Campus Humanities Calendar
Monday, January 27, 2025
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Music culled from testimonies will be accompanied by stellar musicians for a unique experience in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Songs from Testimonies brings to life through music how people managed to survive one of the worst experiences in human history.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
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Join us at McKinley Foundation Artists' Alley for the Opening Reception of Between Us, an exhibition that shines a spotlight on BIPOC communities that have long been marginalized or overlooked, capturing the essence of its people, landscapes, and cultures with honesty and reverence.
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Jason Dean (Linda Hall Library) will join us via Zoom to discuss the incident in which John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, burned copies of his own astronomical work, Historia Coelestis.
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February Dance 2025 celebrates the fierce commitment to artistic innovation in the Department of Dance. Works by Associate Professor Paige Cunningham Caldarella and MFA alumna Anna Peretz Rogovoy (’24), Professor Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and two MFA thesis works by Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez and Banafsheh Amiri are included in the concert.
Friday, January 31, 2025
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February Dance 2025 celebrates the fierce commitment to artistic innovation in the Department of Dance. Works by Associate Professor Paige Cunningham Caldarella and MFA alumna Anna Peretz Rogovoy (’24), Professor Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and two MFA thesis works by Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez and Banafsheh Amiri are included in the concert.
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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.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
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February Dance 2025 celebrates the fierce commitment to artistic innovation in the Department of Dance. Works by Associate Professor Paige Cunningham Caldarella and MFA alumna Anna Peretz Rogovoy (’24), Professor Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and two MFA thesis works by Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez and Banafsheh Amiri are included in the concert.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Monday, February 3, 2025
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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
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.
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A reading and book launch by Creative Writing faculty members David Wright Faladé and Chris Kempf.
Friday, February 7, 2025
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Monday, February 10, 2025
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
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The LAS Office of Research and Department of History will offer the spring program, “From Scholars to Storytellers” an introduction to the world of trade publishing. Sessions will be led by Dr. John Ghazvinian, an author, historian and former journalist. Space is limited. To learn more or register for any part of this event, visit our website by Feb. 6th.
Friday, February 14, 2025
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The PhD Program in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UIUC will host Spaces of Nature / Natures of Space, an in-house graduate student symposium on Friday, February 14, 2025.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Monday, February 17, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
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Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
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Join us for the 23rd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium: Gender and the Law, featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Neil J. Young (Historian, Writer, and Podcaster) and Dr. Laura Goffman (Professor of History, U of I). This will be a hybrid event. Learn more and register here: https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/
Friday, February 21, 2025
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Join us for the 23rd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium: Gender and the Law, featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Neil J. Young (Historian, Writer, and Podcaster) and Dr. Laura Goffman (Professor of History, U of I). This will be a hybrid event. Learn more and register here: https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/
Saturday, February 22, 2025
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Join us for the 23rd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium: Gender and the Law, featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Neil J. Young (Historian, Writer, and Podcaster) and Dr. Laura Goffman (Professor of History, U of I). This will be a hybrid event. Learn more and register here: https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Monday, February 24, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 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.
Friday, February 28, 2025
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Monday, March 3, 2025
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The What Now? Series continues March 3rd (Monday) from 5:15-6:45pm at BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street). Confirmed speakers include Ciro Incoronato and Jessica Greenberg.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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Do you travel to present research in other countries? Do you collaborate with researchers at foreign institutions? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, your research may be subject to export control policies.
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.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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)
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Friday, March 14, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Friday, March 21, 2025
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
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Keynote speakers: Dr. Rituparna Roy and Vishwajyoti Ghosh.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Monday, April 7, 2025
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The What Now? Series continues April 7 (Monday) from 5:15-6:45pm at BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street). Confirmed speakers include Karen Flynn and Julie Pryde.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Free lunch and informal talk for undergraduates of any major. With poet and essayist Ross Gay.
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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.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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Join the LAS Office of Research to learn more about grant support for faculty researchers in LAS. Our team will share information on pre-award services, such as budgeting, document review, and preparing for submission to SPA. This session will be particularly helpful for faculty without access to dedicated unit-based grant support staff.
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.