American Indian Studies Program

Monday, March 31, 2025

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  • 5:30 pm
  • Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

  [Co-sponsor] Samia Henni, Lecture "Exhibiting Colonial Toxicity" organized by the Illinois School of Architecture

  • Lecture

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

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

  Interseminars | Emergent Quilombos: Black Life, Ancestral Knowledges, and Diasporic Cultural Politics in the Americas

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

  • Other
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  • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
  • English 100 / Unit Office

  Reading Group for Kenny Cuper's Lecture

  • Meeting

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

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  • 12:00 pm
  • Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)

  Inside Scoop/Food for the Soul with Ross Gay

  Free lunch and informal talk for undergraduates of any major. With poet and essayist Ross Gay.

  • Other
• 

  • 7:30 pm
  • Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom

  Public Reading | Ross Gay

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

  • Performance

Monday, April 21, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:50 pm
  • School of Labor and Employment Relations, Room 51, 504 E Armory Street

  Roundtable Discussion: Community-Engaged Histories of British Black Power

  Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.

  • Lecture

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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  • 5:30 pm
  • Plym Auditorium, 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

  [Co-sponsor] Kenny Cupers, Lecture "Planetary Politics of Design" organized by the Illinois School of Architecture

  • Lecture