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Louise Fishman (United States, 1939-2021) was an established artist known for her ambivalent engagement with male-centered abstract painting traditions. Her physical and process-driven work remakes the abstract expressionist gesture and the minimalist grid into tools that communicate history and emotion centered in her identities as Jewish, feminist, and lesbian.
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Assistant Professor, Dr. Ryan Calder from Johns Hopkins will present on Political Economy and Islamic Finance.
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Dr. Frantsuz investigates the impact of sociopolitical instability on fertility by developing a model based on a modified version of uncertainty reduction theory. He analyzes fertility data from Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia from 1959 to 1998, a period marked by various kinds of instability, to explain some of the sudden short-term fluctuations in fertility.
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Join us on Tues., Nov. 2, at 12:00pm, as Angela Lyons, ACE, UIUC; Josephine Kass-Hanna, Business Admin & Management, Saint Joseph Univ. of Beirut; and Alejandro Montoya Castano, ACE, UIUC, discuss "Targeting the Poor during an Economic Crisis and Pandemic: Insights from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon."
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This information session is for graduate students interested in applying to the inaugural Interseminars graduate cohort (2022–2023) on the theme of “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas.”
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"Delving into delta-catenin's contributions to dendrite morphology: actions of a novel phospho-switch." Director, Genetics and Epigenetics Program.
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The ACS Women Chemists Committee is hosting its second annual Invited Postdoctoral Research Presentation Series on Nov. 3, featuring seven research presentations from postdocs in chemistry and related disciplines, including two invited seminar speakers and five virtual posters.
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The story of budding love between two Chicana teens growing up in the Huntington Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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"Patient-derived in Vitro Model of Fatty Liver Disease" Department of Pathology. Regulation of hepatic development, metabolism, and paths towards cancer.
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The Newbery Medal – the oldest and most prestigious children’s literature award – is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The symposium will feature scholars from multiple fields – including English, library science and education – and practicing librarians who will discuss the history, legacy, influence and future of the award.
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Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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This talk examines Sophocles’ Philoctetes from an ecofeminist perspective, arguing that the setting of the island of Lemnos is crucial to the play’s depiction of its central figure. Email cperry@illinois.edu or cbosak@illinois.edu for Zoom link and password
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This seminar/panel discussion will examine the kinds of ethical standards and dilemmas we face as professional geographers in our interactions with colleagues and students; while conducting research; and in course work, publishing and teaching.
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The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign extends an invitation to a virtual recruitment event on Saturday, November 6, 2021, for juniors, seniors, postbaccalaureates, and Masters students of color underrepresented in the chemical sciences.
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A daylong, international gathering of scholars and artists responding to the work of gay conceptual photographer Hal Fischer, organized in conjunction with HAL FISCHER PHOTOGRAPHS: SERIALITY, SEXUALITY, SEMIOTICS, curated by Tim Dean.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dr. Brian Foster from University of Virginia will be presenting on "I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life."
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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This talk examines the twentieth-century regulatory framework tying humans to states, its historical formation, and how it has resulted in the callous politics of human sorting that we call the migration system.
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Associate Director of Healthcare Innovation, Professor Colleen Bushell will present on her interdisciplinary approach to research in computing and healthcare, especially on analyzing genetic data.
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Join us Tues., Nov. 9, at noon, as Md Alamgir Hossain, English, UIUC, discusses, "Uneven Development, Dispossession, and Environmental Degradation in Twenty First Century South Asian Fiction." After the discussion, our speaker will address comments and answer questions. All are welcome! Register in advance.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Please join us for an information session about the inaugural request for proposals for the Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program.
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Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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This talk explores the peripatetic life and work of the 1930s Shanghai modernist writer Hei Ying. The formal experimentation and musicality of his writing — and especially his engagement with Hollywood cinema and the globally circulating popular music of Hawai'i — allow us to chart the complex material and media circuits out of which Chinese modernism emerged...