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Join us for a lecture by Sarah Clark Miller, a professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, titled "How to Ground the Ethics of Care."
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Social stereotypes are prevalent and consequential; they can result from segregated societies. Why are certain groups stratified into particular positions? In this talk, Dr. Bai will propose a simple yet powerful psychological mechanism: a seemingly intelligent, self-interested exploration at the individual level that cascades into collateral damage of segregated structure
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Every day experience feels seamless, yet the mind and brain must overcome bottlenecks in perception and attention to construct this continuity. How does the brain bridge these gaps?
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Graduate students: join us to learn from two guest scholars about their experience publishing for different audiences: Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London; fellow of the British Academy) and Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University).
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Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) will present the lecture “Land, property, and the story of 18th century race-making: displacement and belonging between the Caribbean and Britain.” With Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University) responding. Part of the Story & Place event series.
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Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) will present the lecture “Land, property, and the story of 18th century race-making: displacement and belonging between the Caribbean and Britain.” With Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University) responding.
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Encode AI is a student-led non-profit who helped develop and pass America’s first policy governing the use of AI in nuclear weapons systems, who co-sponsored SB 1047, California’s landmark AI safety legislation, and have been building a broad coalition of experts and tech leaders to support safety requirements for advanced AI systems.
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Join us for our first CEAPS Brown Bag of the 25-26 school year with Faculty Travel Grant recipient Sarah Park Dahlen & Michelle Lê for their talk, "Keeping Afloat: Water, War, and Vietnamese Diaspora in Picture Books." Sarah Park Dahlen 박사라 is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences.
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Join us for a hybrid event with Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, a historian of modern China and the world, currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the history of non-Western information and communication technologies, spanning from printing devices to artificial intelligence, and their intersections with political ideologies and social imaginaries.
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The Psychology Department is excited to announce the launch of the First Friday Psychology-Beckman Colloquium Series for the 2025-2026 academic year, a new monthly event designed to bring together members of the Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, and beyond for engaging, cross-area conversations.
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Please join us for the 2nd Annual Lux Veritatis Lecture and plan to stay for a gala reception!
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2nd annual Lux Veritatis Lecture with Prof. Xin Wen (Princeton) ~~ The Central Asian kingdom of Turfan clothed the bodies of the dead with used papers which reveal that an extraordinary number of travelers from all over Eurasia converged there.
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Join us for the Humanities Open House keynote and alumni panel featuring LLS alumna State Senator Cellina Villanueva. Latina/Latino Studies Professor Natalie Lira (also an alumna) will moderate.
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Professor Rosalyn LaPier will give a keynote talk titled "Anti-trans Policies Jeopardize Indigenous Peoples’ Rights & Religious Expression" at this year's events for Indigenous People's Day.
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Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
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Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
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Lecture by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago. Professor Jonsson will discuss his work on some of the historical dimensions of the climate crisis.
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Ayelet Tsabari’s National Jewish Book Award winning, novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted, traces the story of the history of Yemeni Israelis through a fictional family. Tsabari visited UIUC in 2019, and was interviewed for Ninth Letter.
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Ayelet Tsabari, author of the award-winning novel, Songs for the Brokenherted, thanks to generous support from the Einhorn family, 5 pm-6:30 pm, Alice Campbell Hall
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Dr. Michael Light Professor of Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison
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In 1978, the tropical city-state of Singapore received three polar bears, starting a dynasty of polar bears that ended in 2018. Within the lifespan of these tropical polar bears, the planet has undergone rapid and exponential growth in economies...
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Erik McDuffie ( African American Studies and History) on his book The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom. Part of the Story & Place event series.
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Anna Hunt (Professor of German) “Quick! Somebody Get Me A Doctor of German Philosophy,” HGMS workshop, English 109, 4 pm-5 pm.
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Prof. Ryan Low (University of North Dakota) ~~ In fourteenth-century Provence, the volume of written contracts increased from thousands each year to million, involving even the region's most remote rural communities and serving the interests of marginalized actors, including women, peasants, and religious minorities.
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Dr. Laurel Smith-Doerr Professor of Sociology and Associate Chair University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Lee Miller was an incredible photographer who was present at the liberation of some concentration camps. Trigger warning: some parts of this film display graphic images of survivors and victims of the Holocaust. 7 pm Holocaust Remembrance Day screening of Lee. Location TBD.
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Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
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Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
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Dr. Mary Blair-Loy Professor of Sociology University of California, San Diego
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International Women’s Day celebration with speakers from the campus and community.
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Blewish And Beautiful: Contemporary Black Jewish Voices roundtable with TaRessa Stoval, Marc Perry, David Wright Faladé and other contributors to the Blewish And Beautiful volume co-edited by Sara Feldman, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, and Brett Ashley Kaplan.
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HGMS annual conference, 9a-5pm. Location TBD.
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Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
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Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk 4pm
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Dr. Lauren Rivera Peter G. Peterson Professor of Corporate Ethics, Professor of Management & Organizations, and Professor of Sociology Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
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Dr. John Robinson III Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Princeton University
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Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology Duke University
