College of LAS Events
If you will need disability-related accommodations in order to participate, please email the contact person for the event.
Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
-
Alumni Lectures feature Chemistry at Illinois alumni who have, with the foundation of their chemistry studies at Illinois, made a meaningful impact in their chosen field. This Alumni Lecture tells the story of environmental law from its emergence in the United States to the present day.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
-
Are you interested in Global Security? We will host guests to discuss topics related to Arms Control & Domestic and International Security. Our first guest speaker is a former professor, Baladas Ghoshal. His career spans decades throughout the world; in policy, security, and more. Join us for his seminar "How does the world deal with a resurgent China?"
Thursday, September 5, 2024
-
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
-
Flatlands Dance Film Festival presents feature film, BAD LIKE BROOKLYN DANCEHALL. This documentary film features an entrancing cast of Jamaican and New York luminaries who share their community story of building a cultural bridge between Jamaica and New York through dancehall.
Friday, September 6, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
-
This hybrid workshop offers a beginner-friendly introduction to how tools like ChatGPT generate text. We'll explore best practices for using AI in your scholarship, creative practice, and work from a humanities perspective. There will be plenty of room for experimentation and questions!
-
Japan House will be featuring Japanese artist Seiran Chiba for a large-scale calligraphy execution of the character for peace. Following that is a live raking of the dry rock garden to showcase the character as a raked pattern. Afterward, there will be an origami crane foldraiser to support the Seattle Peace Garden. This free event will occur outside in the gardens.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
-
Join CSBS, the College of Education, and IHSI for the first event of the 2024-25 Community-Engaged Research Series. Connect with faculty and staff across campus involved in community-engaged research! Identify common goals and challenges in community-engaged research, learn from each other's experiences, find and share resources, and build your university and...
-
This talk evaluates the impact of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign, & the Biden administration’s appeasement of the Islamic Republic & propose a theoretical framework for how future US administrations can prevent nuclearization in Iran.
-
Samuel G. Freedman, Krouse Family Visiting Scholar in Judaism and Western Culture, will present "Fighting Hatred in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey's Battles Against Extremism in Mid-Century America". Light refreshments will be served.
-
On Wednesday, September 11th, the Illinois Leadership Center & We CU will be holding our Entering Community Partnerships workshop. The workshop will guide humanities students on how to successfully collaborate in service partnerships with community organizations, and how to reflect both critically and personally on their service experience.
Thursday, September 12, 2024
-
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 lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, “Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies.” This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book.
-
This lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, "Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies." This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book
Friday, September 13, 2024
-
Renée R. Trilling, Angus Cameron Professor of Old English, Toronto: Early Medieval England boasts the earliest collection of vernacular medical texts north of the Alps. Many are translations of classical materials; others are native Old English “folk” medicine, charms, prognostics, and prayers. This lecture explores the hybrid medical discourse...
Saturday, September 14, 2024
-
Details TBD
-
Turn the pages of these human books and 'read' or hear about different countries represented in our community. Each station will feature a specific country where you can read or interact with the "book" (a person) and learn about different aspects of a country such as culture, language, or history.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
-
Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji will be presenting her new cookbook, Wagashi: Season by Season. After an intro about wagashi, guests will be treated to three unique wagashi paired with three kinds of tea. These wagashi will be seasonal recipes from the book and each month of tasting events will highlight a different menu based on seasonal ingredients and occasions.
Monday, September 16, 2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
-
Dr. Steven Chu is a Nobel Laureate in Physics as well as the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. From January 2009 to April 2013, Dr. Chu served as U.S. Secretary of Energy under President Barack Obama. During his tenure, he began , including ARPA.
-
In this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change – in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change...
-
In this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change – in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
-
This meeting is invite only and for LLS faculty and staff.
-
We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
-
We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
Thursday, September 19, 2024
-
Building upon their recent article, “What Is Information History?,” Bonnie Mak (Information Sciences) and Allen Renear (Information Sciences) introduce ways in which the humanities can engage in the critical examination of AI. Part of the “Think Again...” Event Series.
-
Building upon their recent article, “What Is Information History?,” Bonnie Mak (Information Sciences) and Allen Renear (Information Sciences) introduce ways in which the humanities can engage in the critical examination of AI. Part of the “Think Again...” Event Series.
-
In an era of increased awareness of diversity and inclusion, understanding hidden bias and its impact on educational institutions has become paramount. Professor Mahzarin Banaji is an experimental psychologist who has spent 35 years understanding how the mind works in social contexts.
Friday, September 20, 2024
Monday, September 23, 2024
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
-
Join us to co-create the rest of the year's schedule of events for the Generative AI Futures Reading Group. We will discuss authors, themes, philosophies, and more in a relaxed cocktail-party-type atmosphere. Light refreshments provided.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
-
Join Jesse McCarthy (English and African American Studies, Harvard University) and Christopher Freeburg (English) for a lunchtime book discussion. Professor McCarthy will briefly introduce his book "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (2024), and then Professor Freeburg will moderate a discussion. Registration required!
-
Join Jesse McCarthy (English and African American Studies, Harvard University) and Christopher Freeburg (English) for a lunchtime book discussion. Professor McCarthy will briefly introduce his book "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (2024), and then Professor Freeburg will moderate a discussion. Registration required!
-
kato-kiriyama offers a dynamic evening of poetry, storytelling, community conversation, and even a prompt or two to take with you and continue your verses.
-
Identity is at once the most central and the most unhappy word in contemporary discourse. Debates continue to rage within literary studies in the academy and in the public sphere at large about when, how, and to what extent, the discourse of identity, and sometimes its associated identity politics, should apply when we engage questions around...
-
Identity is at once the most central and the most unhappy word in contemporary discourse. Debates continue to rage within literary studies in the academy and in the public sphere at large about when, how, and to what extent, the discourse of identity, and sometimes its associated identity politics, should apply when we engage questions around...
-
Bjørn Sletto is Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Austin and co-editor of Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America (UT Press) and Decolonizing Planning: Power and Knowledge in the Informal City (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming).
Friday, September 27, 2024
-
Panel: Improvise & Intervene Reflections and Acknowledgements For this cohort of Interseminars fellows and conveners, circle-keeping and reflection have been a methodological commitment. In this talkback, we invite you to learn and hear about the joys, challenges, and lessons of forming an interdisciplinary collective. Refreshments will be served.
-
Panel: Improvise & Intervene Reflections and Acknowledgements For this cohort of Interseminars fellows and conveners, circle-keeping and reflection have been a methodological commitment. In this talkback, we invite you to learn and hear about the joys, challenges, and lessons of forming an interdisciplinary collective. Refreshments will be served.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
-
This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Saturday's events include the Body Mapping Family Workshop, Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment I & II, a workshop with invited guest Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and more.
-
This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Saturday's events include the Body Mapping Family Workshop, Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment I & II, a workshop with invited guest Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and more.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
-
This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Sunday's events include a tour, Closing Collage & Movement, and Community Dinner Reception.
-
This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Sunday's events include a tour, Closing Collage & Movement, and Community Dinner Reception.
Monday, September 30, 2024
-
Olga Livshin’s work is recently published in the New York Times, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, and other journals, and is forthcoming from POETRY magazine. She is the author of the poetry collection A Life Replaced: Poems withTranslations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (2019).
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Thursday, October 3, 2024
-
Join us for the second installment of the Gwendolyn Brooks Social Justice Initiative. This year's featured guest is Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, who will give a public reading Thursday, Oct. 3 2024 at 5:30PM.
Friday, October 4, 2024
-
Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed happy hour gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!
-
Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed happy hour gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!
