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Internationally recognized scholar Cheryl Grills will discuss the applied community research she has conducted over the past three decades to decrease health disparities among African Americans. She will present community intervention efforts that have been proven to reduce distress and promote well-being in the face of racial stress. A CAS MillerComm Lecture.
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What will 21st century humanities pedagogy look like? How might we strengthen and diversify the humanities and engage and inspire a new generation of learners? This collaborative retreat will begin with a keynote by Ellen McClure, Director of the new Engaged Humanities Initiative (EHI) at UIC. Panels and discussions will follow.
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"Field Work: Deaf Refugee Farmers, Literature, and Public Health Humanities." Based in the disciplinary framework of public health humanities, Garden explores the ways that insights from literature can illuminate understandings of health disparities and clinical healthcare.
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This information session is dedicated to helping interested applicants learn more about this three-year faculty development initiative. Attendees will discover how the program and application process works; hear the experiences of current fellows; and have an opportunity to ask questions.
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“Mindfulness and Science-Based Approaches to Criminal Justice for the 21st Century.”
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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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Featuring Emily McKown, Olivia Tasch, and Carrie Chandler, members of Girls Rock! Champaign-Urbana. Moderated by Fiona Ngô (Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies).
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Film screening and discussion of The Land Beneath Our Feet with Gregg Mitman. Dr. Mitman is Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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TIGER is the 5th performance from Deke Weaver’s life-long Unreliable Bestiary project: a performance for each letter of the alphabet, each letter represented by an endangered animal or habitat.
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with Peter Fritzsche (History), and Mark Roseman (History, Indiana University Bloomington. Moderated by Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature). Co-sponsored by Jewish Culture & Society.
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4th Annual IPRH Work-In, led by the members of the African American Community Healing Through Storytelling Research Cluster (C-HeARTS) as a community workshop. It is not open to the public. Information about C-HeARTS can be found at their web page: go.illinois.edu/c-heartscollaborative.
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The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.
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This day and half symposium sponsored by The Animal Turn Research Cluster will highlight work being done across the university in engaging with historical, conceptual, artistic philosophical, humanistic and social scientific dimensions of human relations with animals and with the more-than-human world.
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Poet and Professor of English, College of Staten Island. Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois 2020.
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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. Lunch will be served.
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The Illinois Program for Research celebrates the winners of its annual IPRH Prizes for Research, awarded to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.
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The year-long Public Voices Fellowship provides a cohort of 20 thought leaders with extraordinary support, leadership skills and knowledge to ensure their ideas shape not only their fields, but also the greater public conversations of our age. Interested faculty members are invited to attend a Zoom information session to be held on Tuesday, May 19 at 4:00 p.m.
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Dima Khalidi is the founder and director of Palestine Legal & Cooperating Counsel, Center for Constitutional Rights.
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Professor Tony Ballantyne of the University of Otago kicks off HRI's 2020-21 research theme The Global and Its Worlds with a talk titled “Beyond the Shadow of Empire? The state, mobility and difference in New Zealand’s COVID-19 response.”
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In this presentation, Professor Arjun Appadurai will address the recent debates about the rebirth of the nation-state in the era of pandemic disease, and about whether globalization is about to be rolled back or marginalized.
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Join directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera for a Q & A on their film The Infiltrators.
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Rachel Havrelock presents “Washing with No Water: Environmental Justice, Deregulation and Climate Change Amidst a Pandemic” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series. Out of Isolation examines the intersection of COVID-19 with research on race and ethnicity, class and gender, labor and poverty, access and public education, climate change and other “preconditions."
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Join two faculty members from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as they discuss collaborative, reciprocal, and redistributive models of research. This session will help prospective grant applicants plan for the Humanities Without Walls (HWW) seed grant CFP and HWW project CFP, both of which will be issued in March 2021.
