Campus Humanities Calendar
Monday, October 28, 2024
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What does “civic health” mean? Civic health measures how healthy a community is in a civic sense, including how much people vote, volunteer, talk to neighbors, trust government, and feel they belong and matter.
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What does “civic health” mean? Civic health measures how healthy a community is in a civic sense, including how much people vote, volunteer, talk to neighbors, trust government, and feel they belong and matter.
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IGB-HRI Distinguished Public Lecture Series: "Linking Life Sciences and Humanities" with Jennifer Raff, PhD. Raff is an award-winning author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas (KU).
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Join us for Dr. Claire Jiménez's lecture "Noise As Meaning: An Exploration of Voice." Drawing upon the Barbadian scholar and poet Kamau Brathwaite’s assertion that the “noise” is part of the meaning, Jiménez, author of What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez, explores the pedagogical implications of teaching “voice” in the creative writing workshop.
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In this presentation, titled "Free to Exist: Insights into the Participation of LGBTQIA+ Young People in Sport and Physical Activity", Dr. Ryan Storr (Swinburne University, Australia) will share data on factors influencing LGBTIQA+ young people’s engagement in sport/physical activity and share recommendations for creating inclusive and welcoming sports environments.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
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Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia offers a history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom
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Tithi Bhattacharya (History, Purdue University) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Relevant readings are available in the corresponding Box folder.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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This workshop will teach you how to make common word processing documents accessible for screen readers and how to make presentations accessible for a wide range of users. We’ll cover MS Word, PPT, Google Docs, PDFs, and best practices for accessibility you can incorporate across formats.
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The Civic Café is a conversation series by scholars, educators and community advocates to advance pillars of democracy and civic education. Join Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, President of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), and Will Creeley, Legal Director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), for a discussion on the landscape...
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The Civic Café is a conversation series by scholars, educators, and community advocates to advance pillars of democracy and civic education.
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Please join us for a group discussion of our first reading of the year: Richard Powers' new novel Playground. We will use this novel as a lens to discuss the roles of technology in society, and the dread, fear, and awe that technology may inspire.
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Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...
Thursday, October 31, 2024
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Please join the EU Center this Halloween for a screening of the critically acclaimed Swedish horror film, "Let the Right One In,” which tells the story of the friendship between a bullied boy and a child vampire, Eli. Dr. Theo Malekin (Germanic) will give brief opening remarks.
Friday, November 1, 2024
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Dance at Illinois alumni gather in Chicago to present choreographic works, featuring Laura Chiaramonte, Esteban Donoso, Mark Kater, Mya McClellan, Laina Reese Werner-Powell, Chris Johnson, Melissa Pillarella, Isabella Saldana, Kaleigh Dent Christine Betsill, Johannah Wininsky, Alyssa Motter, Alex Kinard, Skylar Males, Anna Sapozhnikov and Bevara Anderson
Saturday, November 2, 2024
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Dance at Illinois alumni gather in Chicago to present choreographic works, featuring Laura Chiaramonte, Esteban Donoso, Mark Kater, Mya McClellan, Laina Reese Werner-Powell, Chris Johnson, Melissa Pillarella, Isabella Saldana, Kaleigh Dent Christine Betsill, Johannah Wininsky, Alyssa Motter, Alex Kinard, Skylar Males, Anna Sapozhnikov and Bevara Anderson
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Celebrate the biggest campus Diwali in the U.S. with IGSA! Join us on Nov. 2 for a vibrant night of festivities. Experience live performances, henna art, DIY rangoli, and much more. Indulge in authentic Indian food and dance the night away to our DJ party. Don't miss this unique opportunity to celebrate the triumph of good over evil!
Monday, November 4, 2024
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"Where the Wild Things Are: North America's Cultural Influence Over the Brazilian Editorial Market" Isabel Lopes Coelho is the author of The Representation of the Child in Children's Literature (2020).
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The United States struggles with a seemingly incurable case of historical amnesia. But a remedy for that affliction is ready for mobilization. If historians-in-training choose to acquire Applied History’s tricks of the trade, they could replace the fog of historical amnesia with the clarity of historical perspective.
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The documentary touristic intents centers on the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora, built to house 20,000 working-class Germans and used in propaganda to advance a promise of leisure time for the masses. The film asks: Is there an obligation to remember a building’s dark past?
