Speakers
Monday, September 27, 2021
Associate Professor, Dr. Brandon Jackson from Purdue University will be presenting on "A Degree in Brotherhood: How Social Support Matters for Black Men in College and Beyond."
"Non-translational function of ThrRS in regulating STAT3 activity." Chen Lab
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Speaker: James Bartusek (UC Berkeley)
The IGB is hosting a virtual Q&A with Ian Cheney, one of the two directors of the documentary "Picture A Scientist."
With her signature no-holds-barred candor and larger-than-life personality, Ana Navarro will share her insights on the political landscape in the U.S. as well as her story of being a Latina immigrant, republican strategist, and the challenges that she has faced in her political career.
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Join us for a discussion of Samuel Moyn's new book Humane followed by commentary from respondents Avital Livny (Political Science) and Patrick Keenan (Law).
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Hashni Epa Vidana Gamage, "Evaluation of Selective Farnesoid X Receptor Modulation in Breast Cancer Pathophysiology" Simon Lizarazo Chaparro, "Role of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein in Amyloid Beta Induced Translation Suppression"
This public event aims to facilitate a much-needed dialogue about the challenges and opportunities facing creative communities as the reemerge and reimagine equitable futures for art and artists.
Friday, October 1, 2021
The Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series discusses topics such as explainability, reproducibility, biases, data curation and governance, and privacy. Rainer Böhme, professor for security and privacy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, will present "Privacy Preferences and Choice Architecture: the Case of Consent Management on the Web."
Monday, October 4, 2021
PhD Candidate, Austin Kozlowski from the University of Chicago will be presenting on Computational Sociology.
"The temporal patterning mechanisms in Drosophila medulla neuroblasts." Li Lab
Joe Morris is widely recognized as one of the most original and important improvising artists of our time. Morris will offer a lecture and performance on Wed, Oct. 6, and a workshop on Fri Oct. 8 at the Spurlock Museum. His lecture will draw from his book, 'Perpetual Frontier: The Properties of Free Music' (2012). A performance follows.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Speaker: Stephanie Wehner, QuTech and TU Delft
Fox Family Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lecture Marc Martin-Casas Seed Investments and Venture Development, Illumina Accelerator "Building Breakthrough Genomics Startups"
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
HRI is pleased to co-sponsor a series of programs on music improvisation featuring New England-based guitarist Joe Morris, widely recognized as one of the most original and important improvising artists of our time. Morris will offer a lecture and performance on Wednesday, October 6 and workshop on Friday, October 8, 2021.
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Now on campus following their virtual conversation with Chancellor Jones this past spring, Yossi Klein Halevi and Mohammad Darawshe will delve more deeply into the impact of current conflicts and how we can remain in dialogue with one another through numerous challenges and crises.
Join artists Kim Curtis, Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure, Mohan Tracy, Gary Beaumont, and EKAH in conversation about their installations for the Great ARTdoors 2020/2021. This event will take place at the Spurlock Museum, 7pm, 10/7. It will also be live streamed to our FB page.
On Oct. 7 at 7pm, join a virtual screening of and discussion about thte Egyptian Film, Umm Kulthum, A Voice Like Egypt, the first documentary to bring the musician Umm Kulthum to an American audience. The film puts her life in the context of the epic story of 20th century Egypt, as it shook off Colonialism and confronted Modernity.
Friday, October 8, 2021
The Responsible Data Science and AI Speaker Series discusses topics such as explainability, reproducibility, biases, data curation and governance, and privacy. Alexandra Olteanu, principal researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research, will present "Challenges to the Foresight and Measurement of Computational Harms.
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Join Peach of the Midwest for a free, family-friendly program on Sunday Oct. 10 from 1 to 3 pm. This program will include 2 activities. In the Knight Auditorium, Peach will give tips on karaoke performances and offer competitions among participants. In our upstairs Collaboration and Community Gallery, participants will make a glitzy microphone.
Monday, October 11, 2021
Post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Eliza Benites from CNRS-LATTS will be presenting on ethnography, work, and housing.
"Identifying active nuclear niche(s) and deciphering spatial positioning of chromatin around them." Belmont Lab
"The role of pre-RC in heterochromatin organization." Supriya Prasanth Lab
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Speaker: Lindsay LeBlanc, University of Alberta
Donna Maney, PhD Emory University; Professor of Psychology "Inside the Supergene of the Bird with Four Sexes"
Join Dr. Patricia Gregg as she discusses her research on volcanic evolution on land, sea, and even other worlds.
October 12th guest speaker Dr. Patricia Gregg is an Associate Professor of Geology, Dr. Gregg will discuss her research on volcanic systems and volcano evolution on land, on the seafloor and on other worlds.
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Thursday, October 14, 2021
"Mechanisms of acute astrocyte volume change and effects on neuronal excitability" Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology. Glial-Neuronal Interactions, Astrocyte control of neuronal excitability and Reactive astrocytes in disease.
Join us for our latest series which highlights the intersection of food, science, and culture, with meals tailored by campus chefs paired to each lecture. Soo-Yeun Lee, Professor of Food Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who will discuss “Ooh that stinky cheese... why do we love it so much?” - diversity of appreciation in olfaction.
Lecture by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Professor and Chair of Near Eastern Studies Department and Director of Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.
