College of LAS Events
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Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Monday, February 24, 2025
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The HRI Interdisciplinary Sport Studies Research cluster members are pleased to announce the upcoming guest talk: Comportments of Kurdish Pleasure: Interjecting Leisure as a Necessary Archive with Dr. Stan Thangaraj, Stonehill College. This interdisciplinary public lecture will be Monday February 24th from 3-4:30 PM in Davenport Hall Room 230
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Join Sourcelab for an open mic session with Professor Bob Morrissey to hear about his latest project.
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Students of Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji's class ARTJ199 Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging will be displaying their final arrangements at a free exhibition in the main room at Japan House. The Student Ikebana Exhibition at Japan House is free and open to all to view.
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UIUC African Studies and History Professor, Erik S McDuffie will join the HRI Social Movements Reading Group for a Q&A on his recent book, “The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, The US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom”, which establishes the importance of the US Midwest to 20th Century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. Food is provided.
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Graduate students and faculty are invited to join two reading groups associated with upcoming events at the Unit for Criticism.
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
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Don’t miss the final week of the Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams exhibition! On view through Saturday, March 1. The museum is open Tuesday–Friday 10-5, Saturday 10–4, and Thursdays until 8 pm, while class is in session. Free admission. *Parking nearby is free on weekends and after 5 pm.*
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This interactive workshop covers Microsoft Copilot AI, a university-approved tool designed to enhance your research, writing, and presentations. Copilot can assist with lesson planning, note-taking, and organizing information efficiently. Learn to find peer-reviewed articles, proofread your work, summarize meetings, create PPT presentations, or manage data in spreadsheets.
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Join us for Global African Art Gallery Talk and Tour as part of the Global Relations’ Diaspora Talk series celebrating Black History Month! Explore the powerful stories behind the art—from historical forms to contemporary creations—and learn about the global connections these works represent.
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Dr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was previously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston.
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This lecture by Dr. Ussama Makdisi will kick off a year-long series focused on Palestinian history and culture. Don't miss out on this insightful event to explore the significance of Palestine in a global context!
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We are excited to announce that Dr. Robert P. Jones, founder and director of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and NYT best-selling author of White Too Long, The End of White Christian America, and The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future will be presenting the Department of Religion’s annual Thulin Lecture at 5 pm on Feb.25.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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Please join us for presentations by recent CAS Associates! 11am, John Levi Barnard, The Edible and the Endagered; Noon, Lindsay Rose Russell, Queens, Queers, and Dictionaries.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
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Come lift a glass in celebration as we share the collective vision of our exciting mission! The Office for Arts Integration (OAI) is an initiative of Chancellor Robert J. Jones, spearheaded by the Special Advisor for Arts Integration Dr. M. Cynthia Oliver to amplify creative practice across our many domains.
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Are you interested in being a part of a critical reading collective? Consider registering for the Spring 2025 Native American House (NAH) Book Club!
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This powerful documentary reveals intercepted calls from Russian soldiers, exposing the brutality of war and Russia’s imperialist aggression. Juxtaposed with footage of Ukraine’s destruction and resilience, it captures the war’s devastating human toll.
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Join us for a special evening presented in partnership with the Uniting Pride Center of Champaign County. Free and open to all. We look forward to welcoming you!
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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.
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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
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The goal of the symposium is to take stock of creative frameworks for design educators (in architecture and landscape architecture in particular) to collaborate with communities. We will reflect on existing models and speculate on new directions for university-community partnerships in the built environment.
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The SKY Happiness Retreat is an internationally acclaimed life-skills program that helps participants develop a relaxed, stress-free mind and an energetic, healthy body. The retreat teaches tools such as evidence-based meditation, yoga, breathwork and self-exploration in a fun and an experiential format. Join us on campus for a detox-weekend!
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Darya Tsymbalyuk presents glimpses from her book “Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War” (Polity, March 2025), examining the everyday reality of living with and witnessing ecocide and arguing that the impacts of ecocide transcend the boundaries of legal understandings of crime, and profoundly shape ways in which we perceive and experience environments.
