College of LAS Events
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Sunday, March 31, 2019
This colloquium is the culmination of a year-long interdisciplinary faculty-graduate student IPRH research cluster, “Transmission, Translation, and Directionality in Cultural Exchange (TTDCE).” Keynote Speakers: Gabriela Currie, University of Minnesota (Music) and Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma (English).
This colloquium is the culmination of a year-long interdisciplinary faculty-graduate student IPRH research cluster, “Transmission, Translation, and Directionality in Cultural Exchange (TTDCE).” Keynote Speakers: Gabriela Currie, University of Minnesota (Music) and Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma (English).
Applications are currently open for APAC's 2019-2020 Executive Board! Click through to access the event page and application.
Monday, April 1, 2019
What the Genetics of Complex Behavior Can (and Can't) Accomplish: The Phenotypic Null Hypothesis
Adam Sutcliffe (King's College, London) joined the department in 2005 as Lecturer in Early Modern History, following six years teaching at the University of Illinois. He became Head of Department in August 2012.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Rosina Neginsky will speak about the birth of Vrubel’s images, in what way they are different from images of many of his contemporaries. She will demonstrate how the knowledge of certain philosophies and views on art that are found in works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Emmanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Vladimir Soloviev influenced Vrubel’s creativity.
Spring 2019 Curious and Eclectic Seminar Series: African-American Studies and Sociology
Please make plans to attend one of two upcoming “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meetings to join the conversation about how IPRH might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future. A second session will be held April 4 at 12 p.m.
Please make plans to attend one of two upcoming “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meetings to join the conversation about how IPRH might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future.
Join the Department of AAS for a lecture by Juliana Hu Pegues on the figure of China Joe. Click through for full abstract.
French film screening.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Krannert Art Museum invites you to hear from and speak with art and history experts, featuring Kirstin M. Gotway, curatorial intern and doctoral student in Art History. This Gallery Conversation is titled “A Civilized Table: The Visual Power of 19th Century Transferware” and explores themes related to the exhibition Blue and White.
Harvard University historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is author of a recent book on early Mormonism, much of it set in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Film Screening: "Forgetting Vietnam" with introduction by filmmaker/theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of Rhetoric and Gender & Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Renowned filmmaker and feminist postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha will introduce her most recent film Forgetting Vietnam and take questions from the audience afterwards.
In 1980s Communist Czechoslovakia, an emerging generation took inspiration from alternative culture to create their own worldview, politics and eventually, a revolution. 25 years later, this unique generational perspective is explored for the first time. The film's producer, Jeffrey Brown, will give opening remarks and answer questions following the screening.
Prof. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, recipient of the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes in history, will be speaking about her most recent work, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870.
Trinh T. Minh‐ha’s lyrical film essay commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of the war draws inspiration from ancient legend and from water as a force evoked in every aspect of Vietnamese culture.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
This international film festival will run from March 8-April 4.
Keynote address by Allen Turner (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media) "Cultivating Voice: An exploration of metabolizing narratives in the quest to create parables of play," and a featured panel conversation with Stuart Moulthrop &Chris Klimas, "Interactive Narrative from Victory Garden to Twine."
Keynote address by Allen Turner (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media) "Cultivating Voice: An exploration of metabolizing narratives in the quest to create parables of play," and a featured panel conversation with Stuart Moulthrop &Chris Klimas, "Interactive Narrative from Victory Garden to Twine." Free and open to the public.
Please make plans to attend one of two upcoming “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meetings to join the conversation about how IPRH might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future. A second session will be held April 2 at 4 p.m.
Please make plans to attend one of two upcoming “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meetings to join the conversation about how IPRH might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future.
Playful by Design hosts a special exhibit opening on Thursday, April 4, 2:00–4:45 pm. Allen Turner, a game designer from the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media, presents a keynote address at 3:00.
Trinh T. Minh-ha is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. A world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist postcolonial theorist, she has published twelve books and has made eight feature-length films.
