Events
NCSA staff who would like to submit an item for the calendar can email newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Get your hands dirty and experience harvesting, processing, and human-centered design at work. Ideate around the goal of improving farm operations, then present ideas for a chance to win prizes!
Monday, September 23, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2017-18 CAS Associate Craig Williams.
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Looking for startup teammates? Or, just want to know what TEC is all about? Make your idea a reality at SocialFuse: a recurring pitching and networking event for you! Come pitch your ideas, find teammates to scale your startup, or just sit back and check things out.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned
Known throughout the indie music world for her solo project, Japanese Breakfast, Michelle Zauner will read from her upcoming memoir, Crying in H-Mart.
Friday, September 27, 2019
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned
Babette B. Tischleder is a professor of North American Studies and Media Studies at the Univ. of Göttingen, Germany. Her books include The Literary Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction (2014) and the coedited volumes Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age (2015) and An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World (2019).
Saturday, September 28, 2019
A reading by poets J. Allyn Rosser and Mark Halliday. Part of Pygmalion, September 26–28. Free and open to the public.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Interested in meeting Silicon Valley's biggest players in entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture capital over winter break? Spend a week in January ( Jan 12-18, 2020) visiting startups and leading tech companies while networking with prominent, entrepreneurial alumni. Application due Sept. 30, 2019.
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019
“The Climate Change Comedy Hour” Aaron Sachs is Professor of History and American Studies at Cornell University, where he has taught since 2004. In 2006, he published The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Viking), which won Honorable Mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award.
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Monday, October 7, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
This colloquium talk is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
A discussion with undergraduates about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Co-sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies. Register at go.illinois.edu/InsideScoop by October 2, 2019.
dir. Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider, 2017. Followed by a discussion with Satsuki Ina, community activist, writer, and filmmaker.
Monday, October 14, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Featuring Emily McKown, Olivia Tasch, and Carrie Chandler, members of Girls Rock! Champaign-Urbana. Moderated by Fiona Ngô (Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies).
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Monday, October 21, 2019
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
The Center for Advanced Study's 2019 Annual Lecture.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Film screening and discussion of The Land Beneath Our Feet with Gregg Mitman. Dr. Mitman is Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Joseph Devietti, Assistant Professor, Computer & Information Science, The University of Pennsylvania
This colloquium talk is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2018-19 CAS Associate Sandy Dall'erba.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Information to come soon!
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Londa Schiebinger is Professor of History of Science, Director, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering and Environment Project, Stanford University.
Monday, November 4, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2018-19 CAS Associate David O'Brien.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Thursday, November 7, 2019
MillerComm Lecture Series event featuring Natalie Kofler.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Monday, November 11, 2019
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Mark Roseman is a Professor of History and the Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. He is a historian of modern Europe, with particular interests in the History of the Holocaust and in modern German history.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
with Peter Fritzsche (History), and Mark Roseman (History, Indiana University Bloomington. Moderated by Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature). Co-sponsored by Jewish Culture & Society.
Paul Sutter is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Monday, November 18, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Abolition Initiative presentation.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Looking for startup teammates? Or, just want to know what TEC is all about? Make your idea a reality at SocialFuse: a recurring pitching and networking event for you! Come pitch your ideas, find teammates to scale your startup, or just sit back and check things out.
Monday, December 2, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
4th Annual IPRH Work-In, led by the members of the African American Community Healing Through Storytelling Research Cluster (C-HeARTS).
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Monday, December 9, 2019
This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Monday, January 27, 2020
Looking for startup teammates? Or, just want to know what TEC is all about? Make your idea a reality at SocialFuse: a recurring pitching and networking event for you! Come pitch your ideas, find teammates to scale your startup, or just sit back and check things out.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Monday, February 3, 2020
Register by February 3 for the Cozad New Venture Challenge!
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Intended for students from across the campus, Inside Scoop conversations invite Illinois undergraduates to engage with the exciting work conducted by scholars whose work helps us understand what it means to be human in a world of rapidly shifting global complexities.
Following her one-woman presentation the previous evening, playwright, actor, and educator Anna Deavere Smith will join another special guest—to be announced—in CultureTalk, an exploration of the ideas surrounding the arts and culture.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Kate Brown is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
