Michael Vila's calendar for event attendance planning.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Friday, September 25, 2026
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
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In a follow up to the September 15th Facilitating Dialogue around Objects of Hate, this program examines how visual artists create works that interrogate, reimagine, or repurpose objects and imagery associated with hate.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Thursday, October 8, 2026
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This inaugural event by the Borders of Sanctuary Working Collective presents a public facing panel that pairs Professor Willie Mack (Black Studies, University of Missouri) on Black migration with Devin Lowe from the Black Trans Travel Fund, which serves Black and Transgender migrants.

Friday, October 9, 2026
Monday, October 12, 2026
Friday, October 23, 2026
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
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The techniques for making texts have changed across multiple media and historical contexts since antiquity, but a regular feature of the work of authors and scholars through all those changes is the reliance on helpers or amanuenses. Dr. Ann Blair (Harvard) will discuss the factors that have made them both invisible and occasionally visible, and the kind of work they did.

Monday, November 2, 2026
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Thursday, November 5, 2026
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Join us for a lecture by Laura Chávez-Moreno, an associate professor of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education at the University of California Los Angeles about her book "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America"

Monday, November 9, 2026
Thursday, November 12, 2026
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This event will highlight the collaborative project involving Emblematica (U of I), a digital library of emblem books, and Compositor (U of Birmingham), a database of printers’ ornaments. Dr. Hazel Wilkinson hypothesizes that “emblem-literacy” caused historical readers to engage with ornamented books in ways previously unaccounted-for in scholarship.















