Humanities Research Institute Calendar
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
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In this information session, learn more about the Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
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Open to faculty and graduate students of any discipline at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this workshop you'll unravel the mysteries of your writing barriers, then spend the rest of the day writing and reflecting with other retreaters. And you'll be supported throughout the day by live coaching with InkWell Founder, Michelle Boyd, PhD.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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Futurity, or the intentional imagining and materializing of liberated futures—where freedom from oppression, trauma, violence, and discrimination are realized—inspires this talk. Dr Johnson will discuss their methods for conjuring the world and communities in which we want to live and thrive
Thursday, February 9, 2023
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This participatory workshop aims to disrupt modes of "doing" scholarly analysis of visual art, performance, film and other cultural productions. Registration required.
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This seminar with curator, writer, and Ethnic Studies scholar Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle will cover different models of working with BIPOC visual artists that challenge the alienating norms behind much art historical scholarship and curatorial practice.
Thursday, February 23, 2023
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Join us to hear Creative Writing Professor David Wright Faladé read from his work.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Thursday, March 9, 2023
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In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts explores the actions and rhetoric of Black and Native people in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma) in the nineteenth century.
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Monday, March 27, 2023
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The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
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Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Lecture by Tarren Andrews (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University).
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
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Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
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Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He will be in conversation with author Daniel Gumbiner, whose first book, The Boatbuilder, was nominated for the National Book Award and a finalist for the California Book Awards.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
Friday, April 14, 2023
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Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
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Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Poetry Reading: Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina Photo by Forrest Clonts
Friday, April 28, 2023
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Students from HRI-funded Humanities Research Lab courses, SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community and HIST 312: Immigrant America, showcase their community-engaged research as part of Undergraduate Research Week.
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
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The culminating event of the Central Asia Research Cluster. Watch for more details to come! This forum will be held on Zoom.