Campus Humanities Calendar

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

    • 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
    • International and Area Studies Library

    Join us for an event exploring the Jesuit archives at the Jesuit University in Beirut. The archive includes memoirs, diaries, letters, and other documents that detail various aspects of daily life during The Great Famine from 1915 to 1918. Featured speakers include Dr. Christian Taoutel (Saint Joseph University of Beirut) and Dr. Marc Abou Abdallah (Uof I)

    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    • English Building, Room 107 (608 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)

    This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Stop by to listen, chat, and share lunch! Light refreshments provided.

    • 5:00 pm
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory

    Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.