HRI
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
In this talk, Professor Ostherr will discuss the ways that Medical/Health Humanities can develop translational practices that bring novel insights and methods to frontline pandemic responses, highlighting the importance of collaboration across fields of scholarship and practice, particularly across humanities, engineering, and clinical practice.
Friday, November 6, 2020
Join two faculty members from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as they discuss collaborative, reciprocal, and redistributive models of research. This session will help prospective grant applicants plan for the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) seed grant CFP and HWW project CFP, both of which will be issued in March 2021.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Jenny Davis (Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Chancellor’s Fellow for Indigenous Research) presents "Manifesting Pandemic Destiny: Parsing the Tense and Aspect of Settler Immunopolitics in Indian Country” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series.
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
2020 WORK-IN with Professor Jenny Davis (Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Chancellor’s Fellow for Indigenous Research): “So You Read the Land Acknowledgment Statement: Now What?”
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate and filmmaker. He was a political prisoner incarcerated by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea for almost seven years before he escaped to New Zealand in November 2019.
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
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. Open to all undergraduate students.
Thursday, April 8, 2021
A Year of Creative Writers Poet-in-Residence, Tyehimba Jess, will read from Olio, the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.