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Food for Thought, part of the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relation's Lunch on Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community. Past discussions include topics such as nutrition, mental health, sexual health, and issues of queer Asian Americans.
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Dr. Oğuz (Visiting Scholar from Yildirim Beyazit University, Antkara) will discuss the relationship between institutional analysis of the rule of law--how social norms, religious attitudes, and their change affect economic development with an emphasis on Ottoman Empire and recent Turkey. After the talk, Dr. Oğuz will answer questions and address comments. All are welcome.
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Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. A scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is the author most recently of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome.
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In this lecture, Dr. Alondra Nelson considers the “politics of ethics” that was a signature of the Obama administration’s approach to science and technology. This politics of ethics endeavored to place temporal distance between scientific research of the past and present, enabling claims about the importance of federal science to national wellbeing, broadly conceived.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Professor Atoma Batoma (International and Area Studies Library) will explore traditional personal naming practices in precolonial Togo, which were disrupted by colonial-era education and religious systems. After the presentation, Prof. Batoma will answer questions and address comments. All are welcome to attend!
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CHEM 575 Literature Seminar
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“The Climate Change Comedy Hour” Aaron Sachs is Professor of History and American Studies at Cornell University, where he has taught since 2004. In 2006, he published The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (Viking), which won Honorable Mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award.
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“The Climate Change Comedy Hour”
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The Proseminar is an introduction to the graduate study and professional practice of history.
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History alums from various career fields join us to discuss career development, professionalization and choices they made to advance in their fields as well as how their history education helped prepare them for professional success.
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This workshop with Jennifer Monson, Professor of Dance uses the framework of the iLANDing scores (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance) to research works of art in KAM’s collection. We will use these simple instructions to shift our modes of observation with the whole body, eyes touching, ears drawing, and weight coloring. No particular dance or movement
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This fall, the University YMCA’s Friday Forum explores how inspiring women leaders are addressing not just issues that disproportionately affect womxn but also a myriad of the most pressing social and environmental issues in our communities. Join us as we celebrate the creativity, passion and impact of womxn working for progressive change.
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Food for Thought, part of the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relation's Lunch on Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community. Past discussions include topics such as nutrition, mental health, sexual health, and issues of queer Asian Americans.
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Melissa Littlefield, professor of English. Interests include sociotechnical studies, “the body,” and culture. She has written about the cultural concept and consequences of technologies such as lie detectors, MRI, and EEG.
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Prof. Winters and Ms. Chen (Dept. of Political Science, UIUC) will explore if a connection between local government revenues and city services increases citizens’ willingness to pay local property taxes in Zomba, Malawi. After the talk, the speakers will answer questions and make comments.
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Please join us for "Financialization at the Margins: Women, Money & Social Capital in Gujarat, India," sponsored by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The talk will be given by Dr. Tara Nair, Visiting Scholar at UIUC College of Media and Professor at Gujarat Institute of Development Research.
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CHEM 535 Literature Seminar
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Are you interested in sharing your expertise, gaining a global perspective, and developing collaborations with institutions abroad? The Fulbright Specialist Program provides U.S. citizens who are established academics or professionals with opportunities to engage in short-term (2-6 week) project-based exchanges at host institutions in over 150 countries.
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A roundtable discussion and book celebration with editors of the volume MARIA EUGENIA COTERA & MALELI BLACKWEL
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Author of the One Book One Campus 2019–2020 selection Heads of the Colored People. Reception and book signing to follow.
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Lunch discussion for undergraduates about the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
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A discussion with undergraduates about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Co-sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies. Register at go.illinois.edu/InsideScoop by October 2, 2019.
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A discussion with undergraduates about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Co-sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies.
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The Library Consultation Working Group, a campus committee charged by the Provost, will host a campus-wide Town Hall presentation and discussion of the 100% submittal of the Main Library Redevelopment Plan Programming and Conceptual Design Study by the firm of JLK/brightspot.
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Omri Drumlevich will be presenting a “first view” of students learning a master work by Ohad Naharin, former Artistic Director of the Israeli company, Batsheva Dance Company. Join us for a sneak preview of the dance and a lively discussion with the artists. Light appetizers and drinks will be served. Please rsvp to masko@illinois.edu if you plan to attend.
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The Proseminar is an introduction to the graduate study and professional practice of history.
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This marquee series of the Visitors Program is designed to showcase notable national and international artists, designers, and scholars whose work or point of view is engaging and topical. Paul Ardenne, art historian, critic, curator
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dir. Abby Ginzberg and Ken Schneider, 2017. Followed by a discussion with Satsuki Ina, community activist, writer, and filmmaker.
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Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Featuring George Takei and many others who were incarcerated, as well as newly rediscovered photographs of Dorothea Lange, And Then They Came for Us brings history into the present.