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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Looking for your next, or first, internship? Deciding what path you want your professional life to go down? It sounds like you should attend the Illini Career and Internship Fair, held virtually this April.
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*NOTE SPECIAL TIME* To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
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A book talk and conversation with Jeremy Zallen (Lafayette College) on American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865.
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The Sociology Department is excited to announce our upcoming Information Sessions for current students outside of the major! These sessions are hosted by current Sociology undergraduates and will give attendees all the important information about our program.
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Each spring, the local AAUP Chapter sponsors a workshop for assistant and associate professors on Achieving Tenure and Promotion.
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"Multimodal Neuroimaging Analysis"
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Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
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A panel discussion on Blues music moderated by Professor Gabriel Solis, musicology and theater (UIUC). Drawing on work in African American studies, anthropology, and history, he addresses the ways people engage the past, performing history and memory through music. Other panelists include Candy Foster, Dawn Clark, Bob Paleczny, and Augustus Wood.
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Come explore Blues Dance and African American vernacular dance as it evolved and is practiced today in our local community. Included in the exhibit are artworks by contemporary artists, archival photographs, and video interviews with local African American community members and University alumni sharing personal stories of dance and music.
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SITI Company’s Talking into the Future series meets Krannert Center’s CultureTalk, exploring the art of assembly in all its forms and investigating the challenges of our time. This installment of the series features conversation between SITI Company co-artistic director Anne Bogart and New York Live Arts founding director Bill T. Jones, moderated by Krannert Center directo
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SITI Company’s Talking into the Future series meets Krannert Center’s CultureTalk, exploring the art of assembly in all its forms and investigating the challenges of our time. This installment of the series features conversation between SITI Company co-artistic director Anne Bogart and New York Live Arts founding director Bill T. Jones, moderated by Krannert Center...
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Join us in welcoming Richard Alba of the City University of New York for another installment of our Spring Seminar Series. Friday, April 2, 2021 at 9AM (CST) via Zoom.
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The Sociology Department is excited to announce our upcoming Information Sessions for current students outside of the major! These sessions are hosted by current Sociology undergraduates and will give attendees all the important information about our program.
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An award-winning debut by Chicago-based filmmaker Jiayan Shi, ‘Finding Yingying’, presents the tragic story of Yingying Zhang, the 26-year-old Chinese student who disappeared from the University of Illinois campus in 2017.
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An award-winning debut by Chicago-based filmmaker Jiayan Shi, Finding Yingying presents the tragic story of Yingying Zhang, the 26-year-old Chinese student who disappeared from the University of Illinois campus in 2017.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Job access inequity, which serves as a key indicator for social injustice, has been traditionally illustrated by spatial mismatch and spatial job accessibility. Job access is usually measured by either car-based accessibility or transit-based accessibility for the entire workforce.
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The 95th annual Faculty Exhibition highlights current work by School of Art + Design faculty in studio arts, art education, craft, new media, and design disciplines. The exhibition represents excellence in arts research and practice, as well as the collaborative relationship between the School of Art + Design and Krannert Art Museum.
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Art Sparks are engaging talks open to members of the Krannert Art Museum Council. At Art Sparks we focus on one work of art and have a lively discussion about it. This month, author, artist, and archaeologist Sarah Wisseman and KAM Council President Sharon Williams spark a great conversation of Migrations II by Wosene Worke Kosrof, on view in Encounters: the Arts of Africa
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All levels of Italian are welcome. "Caffettino?" is a great opportunity to practice your Italian, learn about the culture of Italy, ask questions about minor lexical or grammatical issues, and earn extra credit!
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Photos and stories from local author Carol Spindel's recently released book.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Dipesh Navsaria (MS ’04), Pediatrician and Medical Director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin, is speaking as part of The Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration.
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Please join us for a conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, and Mohammad Darawshe, a leading political analyst who has spent more than three decades advocating for Israel’s Arab sector. They will discuss their evolving views on Israeli-Arab relations and, more generally, how we can engage...
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"Noise-Induced Randomization in Regression Discontinuity Designs"
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In the 2021 Jean and Denis Sinor Faculty Fellowship Lecture I examine national demographic change and population development across Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan across the past thirty years.
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Calling all teen creators! Join the Urbana Arts and Culture Program and Krannert Art Museum for a chance to flex your creative muscle in conjunction with the Pandemics as a Portal to Change Exhibition.
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Calling all teen creators! Join the Urbana Arts and Culture Program and Krannert Art Museum for a chance to flex your creative muscle in conjunction with the Pandemics as a Portal to Change Exhibition. This workshop will provide a creative space for you to envision artworks in all mediums that address some of the most pressing issues of our time.
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An award winning documentary debut by Chicago-based filmmaker Jiayan Shi, Finding Yingying presents the tragic story of Yingying Zhang, the 26-year-old Chinese student who disappeared from the University of Illinois campus in 2017.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian, professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, will present “Critical Algorithm Studies: A View From Inside Computer Science” on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. The event will take place on Zoom from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Central time. Register and learn more at just-infras.illinois.edu.
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Intended for students from across the campus, Inside Scoop conversations invite Illinois undergraduates to engage with the exciting work conducted by scholars whose work helps us understand what it means to be human in a world of rapidly shifting global complexities. Open to all undergraduate students.
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess will be the featured guest at this Inside Scoop as part of the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center Food for the Soul series.
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During this talk, Blair Ebony Smith will interactively engage her current exhibition on view at the Krannert Art Museum, Homemade With Love: More Living Room, a multimedia publicly engaged installation exploring Black girls, women, and femmes everyday interior life and creativity and what it means to make space for it, specifically in a museum context.
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Craft talk with Year of Creative Writers Poet in Residence Tyehimba Jess titled "Poetry’s Musical Bloodline: A Sociohistorical Soundtrack."
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Craft talk with Year of Creative Writers Poet in Residence Tyehimba Jess titled "Poetry’s Musical Bloodline: A Sociohistorical Soundtrack."
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Don't miss the LAS Alumni Career Panel "Science and Medicine Careers" on April 7 featuring ChBE Alumnus Jerrod A. Henderson, an Instructional Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. Register for this virtual event today.
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This South African-made film is about Solomon Mahlangu (Thabo Rametsi), a young man who struggles with his political identity in 1970s South Africa. A hero of the struggle against apartheid, Mahlangu would become an international icon of South Africa’s liberation. Discussion moderated by Professor Teresa Barnes.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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*NOTE SPECIAL TIME* To join the virtual seminar, a link will be added (University login/password required to access from the posted link).
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Drawing on the conceptual distinction between emotionology and actual emotional experiences, this talk calls to reorient critical analysis away from affective computing’s design epistemics to its social life.
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"A Tuning-free Robust and Efficient Approach to High-dimensional Regression"
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Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
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A book talk and conversation in celebration of Assistant Professor of Classics Clara Bosak-Schroeder's Other Natures: Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography (University of California Press, 2020). Other Natures examines how the ancient Greeks thought about natural resources and how it is relevant to responding to climate change today.