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Register for this 2-hour Outlook session to learn about specific features and tips for using Outlook more productively. Zoom link sent if registered by 8 am.

Join us as we celebrate the launch of the edited volume, Paper Knives, Paper Crowns: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic with curator Maureen Warren and special guests.

Come enjoy drinks and snacks with your colleagues from the Program in Medieval Studies to celebrate the start of a new semester!

Join us for the opening reception for Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic.

In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, animation, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required. Register by noon to receive the meeting link.  

In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Word interface while we type text on a page, fix spelling errors, change spacing and page margins, and save our work. We will practice navigating the document; select text to make revisions; and move text by cutting and pasting. Formatting tools will be next, where we will learn how to emphasize text.

In this 2-hour workshop we will explore the mail merge features in Word including working with various data sources such as Excel and Access; working with rules; and creating and printing labels. We will also take a look at email merges using Outlook.

In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo. This workshop is online; register by noon to be sent the link.

Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics will include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by noon.

In this 1-hour online workshop, you will learn the basics to get started in Skype for Business including navigating the interface, learning about availability or presence status, adding contacts to a contact list, and more. We will explore voice and video features, settings, and messaging. 

Join us as we learn about broadside creation and printing, then tour Fresh Press at the U of I. Ben Blount, letterpress artist from Evanston, IL; Emmy Lingscheit, Assoc. Professor in Printmaking; and Guen Montgomery, Clinical Professor in Art & Design will co-create a broadside that will be printed in a live demo by the Noble Print Club.

This 2 hour Outlook Calendar live workshop, participants will learn to schedule & edit appointments; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule with the Scheduling Assistant, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings, and discuss calendar permissions. Link sent if registered by 8 am.

Speak Café stands for Song, Poetry, Expression, Art, and Knowledge. It is an open-mic coffeehouse at Krannert Art Museum.

Awadagin Pratt: Black in America is a one-hour presentation by the internationally renowned pianist combining live musical performance, autobiographical narrative, and silent film with recorded piano accompaniment.

Join us as we learn about broadside creation and printing, then tour Fresh Press at the U of I.

Please join us in celebrating Dr. Jenny Davis' new book, Trickster Academy. This event will include a reading by Dr. Jenny Davis from UIUC's American Indian Studies Program and Anthropology department, as well as a discussion with Dr. Daniel Heath Justice from the University of British Columbia. This event is via Zoom

September 11 is Grandparent's Day. On that afternoon, our Spurlock Sunday family activities will help you celebrate these and other favorite family members. Create your own family-based BINGO game in the Collaboration and Community Gallery. At 2:00 pm, join our storyteller, Kim Sanford, for grandparent folktales from around the world. The program is free.

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Skype for Business, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Link sent if registered by 8 am.

In this 2-hour online course, you will become familiar with the Excel's interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman garden, which is west of the building through the café’s double doors. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the fall semester.

Join us in a hand-on training session using OneNote 365 where we will discuss the structure of notebooks, practice putting data into them, and explore the interconnectivity of Microsoft applications with OneNote. This session is aimed for beginner users of OneNote.

Baato tells the story of a young village family on an annual migration along the route of a coming transnational highway. Partially complete, the highway project will transform this roadless Himalayan valley permanently and open up a direct transport route between Nepal and China –bringing new challenges, new opportunities, and ultimately a new way of being.

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at the museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Participate in this short online course and learn the basics, including how to create slides and put content in them. We will also learn how to format and custom design the slides.

Join us in an online session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Link sent if registered by 8 am

In this 2-hour online session, we will work with graphics in Microsoft Word. Topics covered will include learning how to add pictures and online images in a Word document; work with shapes; format, resize, move and crop images, and finish with creating and modifying an organization chart.

Will (D)iversity, (E)quity, and (I)nclusion Die? Advocacy and Action Towards Greater Accountability in an Empowered University

In this 2-hour short course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel worksheets. Other topics will include an exploration of just a few of the hundreds of functions available in Excel. We will learn how to find a specific function, as well as how to get help while entering arguments.

