaging and topical. Paul Ardenne, art historian, critic, curator
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Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Featuring George Takei and many others who were incarcerated, as well as newly rediscovered photographs of Dorothea Lange.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Featuring Emily McKown, Olivia Tasch, and Carrie Chandler, members of Girls Rock! Champaign-Urbana. Moderated by Fiona Ngô (Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies).
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Humanities faculty, students, and friends are invited to a discussion of the state of lobbying efforts on behalf of the humanities and opportunities to contribute to those efforts.
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A lecture by activist and photographer Dr. Doris Derby. Part of the 1619 & Beyond Series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois.
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Part of August Wilson’s celebrated Pittsburgh Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.
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Join us for an introduction to Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape by independent curator Jennie Lamensdorf and Joan Linder, Chair and Associate Professor in Art at the University of Buffalo.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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This talk explores politics of belonging and its implications for immigrant communities in Kenya and the U.S.
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Part of August Wilson’s celebrated Pittsburgh Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.
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Moderated by Dr. Erik McDuffie. Part of the 1619 & Beyond Series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois.
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This month’s event will feature Maureen Warren, Curator of European and American Art, and will highlight the re-installation of the Bow and Trees Galleries. Reception to follow.
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Dyson will discuss recent bodies of work, including 1919: Black Water, which responds to the 100th anniversary of the “Red Summer” of 1919, focusing on a tragic episode in the segregated waters of Chicago’s beaches.
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Film screening and talk on The Land Beneath Our Feet with Gregg Mitman. Dr. Mitman is Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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This event brings together scholars, mostly in American literatures, to talk about their "second book projects," books that they're in the midst of writing.
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Join a collaborative group that will help you figure out what matters to you and offer support as you explore new paths. Open to grad students in any field whose work involves humanistic inquiry.
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Esther Ngumbi, assistant professor of Entomology. Interests include chemical signaling between plants, insects, herbivores, and microorganisms
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Ms. Matsushita, PhD Candidate, History Department at UIUC
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Scholars from the European Union Center and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center discuss how the "Ukrainian Affair" is being covered in media across Eurasia.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Dr. Tesfaye Wolde-Medhin of the UIUC Library will speak
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Join us at the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections to learn more about our diverse collections of books and manuscript materials, artifacts and ephemera, and more! Explore treasures from our collections on display in our reading room, view our exhibit on the rich history of the railroad in Illinois before it closes, and enjoy light refreshments.
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Part of the 1619 & Beyond Series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois.