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This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
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The preliminary round for the Midwestern regional Euro Challenge competition.
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The surfaces and interfaces play crucial roles in the materials’ performance, especially for 2D materials. Mechanical property investigation can provide unprecedented insights into these interfaces.
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A special seminar presented by Cynthia Clampitt titled, “How Corn Changed Itself and then Changed Everything Else.”
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Two-time UI ECE alumnus Raymond Chan, director of solar sheet production and products at MicroLink Devices, Inc., will discuss the use of solar cells in prolonged unmanned flight.
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Please join us for a curator talk by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
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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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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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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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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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The fifth annual symposium hosted by International Food Security at Illinois.
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Seminar by Jie Shan, professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University,y on using atomically thin magnetic materials and electrical means to control magnetism.
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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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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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Join Michael Jeffords and Susan Post as they explore northern India in search of snow leopards, tigers and much, much more...
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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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An affordable three-day conference for web designers, developers, social media marketers, content managers, and other web professionals within higher ed and beyond. Registration opens January 1, 2019. Visit webcon.illinois.edu for more information.
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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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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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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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University of Illinois Social Work is holding a year-long lecture series designed to meet the profession’s grand challenge of harnessing technology for social good. Registration is required for each date. These events are free and open to the public. Lunch is provided. Attendance is capped at 30 people per seminar. Register early to attend.
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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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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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Autumn Knight, performance artist; Amy L. Powell, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; and Sandra Ruiz, Assistant Professor of Latina/Latino Studies are featured in this conversation. They will discuss the recently published book Autumn Knight: In Rehearsal, the first comprehensive publication on the New York-based performance artist. This event is free (donations accep
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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.