College of LAS Events
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Monday, September 28, 2020
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Bruno de Macedo Zorek, University of Illinois The Future of São Paulo in the 1950s
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
Jessica Hagman will host a workshop on making the most of UIUC's amazing library system while learning remotely. This workshop is for both new and returning students who want to learn more about what the library has to offer.
Brad Miller from Procter & Gamble will be presenting to the Sociology Ambassador class, SOC 199, on Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 3:30pm. He will discuss the value sociologists bring to companies such as P&G. All Sociology majors are welcome to attend!
Join us for An Evening with Elizabeth Acevedo. National Poetry Slam Champion Elizabeth Acevedo received the 2018 National Book Award for her New York Times best selling novel, The Poet X.
Join History at Illinois alumni and seniors in the Secondary Education: Social Studies Teaching program as they talk about their experiences as student teachers, the academic requirements of the program, navigating the teaching job search, and what it's like to oversee their own classrooms.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
*NOTE SPECIAL TIME at 11:00 AM* To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access).
"Multiple isotonic regression: limit distribution theory and confidence intervals"
Students are invited to join members of the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Humanities Research Institute, and the Humanities Professional Resource Center to learn about undergraduate humanities research opportunities on campus and how to translate humanities research experience on a resume.
Friday, October 2, 2020
Join us for another installment of our Fall Seminar Series with Yale University PhD candidate Philip V. McHarris this Friday, October 2, 2020 at 9am.
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds about 500,000 volumes and 5,000 linear sq.ft. of archival material. This large collection of primary source material is available digitally to all interested individuals.
In this presentation, Professor Arjun Appadurai will address the recent debates about the rebirth of the nation-state in the era of pandemic disease, and about whether globalization is about to be rolled back or marginalized.
In this presentation, titled "The Volatile Market for Globalization," Professor Arjun Appadurai will address the recent debates about the rebirth of the nation-state in the era of pandemic disease, and about whether globalization is about to be rolled back or marginalized.
This is the second lecture in the series "Timbuktu Talks," presented by the Center for African Studies. The series is hosted by Professor Mauro Nobili of the Department of History. The city of Timbuktu in Mali epitomizes the intellectual vibrancy of African Muslim societies. These lectures explore past and contemporary aspects of Islamic Africa.
The written word has long been a revolutionary agent: manifestos can change the course of history and topple governments. When the rebels take to the streets, they head first to the newspapers and the radio stations, only later to the presidential palace. Once, dissidents cranked out their discontent on basement mimeograph machines. Today they use Twitter.
Monday, October 5, 2020
Reception immediately following in the 'A' Atrium of CLSL
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Robert Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will share some recent findings about the state of humanities departments, preview findings from a forthcoming survey of the general public about the humanities, and answer any questions you might have about the state of the field.
Join us for a presentation by Robert Townsend, Director of the Humanities Indicators & Director of the Washington Office, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Robert Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will share some recent findings about the state of humanities departments, preview findings from a forthcoming survey of the general public about the humanities, and answer any questions you might have about the state of the field.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Featuring: Cynthia Oliver, Abby Zbikowski, Ollie Watts Davis, and Tamara Chaplin
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
University of Illinois students of color are invited to join a small group conversation with Dr. Koritha Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell is a literary historian, cultural critic, and associate professor of English at Ohio State University and is author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship.
History alums from various career fields join us to discuss career development, professionalization and choices they made to advance in their fields as well as how their history education helped prepare them for professional success.
Workshop on ethical teaching--Too often, instructors consider the role of violence in our society only when something ugly happens. This workshop addresses the purpose of all forms of violence (from hate speech to physical attacks) and encourages proactive strategies for creating learning environments. It will emphasize philosophical approaches teachers can adopt and offer
Join Dr. Koritha Mitchell for a workshop on ethical teaching entitled Violence in U.S. Education: Approaches & Practices.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Victoria Ford Smith is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2017), which won the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. Her research interests include child agency, child-produced culture, and authorship and book studies.
"Parametric Models for Distributions When Extremes Are of Interest"
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access).
Koritha Mitchell is a literary historian, cultural critic, and associate professor of English at Ohio State University. She is author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, which won book awards from the American Theatre and Drama Society and from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
Friday, October 9, 2020
This seminar will help build understanding of the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racism. Join us Friday, October 9th, 2020 at 9am via Zoom.
This presentation discusses the design and implementation of the WhereCOVID-19 platform through the lens of a case study on rapidly measuring spatial accessibility of COVID-19 healthcare resources with a particular focus on Illinois, USA.
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Monday, October 12, 2020
Join us this Indigenous People’s Day for a collaborative panel discussion led by Native researchers and practitioners in the Big Ten. The panel will focus on Native experiences in academia, Indigenous led research and pedagogy, and how these are reflected in the national political and social climates.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
The University of Illinois Archives is hosting a monthly Women in Science Lecture Series that will feature speakers from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diverse and multidisciplinary scientific enterprise.
Sociology senior Erica Hamlink will give an insightful presentation for students who want to learn how to conduct an internship or job search, and how to get a position they want once they've found it.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Listen in online to one-on-one sharing of stories at kitchen tables in Champaign-Urbana and St. Paul. Artist Seitu Jones will visit virtually with Champaign-Urbana food and environmental justice activist Jennifer Monson (Dance) to discuss local issues related to access and affordability of food, as well as caring for the earth that nurtures us.
Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
This virtual panel celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and the launch of the bilingual book ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas co-authored by Adrian Burgos and Margaret Salazar-Porzio. The panel will explore the contemporary issues, journeys, and passions of Latinas/os/xs in baseball.
Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Take your lunch break with Sociology professors and students!
"Uncoupled isotonic regression"
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access).
Can a society be governed by data? In the age of big data, we seem certain that it can and should be. Despite many decades of research exposing its blind spots and biases, data collection is more insidious than ever, while the Covid-19 pandemic has propelled our already computerized lives into a the digital stratosphere.
Listen in online to one-on-one sharing of stories at kitchen tables in Champaign-Urbana and St. Paul. Artist Seitu Jones will visit virtually with Champaign-Urbana food and environmental justice activist Dawn Blackman to discuss local issues related to access and affordability of food, as well as caring for the earth that nurtures us.
Join directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera for a Q & A on their film The Infiltrators.
Join directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera for a Q & A on their film The Infiltrators.
Lazarus Letcher (they/them) is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at the University of New Mexico on Tiwa Pueblo Land. Their research focuses on Black and Indigenous solidarity, 2SLGBTQIA+ history and organizing, and white supremacy within the queer and trans community.
Friday, October 16, 2020
Students who wish to drop, select Credit/No Credit, or Grade Replacement for a full semester course must do so by Friday, October 16, 2020.
Join us for another installment of our Fall Seminar Series with speakers Olivier Godechot, Mirna Safi and Matthew Soener on Friday, October 16th, 2020 at 9am via Zoom.
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Monday, October 19, 2020
Students who enrolled in any second 8-week (Term B) courses should note that instruction will begin the week of October 19, 2020.
Meet the woman breaking down barriers in Israel: Ashager Araro. Araro helped lead a movement which culminated in the founding of Ethiopian Cultural Center in Tel Aviv. She will speak about the work that the center has engaged in, both before and during the pandemic, and its struggle to survive in the face of increasing COVID-related pressures.
Emmy Lingscheit and Ben Grosser on making art within and about the pandemic
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The Kremlin, as well as other state actors and far-right groups, divide and deceive populations around the world using social media and other online warfare tactics. Nina Jankowicz, an expert in online disinformation, will discuss these governments’ responses to Russian information warfare tactics.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
See here: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/events/node/9721
Thursday, October 22, 2020
"A Scalable Approach to Empirical Bayes Inference and Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis via Empirical Processes"
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access).
Rachel Havrelock presents “Washing with No Water: Environmental Justice, Deregulation and Climate Change Amidst a Pandemic” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series. Out of Isolation examines the intersection of COVID-19 with research on race and ethnicity, class and gender, labor and poverty, access and public education, climate change and other “preconditions."
Rachel Havrelock presents “Washing with No Water: Environmental Justice, Deregulation and Climate Change Amidst a Pandemic” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series. Out of Isolation examines the intersection of COVID-19 with research on race and ethnicity, class and gender, labor and poverty, access and public education, climate change and other “preconditions."
Join us with Michelle Foa. Michelle Foa is Associate Professor of Art History and Carnegie Corporation of New York Professor at the Phyllis Taylor Center at Tulane University.
Friday, October 23, 2020
Students who wish to enroll in a second 8-week course (Term B) for Fall 2020 must do so by Friday, October 23, 2020.
Join us for another installment of our Fall Seminar Series on policing and racial (in)justice with Michael Sierra-Arévalo on Friday, October 23, 2020 at 9am via Zoom.
Drones, both aerial and surface-based, have become commonplace for both environmental and industrial monitoring. For monitoring rivers, drones offer a convenient platform for a wide range of optical and environmental sensors that are able to provide high spatial and temporal resolution data.
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Monday, October 26, 2020
This informal discussion, moderated by Urbana arts and culture coordinator, Rachel Storm, will feature Dawn Blackman, Ruby Mendenhall, Jennifer Monson, Magdalena Novoa, and Bobby Smith II, in conversation with Seitu Jones.
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Join us for a virtual roundtable and discussion about different challenges to human rights and rule of law in contemporary Europe. Our speakers will address cases in Hungary, Turkey, France, Germany, and at the European Court of Human Rights.
Learn how to run a Degree Audit and put your best foot forward for registration in November!
Faranak Miraftab, University of Illinois
Online discussion with filmmakers Dianne Fukami and Debra Nakatomi.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
In this talk, Professor Ostherr will discuss the ways that Medical/Health Humanities can develop translational practices that bring novel insights and methods to frontline pandemic responses, highlighting the importance of collaboration across fields of scholarship and practice, particularly across humanities, engineering, and clinical practice.
In this talk, Professor Ostherr will discuss the ways that Medical/Health Humanities can develop translational practices that bring novel insights and methods to frontline pandemic responses, highlighting the importance of collaboration across fields of scholarship and practice, particularly across humanities, engineering, and clinical practice.
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Take your lunch break with Sociology professors and students!
Learn how to run a degree audit and put your best foot forward for Spring 2021 Registration!
"2dFDR: a two-dimensional false discovery rate control for powerful confounder adjustment in omics association studies"
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access).
Friday, October 30, 2020
While the relationship between fractional cover of anthropogenic and vegetation features and the urban warming or heat island has been well examined, the effect of spatial pattern (e.g., clustered, dispersed, random) of these features on air and land surface temperatures are not well understood.