College of LAS Events

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.

cademic research is becoming more and more collaborative, from conceiving of initial projects to writing funding applications to producing publications. But how do you get started? How do you keep collaborations going, especially across the physical science-social science divide?

Join us for another installment of our Spring Seminar Series, featuring Australian National University's Inger Mewburn. Friday, March 12, 2021 @4PM via Zoom.

Lecture with Nabil Wakim, journalist (Le Monde) discussants: Dr. Sonja Stojanovic (Notre-Dame) and Dr. Daniel Maroun (UIUC) TUE MAR 16, 2021, 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Registration: https://notredame.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CiIEtUDVRfCCoF644VJG5Q

A book talk on Jessica Hurley's Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Hurley is an Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University.

"On Inference in Observational Studies" 

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.

The Early Years of a Prairie Populist: William Jennings Bryan in Illinois, 1860 to 1887, will be presented by Professor Nathan Tye (University of Nebraska Kearney), on March 18 at 4:00 pm on Zoom (Register below). Professor Tye curated our current exhibition: Debates, Decisions, Demands: Objects of Campaigns and Activism. He joins us to talk about Jennings Bryan, who appea

A lecture part of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center New Direction Series featuring Professor Holly Case of Brown University.

Art Talk Thursdays are accessible 30-minute presentations highlighting art in KAM'ss collection or in one of their special exhibitions. Until KAM can gather for in-person events, KAM will hold these events virtually, via Zoom. This talk will feature Kasia Szremski and Allyson Purpura.

Our very own Brian F. O'Neil, Sociology doctoral candidate, will present this installment of our Spring Seminar Series. Join us at 9AM (CST) on Friday, March 19, 2021.

Current sociology senior, Ava Schumock, will present her experiences on conducting research as an undergraduate student. Come learn about ways to get involved in undergraduate research, what it is like to be a research assistant, and how to apply your research skills in the classroom!

In this talk, Dr. Henrichs and Dr. Heather Froehlich will reflect on the impact of the Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights. They’ll discuss postdocs as a vocational practice, and how they have applied (or not) the Bill of Rights in their own roles, and what that means in practice.

To register, click here: https://bit.ly/35npMHa Note: March 20th, 2021 is a Saturday and it is from 1-4 pm Central Time (2-6 Eastern)

Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'

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!

The Sociology Department welcomes back a group of recent alumni for a panel discussion.

Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'

Sarah Park Dahlen (MS ’09, PhD ’09), Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, St. Catherine University, is speaking as part of The Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration.

Cassio Turra, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional da UFMG (CEDEPLAR) Socioeconomic Differences in Adult Mortality in Brazil: What Have We Learned so Far?

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

Can the library broaden the canon, or does it merely reinforce it? What critical interventions might we make to resist our canonizing tendencies, for today and or tomorrow? Join us for a discussion on decentering the canon in the architectural library.

Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'

Join us for a Q&A discussion of the documentary, Women Untold, with two of the creators, Marie Anne Torres and Stephen Baird. This event will be held on March 30th at 5:00 PM CDT. Please watch the documentary before the event and come with questions for the creators.

Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'

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

Featuring past HWW research projects based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (links below), this session will present best practices for including graduate students as co-researchers, co-curators, and co-writers on HWW projects.

Maria Luz Garcia works with Ixil Maya communities in both Guatemala and the United States as a linguistic anthropologist. Her research focuses on how Ixil speakers make use of the resources of their language to construct and reflect social and political realities.

This talk will explore some of the many ways that humans have used rivers over time, and how we continue to do so today.

"Precise Tradeoffs in Adversarial Training"

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.

Join DREAM@UIUC for their film screening and discussion focused on Disability Rights, Education, Activism, and Mentoring.

Join us for a Q&A discussion of the documentary, Women Untold, with two of the creators, Marie Anne Torres and Stephen Baird. This event will be held on March 30th at 5:00 PM CDT. Please watch the documentary before the event and come with questions for the creators.

The Spurlock Movie Club will be hosting a discussion of the film, A Thousand Cuts, as part of their new series, International Activism in Film. The event is held in partnership with the Asian American Cultural Center and will feature Visiting Assistant Professor Leland Tabares from ​the Department of Asian American Studies at UIUC.