College of LAS Events
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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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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 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 meeting is invite only and for LLS faculty and staff.
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This is a curriculum planning meeting for the US Caucus.
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The Critical Disciplinarity Collective convenes faculty of all ranks to reflect on disciplinarity – how it shapes our research + teaching, how we shape-shift to succeed in our disciplines, + how we might reshape our disciplines to be more welcoming to scholars + scholarship underrepresented in the academy.
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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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Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
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Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
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Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
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Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
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Please join us for 2 talks by recent CAS Associates! At 11am, Brett Kaplan (Comparative & World Literature) discusses her most recent book project, "Epiphany's Lament" and at noon, Ben Grosser (Art + Design) speaks on "Finite Social Media, Degrowth Aesthetics, and Reimagined Digital Futures."
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Please join us for the Latine Studies Graduate Student Conference on October 25, 2024.
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Please join us for the Latine Studies Graduate Student Conference on October 25, 2024.
