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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/1/2024Coble Hall 306-801 S Wright St -
5:00 pm 10/1/2024108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright Street)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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5:00 pm 10/1/2024108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright Street) and virtual optionThis 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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5:15 - 6:45 pm 10/1/2024Timo 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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/2/2024Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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4:00 - 4:50 pm 10/2/2024
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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5:30 - 7:00 pm 10/2/2024210 W Nevada Street, Urbana (Asian American Cultural Center/International Education) -
10:00 am - 1:00 pm 10/3/20241050 Seibel Center for design -
1:00 - 1:50 pm 10/3/2024Main Library 106
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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3:00 pm 10/3/2024306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) -
3:00 pm 10/3/2024306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)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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3:30 pm 10/3/2024119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/3/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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5:30 pm 10/3/2024Illini Union 314BJoin 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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5:30 - 7:30 pm 10/3/2024School of Architecture Temple Buell Hall (611 Lorado Taft Dr. Champaign, IL 61820 -
All Day 10/4/2024 - 10/5/2024
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9:00 - 10:00 am 10/4/20242004 Natural History Building
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12:00 pm 10/4/2024Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical and Life Science Laboratory -
12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/4/2024
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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4:00 - 6:00 pm 10/4/2024Levis Faculty Center, 1st Floor Lobby
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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4:00 - 6:00 pm 10/4/2024
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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8:30 am 10/5/2024Allerton Park and Retreat Center
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9:30 am - 3:00 pm 10/5/2024Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana
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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9:30 am - 3:00 pm 10/5/2024Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 West Springfield, Urbana -
11:00 am - 4:00 pm 10/5/2024Japan House (EventBrite registration required)
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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7:00 pm 10/5/2024Stage 5 of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts -
12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/7/2024Online via Zoom
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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12:00 - 1:30 pm 10/7/2024809 S. 5th St., Champaign (GEO office in Channing Murray Foundation) / online
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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3:30 - 4:30 pm 10/7/2024Caffee Bene (700 S Gregory St. Urbana, IL)
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 10/7/2024Café Bene, 707 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, 61801
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4:00 pm 10/7/20242079 Natural History Building -
5:00 - 6:30 pm 10/7/2024Core - 3rd floor Atrium - Natural History Building -
7:30 pm 10/7/2024Smith Memorial Hall, Room 220
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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/8/2024Illinois Street Residence Halls, Room ISR 50ABProfessor 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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/8/2024
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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12:00 pm 10/8/2024Illinois Street Residence Halls, Room ISR 50ABProfessor 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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12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/8/2024Architecture 205 and online via Zoom
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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2:00 - 2:50 pm 10/8/2024Online via Zoom
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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11:00 - 11:50 am 10/9/2024Grainger 335
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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/9/2024Charles G. Miller Auditorium B102 CLSL
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/9/2024University Archives Main Library Room 146 OR on ZoomLecture 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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12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/9/2024Main Library 314
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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2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/9/2024CLSL B102
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5:30 - 7:00 pm 10/9/2024210 W Nevada Street, Urbana (Asian American Cultural Center/International Education) -
11:00 am 10/10/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSL -
3:30 pm 10/10/2024119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/10/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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9:00 - 10:00 am 10/11/20242004 Natural History Building
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12:00 pm 10/11/2024108 English Building (608 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801) -
12:00 pm 10/11/2024Charles G. Miller Auditorium, B102 CLSL -
12:00 pm 10/11/2024108 English Building
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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3:00 - 5:00 pm 10/11/2024Gregory Hall 223 (and virtual option)
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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3:30 10/11/2024Room 223 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street
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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4:00 pm 10/11/2024116 Roger Adams Lab
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 10/12/2024The Lewis Auditorium, The Urbana Free Library -
12:00 - 1:30 pm 10/14/2024809 S. 5th St., Champaign (GEO office in Channing Murray Foundation) / online
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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Women Enviromental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon: Colombia Social Leaders -Virtual Talk
4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/14/2024 -
5:00 pm 10/14/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210From 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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/15/2024Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820Neide 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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3:30 pm 10/15/20241024 Chem Annex
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4:00 pm 10/15/2024116 Roger Adams Laboratory
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4:00 pm 10/15/2024Salaam MENA Cultural Center at 700 South Gregory Street, Suite E, Urbana, IL 61801
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/15/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 10/15/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/16/2024Main Library 106 and online via Zoom
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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3:00 pm 10/16/2024415 Gregory Hall
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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3:30 - 5:00 pm 10/16/2024300C
This is a curriculum planning meeting for the US Caucus.
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5:00 pm 10/16/2024Room 311
Join us on Wednesday, October 16 to learn about this exciting study abroad opportunity!
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11:00 am 10/17/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLNatalia Krawczynska, Ph.D.
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12:00 pm 10/17/2024163 Noyes Laboratory
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 10/17/2024CITL Innovation Studio, Armory 172
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?
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3:30 pm 10/17/2024119 Materials Science and Engineering Building
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4:00 pm 5:00 pm 10/17/2024Charles Miller Auditorium, B102 Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory
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4:00 pm 10/17/2024116 Roger Adams Lab