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Dwight Reynolds (UC Santa Barbara) ~ People often sing in languages they cannot speak and often listen to songs in languages they do not understand. The result is a complex network of lyrics and melodies performed by musicians, and for audiences, who may or may not understand the language of the words.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
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The SKY Happiness Retreat is an internationally acclaimed life-skills program that helps participants develop a relaxed, stress-free mind and an energetic, healthy body. The retreat teaches tools such as evidence-based meditation, yoga, breathwork and self-exploration in a fun and an experiential format. Join us on campus for a detox-weekend!
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William Stroebel (University of Michigan) ~ The Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923 was the first internationally legitimated project of forced deracination in modern history.
Sunday, March 2, 2025
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The SKY Happiness Retreat is an internationally acclaimed life-skills program that helps participants develop a relaxed, stress-free mind and an energetic, healthy body. The retreat teaches tools such as evidence-based meditation, yoga, breathwork and self-exploration in a fun and an experiential format. Join us on campus for a detox-weekend!
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Microsoft Copilot AI is a university-approved tool designed to enhance your research, writing, and presentations. Copilot can also assist with lesson planning, note-taking, and organizing information efficiently.
Monday, March 3, 2025
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In this session, new podcasters learn how to create an intentional, personalized brand to really make their show their own. We cover promoting and marketing podcasts through social media and other ways to get word out!
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Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
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I propose postcards of defense practices for migrant communities in Mexico, as well as latent and manifest migrant struggles occurring in Mexico City in the 21st century. I call for Research with Implicating Passion (IPI) to study what we have called the 'global government of migrations.’
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I propose postcards of defense practices for migrant communities in Mexico, as well as latent and manifest migrant struggles occurring in Mexico City in the 21st century.
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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.
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"Face and Myth: Some Soviet Theories of the Portrait," Samuel Johnson, Associate Professor, Syracuse University. Monday, March 3, 5:30 pm, Art & Design 316.
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.
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HUDA J. FAKHREDDINE is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She will talk about translating Salim Barakat's book "The Universe All at Once" and Ibrahim Nasrallah's "Palestinian".
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Join us for a film discussion on "Funmilayo Ransome Kuti" which is a powerful movie tell the story of a fearless female leader who sparks a revolution against colonialism and patriarchy in Nigeria. The film is based on the renowned Nigerian activiist Fela Kuti. Watch the film on Amazon Prime and then join PhD Student Adetutu Faburoso for discussion.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
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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! This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
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Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate David Wright Faladé on his new work, a non-fiction treatment of his novel The New Internationals, based on his parents.
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This presentation by Alexis Thompson will explore strategies for PhD and Master's students to cultivate a strong and productive relationship with their thesis advisor, focusing on clear communication, aligning expectations, and proactively seeking guidance for research and career development. This event is for Grainger Engineering graduate students, including ChBE.
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From the atomic bomb to artificial intelligence used in military targeting systems, the technology we design harbors very real, material consequences for people globally. T talk examines the history of napalm—an incendiary weapon used across US wars in the Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam—to discuss how technological innovation shaped escalating forms of war and violence.
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The Humanities Research Institute and Women & Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity 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.
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The Humanities Research Institute and Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity 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.
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This presentation will highlight some of the central dilemmas that scholars of antisemitism face today and propose one possible avenue for the potential resolution of the intersecting interests and pressures that influence the study and understanding of antisemitism and other contemporary issues that straddle the academic and public realms.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
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Looking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how to identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover chasing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and other strategies to make
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With: Rebekah Fitzsimmons (Carnegie Mellon, and iSchool Visiting Research Fellow), Tan Debnath & Glen Layne-Worthey (iSchool). Join our research team to explore data from 78 years of children’s book reviewing in the CCB’s Bulletin! BYOD - Bring Your Own Device. Free donuts will be available.
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Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It’s an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
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Studiodance re-imagines the relationships between space, sound, and movement as choreographers reinvent the visual environs of the magical “black box” theatrical laboratory.
Friday, March 7, 2025
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Studiodance re-imagines the relationships between space, sound, and movement as choreographers reinvent the visual environs of the magical “black box” theatrical laboratory.
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ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work.
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What does it mean to imagine and implement climate justice? This interdisciplinary symposium is driven by the urgent need for a range of interventions and tools: critique, experimentation, imagination, pragmatics and policy.
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The 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry.
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Speakers will address the history, mechanism, and goals of political protest, looking at it from the various perspectives of ethics, efficacy, communication, strategy, solidarity, public policy, parliamentary channels, and law.