Trinh T. Minh-ha is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. A world-renowned independent filmmaker and feminist postcolonial theorist, she has published twelve books and has made eight feature-length films.
GWS 40th Anniversary lecture; Trinh T. Minh-ha, "The Everyday Interval of Resistance".
A popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged with politics throughout his life. This talk examines ways in which research on general relativity was embedded in, and at times engulfed by, the tumult of world politics over the course of the twentieth century.
David Kaiser (Professor of Physics and History of Science at MIT) will give a talk on April 4, time and location TBD (likely around 4:30 pm). His talk will be titled ""Einstein's Legacy: Studying Gravity in War and Peace."
Join campus museum leaders in an informal conversation as they examine current museum topics and trends, and discuss the role of the university museum on campus and in the community.
Friday, April 5, 2019
Keynote address by Allen Turner (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media) "Cultivating Voice: An exploration of metabolizing narratives in the quest to create parables of play," and a featured panel conversation with Stuart Moulthrop &Chris Klimas, "Interactive Narrative from Victory Garden to Twine."
Keynote address by Allen Turner (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media) "Cultivating Voice: An exploration of metabolizing narratives in the quest to create parables of play," and a featured panel conversation with Stuart Moulthrop &Chris Klimas, "Interactive Narrative from Victory Garden to Twine." Free and open to the public.
How does modernity look when read through black diasporic literary production in the long nineteenth century? Speakers examine black reading and writing practices, visual culture, intellectual history, and modernity broadly conceived through abolitionist iconography, transatlantic iterations of the Anglo-African, reprinting, and black tastemakers.
A Friday lunchtime series of free yoga classes introduces participants to the fundamentals of hatha yoga at Krannert Art Museum. Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public. Please visit http://kam.illinois.edu for more information.
French Festival will have fun activities created by several groups of undergraduate students and orchestrated by Amy Clay and Dan Maroun. Part of the Festival will be the handing out of undergraduate awards.
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Keynote address by Allen Turner (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media) "Cultivating Voice: An exploration of metabolizing narratives in the quest to create parables of play," and a featured panel conversation with Stuart Moulthrop &Chris Klimas, "Interactive Narrative from Victory Garden to Twine."
Keynote address by Allen Turner (DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media) "Cultivating Voice: An exploration of metabolizing narratives in the quest to create parables of play," and a featured panel conversation with Stuart Moulthrop &Chris Klimas, "Interactive Narrative from Victory Garden to Twine." Free and open to the public.
Over the past decade and a half, the U.S. has lost 1,800 newspapers and half of its newspaper journalists, giving rise to news deserts across vast swaths of the country. Abernathy will explore the implications for our society and the collaborative effort that will be needed if we are to reverse the trend.
Over the past decade and a half, the U.S. has lost 1,800 newspapers and half of its newspaper journalists, giving rise to news deserts across vast swaths of the country. Abernathy will explore the implications for our society and the collaborative effort that will be needed if we are to reverse the trend.
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Lee Humphreys is Associate Professor of Communication, Cornell University.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Experts from the US and the EU will speak on transatlantic relations past and present.
This talk will explore ways in which people across the Russian Empire transformed the death of Komissarzhevskaia into an occasion for large-scale public grieving, civic activism, and religious controversy.
This Distinguished Speaker Lecture offers a revisionist understanding of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter by discerning the disavowal of settler colonial “economies of dispossession” as the precondition for “American Renaissance” interpretations of the romance’s characters, themes, narrative, plot, and scene of writing.
Nicole Krauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award and Orange Prize, and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Medicis, and Femina Prizes.
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, was brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case - an activist attorney, a transgender journalist, and Jennifer's mother - galvanize a political uprising to demand justice despite the ongoing legacy of U.S. imperialism.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Dr. Mariam Lam is Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Diversity Officer, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of California, Riverside.
