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Dr. A. Susan Jurow is professor of learning sciences and human development at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Jurow’s scholarship centers on ameliorating systems that marginalize communities. Her work involves research and design with historically non-dominant youth in school and community settings, progressive social activists and technology designers.
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This talk will examine how anti-war movements surrounding napalm—both at the grassroots level and within the United Nations—organized around differing methods of combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, ranging from arms control to full-scale abolition and demilitarization.
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The Generative AI Futures Reading Group's next meeting will be Wednesday December 4, 2024, at 7-8pm, hosted as a private event at the Analog Wine Library, 129 N Race St, Urbana. We will discuss the novel "Don't Bite the Sun" by Tanith Lee, the first of two novels of the "Biting the Sun" duology.
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An informal discussion of books published in the past year by Medieval Studies faculty affiliates Claudia Brosseder, Eric Calderwood, and David Cooper: Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in The Andes * On Earth and in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus * The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth.
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Krannert Art Museum is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
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In this talk, hosted by the Center for Writing Studies, Dr. Jordan Woodward, Humanities Without Walls Postdoctoral Research Associate, will share her work with Appalachian communities while working to establish meaningful partnerships with coal-reliant communities in Illinois.
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Join Dance at Illinois student choreographers in an eclectic evening of dance works, presented in DRK, Level 2, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. eight dances, three floors down features 8 choreographers: Khiari Everett, Damiyah Williams, Takashe Fulce, Alex Brown, Jeremiah Jordan, Jade Lajeune, Chelsea Wahrendorf, and Ethan Pak Rome.
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Join us for an electrifying concert uniting award-winning flamenco virtuoso and George A. Miller Visiting Artist Adam Del Monte with the Latin American Ensemble, featuring Del Monte's original compositions reimagined through a vibrant fusion of flamenco and Latin American rhythms.
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Matthew C. Ehrlich, author of The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine, joins Ryan A. Ross of the University of Illinois Alumni Association to discuss the book. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.
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The 2025 MLK Jr. Commemorative theme is “Our Beloved Community: Protecting, Freedom, Justice & Democracy”. The Committee invites nominations for the 2025 MLK Champions Recognition.
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Zisl Sleplovitch and co., Songs from Testimonies
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Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
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Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
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The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.
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The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.
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Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work. Whether you're looking to collaborate with international universities or explore global research opportunities, we’re here to support your efforts.
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Are you interested in expanding your global connections, working abroad, or learning about funding opportunities for international projects? Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work.
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Lunch launch of HGMS and German Professor Anke Pinkert’s new book, Remembering 1989.
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Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
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Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
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Dinner Graduate Workshop with Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, on Planning Humanities Research Projects.
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More information and registration will be avilable in spring 2025.
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Join us for the 23rd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium: Gender and the Law, featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Neil J. Young (Historian, Writer, and Podcaster) and Dr. Laura Goffman (Professor of History, UIUC).
