College of LAS Events
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/3/2024Noyes Laboratory 217Alumni Lectures feature Chemistry at Illinois alumni who have, with the foundation of their chemistry studies at Illinois, made a meaningful impact in their chosen field. This Alumni Lecture tells the story of environmental law from its emergence in the United States to the present day.
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4:00 pm 9/4/20241080 Lucy Ellis Lounge, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building (LCLB) -
4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/4/20244029 Campus Instructional Facility
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5:00 pm 9/4/2024Coble Hall (801 S. Wright Street) -- Room 108 or on Zoom
Are you interested in Global Security? We will host guests to discuss topics related to Arms Control & Domestic and International Security. Our first guest speaker is a former professor, Baladas Ghoshal. His career spans decades throughout the world; in policy, security, and more. Join us for his seminar "How does the world deal with a resurgent China?"
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11:00 am 9/5/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssociate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 9/5/2024Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1018 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building -
3:30 pm 9/5/2024119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/5/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:00 - 5:30 pm 9/5/2024Lucy Ellis Lounge (1018) LCLB -
7:00 pm 9/5/2024Spurlock Museum
Flatlands Dance Film Festival presents feature film, BAD LIKE BROOKLYN DANCEHALL. This documentary film features an entrancing cast of Jamaican and New York luminaries who share their community story of building a cultural bridge between Jamaica and New York through dancehall.
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9:00 - 9:50 am 9/6/20242004 Natural History Building
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12:00 pm 9/6/2024Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory -
12:00 pm 9/6/2024Room D, College of Law Building -
4:00 pm 9/6/2024Chemistry Annex 1024
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4:00 pm 9/6/20242079 Natural History Building
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6:00 pm 9/6/2024U of Illinois iSchool 501 E. Daniel St. Room 126 -
4:00 pm 9/9/2024116 Roger Adams Lab
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/10/20241210 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/10/2024Main Library 106 and Online
This hybrid workshop offers a beginner-friendly introduction to how tools like ChatGPT generate text. We'll explore best practices for using AI in your scholarship, creative practice, and work from a humanities perspective. There will be plenty of room for experimentation and questions!
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4:00 pm 9/10/2024Pine Lounge Illini Union
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 9/10/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Jordan Alexander Stein (English, Fordham University) will deliver a lecture titled "What Does the Present Feel Like?" as the first in this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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5:30 - 6:30 pm 9/10/2024University of Illinois Arboretum - Japan House Gardens (Pre-order for Matcha Cafe online)
Japan House will be featuring Japanese artist Seiran Chiba for a large-scale calligraphy execution of the character for peace. Following that is a live raking of the dry rock garden to showcase the character as a raked pattern. Afterward, there will be an origami crane foldraiser to support the Seattle Peace Garden. This free event will occur outside in the gardens.
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All Day 9/11/2024 - 9/12/2024University if Illinois at Chicago, Behavioral Sciences Building 1007, West Harrison, Suite 153 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/11/20243111 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 9/11/2024Siebel Center for DesignJoin CSBS, the College of Education, and IHSI for the first event of the 2024-25 Community-Engaged Research Series. Connect with faculty and staff across campus involved in community-engaged research! Identify common goals and challenges in community-engaged research, learn from each other's experiences, find and share resources, and build your university and...
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/11/2024CLSL B-102
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/11/20244029 Campus Instructional Facility
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5:00 pm 9/11/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Samuel G. Freedman, Krouse Family Visiting Scholar in Judaism and Western Culture, will present "Fighting Hatred in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey's Battles Against Extremism in Mid-Century America". Light refreshments will be served.
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5:00 pm Wednesday the 11th - then moving to Thursday's 9/11/2024Coble Hall (801 S. Wright) -- Room 108
This talk evaluates the impact of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign, & the Biden administration’s appeasement of the Islamic Republic & propose a theoretical framework for how future US administrations can prevent nuclearization in Iran.
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5:30 - 7:00 pm 9/11/2024Siebel Center for Design, Room 1000
On Wednesday, September 11th, the Illinois Leadership Center & We CU will be holding our Entering Community Partnerships workshop. The workshop will guide humanities students on how to successfully collaborate in service partnerships with community organizations, and how to reflect both critically and personally on their service experience.
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1:00 - 1:50 pm 9/12/2024Main Library 314
Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 9/12/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:00 pm 9/12/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210This lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, “Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies.” This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book.
