Campus Humanities Calendar

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Monday, September 25, 2023

    • All Day
    • Various Locations

    Featuring author of "The Intersectional Environmentalist", Leah Thomas, sustainable fashion designer, Niha Elety, Ecofeminism Trivia, and more, the Summit will explore the intersection of social oppression and environmental justice through a series of engaging events.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

    • All Day
    • Various Locations

    Featuring author of "The Intersectional Environmentalist", Leah Thomas, sustainable fashion designer, Niha Elety, Ecofeminism Trivia, and more, the Summit will explore the intersection of social oppression and environmental justice through a series of engaging events.

    • 10:00 - 10:50 am

    Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use! Zotero is the citation manager of choice for many humanists.

    • 7:30 pm
    • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

    Award-winning compositions by Anna-Louise Walton (USA), Louis J. Goldford (USA), and Lina Tonia (Greece) will be performed by the Illinois Modern Ensemble, Carlos Carrillo and Stephen A. Taylor, co-directors. The compositions were selected from 402 submissions for the 27th Annual Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award.

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Friday, September 29, 2023

    • All Day
    • Various Locations

    Featuring author of "The Intersectional Environmentalist", Leah Thomas, sustainable fashion designer, Niha Elety, Ecofeminism Trivia, and more, the Summit will explore the intersection of social oppression and environmental justice through a series of engaging events.

    • 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center 210

    • 7:30 pm
    • University of Illinois Stock Pavilion

    • 12:00 pm
    • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St.)

    Join author Patti McCracken as she discusses her first book, The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring, which tells the story of the so-called Angel Makers of Nagyrev, Hungary.

    • 3:00 - 3:50 pm
    • Main Library 220 and online via Zoom, link will be sent with registration confirmation and reminder one hour before workshop

    Trying to figure out how one event fits within the larger picture? Want to find patterns across hundreds or thousands of texts? Unlock the power of studying text on a large scale through this beginner-friendly introduction to text mining. We'll provide an overview of analytical techniques, identify datasets you can use for your research, and play with...

    • 6:30 - 8:00 pm
    • University of Illinois Arboretum - Japan House Gardens

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Monday, October 2, 2023

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

    • 5:15 - 6:15 pm
    • Gregory Hall 213

    The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Shirl Yang (Washington University, Department of English) will deliver a lecture titled “A Labor Theory of Suspense.”

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Friday, October 6, 2023

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm
    • Gregory Hall 213

    The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Shelley Weinberg (UIUC, Department of Philosophy) will deliver a lecture titled “Descartes and Locke on the Certainty of Knowledge.”

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Friday, October 13, 2023

Saturday, October 14, 2023

    • 7:30 pm
    • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

    October Dance 2023 features the historic work, Steps in the Street (from Chronicles) by Modern Dance pioneer Martha Graham. Also on the program, premieres by Dance at Illinois faculty, Cynthia Oliver, Alexandra Barbier, Anna Sapozhnikov and undergraduate BA major, Nawal Assougdam.

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm
    • Gregory Hall 213

    The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Tamara Chaplin (UIUC, Department of History) will deliver a lecture titled “Queering French History.”

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Friday, October 20, 2023

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm
    • Gregory Hall 213

    The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Ned O’Gorman (UIUC, Department of Communications) will deliver a lecture titled “Arendt and the Question of Technology.”

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Thursday, October 26, 2023

    • 5:30 - 7:00 pm
    • Krannert Art Museum, Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62), 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, Illinois 61820

    A thesis larger than a library, a quarter folded in fourths, ice cream melted on novels, miniature paper models, popped balloons, and moldy books of cheese. Ben Denzer shares the playful process of his practice. Ben Denzer is an artist, designer, and publisher. He studied Architecture and Visual Arts at Princeton and has an MFA in Graphic Design from RISD.

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm
    • Gregory Hall 213

    The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern, Department of Philosophy) will deliver a lecture titled “Revocability, Exception, Disqualifying Qualification: Grammars of Power After Foucault and Roe.”

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Friday, November 3, 2023

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm
    • Gregory Hall 213

    The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Ramón Soto-Crespo (UIUC, Department of English) will deliver a lecture titled “Environmental Humanities and the Caribbean.”

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Friday, November 10, 2023

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm
    • Gregory Hall, Room 213

    The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Robert Markley (UIUC, Department of English) will deliver a lecture titled “Problems in Theorizing the Origins of Capitalism.”

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Wednesday, December 6, 2023