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Now Unfashionable is a symposium that will be hosted in the Lucy Ellis Lounge on Friday, March 7. Invited panelists will address ostensibly outmoded methods of literary study in the field of American literary history. The event will be open to the public. Food and refreshments will be served.
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Join us as we hear from five graduate students and recipient of fellowships through the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity. This online forum will include student presentations and Illinois faculty discussants. Research talks include discussions from Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, and Senegambia. Full details at https://go.illinois.edu/GraduateForum.
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Please join us for a roundtable discussion featuring distinguished professors Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Agamemnon Tselikas, and George Xenis, who will reflect on their work championing the study of classical and medieval Greek letters and literatures.
Saturday, March 8, 2025
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Studiodance re-imagines the relationships between space, sound, and movement as choreographers reinvent the visual environs of the magical “black box” theatrical laboratory.
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ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work.
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What does it mean to imagine and implement climate justice? This interdisciplinary symposium is driven by the urgent need for a range of interventions and tools: critique, experimentation, imagination, pragmatics and policy.
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Experience a performance in the galleries by video artist ACVilla and keyboardist/vocalist Thollem McDonas, as part of their national tour. The Sudden Sound Concert Series presented by Krannert Art Museum and Improvisers Exchange features leading artists in avant-garde jazz and music improvisation.
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
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Google Scholar is a popular and useful tool for research with several features that scholars may not be familiar with. This workshop will elaborate on the difference between searching in Google Scholar and academic databases, demonstrate how to use Google Scholar’s Advanced Search, explain how to connect your library access to Google Scholar...
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On Monday, March 10th SourceLab will be hosting an Undergraduate Info Session at 3 PM and a Digital Humanites talk with Sep Vaez Afshar and Sarvin Eshaghi at 4PM. Attend the Undergraduate Info Session to learn more about how to get involved with SourceLab, and sign up to attend one of our workshops.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
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Join the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies for a talk by professor Marc Herztman about his new book, After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi. Food will be provided.
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The Cline Center will be holding a Zoom information session for faculty interested in the AY2025-26 Linowes Faculty Fellows Program. If you would like to attend, email Scott Althaus to receive a Zoom link for the session.
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Elaborating on camp as a cultural strategy for contesting accounts of Asian American history that overly rely on terms of abjection, Chris Eng reassesses narratives that construe the Japanese American incarceration as an experience of hitting the bottom, a violation akin to sodomy.
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It has been estimated that, for every manuscript now surviving from medieval England, another twenty were lost. Given what we have learned recently about medieval book production, the scale of the loss may be nearly twice that: the conventional understanding has been based on an unrepresentative minority of volumes saved by accident or an individual’s design.
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Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with John Durham Peters. Both in journalistic coverage and everyday life, there is now a striking level of detailed judgment about the minutiae of nonverbal and nonpublic expression.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
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JSTOR is a digital library with access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines (primarily focused on humanities and social sciences). Recently, JSTOR merged with Artstor, a digital image database.
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We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression?
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Community Speaker Series panelists: Traci Barkley (Director, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).
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Community Speaker Series panelists: Traci Barkley (Director, Sola Gratia Farm) Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education) Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction)
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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Dr. Jog, Associate Research Scientist in the Wetland Science Program at the Prairie Research Institute will present “Using plants to understand wetland health.”
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Celebrate Women’s History Month with us on Thursday, March 13, from 2-6 pm (CT)! Join us in person or online on Zoom as we work together to enhance Wikipedia’s representation of women in STEM. Visit the University Library STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-thons LibGuide for details and the Grainger Library calendar for Zoom information.
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In this colloquium, Dr. Jonas will challenge contemporary circular city and urban services planning models, which currently are not equipped to harness the full potential of interconnected neighborhoods for replenishing a city, its people, and its constituent economies and service territories.
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Make sure your students are ready to take on service with community organizations! We CU & the Illinois Leadership Center are hosting a workshop on Entering Community Partnerships on Thursday, March 13. The workshop will give students guidance on how to successfully collaborate in & reflect upon community service partnerships. Dinner will be served; space is limited.
