College of LAS Events

Interested in learning about grad school, but not sure where to start? Decided on your program, and want to talk about your next steps? This event is for you!

Professor Fritzsche (History, UIUC) is the author of numerous books including Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (2020), An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler (2016), and Life and Death in the Third Reich (2008). He will discuss recent events through the lens of European-Jewish history.

Crafts, Folklores, and More will bring you an artsy combo of folktales with related crafts, youth presentations, and interactive sessions—all from the comfort of your homes. This is a family-friendly event sponsored by Ascending Aesthetics and co-sponsored by the Spurlock Museum and the Museum of the Grand Prairie.

This talk explores how late imperial Russia's kopeck newspapers constructed images of Russian backwardness and Western modernity, and how they instrumentalized those images to argue that Russia's future lay in imitating the West.

Join us for an information session with Emily Stone and Katie Shumway and learn more about this program, which is designed to develop mutual aid between Illinois students and Champaign-Urbana community partners and their projects.

To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access)

Associate Professor Kate McDowell (MS ’99, PhD ’07) is speaking as part of The Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration.

During the pandemic, the production and posting of grammar videos on YouTube has increased dramatically.  I will show how the most recent edition of the e-Text for one of my Intermediate courses has benefited from these new resources. 

For complete details and speaker information, please visit https://wggp.illinois.edu/news-events/wggp-40th-anniversary-symposium

*NOTE SPECIAL TIME* -- To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).

A book talk and conversation on Stephen Macekura's The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2020), which explores critiques of economic growth across the twentieth-century world by revealing how reformers have challenged and sought to rethink "growth."

"Motif Counting via Subgraph sampling"

2021 will mark the first anniversary of COVID-19 in the United States and the 40th anniversary of HIV/AIDS. Yet both pandemics continue to affect our well-being and health. How might history help us move beyond oversimplified comparisons between the two, while showing us that health is always more than the absence of disease?

2021 will mark the first anniversary of COVID-19 in the United States and the 40th anniversary of HIV/AIDS. Yet both pandemics continue to affect our well-being and health. How might history help us move beyond oversimplified comparisons between the two, while showing us that health is always more than the absence of disease?

Maureen Benjamins, PhD (Sinai Urban Health Institute) and Fernando De Maio, PhD (American Medical Association / DePaul University) will discuss key findings from their work, focusing on Black-white inequities in mortality, variability in inequities across cities, as well as variability in inequities across causes of death. 

The Sociology Department and Advising Office are excited to announce a new Spring 2021 event series: Undergraduate Student Seminars. Our first installment will be presented by Diane Barrios-Smith, current Sociology senior and SOC199: Leadership and Engagement Thru Sociology intern.

On Friday, March 5 at 2 P.M. CST the EUC will host an interactive theater performance of Aeschylus’s “The Suppliants” by Out of Chaos Theatre. Zoom registration link: https://go.illinois.edu/EUDay2021Suppliants

The European Union Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will host a virtual performance of "The Suppliants" by Aeschylus, a tragedy about migration and asylum. The performance will include an international, diverse cast, including American, British, and Greek actors.

This talk will discuss the association of early-life exposure to air pollution and climate change with anthropometric failure (stunting, wasting and underweight) among children under 5 years of age in Africa.

This annual event brings together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.

The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and the Humanities Research Institute and co-host this annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.

All levels of Italian are welcome. "Caffettino?" is a great opportunity to practice your Italian, learn about the culture of Italy, ask questions about minor lexical or grammatical issues, and earn extra credit!

Please join us for our March lecture with Dr. Catherine J. Murphy, who will discuss her research on inorganic nanomaterials applications and the chemical interactions these nanomaterials have with their surroundings.

Thaís Rezende Da Silva De Sant’ana, University of Illinois Title: TBA

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Join Nathan Matias, Founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab, as they present on Governing Human & Machine Behavior.

The COVID-19 pandemic and current political upheavals have triggered a general state of anxious ‘doomscrolling’ of social media and 24-hour online news. Reading this experience alongside Don DeLillo’s The Silence (2020), Professor Salisbury’s talk takes as its starting point the insight of the phenomenological psychiatrist Eugene Minkowski (1933) that much mental...

The COVID-19 pandemic and current political upheavals have triggered a general state of anxious ‘doomscrolling’ of social media and 24-hour online news. Reading this experience alongside Don DeLillo’s The Silence (2020), Professor Salisbury’s talk takes as its starting point the insight of the phenomenological psychiatrist Eugene Minkowski (1933) that much mental...

If you're interested in environmental issues and studies and wondering how to connect your passion to sociology, this event is for you! Current undergraduate and graduate sociology students will discuss how they have combined environmental studies with their sociology degrees in an informal setting. We hope to see you there! 

Join KAM for a film screen on Tiffany Harris' short film Becoming. A film about exploring Black femme relationships to land, nature, southernness, and girlhood. The films will screen through a Livestream on KAM’s youtube page and remain active online for a week after the screening event.

In this talk, the data-sitters will reflect on the value of public-oriented feminist collaboration: what’s worked, what’s failed, what kinds of questions they’ve come closer to answering. They will also share advice for other scholars interested in undertaking collaborative DH work.

"Adventures in sparsity and shrinkage with the normal means model"

Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.

To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).

This talk is the inaugural event of Ricardo Basbaum's hybrid art residence at UIUC as part of the project "On-Contamination: An Extended Space for Sustaining Encounters through Art."

Sudden Sound and Nick Rudd Music Experience present a special webinar event featuring exclusive pre-recorded performance content and live discussion with Mark Deutsch, a visionary artist who created the bazantar, a six-string acoustic bass fitted with an additional 29 sympathetic strings and four drone strings.

Join the U-C Comics Colloquium for a conversation with Ryan Estrada, co-author with Kim Hyun Sook of Banned Book Club. Set in 1980s South Korea, Banned Book Club tells a story of a group of students who resist an authoritarian regime with a secret club for reading banned books.