Dr. Mariam Lam is Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Diversity Officer, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, University of California, Riverside.
Ashley Adams (UIUC African Studies and Community Health) will discuss quantitative analyses conducted to examine time trends in USAID Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, with a particular focus on women's contraceptive use in Tanzania from 1996-2016.
Iana Markevych will discuss challenges facing researchers of greenspaces in Europe.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Naureen Butt will use the lens of first-person narrative to discuss the recent history of Pakistan, particularly the challenges faced by women during the rise of the Pakistani Taliban.
In this talk, Samuel K. Roberts discusses local political protest movements for addiction treatment in the 1960s and 1970s.
In this talk, Samuel K. Roberts discusses local political protest movements for addiction treatment in the 1960s and 1970s.
Michéle E J Koven, Professor of Communications, UI
Transatlantic Educators Dialogue: Transformative Connectivity and Learning with Teachers from Europe
Hear Jennifer Smith, a local K-12 educator, talk about her experiences collaborating with European colleagues.
Friday, April 12, 2019
A Friday lunchtime series of free yoga classes introduces participants to the fundamentals of hatha yoga at Krannert Art Museum. Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public. Please visit http://kam.illinois.edu for more information.
The Fashion, Style, & Aesthetics Reading Group (FSA) welcomes Lauren Downing Peters, Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at Columbia College Chicago. She will present on her research on the topic of the history and politics of plus-size fashion.
Industrialization and urbanization bring about ever-growing noise problems in cities, with diverse sources of noise such as traffic, construction, industrial, and recreational noise. Exposure to noise is associated with health risks involving annoyance, disturbance, stress, cognitive performance impairment, hearing loss, and cardiovascular diseases.
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Join us for a fun afternoon at Krannert Art Museum. This event makes it easy to explore the museum as a family. Each family can pick up art cards, follow the path at your own pace, and be amazed! This event is geared specially toward caregivers and children ages 6-10.
You are welcome to the opening reception of a temporary exhibition featuring work from artists in the Master program at the School of Art + Design. The gallery will be open until 7pm on the Saturday, after which the gallery will be open during normal museum hours. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public.
Sunday, April 14, 2019
The Italian Talent Show, sponsored by the Department of French & Italian, will feature 40 student artists who will sing, recite, act, and perform music.
Monday, April 15, 2019
The Ethnography of the University Initiative Biannual Student Conference and Odyssey Project Poster Symposium, which is part of Undergraduate Research Week.
The Ethnography of the University Initiative Biannual Student Conference and Odyssey Project Poster Symposium, which is part of Undergraduate Research Week.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
This videoconference will discuss what's at stake in the European Parliamentary elections.
Stefan Peychev is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Illinois.
Hande Ozdinler, PhD, Neuroscientist and painter, inventor of OzdinART, and co-founder of the Art Loves Science Foundation, will speak about OzdinART and the Turkish art of marbling (ebru).
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Adéyínka Alasadé (CAS Outreach Coordinator) will discuss some significant problems in modern medicine, the Western diet, and the environment and define the components of critical health literacy. She proposes indigenous African systems of medicine as viable and potentially superior alternatives to the iatrogenesis associated with Western (allopatic) medicine.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Based in life histories of working-class women of rural origin and one in particular, I show the intimate entanglements of violence and value-making in an urban economy marked by informal employment, uncertainty, and attrition.
Dr. Gaston’s talk will focus on his research from his 2010 book entitled, The Challenge of Bologna: What European Education Has to Teach Us and Why It’s Important That We Learn It (2010).
"The Walled City of Nicosia, Cyprus: History, Heritage and Visualization." This talk will address aspects of Nicosia’s history, the preservation and definition of its heritage by the British in the early 20th century, the challenges of the contemporary division and the ways digital technologies can help efforts to understand the layered complexities of historic cities.
