College of LAS: For Faculty & Staff

Assistant Professor, Dr. Ryan Calder from Johns Hopkins will present on Political Economy and Islamic Finance.

Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment.

"Delving into delta-catenin's contributions to dendrite morphology: actions of a novel phospho-switch." Director, Genetics and Epigenetics Program.

"Patient-derived in Vitro Model of Fatty Liver Disease" Department of Pathology. Regulation of hepatic development, metabolism, and paths towards cancer.

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

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."

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Neuroscience. The focus of the Olsen lab is to better understand the role of astrocytes in normal and abnormal central nervous system function.

Lunch and conversation with Tracy K. Smith, award-winning poet and past U.S. poet laurate. For undergraduate students of all majors!

Poetry Reading and Q&A with Tracy K. Smith, the 2017 United States Poet Laureate.

Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Join us for a moderated conversation between Roxane Gay and Jericho Brown.

Join us for a reading and Q&A with bestselling writer Roxane Gay.

Professor, Department of Biology. Bioinformatics and Genomics, Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Neuroimmunology, Neuroscience, Translational Science

Professor Rishi Goyal is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center (in Medical Humanities and Ethics and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society) and founding director of the major in Medical Humanities. Professor Goyal completed his residency in Emergency Medicine as Chief Resident while finishing a PhD in English...

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dr. Kate Pride Brown from Georgia Tech will be presenting on Environment and Society - Nuclear Renaissance.

Watch brief presentations on Odyssey Project adult education programs throughout the Midwest from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin Madison, and Illinois Humanities (based in Chicago). A Q & A session—and opportunities for conversation— will follow. Community members are welcome and encouraged to attend!