American Indian Studies Program

Thursday, February 21, 2019

- 12:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge - 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Landscapes of Resistance and Resilience: New Approaches to Indigenous Placemaking and Memory in the Native Northeast
- Lecture
- 7:30 pm
- IPRH Lecture Hall, Levis Faculty Center, Fourth Floor (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana)
Emma Dench | "Race, Ethnicity and Beyond in Classical Antiquity"
A lecture by Emma Dench (Classics, History and Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University). "Race, Ethnicity and Beyond in Classical Antiquity." Part of a workshop on “Race Work in the Classics” on February 22, 2019.
- Lecture

- 10:00 am - 1:30 pm
- Department of Latina/Latino Studies, 1207 W. Oregon, room 133, Urbana
Department of Latina/Latino Studies Graduate Student Symposium
- Seminar/Symposium

- 8:20 am - 4:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St.
Inaugural Symposium on Local Immigration Activism
- Seminar/Symposium
- 8:20 am - 4:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
The Inaugural Symposium on Local Immigration Activism
- Seminar/Symposium
- 8:20 am - 4:00 pm
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
The Inaugural Symposium on Local Immigration Activism
- Seminar/Symposium
- 4:00 pm
- IPRH Lecture Hall, Levis Faculty Center, Fourth Floor (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana)
Benjamin H. Johnson | “Progressive Era Conservation: A Usable Past?”
A lecture by Benjamin H. Johnson, Associate Professor of History, and Institute of Environmental Sustainability Faculty, Loyola University Chicago. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Lecture

- 12:00 pm
- Levis Faculty Center, Room 304 (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana)
Information Session: 2019–20 Public Voices Fellowship
The University of Illinois System is accepting applications for the 2019–20 Public Voices Fellowship. This year-long fellowship provides a cohort of 20 thought leaders with extraordinary support, leadership skills, and knowledge to ensure their ideas shape not only their fields, but also the greater public conversations of our age.
- Informational

- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Russell Seminar Room, 2049 Natural History Building, 1301 W. Green Street
SEMINAR: Universalism and Its Others: The Limits of Critical Urban Theory
- Seminar/Symposium
- 7:30 pm
- Third Floor Lecture Hall, Levis Faculty Center (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana)
Performance/Talk: Onye Ozuzu | "Art, Migration, and Entrepreneurship | Value Generation and Returns"
Onye Ozuzu, choreographer and Dean of the College of the Arts, University of Florida. Part of the IPRH Performance/Talk series.
- Performance

- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Asian American Cultural Center Lounge, 1210 Nevada St, Urbana
Book Launch: Korean American Families in Immigrant America: How Teens and Parents Navigate Race
Join the Department of Asian American Studies in celebrating the release of “Korean American Families in Immigrant America: How Teens and Parents Navigate Race.”
- Other

- 12:00 pm
- Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
Inside Scoop with Poet Claudia Rankine
Intended for students from across the campus, Inside Scoop conversations invite Illinois undergraduates to engage with the exciting work conducted by scholars whose work helps us understand what it means to be human in a world of rapidly shifting global complexities.
- Lecture

- 6:30 pm
- Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 FLB, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CLACS Movie Night: The Distinguished Citizen/ El ciudadano ilustre
- Film Screening

- 4:00 - 6:00 pm
- 1090 Lincoln Hall
Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements in the Decolonizing Pacific
In this talk, Simeon Man tells the histories of Asians and Asian Americans who fought in Vietnam, revealing how U.S. empire was sustained through overalapping projects of colonialism and race making.
- Lecture