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Sunday, September 20, 2026

  • Talk: Culture Wars, Then and Now by Professor Andrew Hartman

    Time
    1:00 pm
    Location
    Spurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

    This lecture will be about the culture wars since the 1960s, comparing and contrasting the culture wars of the late twentieth century with our current version. The speaker will offer answers as to why our contemporary culture wars seem worse than ever.

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

  • Contemporary Conversations: Objects of Hate Interpreted in Art

    Time
    6:30 pm
    Location
    Spurlock Museum: 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

    In a follow up to the September 15th Facilitating Dialogue around Objects of Hate, this program examines how visual artists create works that interrogate, reimagine, or repurpose objects and imagery associated with hate.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

  • The Long History of Amanuenses in Europe, from Antiquity to the Digital Age

    Time
    3:00 - 5:00 pm
    Location
    Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801

    The techniques for making texts have changed across multiple media and historical contexts since antiquity, but a regular feature of the work of authors and scholars through all those changes is the reliance on helpers or amanuenses. Dr. Ann Blair (Harvard) will discuss the factors that have made them both invisible and occasionally visible, and the kind of work they did.

Thursday, November 12, 2026

  • Decoding the Page: Emblems, Ornaments, and Early Modern Reading

    Time
    3:00 - 5:00 pm
    Location
    Main Library Room 346 — 1408 W. Gregory Dr, Urbana, IL 61801

    This event will highlight the collaborative project involving Emblematica (U of I), a digital library of emblem books, and Compositor (U of Birmingham), a database of printers’ ornaments. Dr. Hazel Wilkinson hypothesizes that “emblem-literacy” caused historical readers to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted-for in scholarship.