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Breaking the Cycle captures the political awakening among Thais after the rise and fall of Thanathorn, a young politician who calls to end the cycle of coups d’etat. The film explores the 2029 election in Thailand, which marked the end of five years of full military rule and a new group of young politicians who campaign against an authoritarian constitution...
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This film captures the political awakening among Thais after the rise and fall of Thanathorn, a young politician who calls to end the cycle of coups d’etat. The film explores the 2019 election in Thailand, which marked the end of five years of full military rule and a new group of young politicians who campaign against an authoritarian constitution.
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Timo Storck (Psychologische Hochschule Berlin) 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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This webinar introduces the basic tools and resources for government statistics and data. Attendees will learn about the major federal government and intergovernmental organizations' statistics and data as well as strategies to search for government statistics.
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In this workshop, participants will learn about the role and the non-role of the reviewer in the peer review process in contrast to the roles of authors and editors. Participants will be invited to peer review some examples of reviewer’s reports.
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Panel discussion on higher education in Ukraine, featuring our BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows: Volodymyr Bazylevych (Chernihiv Polytechnic, focusing on information security and military adaptation); Nataliia Faryna (Ivan Franko National University, specializing in Ukrainian linguistics and education); and Olha Telna (Kharkiv Academy...
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Join us for the second installment of the Gwendolyn Brooks Social Justice Initiative. This year's featured guest is Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, who will give a public reading Thursday, Oct. 3 2024 at 5:30PM.
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The HathiTrust Digital Library is the world’s largest, holding nearly 17.5 million digitized volumes from research libraries around the world. The HathiTrust Research Center is the research gateway to that enormous, near-universal library. This talk will briefly introduce the Center's text and data mining tools, which allow researchers to computationally analyze...
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Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed happy hour gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!
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Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed happy hour gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!
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Champaign-Urbana area kids and families are invited to the 2024 Youth Literature Festival Community Day, a FREE event and open to the public. Join us to celebrate the love of books and reading. A full list of presenting authors is on the website. Puppet shows, author readings, book signings, live music, art displays, and hands-on activities will all be part of the fun!
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Japan House's annual Fall Open House resumes on Saturday, October 5 featuring Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji. Traditional Japanese tea ceremonies will be offered at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm. At 3pm, Gunji will be giving a free presentation about wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets) and seasonality with a live demonstration to show how to make wagashi.
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Interested in free and openly licensed textbooks (OER) for your students? Come and learn where to find them, how to create them, and how and when to apply for a grant of up to $10,000 from the Library to make OER.
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A series of discussions on Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin will take place Oct 7, 14, and 21.
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Musician, Grammy Award-winner, and author of books including How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll: An Alternative History of Popular Music and Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, Wald will discuss his new book Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories (Hachette, 2024).
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Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.
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Against a backdrop of massive structural shifts in the economic balance of power within the Indian Ocean basin, Zanzibar Was a Country explores the crossed history of struggles for citizenship in Oman and Zanzibar after the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, including the failure of electoral democracy in Zanzibar, long distance Zanzibar nationalism, the negotiation of the...
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Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.
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Participants will dive into AI's multimodal capabilities, discovering how it can generate compelling ideas through conversation, craft vivid imagery, and enhance accessibility. The workshop will cover tools and techniques for integrating AI into various stages of the storytelling process—from brainstorming and character development to world-building and narrative design.
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Mediaspace (mediaspace.illinois.edu) is a YouTube-like service that allows U of I people to post and share videos, and you can use it to promote your research, for teaching, or outreach.
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This session will cover conceptual design, storytelling techniques, and scriptwriting. Our goal is to set a strong foundation to help researchers understand communication in this popular, innovative format. We will have four subsequent sessions that go into more depth, but this first workshop is paramount to getting started!
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Lecture by Dr. Jennifer T. Bernhard, Department Head and Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This is a hybrid event and will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) or you can register for the Zoom link.
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This interactive workshop will use practical applications of two AI tools—Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity AI. These tools support your research process, offering intelligent assistance with brainstorming, refining ideas, finding sources, and enhancing your writing development.
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Join visiting Fulbright researcher Rozafa Berisha for a talk exploring how young women from low-income backgrounds navigate hope and disappointment in a deindustrializing town in north Kosovo.
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Please join us for a lecture by J. David Velleman, the Miller Research Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. In “A Method for Metaethics,” Velleman considers the question “What turns a fact into a reason for acting?” but he doesn’t answer the question; rather, he proposes a method for finding the answer.
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Research regarding Artificial Intelligence is expanding but comes with methodological hurdles. This presentation will focus on the use of qualitative interviews and methods to understand people’s interactions with and perceptions toward AI. It will highlight key methodological challenges as well as outline strategies for addressing them.
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A series of discussions on Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin will take place Oct 7, 14, and 21.
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From 1918 to 1922 as many as 40,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of the Russian Civil War. The mass violence in Ukraine was part of a global phenomenon of ethnic and racial violence, which also included the Armenian genocide. This book talk examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the pogroms and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of...
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Neide Sosvianin , co-founder of *Versátil Andaimes*, a leading construction equipment rental company, also founded the *Beija-Flor Institute* in 2010 to support vulnerable children and adolescents. Through both ventures, she combines business success with social impact, empowering young people to overcome inequality.
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Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton) 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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This workshop will provide a beginner-friendly overview of how artificial intelligent tools interpret pictures and sound to generate new images, videos, and voices.
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This event is for History graduate students only. It is an opportunity for early-stage PhD students to hear from and ask questions of ABD candidates on their process and strategies for prelim prep! Even if you are not quite in the prelim stage yet, this session will help demystify the process.
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This is a curriculum planning meeting for the US Caucus.
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Join us on Wednesday, October 16 to learn about this exciting study abroad opportunity!
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We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression?