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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This workshop will use practical applications of two AI tools—Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity AI. These tools support your research process, offering intelligent assistance with brainstorming, refining ideas, finding sources, and enhancing your writing development. You will learn how to use tools to efficiently gather insights, structure arguments, and streamline your res
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In recent times, alarm over the future of history departments and programs in higher education has been widespread. In that same era, Patty Limerick has had innumerable opportunities to provide historical perspective to audiences far beyond the borders of the academic world.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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An evening of fun art making with renowned graphic artist Sumit Kumar with snacks, stories, and wonderful art pieces that you get to take home! Meet us at Spurlock Museum on November 6, 5-8 PM. Art supplies will be provided. Please register in advance.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
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Professor Bob Morrissey joins us in the RBML to showcase the John Eliot Bible, published in 1663, and discuss how this unusual text can be used to examine American origin stories, as well as histories of historical interpretation and practice in our land-grant institution. Come take a look at RBML’s copy of this exceedingly rare book!
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This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.
Friday, November 8, 2024
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Join us for the Phi Alpha Theta Conference, our first regional undergraduate history conference. This year's theme is conflict and culture. Panelists will explore how cultural expressions reflect, respond to, and shape the nature of conflicts throughout history. Join us in exploring the powerful narratives that emerge when conflict and culture intersect.
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The Black Europe Symposium brings together experts in the field for interdisciplinary discussion around the notion of formations of Blackness broadly defined in Europe and the diaspora.
Saturday, November 9, 2024
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Join us for the Phi Alpha Theta Conference, our first regional undergraduate history conference. This year's theme is conflict and culture. Panelists will explore how cultural expressions reflect, respond to, and shape the nature of conflicts throughout history. Join us in exploring the powerful narratives that emerge when conflict and culture intersect.
Monday, November 11, 2024
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The University of Illinois Chez Veterans Center and ROTC invite you to the 2024 Veterans Day Celebration. Join us for lunch as we honor our brave Veterans and welcome keynote speaker Matt Ballinger, a former U.S. Army Ranger and current Executive Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police at the University of Illinois.
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Richard T. Rodríguez will discuss his recent book A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad, which explores the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their U.S. Latine audiences since the 1980s.
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Inspired by a 1941 Jorge Luis Borges short story, artist Vicki Bennett's (People Like Us)The Library of Babel (2024) explores themes related to the complex interplay of infinity, knowledge, and the cosmic fabric, presented through the metaphor of a vast, seemingly infinite library. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Bennett and special guest Hearty White.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
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Jane Desmond (Anthropology, UIUC) and Jamie Jones (English, UIUC) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Relevant readings are available in the corresponding Box folder.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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A free film screening of the US premiere. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 marked a moment of unprecedented material destruction and cultural rupture in modern Japan.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
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Please join the University Archives for the Women in Science Lecture Series on Thursday, Nov. 14, 12-1 p.m., with Dr. Supriya Prasanth, Professor and Head of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology! This hybrid event will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) and over Zoom.
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GAM Visiting Artist Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and University of Illinois Professor of Anthropology Brenda Farnell ask, How do we create an Indigenous theater that moves beyond the “victim narrative” while embracing an aesthetics of resistance?
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Join us for a live book event with author Daniel Kraus, whose novel Whalefall was named one of the “Best Thrillers of 2023” by the New York Times. Kraus will discuss the challenges of writing a science-based novel and his experience adapting it into a movie for Disney.
Friday, November 15, 2024
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Dr. Rochelle Sennet, Professor of Piano, shares her experiences performing solo and chamber works during residencies at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan (2016, 2024). She will discuss teaching, collaboration with faculty and students, master classes, and guest judging.
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Please join us for a lecture by Candace Vogler, the David B. and Clara E. Stern professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, titled "The Highest Good."
Monday, November 18, 2024
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University of Chicago professor Yueran Zhang will discuss workers' struggles in China's transition from state socialism to capitalism on Mon. Nov. 18. This event will follow a discussion of his writing at the HRI Organize & Analyze Social Movements Reading Group on Mon. Nov. 11. Lunch provided, open to all.
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This paper will begin by outlining my current book project, scheduled for publication in 2025. Following this introduction, I will present and discuss a summary of one of the book’s chapters, entitled “The Music of the Mashriq and the Making of the Western Mediterranean”
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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Professor Gillen Wood recreates the HMS Challenger's pioneering oceanographic expedition to colonial Australia in 1874. Victorian-era Sydney Harbor offers a case study in early industrial marine exploitation and “shifting baseline syndrome,” where lost species and their habitats are erased from cultural memory.
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Professor Gillen Wood recreates the HMS Challenger's pioneering oceanographic expedition to colonial Australia in 1874. Victorian-era Sydney Harbor offers a case study in early industrial marine exploitation and “shifting baseline syndrome,” where lost species and their habitats are erased from cultural memory.
Friday, November 22, 2024
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This webinar introduces the basic tools and resources for government statistics and data. Attendees will learn about the major federal government and intergovernmental organizations' statistics and data as well as strategies to search for government statistics.