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at the museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Adobe Illustrator.

RBML's fall exhibit featuring the University of Illinois Library's extensive Conde de Montemar letters collection, as well as other rare and fascinating books about the 16th-Century Spanish conquest and colonization of Perú.

Join us for the opening reception for RBML's fall exhibit, with remarks by curators and Emeritus Professor Nils Jacobsen

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at the museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

As part of Welcoming Week 2022, Krannert Art Museum invites you to explore themes of love, belonging, loneliness, and migration through artworks at the museum. Invite anyone from anywhere in the world; the tour will be held at various times to support loved ones joining us from different time zones. Every virtual tour is held at 7 pm local time in the destination country.

Members of the Beckman community are invited to have a free professional portrait taken any time between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, in 1003 Beckman Institute, across from the auditorium.

In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn how to select data in an Excel worksheet and work with Chart tools to customize the chart type, chart layout, and chart style that best represents the selected data. Once the chart is exactly the way you want it, we will learn how to save it as a template to use again.

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman garden, which is west of the building through the café’s double doors. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the fall semester.

In this 2-hour in-person, instructor led workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames.

In this 2-hour online workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Link sent after registration.

The aim of this workshop is to read Old English texts differently by noticing how they work with and within material systems that are traditionally seen as separate from the written realm of ideas and the aesthetics of poetic art in particular.

“Engaging Materialities in Early Medieval England”

The rapid spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased calls for news literacy to help reduce endorsement of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and other falsehoods.

Connecting FACES: Strengthening Agency, Advocacy, and Access Among Historically Marginalized Families Supporting Autistic Children

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is officially beginning the application process for its 2023–24 Fellows Program. This is a great opportunity for UIUC faculty members, researchers, or anyone who may be interested in receiving seed funding to conduct new collaborative research projects with NCSA!

Dr. Luthey-Schulten will present a whole-cell kinetic model (4DWCM) of JCVI-syn3A, a minimal bacterial cell with a reduced genome of 493 genes that has retained few regulatory proteins or small RNAs. Revealing how the cell balances the demands of its metabolism, genetic information processes, and growth, offering an insight into the principles of life for a bacterial cell.

Join Spurlock Museum staff for an afternoon of crafting fun for all ages. Feel like royalty? Make yourself a crown. Need a new picture for your wall? Create a colorful mosaic. Want to make some music? Decorate your own spinning drum. This program is free and open to everyone.

Join us to open Black on Black on Black on Black, a collaborative exhibition by faculty artists Patrick Earl Hammie, Stacey Robinson, Blair Ebony Smith, and Nekita Thomas. Black on Black on Black on Black will open to the public at 4pm, preceded by a day of events celebrating Black creativity through writing, music, and art.

Join us for the opening event on Saturday, September 24 4:00–6:00pm, featuring remarks by Michael DeAnda, College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University, and Rachel Gonzalez-Martin, Department of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

This two-hour online session will introduce you to Access, Microsoft's relational database application. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.

Join Director Nadya Mason and your colleagues this fall for informal conversation and coffee in the Beckman garden, which is west of the building through the café’s double doors. This Gather in the Garden Series will be from 10-10:30 a.m. every Tuesday through the fall semester.

11:00am, Marc Hertzman, History, The 'Indians of Palmares': Conquest, Violence, and Land in Northeast Brazil. Noon, Lucas Wagner, Physics, Simplicity from Complexity: Learning Simple Physics from Detailed Quantum Simulations

Join in this Center for Advanced Study Scholar Lecture by KAM’s Curator of European and American Art Maureen Warren, titled “Citizens’ Justice or Horrific Crimes? Conspiracy, Murder, and Printed Images in the Dutch Republic.” Registration is required to attend this virtual presentation in English via zoom.

This lecture will take a closer look at several broadsides on view this Fall at Krannert Art Museum in the exhibition Fake News and Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, a version of which will travel to University of San Diego Galleries and Smith College Museum of Art in Spring 2023 and Fall 2023.