Campus Humanities Calendar

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

    • 9:00 - 11:00 am
    • Nevada Dance StudioCreative Dance for Children is an innovative community program provided by the University of Illinois Department of Dance under the direction of Betty Allen. Instructors collaborate to design and deliver creative dance classes tailored for children ages 4-10.

    Creative Dance for Children Spring 2025 Session

    • All Day
    • Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St.)

    Unissued Diplomas Exhibition

    The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, Ukrainian Students Association, and Spurlock Museum invite you to visit Unissued Diplomas in the Central Core Gallery at Spurlock.

    • 4:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422 or Livestream

    AI and the Human Condition: Thinking Beyond Accuracy

    Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.

    • 4:00 pm
    • School of Informational Sciences | Room 126 | 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign IL

    Critical Adoption Studies: On Language and Literature

    Join creative writer Sun Yung Shin and Scholar Kimberly D. McKee, PhD, for a discussion on the subjectivities, stories, and narratives revolving around adoptions and exploring what it means for adoptees to own their voices.