Friday, October 15, 2021
FSHN Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Nathan Crook, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering North Carolina State University Title | Combinatorial and Evolutionary Engineering of Probiotic Microbes
Fall 2021 YMCA Friday Forum | Unpacking Racism: What Are We Carrying? Friday, October 15 @ 12:00pm CST In-person at Latzer Hall or online via Zoom Lecture: "Healing Communities: Creating Equitable & Justice Communities through Trauma Informed Community Building" Speaker: Karen Simms, Founding Director of CU Trauma and Resilience Initiative
Tithi Bhattacharya is a professor of South Asian History at Purdue University. She is the author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectural in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2005) and the editor of the now class study, Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (Pluto Press, 2017).
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Join local C-U Lockdown Trivia host, Julie Laut, for a night of fun and challenging online trivia on Saturday, October 16, 2021 @ 7:30pm. In conjunction with the Spurlock’s current exhibit, Blues Dancing and Its African American Roots, Laut will lead four rounds of trivia. To sign up, send your team name (be creative!) and emails to julie@culockdowntrivia
Sunday, October 17, 2021
We will be offering both an online, and in-person (limited, ticketed) event. Starting at 12pm, we have cultivated four individual hours of entertainment featuring a selection of martial arts, cultural arts, dance and Japanese tea ceremonies. Each hour is unique and will feature different groups from the area.
Monday, October 18, 2021
"Regulation of the Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor ARHGEF3 by PI(3, 5)P2." Chen Lab
"Mapping DNA compaction in interphase chromosomes." Belmont Lab
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Speaker: Christian Schimpf
iSEE's 2021 Fall Congress on "Circular Food Systems," a series of weekly webinars in October and November, begins Tuesday, Oct. 19, with "21st Century Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture." Learn about cutting-edge techniques that can help make agriculture more productive, more effective, and less taxing on our environment!
Nathan Hillson, PhD Director of Synthetic Biology Informatics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute (JBEI) "Opportunities for CABBI Collaboration with JBEI (and other DOE assets) in Laboratory Operations and Data Management Infrastructure"
Please join UIUC alums Dr. Cecilia Gentle ('20) and Dr. Jose Zavala ('20) for a virtual talk, "What is Technology Transfer?"
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Join iSEE for our monthly "TED Talk: Eco-Edition" event! Participants will view a prerecorded TED Talk by Kate Raworth, “A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow.” Afterward, participants will take part in a guided discussion and roundtableon what makes a sustainable, beneficial economy, led by SWATeam Clerk Alexa Smith, a U of I senior.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Advocate, prevention strategist, speaker, writer and on-air personality, Wanda Swan, examines the racialized construction of violence and how that impacts historically-minoritized survivors of domestic and/or relationship violence in this year's Keynote for Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Hacking is inherently a creative process. It’s finding a vulnerability in a system: something the system allows, but is unintended and unanticipated by the system’s creators – something that follows the rules of the system but subverts its intent. In this session, we will hear from Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist.
Sapp Family Provostial Professor, The Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X and Professor of Biology and of Neurobiology
Friday, October 22, 2021
Fall 2021 YMCA Friday Forum | Unpacking Racism: What Are We Carrying? Friday, October 22 @ 12:00pm CST In-person at Latzer Hall or online via Zoom Lecture: "Moving Upstream: An Anti-Racist Approach to Healthcare Education" Speaker: Kaitlyn Reedy-Rogier, Program Coordinator for the Pipeline to Compassionate Care Project
Monday, October 25, 2021
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Speaker: Danna Freedman
Tamarra James-Todd, Phd Harvard University; Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Environmental Chemical Exposures & Women's Reproductive Health"
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
As part of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (University of the Witwatersrand) Public Positions series "Fanon After Fanon," Helen Neville (Educational Psychology and African American Studies) will present "Fanonian Foundations of Liberation Psychology and Social Justice Counseling" and Lou Turner (Urban and Regional Planning) will present...
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Map and Geography Librarian Jenny Marie Johnson will talk about the collection and about work being done to provide access to collection materials to individuals beyond the Library’s walls. She will also highlight some recent acquisitions and personal favorites and place them into the context of the collection as a whole.
On Oct. 28 at 7pm, join a virtual screening of and discussion about the film, 'Sonita.' After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through rap music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions.
Franita Tolson is Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history and employment discrimination.
Friday, October 29, 2021
This symposium will examine how culture moves and circulates: across space, time, material conditions, technologies and affects. We will consider how movement shapes and reshapes the cultural domain, creating new relationships between people, objects and practices. How does movement shape a community’s perception of local space and cultural identity?
Join us for another dialog in WGGP’s ongoing conversation with grassroots activists. This time we will explore with activists from Brazil and South Africa how their movements engage in practices of care and solidarity to combat insecurity in food, health, land and housing, and violence based on race, class, and gender inequalities.
Fall 2021 YMCA Friday Forum | Unpacking Racism: What Are We Carrying? Friday, October 29 @ 12:00pm CST In-person at Latzer Hall or online via Zoom Speaker: Catherine Sheih, Anti-Hate Training Coordinator at Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago
RBML curator Dr. Cait Coker will have Halloween-themed items from the collection on hand to discuss live with viewers. Tune in to ask questions about our first edition of Dracula, 17th century magical texts, and poetry about bats!
Saturday, October 30, 2021
This symposium will examine how culture moves and circulates: across space, time, material conditions, technologies and affects. We will consider how movement shapes and reshapes the cultural domain, creating new relationships between people, objects and practices. How does movement shape a community’s perception of local space and cultural identity?