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Join We CU and the Illinois Leadership Center on Thursday, March 13th, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. at the LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for our Entering Community Partnerships student workshop. This workshop provides guidance on how to successfully collaborate in service partnerships with community organizations.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
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Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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On view: Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture, featuring homes in Champaign-Urbana designed by Jack Baker, John Replinger, and A. Richard Williams. The museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 10–5; Saturday 10–4; and Thursday until 8 pm, when class is in session. Admission is always free.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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On view: Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture, featuring homes in Champaign-Urbana designed by Jack Baker, John Replinger, and A. Richard Williams. The museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 10–5; Saturday 10–4; and Thursday until 8 pm, when class is in session. Admission is always free.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
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On view: Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture, featuring homes in Champaign-Urbana designed by Jack Baker, John Replinger, and A. Richard Williams. The museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 10–5; Saturday 10–4; and Thursday until 8 pm, when class is in session. Admission is always free.
Friday, March 21, 2025
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On view: Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture, featuring homes in Champaign-Urbana designed by Jack Baker, John Replinger, and A. Richard Williams. The museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 10–5; Saturday 10–4; and Thursday until 8 pm, when class is in session. Admission is always free.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
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On view: Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture, featuring homes in Champaign-Urbana designed by Jack Baker, John Replinger, and A. Richard Williams. The museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 10–5; Saturday 10–4; and Thursday until 8 pm, when class is in session. Admission is always free.
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
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Join Sourcelab for a session on GIS Storymaps.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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Do you work with or teach undergraduate students? The 13th annual Image of Research – UR Edition competition is a great opportunity to celebrate their research. All areas of study are invited. Entries will be celebrated at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on Thursday, April 24 in the Illini Union Ballroom.
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Abstract: Of the many beautiful objects associated with Madinat al-Zahra and the Cordoban Umayyad caliphate, perhaps none are as celebrated as a series of ivory pyxides and caskets produced for members of the royal family. Several of them were made for royal mothers, formerly enslaved concubines who earned their freedom by bearing the caliph's children. Caliphal concubines
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Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age speaker series with Antón Barba-Kay. We live in an age of hyper-awareness of generational differences. What are the consequences of this disorienting acceleration of differences? What does it teach us about the nature of time itself? How can we take our time again?
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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Please join us for a presentation by newly elected CAS Professor and recent CAS Associate Peter Fritzsche (History) on the fragile nature of human solidarity.
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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 Yard Show with musical accompaniment by McNeill and students from the University of Illinois music department.The book will be available for purchasing and signing.
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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
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On March 27 at 12 PM, Cara Bertram (Archives Program Officer) will be giving a talk on the American Library Association (ALA) Archives and their history with communities of faith! Registration link is available here.
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Directors: Sarah Ema Friedland, Rami Younis It is a story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become. A discussion by Professor Laura Goffman, Department of History at the Univesity of Illinois followed this.
Friday, March 28, 2025
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Keynote speakers: Dr. Rituparna Roy and Vishwajyoti Ghosh.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
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Blending Thelonious Monk’s compositions with Sierra Leonean music, Leon Lewis-Nicol’s performance acts as a tool to mend the gap between African Diaspora musical culture. Lewis-Nicol aims to illustrate how jazz can be a medium through which two different cultures can co-exist and serve as a form of healing for the African diaspora.
Monday, March 31, 2025
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This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Stop by to listen, chat, and share lunch! Light refreshments provided. If you are interested in sharing something, please contact Chloe Parrella.
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Join SourceLab every Monday, 3-5 in the Paul A. Lisnek LAS Hub in Lincoln Hall for SourceLab Mondays.
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Please join students and faculty at the annual ChBE 121 Poster Session. This event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Richmond Family Gallery in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Students in small teams review and prepare a poster describing an Industrial Safety Incident. The posters include details such as an event timeline and immediate and long-term impacts.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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Musicologist Mackenzie Pierce examines the role of Polish Jewish musicians in shaping concert music amid antisemitism, Nazi occupation, and postwar rebuilding in his forthcoming book. Reconstructing their lives from the 1920s to the 1950s, he reveals how music became both a means of cultural preservation and a tool for reinvention.
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Explore stories of cultural self-determination in societies around the world. Dr. Christina Gonzalez, co-curator of Caribbean Indigenous Resistance / Resistencia Indígena del Caribe ¡Taino Vive!, will lead tours of the exhibit, and staff will share some of the museum's collections related to resistance and cultural identity in the face of oppression.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
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Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) on moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical, inside/outside, or status-quo/anti-establishment to better understand youth activism.
