American Indian Studies Program

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Friday, January 31, 2025

    • 12:00 pm

    The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm

    Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work. Whether you're looking to collaborate with international universities or explore global research opportunities, we’re here to support your efforts.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

    • 4:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422 or Livestream

    Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

  • Mary Ton
    • 5:30 - 7:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

    Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

  • Kalindi Vora's headshot
    • 7:30 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Based on two years of ethnographic interviews with patients of chronic illness and participant observation with practitioners of complementary medicine in California, this talk examines what “sensitivity” can provide as a source of information about the relationship between the individual and the environment, and how this impacts health.

Monday, March 3, 2025

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

    • 7:30 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Community Speaker Series panelists: Tracy Barkley (Directory, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

  • Janice Harrington and Chip McNeill
    • 7:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    Join us for an evening of jazz and poetry with award-winning poet Janice N. Harrington (Creative Writing/English) and musician Charles “Chip” McNeill (Music). Harrington will read selections from Yard Show with musical accompaniment by McNeill and students from the University of Illinois music department.The book will be available for purchasing and signing.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

    • 4:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

  • Ross Gay's headshot
    • 7:30 pm
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom

    A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay. The book will be available for purchasing and signing.