College of LAS Events
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Alumni Lectures feature Chemistry at Illinois alumni who have, with the foundation of their chemistry studies at Illinois, made a meaningful impact in their chosen field. This Alumni Lecture tells the story of environmental law from its emergence in the United States to the present day.
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Are you interested in Global Security? We will host guests to discuss topics related to Arms Control & Domestic and International Security. Our first guest speaker is a former professor, Baladas Ghoshal. His career spans decades throughout the world; in policy, security, and more. Join us for his seminar "How does the world deal with a resurgent China?"
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Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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Flatlands Dance Film Festival presents feature film, BAD LIKE BROOKLYN DANCEHALL. This documentary film features an entrancing cast of Jamaican and New York luminaries who share their community story of building a cultural bridge between Jamaica and New York through dancehall.
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This hybrid workshop offers a beginner-friendly introduction to how tools like ChatGPT generate text. We'll explore best practices for using AI in your scholarship, creative practice, and work from a humanities perspective. There will be plenty of room for experimentation and questions!
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Jordan Alexander Stein (English, Fordham University) will deliver a lecture titled "What Does the Present Feel Like?" as the first in this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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Japan House will be featuring Japanese artist Seiran Chiba for a large-scale calligraphy execution of the character for peace. Following that is a live raking of the dry rock garden to showcase the character as a raked pattern. Afterward, there will be an origami crane foldraiser to support the Seattle Peace Garden. This free event will occur outside in the gardens.
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Join CSBS, the College of Education, and IHSI for the first event of the 2024-25 Community-Engaged Research Series. Connect with faculty and staff across campus involved in community-engaged research! Identify common goals and challenges in community-engaged research, learn from each other's experiences, find and share resources, and build your university and...
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Samuel G. Freedman, Krouse Family Visiting Scholar in Judaism and Western Culture, will present "Fighting Hatred in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey's Battles Against Extremism in Mid-Century America". Light refreshments will be served.
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This talk evaluates the impact of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign, & the Biden administration’s appeasement of the Islamic Republic & propose a theoretical framework for how future US administrations can prevent nuclearization in Iran.
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On Wednesday, September 11th, the Illinois Leadership Center & We CU will be holding our Entering Community Partnerships workshop. The workshop will guide humanities students on how to successfully collaborate in service partnerships with community organizations, and how to reflect both critically and personally on their service experience.
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Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
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This lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, “Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies.” This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book.
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This lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, "Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies." This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book
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Renée R. Trilling, Angus Cameron Professor of Old English, Toronto: Early Medieval England boasts the earliest collection of vernacular medical texts north of the Alps. Many are translations of classical materials; others are native Old English “folk” medicine, charms, prognostics, and prayers. This lecture explores the hybrid medical discourse...
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Turn the pages of these human books and 'read' or hear about different countries represented in our community. Each station will feature a specific country where you can read or interact with the "book" (a person) and learn about different aspects of a country such as culture, language, or history.
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Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji will be presenting her new cookbook, Wagashi: Season by Season. After an intro about wagashi, guests will be treated to three unique wagashi paired with three kinds of tea. These wagashi will be seasonal recipes from the book and each month of tasting events will highlight a different menu based on seasonal ingredients and occasions.
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Judy Maltz is a senior correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. An award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Maltz was one of the founding editors of the Haaretz English edition. She will share some of her takeaways from an intensive year of writing about the repercussions of October 7 on Jewish Americans for one of Israel's leading newspapers...
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JSTOR is a digital library with access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines (primarily focused on humanities and social sciences). This workshop will focus on how to search text, images, and primary resources in JSTOR, and how to organize your research using the workspace feature.
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Amit Schejter is a professor of communication studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In his talk, he describes legal tools used to limit press and speech freedoms in the Israel-Hamas war and sets them in the context of similar and dissimilar tools used by other regimes in times of war in recent years. Lunch provided.
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In this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change – in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change.
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Dr. Steven Chu is a Nobel Laureate in Physics as well as the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and of Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. From January 2009 to April 2013, Dr. Chu served as U.S. Secretary of Energy under President Barack Obama. During his tenure, he began , including ARPA.
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In this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change – in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change...
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In this talk, professor Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change-- in both progressive and authoritarian ways.
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Sebastian Rand (Philosophy, Georgia State University) 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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Unlock the power of studying text on a large scale through this beginner-friendly introduction to text mining. In this workshop, we’ll provide an overview of analytical techniques, identify datasets that you can use for your research, and play with easy-to-use tools for understanding linguistic patterns in text. No prior experience needed! Registration required
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Come and visit the new space for the Center for Children's Books in the School of Information Sciences and hear about all we have to offer campus. Free galleys, donuts, and cider available until supplies last.
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This meeting is invite only and for LLS faculty and staff.
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We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
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We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
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The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Director Judy Maltz, George Gasyna (Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Brett Ashley Kaplan (Director of HGMS).
