Campus Humanities Calendar
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
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This workshop provides an overview of the legal considerations for researchers, creatives, and professionals navigating the evolving landscape of AI. We will learn about ownership, fair use, and legal obligations when using copyrighted material.
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Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
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Eddie O'Byrn (African American Studies, UIUC) & Emma Velez (Gender & Women’s Studies, UIUC) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Relevant readings are available in the corresponding Box folder. For more information, including access to the readings, please contact t
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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JSTOR is a digital library with access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines (primarily focused on humanities and social sciences). Recently, JSTOR merged with Artstor, a digital image database.
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Attendees will become familiar with the differences between a dissertation and first book manuscript, and will further learn about identifying points of revision, creating a revision plan/timeline, approaching editors/presses, writing a book proposal, and the publishing process at a glance.
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Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
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Join us for a FREE screening of Padauk: Myanmar Spring followed by a discussion led by the Director of The Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS), Matt Winters. Padauk: Myanmar Spring takes the viewer to the streets of Myanmar during the heady days following the February 2021 military coup.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
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Please join us for 2 talks by recent CAS Associates! At 11am, Brett Kaplan (Comparative & World Literature) discusses her most recent book project, "Epiphany's Lament" and at noon, Ben Grosser (Art + Design) speaks on "Finite Social Media, Degrowth Aesthetics, and Reimagined Digital Futures."
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Faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome to attend the launch of HEAT, a new initiative connecting cultural and global studies with interactive, immersive, and AI-related design tools that encourage critical and collaborative engagement.
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Gloria Groom will discuss an exhibition of the work of Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte, coming next year to the Art Institute of Chicago next year.
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Jesse Erickson, Astor Curator of Printed Books & Bindings at the Morgan Library, joins the RBML virtually to discuss Black bibliographical exploration and trace the migrations of Black Vernacular English (BVE) from 18th-century literature to that of the hip hop generation. This Zoom presentation is open to the public; please pre-register at go.illinois.edu/Erickson.
Friday, October 25, 2024
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In keeping with the general tendency of contemporary scholarship, the most prominent works on “Socratic” theology to date are really works on the theology of Socrates as it is represented in Plato’s writings.
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Join us for the Latine Studies Graduate Student Conference "Reclaiming Insurgency." The conference will feature interdisciplinary graduate research and keynote speakers Joshua Briond and Akua N.
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Exploring the Gutters: Illinois’ South Asian Comics Collection This talk by Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies & Global Popular Culture Librarian, will look into the history and evolution of the South Asian comics collection situated within the context of comics production and circulation in South Asia and showcase samples
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The Critical Disciplinarity Collective convenes faculty of all ranks to reflect on disciplinarity – how it shapes our research + teaching, how we shape-shift to succeed in our disciplines, + how we might reshape our disciplines to be more welcoming to scholars + scholarship underrepresented in the academy.
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Prof. Alzate explores ways of “entering the body” as something that can be mapped, in connection to place: family spaces, hospitals, the space where we migrated from, and larger social spaces. She will describe the affordances of body maps to explore the body as storage of trauma, maps as narratives, and pushes for communal aesthetics in graphic design.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
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In keeping with the general tendency of contemporary scholarship, the most prominent works on “Socratic” theology to date are really works on the theology of Socrates as it is represented in Plato’s writings.
Monday, October 28, 2024
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What does “civic health” mean? Civic health measures how healthy a community is in a civic sense, including how much people vote, volunteer, talk to neighbors, trust government, and feel they belong and matter.
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IGB-HRI Distinguished Public Lecture Series: "Linking Life Sciences and Humanities" with Jennifer Raff, PhD. Raff is an award-winning author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas (KU).
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Join us for Dr. Claire Jiménez's lecture "Noise As Meaning: An Exploration of Voice." Drawing upon the Barbadian scholar and poet Kamau Brathwaite’s assertion that the “noise” is part of the meaning, Jiménez, author of What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez, explores the pedagogical implications of teaching “voice” in the creative writing workshop.
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In this presentation, titled "Free to Exist: Insights into the Participation of LGBTQIA+ Young People in Sport and Physical Activity", Dr. Ryan Storr (Swinburne University, Australia) will share data on factors influencing LGBTIQA+ young people’s engagement in sport/physical activity and share recommendations for creating inclusive and welcoming sports environments.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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This workshop will teach you how to make common word processing documents accessible for screen readers and how to make presentations accessible for a wide range of users. We’ll cover MS Word, PPT, Google Docs, PDFs, and best practices for accessibility you can incorporate across formats.
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The Civic Café is a conversation series by scholars, educators, and community advocates to advance pillars of democracy and civic education.
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Please join us for a group discussion of our first reading of the year: Richard Powers' new novel Playground. We will use this novel as a lens to discuss the roles of technology in society, and the dread, fear, and awe that technology may inspire.
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Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...
Thursday, October 31, 2024
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Please join the EU Center this Halloween for a screening of the critically acclaimed Swedish horror film, "Let the Right One In,” which tells the story of the friendship between a bullied boy and a child vampire, Eli. Dr. Theo Malekin (Germanic) will give brief opening remarks.
Monday, November 4, 2024
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"Where the Wild Things Are: North America's Cultural Influence Over the Brazilian Editorial Market" Isabel Lopes Coelho is the author of The Representation of the Child in Children's Literature (2020).
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The United States struggles with a seemingly incurable case of historical amnesia. But a remedy for that affliction is ready for mobilization. If historians-in-training choose to acquire Applied History’s tricks of the trade, they could replace the fog of historical amnesia with the clarity of historical perspective.
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The documentary touristic intents centers on the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora, built to house 20,000 working-class Germans and used in propaganda to advance a promise of leisure time for the masses. The film asks: Is there an obligation to remember a building’s dark past?
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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This workshop will use practical applications of two AI tools—Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity AI. These tools support your research process, offering intelligent assistance with brainstorming, refining ideas, finding sources, and enhancing your writing development. You will learn how to use tools to efficiently gather insights, structure arguments, and streamline your res
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In recent times, alarm over the future of history departments and programs in higher education has been widespread. In that same era, Patty Limerick has had innumerable opportunities to provide historical perspective to audiences far beyond the borders of the academic world.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
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This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.
Friday, November 8, 2024
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The Black Europe Symposium brings together experts in the field for interdisciplinary discussion around the notion of formations of Blackness broadly defined in Europe and the diaspora.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024
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Inspired by a 1941 Jorge Luis Borges short story, artist Vicki Bennett's (People Like Us)The Library of Babel (2024) explores themes related to the complex interplay of infinity, knowledge, and the cosmic fabric, presented through the metaphor of a vast, seemingly infinite library. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Bennett and special guest Hearty White.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
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GAM Visiting Artist Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and University of Illinois Professor of Anthropology Brenda Farnell ask, How do we create an Indigenous theater that moves beyond the “victim narrative” while embracing an aesthetics of resistance?
Friday, November 22, 2024
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This webinar introduces the basic tools and resources for government statistics and data. Attendees will learn about the major federal government and intergovernmental organizations' statistics and data as well as strategies to search for government statistics.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
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More information and registration will be avilable in spring 2025.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
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Kalindi Vora is Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Earlier in the day, Professor Vora will present to students at Campus Honors.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
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The Humanities Research Institute and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline that changed the field in important ways.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
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Community Speaker Series panelists: Tracy Barkley (Directory, Sola Gratia Farm) Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education) Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction)
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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Reading from Yard Show: Black Life, Prairies, and Place Making In the Midwest, with musical accompaniment.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Bryce Henson holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research with graduate certificates in cultural studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
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Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.