Events
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Monday, March 29, 2021
Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series. Faculty Host: Dakshita Khurana
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Tenure-stream faculty who wish to learn more about the Interseminars Initiative are encouraged to attend this Zoom info session. This new initiative will provide funding and administrative infrastructure for interdisciplinary inquiry, including collaborative teaching, graduate fellowships, and support for public- or community-facing research in the humanities and arts.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
SITI Company’s Talking into the Future series meets Krannert Center’s CultureTalk, exploring the art of assembly in all its forms and investigating the challenges of our time. This installment of the series features conversation between SITI Company co-artistic director Anne Bogart and New York Live Arts founding director Bill T. Jones, moderated by Krannert Center...
Friday, April 2, 2021
Have an idea but aren't sure what to do next? Come to Entrepreneurship Advising with TEC! Bring your ideas—we'll help you figure out your next steps, and guide you through campus and community resources.
Monday, April 5, 2021
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
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. Open to all undergraduate students.
This workshop introduces Python GPU tools for porting and writing code that runs on GPUs. The primary tools used for this, Numba and CuPy, are presented with examples. The instructor will present lecture slides, and students will use Jupyter notebooks for hands-on exercises.
Craft talk with Year of Creative Writers Poet in Residence Tyehimba Jess titled "Poetry’s Musical Bloodline: A Sociohistorical Soundtrack."
Part of the Illinois Computer Science speaker sereis
Thursday, April 8, 2021
A Year of Creative Writers Poet-in-Residence, Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess, will read from his work. This virtual event is free and open to the public.
Friday, April 9, 2021
Have an idea but aren't sure what to do next? Come to Entrepreneurship Advising with TEC! Bring your ideas—we'll help you figure out your next steps, and guide you through campus and community resources.
Sunday, April 11, 2021
A symposium featuring the work of scholars who study Jewish communities in the Caribbean (18th to 21st centures). Featured speakers include Dara E. Goldman (Illinois), Laura Leibman (Reed College), Stan Mirvis (Arizona State), Dana Rabin (Illinois), and Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carelton University).
Monday, April 12, 2021
Join us for a week-long celebration of innovation at Illinois! See who the big winners are at the Cozad New Venture Challenge Awards Ceremony, Illinois Innovation Prizes Awards Ceremony, Health Make-a-Thon, and more!
A symposium featuring the work of scholars who study Jewish communities in the Caribbean (18th to 21st centures). Featured speakers include Dara E. Goldman (Illinois), Laura Leibman (Reed College), Stan Mirvis (Arizona State), Dana Rabin (Illinois), and Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carelton University).
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Join us for a screening of the documentary film From Here, followed by a Q & A with director Christina Antonakos-Wallace and two of the film’s subjects, Sonny and Tania.
Join us for a week-long celebration of innovation at Illinois! See who the big winners are at the Cozad New Venture Challenge Awards Ceremony, Illinois Innovation Prizes Awards Ceremony, Health Make-a-Thon, and more!
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
The question of who belongs is at the heart of the political divide in the United States and the European Union. In this interactive workshop, participants will dig into the immigration history of Germany and the U.S., media representations of immigrants, and make connections to their own stories.
Part of the Illinois Computer Science speaker series.
Join us for the live broadcast of the Cozad New Venture Challenge Virtual Awards Ceremony on April 14 at 6:00pm, to find out who will win the top placement prizes!
Join us for a week-long celebration of innovation at Illinois! See who the big winners are at the Cozad New Venture Challenge Awards Ceremony, Illinois Innovation Prizes Awards Ceremony, Health Make-a-Thon, and more!
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Join us on April 15 to find out who will win the Illinois Innovation Prize for $20,000 and the Fiddler Innovation Fellowship for $10,000!
Join us for a week-long celebration of innovation at Illinois! See who the big winners are at the Cozad New Venture Challenge Awards Ceremony, Illinois Innovation Prizes Awards Ceremony, Health Make-a-Thon, and more!
Friday, April 16, 2021
"Planetary Entanglements," Virtual Forum with Achille Mbembe (University of Witwatersrand), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra), and Denise Ferreira da Silva (University of British Columbia). Moderated by Susan Koshy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Join us for a week-long celebration of innovation at Illinois! See who the big winners are at the Cozad New Venture Challenge Awards Ceremony, Illinois Innovation Prizes Awards Ceremony, Health Make-a-Thon, and more!
Monday, April 19, 2021
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Join Illinois Humanities Executive Director Gabrielle Lyon, for a conversation about their recently-released report on the impact of COVID-19 on public humanities organizations in Illinois, and their plans for the future.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Thursday, April 22, 2021
This talk, presented by Sari Altschuler (English; Associate Director, Northeastern Humanities Center; Founding Director, Health, Humanities, and Society minor at Northeastern University), examines the proliferation and failure of narratives accounting for life during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Friday, April 23, 2021
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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
Part of the Illinois Computer Science speaker series.
Thursday, April 29, 2021
This 90-minute workshop addresses the basics of accessing and using the Illinois Campus Cluster (ICC). The content is suitable for researchers and students who already have experience working with clusters and want to know more about the ICC and those who have little to no experience working with clusters and want to learn how to use one.
Friday, April 30, 2021
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.