Participation in online media has seemingly lost its innocence: What once started as a hopeful promise for media and society in the 1990s, developed into the object of public fears and concerns among media and tech companies. Trolling, bullying and strategic manipulation seem to be very common in comment sections and social media these days.
Lyudmila Parts is an Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University.
Dominique Kalifa is a historian and professor at the University of Paris 1, where he heads the Center for 19th-Century History. His latest book,"Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld," is forthcoming in spring 2019 from Columbia University Press.
Friday, April 19, 2019
TITLE: "Modern Artificial General Intelligence" ABSTRACT: I will introduce the field of modern artificial general intelligence, with the emphasis on explaining a modeling framework that is highly relevant to probabilistic modeling and decision making. I will also introduce some new research opportunities that are relevant to optimization researchers.
A Friday lunchtime series of free yoga classes introduces participants to the fundamentals of hatha yoga at Krannert Art Museum. Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public. Please visit http://kam.illinois.edu for more information.
The IPRH-Mellon Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Group is a collective of students exploring how matters of the environment can be understood through a humanistic lens. As we do so, we seek to dive into the untold narratives of physical and social environments.
The IPRH-Mellon Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Group is a collective of students exploring how matters of the environment can be understood through a humanistic lens. As we do so, we seek to dive into the untold narratives of physical and social environments.
Workshop for graduate students in History and in French and Italian to talk with Prof. Dominique Kalifa about his new book: Vice, Crime and Poverty in the Western Imagination. GRAD STUDENTS: Please email your RSVP for this workshop to tchaplin@illinois.edu.
A large and rapidly increasing number of devices that are geo-locatable and wirelessly connected to the internet are generating a flood of data that is overwhelming contemporary methods of analysis.
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Monday, April 22, 2019
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for discussing broad, multi-disciplinary assessments of Oman's development by leading scholars in the field. This is expected to encourage further research on Oman and to offer insights and lessons for the country and the Middle East region.
Jessie Labov (Resident Fellow, Center for Media, Democracy, and Society and Coordinator of the Digital Humanities Initiative at Central European University; Director of Academic and Institutional Development at McDaniel College Budapest)
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for discussing broad, multi-disciplinary assessments of Oman's development by leading scholars in the field. This is expected to encourage further research on Oman and to offer insights and lessons for the country and the Middle East region.
William Hart-Davidson is Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education in the College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University.
William Hart-Davidson is Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education in the College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University.
Alexander Marković is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His work explores affective politics, nationalism, and performance culture in the Balkans.
This talk investigates political economies of risk logic by looking at how transnational trans and queer studies comprehend trans people’s patronage of “back alley surgeons.”
Aren Aizura is an assistant professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and the author of Mobile Subjects: transnational imaginaries of gender reassignment (Duke UP, 2018).
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
In what used to be the empire of Ghana, Mali, Ashanti, Futa Djallon sit 17 countries today with diverse legal systems. Our speaker, Alpha Diallo, a human rights lawyer, will examine if there is a better way to advocate Human Rights laws.
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.
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.
With an increasing global population and continuing climate change, food security has become a grand scientific and societal challenge. To tackle this challenge, it is critically important to obtain timely crop information such as yield potential and growing status as crop information is often time sensitive.
Come hear this special artist talk, a Distinguished Alumni Lecture featuring Louise Fishman, painter. A reception following immediately afterward. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public.
Poets from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student organizations including The Creative Writing Club, Flor Poetry, and The Collective Magazine will read their work selected around the evening’s theme of “culture.” Additionally, the event includes fun poetry writing activities and the Museum’s galleries will be open for you to explore and seek inspiration.
Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely; and the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Rankine is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.
Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely; and the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Rankine is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
This symposium is held in conjunction with the 11th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS11). This pre-conference symposium invites abstracts that focus of various semiotic practices.
This panel examines community experiences related to India’s Partition in 1947. In the aftermath of the British Raj’s decision to leave behind a divided territory in South Asia, the subcontinent was wracked by violent communal aggressions.