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4:00 pm 9/12/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 -
4:00 pm 9/12/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210This lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, "Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies." This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book
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9:00 - 9:50 am 9/13/20242004 Natural History Building
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 9/13/2024Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building -
12:00 pm 9/13/2024Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory -
3:00 - 4:00 pm 9/13/20242049 Natural History Building and via Zoom -
Zhifeng Ding, Western University; "Advanced Analytical Instrumentation for Electrochemiluminescence"
4:00 pm 9/13/2024116 Roger Adams Lab -
4:00 - 6:00 pm 9/13/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Renée R. Trilling, Angus Cameron Professor of Old English, Toronto: Early Medieval England boasts the earliest collection of vernacular medical texts north of the Alps. Many are translations of classical materials; others are native Old English “folk” medicine, charms, prognostics, and prayers. This lecture explores the hybrid medical discourse...
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4:30 pm 9/13/2024Illini Union Ballroom (2nd floor), 1401 W Green St., Urbana
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/14/2024The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library -
3:30 pm 9/14/2024
Turn the pages of these human books and 'read' or hear about different countries represented in our community. Each station will feature a specific country where you can read or interact with the "book" (a person) and learn about different aspects of a country such as culture, language, or history.
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12:00 pm Session 1: 12-1pm; Session 2: 1:30-2:30pm 9/15/2024Japan HouseProfessor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji will be presenting her new cookbook, Wagashi: Season by Season. After an intro about wagashi, guests will be treated to three unique wagashi paired with three kinds of tea. These wagashi will be seasonal recipes from the book and each month of tasting events will highlight a different menu based on seasonal ingredients and occasions.
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4:00 pm 9/16/2024116 Roger Adams Lab
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5:00 pm 9/16/2024116 Roger Adams Lab
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5:00 pm 9/16/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210Judy Maltz is a senior correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. An award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Maltz was one of the founding editors of the Haaretz English edition. She will share some of her takeaways from an intensive year of writing about the repercussions of October 7 on Jewish Americans for one of Israel's leading newspapers...
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All Day 9/17/20241210 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL 61801 -
10:00 - 10:50 am 9/17/2024Main Library 314
JSTOR is a digital library with access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines (primarily focused on humanities and social sciences). This workshop will focus on how to search text, images, and primary resources in JSTOR, and how to organize your research using the workspace feature.
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12:00 - 1:15 pm 9/17/2024English Building 109
Amit Schejter is a professor of communication studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In his talk, he describes legal tools used to limit press and speech freedoms in the Israel-Hamas war and sets them in the context of similar and dissimilar tools used by other regimes in times of war in recent years. Lunch provided.
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12:00 pm 9/17/2024Coble Hall, Room 306 -
3:00 pm 9/17/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
In this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change – in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change.
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3:00 pm 9/17/2024Beckman Institute Auditorium
Dr. Steven Chu is a Nobel Laureate in Physics as well as the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. From January 2009 to April 2013, Dr. Chu served as U.S. Secretary of Energy under President Barack Obama. During his tenure, he began , including ARPA.
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3:00 pm 9/17/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St, UrbanaIn this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change – in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change...
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3:00 pm 9/17/2024Levis Faculty Center
In this talk, professor Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change-- in both progressive and authoritarian ways.
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4:00 pm 9/17/2024International Prep Academy, Unit 4. 1611 W Kirby Avenue Champaign, Il 61821 -
5:15 - 6:45 pm 9/17/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Sebastian Rand (Philosophy, Georgia State University) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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6:00 - 8:00 pm 9/17/2024PAR MPR, Saunders Lounge, Lobby -
12:00 pm 9/18/20243057 Lincoln Hall; 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 9/18/2024This session will be held in 106 Main Library and online via Zoom
Unlock the power of studying text on a large scale through this beginner-friendly introduction to text mining. In this workshop, we’ll provide an overview of analytical techniques, identify datasets that you can use for your research, and play with easy-to-use tools for understanding linguistic patterns in text. No prior experience needed! Registration required
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12:30 pm 9/18/2024501 E. Daniel, Champaign IL 61820, Room 211 / 212
Come and visit the new space for the Center for Children's Books in the School of Information Sciences and hear about all we have to offer campus. Free galleys, donuts, and cider available until supplies last.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 9/18/2024CLSL B102
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3:30 - 4:30 pm 9/18/2024Room 133
This meeting is invite only and for LLS faculty and staff.
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4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/18/20244029 Campus Instructional Facility
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4:00 - 6:00 pm 9/18/2024Levis Faculty Center
We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
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4:00 - 6:00 pm 9/18/2024Levis Faculty Center
We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
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7:00 pm 9/18/2024210 Levis Faculty Center (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana, IL 61801) -
7:00 pm 9/18/2024Levis Faculty Center Rm 210The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Director Judy Maltz, George Gasyna (Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Brett Ashley Kaplan (Director of HGMS).
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9:00 am - 5:00 pm 9/19/2024 - 9/20/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana IL 61801
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11:00 am 9/19/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
12:00 pm 9/19/2024306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
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12:00 pm 9/19/2024306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820
