Library - Scholarly Commons
This calendar includes events sponsored by the Scholarly Commons as well as those by
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Monday, November 28, 2022
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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Learning communities are a powerful way for people to come together to achieve common learning goals. However, fostering conditions that promote productive social knowledge construction can be daunting to even the most experienced facilitators. Please join us as we discuss effective ways to establish and grow valuable learning communities.
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n this 2-hour in-person, instructor led short course you will learn how to specific features and tips on managing email more efficiently from conversation view to rules to pre-sort messages and moving folders around.
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Basic guidance for writing evaluation survey questions that get the kind of information you need. We'll cover current best practices in question wording and response categories, plus some tips and tricks that will blow your mind. This workshop counts towards the Technology-Enhanced Teaching Certificate.
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Learn more about the Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Public Humanities, which is open to PhD and MFA students enrolled in humanities or arts terminal degree programs—including the humanities-inflected social sciences—from the Urbana-Champaign campus. This information session is appropriate for both interested graduate students and potential faculty mentors.
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Join Steven Beda and Bill Robbins for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country" on November 29 at 4pm CT.
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Join Lee Bey, Blair Kamin, Laurie Petersen, and Jen Masengarb, Assoc AIA for a conversation about Chicago’s successes and failures in architecture and urban design.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
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In this 2-hour online course, you will become familiar with the Excel's interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.
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Join us in a one-hour online session to explore some advanced features of Zoom. Features covered will include breakout rooms, setting a virtual background, recording, and more. Link sent if registered by 8 am.
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In this 2-hour online course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel worksheets. Other topics will include an exploration of just a few of the hundreds of functions available in Excel. We will learn how to find a specific function, as well as how to get help while entering arguments.
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This 2-hour Outlook Calendar workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
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Join us in a live, online session using OneNote 365 where we will discuss the structure of notebooks, practice putting data into them, and explore the interconnectivity of Microsoft applications with OneNote. This session is aimed for beginner users of OneNote. Link sent if registered by 8 am
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CITL's Instructional Support Team is hosting office hours to answer any questions you have about using Canvas and to provide support for your course. Join us between 11am and noon on Thursdays on zoom, at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87259297204?pwd=ZE1IN05NeXhlODcxY2ZYcUtsL3JEZz09.
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The Hybrid Classroom: The Best of Both Worlds, or the Worst? -- Aimee Barbeau and Eric Larson (Gies College of Business) will describe the role of social context in the classroom and discuss their findings on the relationship between autonomy and satisfaction, as well as the need for instructors to consider not just individual students but the whole classroom environment.
Friday, December 2, 2022
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Join Aria S. Halliday and Shanté Paradigm Smalls for a conversation about their books "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" and "Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City" on December 2 at 3pm ET.
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Sunday, December 4, 2022
Monday, December 5, 2022
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Join James C. Benton and Robert Parmet for a virtual event celebrating the release of Benton's new book, "Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America," on December 5 at 1pm EST.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Skype for Business, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Link sent if registered by 8 am.
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the whole set of features for managing information in Excel tables. These features make all the typical tabular manipulations—sorting, filtering, analyzing, and formatting, easier than ever.
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In this 2-hour in-person, instructor led workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames.
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Talk: "The Afrofuturist Dialogues and Other Speculations" | This event is part of the Interseminars event series.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
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Being fully engaged 100% of the time is not a realistic expectation, but there are a variety of ways to promote student engagement so they can get the most out of their learning. This workshop will focus on concepts underlying student engagement and practical strategies to engage our students across diverse formats.
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In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn how to select data in an Excel worksheet and work with Chart tools to customize the chart type, chart layout, and chart style that best represents the selected data. Once the chart is exactly the way you want it, we will learn how to save it as a template to use again.
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Join us in a hand-on training session using OneNote 365 where we will discuss the structure of notebooks, practice putting data into them, and explore the interconnectivity of Microsoft applications with OneNote. This session is aimed for beginner users of OneNote.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
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In this 2-hour online workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Link sent if registered by 8 am
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CITL's Instructional Support Team is hosting office hours to answer any questions you have about using Canvas and to provide support for your course. Join us between 11am and noon on Thursdays on zoom, at https://illinois.zoom.us/j/87259297204?pwd=ZE1IN05NeXhlODcxY2ZYcUtsL3JEZz09.
Friday, December 9, 2022
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Join Mark Hembree and John Sieger for a conversation about Hembree's new book "On the Bus with Bill Monroe."
Monday, December 12, 2022
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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Join us in an online session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics will include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by noon.
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During this two hour in-person session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will work through a beginner tutorial, editing a photo and share resources.
Thursday, December 15, 2022
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In this 2-hour in-person InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, animation, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required.
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Matthew Ehrlich, author of "Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK," gives a book talk at the Champaign Library in Champaign, IL.
Friday, December 16, 2022
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating with others in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 8
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Saturday, February 4, 2023
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Open to faculty and graduate students of any discipline at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this workshop you'll unravel the mysteries of your writing barriers, then spend the rest of the day writing and reflecting with other retreaters. And you'll be supported throughout the day by live coaching with InkWell Founder, Michelle Boyd, PhD.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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Futurity, or the intentional imagining and materializing of liberated futures—where freedom from oppression, trauma, violence, and discrimination are realized—inspires this talk. Dr Johnson will discuss their methods for conjuring the world and communities in which we want to live and thrive
Thursday, February 9, 2023
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This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.
Friday, February 10, 2023
Thursday, February 23, 2023
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Join us for a public reading with Creative Writing Professor David Wright Faladé.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Friday, March 3, 2023
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The 21st annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will take place on March 3 and 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Room 108 of Levis Faculty Center and online via Zoom. It will showcase graduate papers that foreground histories of women, gender, sexuality, and/or queerness.
Saturday, March 4, 2023
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The 21st annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will take place on March 3 and 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Room 108 of Levis Faculty Center and online via Zoom. It will showcase graduate papers that foreground histories of women, gender, sexuality, and/or queerness.
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Thursday, March 9, 2023
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In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century.
Thursday, March 23, 2023
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Join Cynthia Clampitt author of, "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past" for a talk called "Destination Heartland History" in Wheaton, IL.
Friday, March 24, 2023
Monday, March 27, 2023
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The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Friday, March 31, 2023
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
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Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.
Friday, April 7, 2023
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Join Cynthia Clampitt author of, "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a book talk in Algonquin, IL.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
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Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
Friday, April 14, 2023
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Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI. More information coming soon!
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
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The culminating event of the Central Asia Research Cluster. Watch for more details to come! This forum will be held on Zoom.