College of LAS Events
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Sunday, April 25, 2021
The Illuminated Universe festival, hosted by Illinois Physics, brings scientists, artists, and communicators together in celebration of Nature, Humanity, and the Universe. Over the weekend of April 23-25, 2021, we journey through realms from the smallest quantum building blocks of matter to the elements of life on Earth to black holes in distant galaxies.
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Monday, April 26, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
In this lecture, presentations, Saniya Lee Ghanoui and Pavel Vasilyev hope to prompt larger discussions about the history of international menstrual ideas that emerged with the global menstrual movement of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Lilly Irani, Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies at UCSD, will present “Claiming Democracy over Digital Infrastructures” on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. The event will take place on Zoom from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Central time. Register and learn more at just-infras.illinois.edu.
Lilly Irani, Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies at UCSD, will present “Claiming Democracy over Digital Infrastructures” on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. The event will take place on Zoom from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Central time. Register and learn more at just-infras.illinois.edu
Thursday, April 29, 2021
The 51st meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place April 29-May 1, 2021. For more details you can visit the official Symposium webpage here.
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
"Multiply robust estimation of causal effects under principal ignorability"
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
Slavery, Science, and the Eugenic Impulse: Re-Examining Charles B. Davenport’s Race-Crossing Studies
During this presentation, Rana Hogarth, associate professor in the Department of History, will draw attention to the ways anti-Blackness and slavery-era ideas about race informed scientific knowledge production.
Friday, April 30, 2021
The 51st meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place April 29-May 1, 2021. For more details you can visit the official Symposium webpage here.
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
A webinar navigating the global impacts of digital platforms and infrastructures, featuring Dr. Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University), Dr. Jean-Christophe Plantin (London School of Economics), and Dr. Julie Yujie Chen (University of Toronto).
How Parisian university professors use EI not only to ensure gender neutral reference, but also as a tool to construct their political identities.
A lecture by Dr. Nicole Brown around the systemic biases rooted in academic spaces, specifically looking at quantitative/qualitative dichotomies that persist within the discipline of sociology.
The planform of a river, its geometrical pattern when viewed from above, is a fundamental characteristic of river morphology. River planform develops from mutual interactions among flow, sediment transport and channel form.
The HRI-Mellon Legal Humanities Undergraduate Research group invites you to a release party to showcase our collective research on the legal humanities—an emerging field that examines how the law both constitutes and shapes the social world, reflecting and shaping societal values, aspirations, and notions of justice.
The HRI-Mellon Legal Humanities Undergraduate Research group invites you to a release party to showcase our collective research on the legal humanities—an emerging field that examines how the law both constitutes and shapes the social world, reflecting and shaping societal values, aspirations, and notions of justice.
Are doodling and scribbling art? Does “artless art” exist? What does art do to our everyday life anyway? This three-letter word has sustained so many discussions, debates, and studies of the history of art and visual culture across regions and cultures, including topics such as soboku-e “Innocent Paintings” in Japanese art.
Poet Kaveh Akbar’s work is exciting, beautiful, often disorienting and urgent. Reflected in his poems are the many facets of his identity—he is Iranian-American, largely Midwestern, queer, Muslim, and in recovery. He is thereby situated in the new wave of poets drawing not only technical mastery, but also the immediacy of their lived experiences to connect with...
This semester we are continuing to offer "Cineforum", a new cultural experience we started last semester, and you are all invited! This event entails: - Watching the film before our discussion of the film together, for free! - Sharing our perspectives on the film, noting cultural/historical aspects, and comparing these aspects to the culture of the U.S.
Saturday, May 1, 2021
The 51st meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will take place April 29-May 1, 2021. For more details you can visit the official Symposium webpage here.
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Monday, May 3, 2021
All levels of Italian are welcome. "Caffettino?" is a great opportunity to practice your Italian, learn about the culture of Italy, ask questions about minor lexical or grammatical issues, and earn extra credit!
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Senior Research Fellow at the Algorithmic Justice League, and a Steering Committee member of the Design Justice Network, will present Design Justice on May 5, 2021.
Just Infrastructures was launched by researchers in the Computer Science Department, the School of Information Sciences, and the College of Media to interrogate the complex interactions between people, algorithms, and AI-driven systems. Find more information and register for the event by going to just-infras.illinois.edu or contacting just-infras@mx.uillinois.edu.
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958) was an innovative founder of contemporary sociology, who viewed the dynamics of modernity through the prism of culture. Although Znaniecki is considered a master of sociological thought, his legacy is only partially appreciated.
Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link)
Friday, May 7, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
The interactions of geographic processes have been shown to produce spatial phenomena suited for geographic inquiry; however, the exploration of spatial representation as a means of understanding geographic processes has produced a bifurcated ontology of pattern and process representation.
Liberation Fest is a two-day virtual event that aims to create a space for emerging Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) youth ages 11–19 to celebrate community strength, resistance, creativity, and joy.
Saturday, May 8, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Liberation Fest is a two-day virtual event that aims to create a space for emerging Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) youth ages 11–19 to celebrate community strength, resistance, creativity, and joy.
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Monday, May 10, 2021
In this dissertation, I will explore the operation of one American city’s growth coalition as it responds to the reality of global climate change. One of the latest urban reactions to the climate crisis in the last three years is the declaration of a “climate emergency” by cities throughout the United States and the international community.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Women in Science Lecture Series May Speaker: Dr. Ruby Mendenhall, Assistant Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Social Work.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter at Illinois has prepared a Report on Shared Governance, with cooperation from the Provost’s office.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Capturing spatial co-location patterns—subsets of two or more types of events that are geographically close—is one of the primary interests in spatial analysis because many phenomena are geographically related to each other.
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
Artist Andrea Carlson and scholar Jenny L. Davis discuss ideas and misconceptions about public art, the problems around settler monuments to themselves, the looted and destroyed effigy mounds of Zhegagoynak (Chicago in the Potawatomi language), and how institutions in the land now known as Illinois thwart the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990).
Friday, May 14, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
“Marcel Proust: Contested Legacies” University of Chicago, May 14, 2021 (online event) with the participation of UIUC scholars
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
Monday, May 17, 2021
Faculty interested in The OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship are invited to attend a Zoom information session on Monday, May 17 from 3:30-4:30.
Faculty interested in The OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship are invited to attend a Zoom information session on Monday, May 17 from 3:30-4:30.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Join Cara A. Finnegan and Michael Shaw to celebrate the release of "Photographic Presidents: Making History From Daguerreotype to Digital" on May 19 at 5 pm CST.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
This workshop will focus on the publishing process for both peer reviewed journal articles (1st hour) and first books (2nd hour). It will be conversational in tone and offer a friendly space to ask nuts and bolts questions about publishing, like how to revise and resubmit, how to cold email an editor, and so on.
This workshop will focus on the publishing process for both peer reviewed journal articles (1st hour) and first books (2nd hour). It will be conversational in tone and offer a friendly space to ask nuts and bolts questions about publishing, like how to revise and resubmit, how to cold email an editor, and so on.
Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
Friday, May 21, 2021
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Monday, May 24, 2021
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
Friday, May 28, 2021
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Monday, May 31, 2021
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.