College of LAS Events
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
To join the virtual thesis defense, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link)
"High Quantile Regression for Tail Dependent Time Series"
Join exhibiting artist Bea Nettles and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Amy L. Powell for a virtual gallery conversation covering fifty years of Nettles’s experimental photographic techniques and formats.
Friday, January 29, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
Join us for the first installment of our Spring Seminar Series - continuing the conversation that we began in the fall. Our first presenter is Heather Gifford, PhD candidate at the University of Illinois.
Join us for a presentation and Q&A with Professor Lou Turner (Urban and Regional Planning) on the Hal Baron Project and what Baron's work can teach us about the current moment.
Join us for a presentation and Q&A with Professor Lou Turner (Urban and Regional Planning) on the Hal Baron Project and what Baron's work can teach us about the current moment.
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s advocacy work around poverty issues, the School of Social Work, in partnership with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, invites students, faculty, staff and community members to engage in a poverty simulation that bridges the gap from misconception to understanding in an interactive immersion experience.
This event is part of the Becoming a Trans Inclusive Library Project. Join us for a reading and conversation with Anya Johanna DeNiro, a fantasy and science fiction writer based in Minnesota. She is the author of the novella City of A Thousand Feelings by publisher Aqueduct Press (2020).
Saturday, January 30, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
Sunday, January 31, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
Monday, February 1, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
Just Infrastructures announces its inaugural Speaker Series with Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, presenting “What is Media Manipulation?” on Feb. 3, 2021.
Just Infrastructures announces its inaugural Speaker Series with Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, presenting “What is Media Manipulation?” on Feb. 3, 2021. The event is on Zoom from 12-1p.m. central time.
Join the Pre-Law Advising Services Office (PLAS) for a special presentation for History majors and minors. Learn more about preparing for law school, the application process, and services available through PLAS. Students will also have an opportunity to ask individual questions during the Q&A portion!
This talk focuses on detention care and its deadly consequences in the United States. Between October 2003 and November 2020, there were at least 216 deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, many the result of grossly inadequate medical practices.
This talk focuses on detention care and its deadly consequences in the United States. Between October 2003 and November 2020, there were at least 216 deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, many the result of grossly inadequate medical practices.
Thursday, February 4, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
"Rates of Approximation for CLT and Bootstrap in High Dimensions"
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link)
Friday, February 5, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
Join us for another installment in our Spring Seminar Series, featuring our very own Professor Caitlin Vitosky Clarke. This seminar will take place on Friday, February 5th, 2021 at 9AM via Zoom. We hope to see you there!
Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
Looking for a way to jump start your semester? Join us for an afternoon of trivia! Our theme: The Nobel Prize in Literature. Test your knowledge and win a prize!
Saturday, February 6, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
Sunday, February 7, 2021
The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
Monday, February 8, 2021
To join the virtual thesis defense, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
"How to Publish Rather than Perish in the American Liberal Arts College: Making Connections, Maintaining Continuity, and Understanding University Culture" Zoom: https://bit.ly/2NbBbU0 Meeting ID: 843 6744 0163 Password: FRIT2021
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Led by Assistant Dean for Career & Professional Development in the Graduate College, Derek Attig, this information session for potential applicants to the HWW Summer Bridge Experience will explain the application process.
Led by Assistant Dean for Career & Professional Development in the Graduate College, Derek Attig, this information session for potential applicants to the HWW Summer Bridge Experience will explain the application process.
Thursday, February 11, 2021
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
Friday, February 12, 2021
We look forward to welcoming Sociology at Illinois graduate Chloe E. Bird (MA/PhD) as a speaker in our Spring Seminar Series. Bird currently serves as a Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation, where she studies women's health, determinants of differences between men's and women's health, and health care. Join us on Friday, February 12th, 2021 at 9AM via Zoom.
Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
From climate change to increasingly mobile human populations to the global economy, the relationship between humans and their environment is being modified in ways that will have long-term impacts on ecological health, biodiversity, ecosystem goods and services, human activities, land cover/land use change, and system sustainability.
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Tenure-stream faculty who wish to learn more about the Interseminars Initiative are encouraged to attend this Zoom info session. This new initiative will provide funding and administrative infrastructure for interdisciplinary inquiry, including collaborative teaching, graduate fellowships, and support for public- or community-facing research in the humanities and arts.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
What pressures have graduate students faced while trying to conduct their international research in the past year? How can universities respond, and what lessons can we save for the future? Join us as graduate students and faculty reflect on these important questions, based on their experiences in the past year.
Join us for a talk by Kim Lane Scheppele entitled “Europe’s New Democracy Deficit: Creeping Autocracy in Hungary and Poland.” This event is part of the REEEC Critical Methods Series in Legal Studies and co-sponsored by the European Union Center.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
Friday, February 19, 2021
In this talk, Professor Gad Yair from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will present results from a qualitative study of 40 adults, aged 27-35, who at age 17 underwent examinations for serving in elite Israeli military units. The results provide sobering testimonies for the symbolic violence that examinations exert on young people.
To join the virtual thesis defense, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
Community is often where mutually beneficial research and education outcomes are discovered together through the power of citizen science, maps, apps, and drones. Citizen Science GIS at UCF and in Belize seeks to engage academics and community organizations/residents in shared knowledge production focused on community-engaged research that benefits real-world communities.
Join UIUC's NOBCChE chapter in a celebration of the Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers that have laid the foundation and are conducting groundbreaking research in honor of Black History Month. We will be holding a 2-day conference that will include keynote addresses, research presentations, and panel discussions on a wide range of topics.
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Join UIUC's NOBCChE chapter in a celebration of the Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers that have laid the foundation and are conducting groundbreaking research in honor of Black History Month. We will be holding a 2-day conference that will include keynote addresses, research presentations, and panel discussions on a wide range of topics.
Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
Monday, February 22, 2021
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Thursday, February 25, 2021
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
Panelists include Howard Chiang (History, University of California, Davis), Việt Lê (Visual Studies, California College of the Arts), Gayatri Reddy (Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago), and Shilpa Menon and Themal Ellawala (graduate students, University of Illinois at Chicago).
Friday, February 26, 2021
This installment of our Spring Seminar Series features our second international presenter, Juliette Galonnier, of the Center for International Studies in France. Join us on Friday, February 26th, 2021 at 9AM via Zoom.
Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
