Campus Humanities Calendar
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, December 4, 2024
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The Generative AI Futures Reading Group's next meeting will be Wednesday December 4, 2024, at 7-8pm, hosted as a private event at the Analog Wine Library, 129 N Race St, Urbana. We will discuss the novel "Don't Bite the Sun" by Tanith Lee, the first of two novels of the "Biting the Sun" duology.
Friday, December 6, 2024
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Join Dance at Illinois student choreographers in an eclectic evening of dance works, presented in DRK, Level 2, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. eight dances, three floors down features 8 choreographers: Khiari Everett, Damiyah Williams, Takashe Fulce, Alex Brown, Jeremiah Jordan, Jade Lajeune, Chelsea Wahrendorf, and Ethan Pak Rome.
Saturday, December 7, 2024
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Join Dance at Illinois student choreographers in an eclectic evening of dance works, presented in DRK, Level 2, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. eight dances, three floors down features 8 choreographers: Khiari Everett, Damiyah Williams, Takashe Fulce, Alex Brown, Jeremiah Jordan, Jade Lajeune, Chelsea Wahrendorf, and Ethan Pak Rome.
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Join us for an electrifying concert uniting award-winning flamenco virtuoso and George A. Miller Visiting Artist Adam Del Monte with the Latin American Ensemble, featuring Del Monte's original compositions reimagined through a vibrant fusion of flamenco and Latin American rhythms.
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
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Matthew C. Ehrlich, author of The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine, joins Ryan A. Ross of the University of Illinois Alumni Association to discuss the book. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
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The 2025 MLK Jr. Commemorative theme is “Our Beloved Community: Protecting, Freedom, Justice & Democracy”. The Committee invites nominations for the 2025 MLK Champions Recognition.
Monday, January 27, 2025
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Zisl Sleplovitch and co., Songs from Testimonies
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
Friday, January 31, 2025
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The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.
Thursday, February 6, 2025
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Are you interested in expanding your global connections, working abroad, or learning about funding opportunities for international projects? Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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Lunch launch of HGMS and German Professor Anke Pinkert’s new book, Remembering 1989.
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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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Based on two years of ethnographic interviews with patients of chronic illness and participant observation with practitioners of complementary medicine in California, this talk examines what “sensitivity” can provide as a source of information about the relationship between the individual and the environment, and how this impacts health.
Monday, March 3, 2025
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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Join us for an evening of jazz and poetry with award-winning poet Janice N. Harrington (Creative Writing/English) and musician Charles “Chip” McNeill (Music). Harrington will read selections from her book Yard Show with musical accompaniment by McNeill and student musicians from the University of Illinois School of Music.
Friday, March 28, 2025
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Keynote speakers: Dr. Rituparna Roy and Vishwajyoti Ghosh.
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, April 24, 2025
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Photographers Ara Oshagan and Levon Parian will present a two-part art exhibit from their iWitness project at the Siebel Design Center in the spring culminating in a moderated talk at 5pm on April 24th at the Siebel Center.
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.