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Jenny Davis (Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Chancellor’s Fellow for Indigenous Research) presents "Manifesting Pandemic Destiny: Parsing the Tense and Aspect of Settler Immunopolitics in Indian Country” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series.
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At this work-in, we will work to create a list of questions related to the Land Acknowledgment Statement in order to co-create resources, guiding principles, and strategies around the next steps.
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Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate and filmmaker. He was a political prisoner incarcerated by the Australian government in Papua New Guinea for almost seven years before he escaped to New Zealand in November 2019.
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Join us for a presentation and Q&A with Professor Lou Turner (Urban and Regional Planning) on the Hal Baron Project and what Baron's work can teach us about the current moment.
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In February 2021, HRI will be hosting a series of grant development workshops with Professor Bill Hart-Davidson from Michigan State University. These sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more.
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Catherine D’Ignazio, Director of the Data + Feminism Lab at MIT, and Lauren Klein, Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Emory, will be presenting Data Feminism on Wednesday, February 24th, 2021. The event will take place on Zoom from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Central time. Find more information and register for the event at just-infras.illinois.edu.
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Working on Chiang and Wong’s (2016) call to ‘queer the transnational turn’ through a consideration of regionalism in the examination of queer modernities in Asia, five panelists are assembling for a discussion of queer global Asias.
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This annual event brings together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.
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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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Craft talk with Year of Creative Writers Poet in Residence Tyehimba Jess titled "Poetry’s Musical Bloodline: A Sociohistorical Soundtrack."
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A Year of Creative Writers Poet-in-Residence, Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess, will read from his work. This virtual event is free and open to the public.
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A symposium featuring the work of scholars who study Jewish communities in the Caribbean (18th to 21st centures). Featured speakers include Dara E. Goldman (Illinois), Laura Leibman (Reed College), Stan Mirvis (Arizona State), Dana Rabin (Illinois), and Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carelton University).
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A symposium featuring the work of scholars who study Jewish communities in the Caribbean (18th to 21st centures). Featured speakers include Dara E. Goldman (Illinois), Laura Leibman (Reed College), Stan Mirvis (Arizona State), Dana Rabin (Illinois), and Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carelton University).
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Join us for a screening of the documentary film From Here, followed by a Q & A with director Christina Antonakos-Wallace and two of the film’s subjects, Sonny and Tania.
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Join Illinois Humanities Executive Director Gabrielle Lyon, for a conversation about their recently-released report on the impact of COVID-19 on public humanities organizations in Illinois, and their plans for the future.
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Women in Science Lecture Series May Speaker: Dr. Ruby Mendenhall, Assistant Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Social Work.
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This workshop will focus on the publishing process for both peer reviewed journal articles (1st hour) and first books (2nd hour). It will be conversational in tone and offer a friendly space to ask nuts and bolts questions about publishing, like how to revise and resubmit, how to cold email an editor, and so on.
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Ready, Set, Flow is an online writing retreat for scholars who want to write in a healthy, sustainable way. This opportunity is open to UIUC faculty and graduate students.
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Mary L. Gray, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, will present on Wednesday, September 8, 2021.
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Are you a PhD student in the humanities seeking to find out more about careers beyond the tenure track? Or a faculty member interested in learning about career diversity opportunities for graduate students? The Humanities Without Walls Career Diversity Summer Workshop will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan from June 17 - July 1, 2022. You can find out more about the workshop
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We welcome you to an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center. Visit our newly renovated space on the first floor and gather in community outdoors on the south patio near Admissions (weather permitting). We look forward to seeing you!
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Roy Scranton presents the talk "Climate Change and the Virtues of Pessimism."
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Join us for a discussion of Samuel Moyn's new book Humane followed by commentary from respondents Avital Livny (Political Science) and Patrick Keenan (Law).
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This talk, presented by Sandy Sufian (University of Illinois Chicago), presents a unique, humanities-driven approach to structural competency that addresses the socio-political aspects of health and healthcare.