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RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.
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Maureen Warren will present a talk titled, “What Can We Learn About the Fake News of today from KAM’s Exhibition, Fake News & Lying Pictures?” Reservation and advance payment is required.
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Curious about Marcel Proust? Prof. François Proulx (FRIT) and RBML curator Caroline Szylowicz will mark the 100th anniversary of his death with an exploration of his books, manuscripts and letters. Come share — or discover — favorite characters, passages, and anecdotes. Refreshments will be served.
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Join us for a talk by Dr. Kelli Morgan, Professor of the Practice and the inaugural Director of Curatorial Studies at Tufts University, presented as part of the Black on Black on Black on Black exhibition.
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Speak Café stands for Song, Poetry, Expression, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic coffeehouse at Krannert Art Museum.
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Join us for an back to back DJ performance lecture by multidisciplinary artist Shenece Oretha and exhibiting artist Blair Ebony Smith (lovenloops), presented as part of the Black on Black on Black on Black exhibition.
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Featuring emerging scholarship on the art of this period against the backdrop of the exhibition Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, Krannert Art Museum hosts a symposium on Early Modern Global Political Art.
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Join us for the first keynote lecture in the Early Modern Global Political Art symposium by scholar Liza Oliver. This talk considers how spectatorial sympathy, a governing principle of eighteenth-century British art and literature, was deployed by opposing sides of the debate on Britain’s slave trade in the decades preceding its abolition.
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Featuring emerging scholarship on the art of this period against the backdrop of the exhibition Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, Krannert Art Museum hosts a symposium on Early Modern Global Political Art.
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This talk explores van Braam’s self-fashioning through his collaboration with two unnamed Guangzhou artists and the French émigré printer and defender of race-based slavery, M.L.E. Moreau de Saint-Méry.
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Join Spurlock Museum staff for an afternoon of crafting fun for all ages. Feel like royalty? Make yourself a crown. Need a new picture for your wall? Create a colorful mosaic. Want to make some music? Decorate your own spinning drum. This program is free and open to everyone.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library Curators Ruthann E. Mowry and Dr. Cait Coker will host this live, interactive presentation of materials documenting the history of European witchcraft. Bring your questions as we discuss witch trial records and accounts in their historical context and our contemporary parallels.
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Join the Spurlock Museum and area artists to celebrate art-making in all its forms. There are crafts and activities 1:00–2:45, then performances 3:00–4:00. Featuring the Urbana Fine Arts Center, SPICMACAY Illinois, Sowmya Anand group, Champaign Mixed Clovers 4-H Club, the Wu Family, Fresh Press, and Ascend Art360. All ages welcome.
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Presented in collaboration with the CU Jazz Festival, the Chicago-based Mai Sugimoto will be leading an improvising quartet, playing alto saxophone and flute, with Fred Jackson Jr. on alto saxophone and soprano saxophone; Ethan Philion on bass; and Isaiah Spencer on drums.
