College of LAS Events
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Join us for a virtual roundtable and discussion about different challenges to human rights and rule of law in contemporary Europe. Our speakers will address cases in Hungary, Turkey, France, Germany, and at the European Court of Human Rights.
Faranak Miraftab, University of Illinois, Department of Urban and Regional Planning Clarissa Freitas, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Department of Architecture Urbanism and Design Ken Salo, University of Illinois, Department of Urban and Regional Planning Revisiting Transnational Teaching for Social Justice: Virtual, Real and Hybrid Experiences
Online discussion with filmmakers Dianne Fukami and Debra Nakatomi.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
In this talk, Professor Ostherr will discuss the ways that Medical/Health Humanities can develop translational practices that bring novel insights and methods to frontline pandemic responses, highlighting the importance of collaboration across fields of scholarship and practice, particularly across humanities, engineering, and clinical practice.
In this talk, Professor Ostherr will discuss the ways that Medical/Health Humanities can develop translational practices that bring novel insights and methods to frontline pandemic responses, highlighting the importance of collaboration across fields of scholarship and practice, particularly across humanities, engineering, and clinical practice.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Take your lunch break with Sociology professors and students!
For this 90-minute panel conversation, Illinois faculty will draw on their multidisciplinary research and expertise on elections to provide insights into how current events are shaping our approach to democracy, political divisiveness, and the media in a time of turmoil and crisis.
"2dFDR: a two-dimensional false discovery rate control for powerful confounder adjustment in omics association studies"
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access).
Guen Montgomery, Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Art + Design, will lead participants through the creation of hand-printed postcards to share with legislators or fellow voters in this in-person workshop.
Friday, October 30, 2020
How diverse, inclusive, and representative are our digital library collections — and our library collections in general—and how can we know that? How and why does this matter? What can we do about it, and what are we doing about it?
While the relationship between fractional cover of anthropogenic and vegetation features and the urban warming or heat island has been well examined, the effect of spatial pattern (e.g., clustered, dispersed, random) of these features on air and land surface temperatures are not well understood.
Monday, November 2, 2020
Current Sociology Ambassadors present about the benefits of studying Sociology at Illinois and their own experiences in the program.
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Current Sociology Student Ambassadors will give a presentation on the benefits of studying Sociology at Illinois!
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
Current Sociology Student Ambassadors will deliver a presentation and answer questions about the benefits of studying Sociology at Illinois.
To join the virtual thesis defense, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link)
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Current Sociology Student Ambassadors will give a presentation on the benefits of studying Sociology at Illinois and discuss their own experiences in the program.
"Computer Model Emulation and Calibration Using Complex Spatial and Temporal Data"
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access).
Friday, November 6, 2020
Join us for another installment of our Fall Seminar Series on Friday, November 6th, 2020 at 9am on Zoom. Sociology professor Kevin Leicht will break down the November 3rd election through a sociological lens.
Join two faculty members from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as they discuss collaborative, reciprocal, and redistributive models of research. This session will help prospective grant applicants plan for the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) seed grant CFP and HWW project CFP, both of which will be issued in March 2021.
Join two faculty members from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as they discuss collaborative, reciprocal, and redistributive models of research. This session will help prospective grant applicants plan for the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) seed grant CFP and HWW project CFP, both of which will be issued in March 2021.
This is the third lecture in the series "Timbuktu Talks," presented by the Center for African Studies. The series is hosted by Professor Mauro Nobili of the Department of History. The city of Timbuktu in Mali epitomizes the intellectual vibrancy of African Muslim societies. These lectures explore past and contemporary aspects of Islamic Africa.
As meandering rivers migrate laterally through their floodplains, the growth of individual bends increases the overall length and sinuosity of the channel. Intermittently, meander limbs from different bends migrate into one another causing the river pathway to shorten, in a process termed neck cutoff.
Current Sociology Student Ambassadors will deliver a presentation on the benefits of studying Sociology at Illinois and their own experiences!
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Monday, November 9, 2020
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
The University of Illinois Archives is hosting a monthly Women in Science Lecture Series that will feature speakers from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diverse and multidisciplinary scientific enterprise.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Jenny Davis (Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Chancellor’s Fellow for Indigenous Research) presents "Manifesting Pandemic Destiny: Parsing the Tense and Aspect of Settler Immunopolitics in Indian Country” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series.
Jenny Davis (Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Chancellor’s Fellow for Indigenous Research) presents "Manifesting Pandemic Destiny: Parsing the Tense and Aspect of Settler Immunopolitics in Indian Country” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
* NOTE SPECIAL TIME -- 11:00 A.M. * To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access).
"Predicting Disease Risk from Genomics Data"
Please join us for a virtual University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium during this year's University Press Week. Panels will include "Getting it Written" and "Getting it Published" and feature practical tips for navigating the publication process from completing a manuscript to finding a publisher.
Friday, November 13, 2020
Today, center-east areas in the city of Buenos Aires, especially the highly stigmatized villas (slums), seem ripe for a new phase of urban restructuring. Long-time residents of the villas, neglected for decades by public funds, now face “urbanization” processes, a euphemism neoliberal governance uses when transferring public urban land to the private market.
Monday, November 16, 2020
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Thursday, November 19, 2020
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access).
Friday, November 20, 2020
As a global city and the largest immigrant gateway in Canada, Toronto is home to a highly mobile population with strong transnational connections and an aging immigrant population with over 70% of older adults are foreign-born. Meeting the health care needs of transnational migrants is a growing priority.