College of LAS Events
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Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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This workshop will use practical applications of two AI tools—Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity AI. These tools support your research process, offering intelligent assistance with brainstorming, refining ideas, finding sources, and enhancing your writing development. You will learn how to use tools to efficiently gather insights, structure arguments, and streamline your res
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In recent times, alarm over the future of history departments and programs in higher education has been widespread. In that same era, Patty Limerick has had innumerable opportunities to provide historical perspective to audiences far beyond the borders of the academic world.
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Join us for a lecture by Dr. Patty Limerick who will share adventures in the adrenaline-saturated world of the Applied Historian, testifying to the unexpected value of humor (often conveyed in original limericks!) in earning the trust of audiences across a spectrum of opinions and points of view.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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An evening of fun art making with renowned graphic artist Sumit Kumar with snacks, stories, and wonderful art pieces that you get to take home! Meet us at Spurlock Museum on November 6, 5-8 PM. Art supplies will be provided. Please register in advance.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
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Conference Date: Nov 7-9, 2024 Submission Deadline: July 30, 2024
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Program
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Professor Bob Morrissey joins us in the RBML to showcase the John Eliot Bible, published in 1663, and discuss how this unusual text can be used to examine American origin stories, as well as histories of historical interpretation and practice in our land-grant institution. Come take a look at RBML’s copy of this exceedingly rare book!
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This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.
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This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.
Friday, November 8, 2024
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Conference Date: Nov 7-9, 2024 Submission Deadline: July 30, 2024
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Join us for Phi Alpha Theta's first regional undergraduate history conference!
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Join us for the Phi Alpha Theta Conference, our first regional undergraduate history conference. This year's theme is conflict and culture. Panelists will explore how cultural expressions reflect, respond to, and shape the nature of conflicts throughout history. Join us in exploring the powerful narratives that emerge when conflict and culture intersect.
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The Black Europe Symposium brings together experts in the field for interdisciplinary discussion around the notion of formations of Blackness broadly defined in Europe and the diaspora.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
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Conference Date: Nov 7-9, 2024 Submission Deadline: July 30, 2024
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Join us for Phi Alpha Theta's first regional undergraduate history conference!
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Join us for the Phi Alpha Theta Conference, our first regional undergraduate history conference. This year's theme is conflict and culture. Panelists will explore how cultural expressions reflect, respond to, and shape the nature of conflicts throughout history. Join us in exploring the powerful narratives that emerge when conflict and culture intersect.
Monday, November 11, 2024
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The University of Illinois Chez Veterans Center and ROTC invite you to the 2024 Veterans Day Celebration. Join us for lunch as we honor our brave Veterans and welcome keynote speaker Matt Ballinger, a former U.S. Army Ranger and current Executive Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police at the University of Illinois.
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Richard T. Rodríguez will discuss his recent book A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad, which explores the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their U.S. Latine audiences since the 1980s.
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Inspired by a 1941 Jorge Luis Borges short story, artist Vicki Bennett's (People Like Us)The Library of Babel (2024) explores themes related to the complex interplay of infinity, knowledge, and the cosmic fabric, presented through the metaphor of a vast, seemingly infinite library. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Bennett and special guest Hearty White.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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This is a meeting of the Graduates studies committee.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
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Join us for a MillerComm lecture by GAM Visiting Artist Monique Mojica.
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GAM Visiting Artist Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and University of Illinois Professor of Anthropology Brenda Farnell ask, How do we create an Indigenous theater that moves beyond the “victim narrative” while embracing an aesthetics of resistance?
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What is the role of poetry at the time of an unjust and horrific war that Russians have inflicted on Ukraine since 2014? This conversation with the award-winning Ukrainian poet, Halyna Kruk, will focus on new themes and narrative strategies in her recent poetry, on shifting ethical and aesthetic frameworks, and on the poetic text as a form of healing.
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Join us for a live book event with author Daniel Kraus, whose novel Whalefall was named one of the “Best Thrillers of 2023” by the New York Times. Kraus will discuss the challenges of writing a science-based novel and his experience adapting it into a movie for Disney.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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Professor Gillen Wood recreates the HMS Challenger's pioneering oceanographic expedition to colonial Australia in 1874. Victorian-era Sydney Harbor offers a case study in early industrial marine exploitation and “shifting baseline syndrome,” where lost species and their habitats are erased from cultural memory.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
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Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Neuroscience Program
Friday, November 22, 2024
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This webinar introduces the basic tools and resources for government statistics and data. Attendees will learn about the major federal government and intergovernmental organizations' statistics and data as well as strategies to search for government statistics.