Internationally recognized scholar Cheryl Grills will discuss the applied community research she has conducted over the past three decades to decrease health disparities among African Americans. She will present community intervention efforts that have been proven to reduce distress and promote well-being in the face of racial stress. A CAS MillerComm Lecture.
Internationally recognized scholar Cheryl Grills will discuss the applied community research she has conducted over the past three decades to decrease health disparities among African Americans. She will present community intervention efforts that have been proven to reduce distress and promote well-being in the face of racial stress, MillerComm Lecture Series 2019.
Friday, April 26, 2019
This is an annual, student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate students a local and friendly venue in which to present and discuss research on any topic related to language and linguistics.
This two-day symposium offers us a chance to reflect on what makes our work unique and uniquely valuable. It gives us an opportunity to articulate what our scholarship and creative practice offer to a university seeking ever more social, cultural, and intellectual creativity.
A Friday lunchtime series of free yoga classes introduces participants to the fundamentals of hatha yoga at Krannert Art Museum. Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public. Please visit http://kam.illinois.edu for more information.
Housing affordability, defined as a financially feasible portion of income spent on housing, is a problem in U.S. cities, including New York City. While housing costs have increased, most Americans' salaries are not increasing at the same rate.
Prof. Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015).
Come hear poetry in translation! Listen to how a poem written in one language can be beautifully rendered in another.
Saturday, April 27, 2019
This is an annual, student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate students a local and friendly venue in which to present and discuss research on any topic related to language and linguistics.
This two-day symposium offers us a chance to reflect on what makes our work unique and uniquely valuable. It gives us an opportunity to articulate what our scholarship and creative practice offer to a university seeking ever more social, cultural, and intellectual creativity.
Sunday, April 28, 2019
This is an annual, student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate students a local and friendly venue in which to present and discuss research on any topic related to language and linguistics.
Monday, April 29, 2019
In this talk, Simeon Man tells the histories of Asians and Asian Americans who fought in Vietnam, revealing how U.S. empire was sustained through overalapping projects of colonialism and race making.
The rapid evolution of information technologies to the point where most active citizens are able to access global information using personal devices is changing the city out of all recognition.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Professor Bilal will provide an overall introduction to an anthology meant to end the invisibility of activist women in Armenian historiography. Then, drawing on Yelbis Gesartin's work, she will discuss the interrelatedness of discourses on gender, sexuality, body, emotion, culture, history, nation, modernity, land and music in 19th century Armenian intellectual narratives
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
This talk will provide an overview of open education, explore both sides of the debate, and offer reasons why engaging in open education doesn't—and shouldn't—stop at cost-savings.
This Yom Ha' Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we are honoring the life and work of Italian author and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi. The evening will feature readings and discussion of the author's work.
This Yom Ha' Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we are honoring the life and work of Italian author and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi. The evening will feature readings by Kirsten Wynne Pullen (Theatre) and Philip Phillips (Physics) and brief commentaries by Jonathan Druker (Italian, ISU) and Eleonora Stoppino (French & Italian).
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Every year, IPRH celebrates excellence in humanities scholarship by awarding IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities. Please join us in honoring this year's recipients at this year's ceremony.
Every year, IPRH celebrates excellence in humanities scholarship by awarding IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities. Please join us in honoring this year's recipients at this year's ceremony.
Friday, May 3, 2019
Presentations of Capstone research projects. Dates: May 3 and May 6.
This Spring Luncheon and Lecture invites you to hear from Kevin Hamilton, Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts. The public is invited, and reservations are required. Please contact Chris Schaede (217 244 0516 or kam@illinois.edu) for reservation information.
Saturday, May 4, 2019
You are welcome to the opening reception of a temporary exhibition featuring work from artists in the Bachelor program at the School of Art + Design. The gallery will be open until 7pm on the Saturday, after which the gallery will be open during normal museum hours.