Library - Scholarly Commons

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    • 9:00 - 11:00 am    2/1/2025 - 4/5/2025
    • Nevada Dance StudioCreative Dance for Children is an innovative community program provided by the University of Illinois Department of Dance under the direction of Betty Allen. Instructors collaborate to design and deliver creative dance classes tailored for children ages 4-10.

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm    4/3/2025
    • 346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr

    The RBML welcomes Justine Murison, editor of a new critical edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel. Murison will discuss the work’s historical and literary contexts, the revolutionary politics with which the novel engages, and the enduring questions it asks about American society. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free, and a

    • 3:30 - 5:00 pm    4/3/2025
    • 210 Illini Union

    Join us for a panel featuring Mary Arends-Kuenning, “Government Policies and Their Impacts on Women’s Empowerment.” Vernita Pearl Fort, "Forging a Human Rights Economy within Planetary Boundaries: A Response to unprecedented ‘Glocal’ Crises and Opportunities." McKenzie Johnson, “The Work of Women Environmental Defenders in Extractive Economies”...

    • 8:00 - 10:00 pm    4/3/2025
    • Spurlock Museum

    The speaker for the India Studies Lecture for 2025 is Vasudha Narayanan. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida and a past President of the American Academy of Religion. Her lecture will be on "Tamil Culture: More sweet than celestial nectar, more precious than one’s breath." It will be held at the Spurlock Museum...

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    4/4/2025
    • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street

    Join us on Friday, April 4th for a Graduate Student Lunch & Learn: Publishing on Gender Related Topics. Please rsvp at https://go.illinois.edu/GradLunchLearn

    • 12:00 pm    4/4/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois, Room 210

    Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) on moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical, inside/outside, or status-quo/anti-establishment to better understand youth activism.

    • 11:30 am - 12:30 pm    4/7/2025
    • 325 Temple Buell Hall (611 E. Taft Drive, Champaign)

    Work-in-progress talk and paper: “Little Tech on the Prairie" by Matthew Darmour-Paul, PhD candidate in Sociology at Australian National University and tutor in architecture at the University of Sydney. His research explores place-based computational practices and techno-nationalism in the American Midwest.

    • 4:00 pm    4/7/2025

    Dr. Maritza Paredes, Sociology Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, will discuss the complexities of extractive frontier expansion and its intersection with global climate change policies in conservation areas, particularly within indigenous communities. Her research explores the redistributive and justice dimensions of these processes, shedding light...

    • 4:00 - 5:30 pm   EDT    4/7/2025
    • Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference Room 249, 411 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC 27708

    A viewing of the film Playing the Changes, and discussion with Darius and Cathy Brubeck, authors of "Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road."

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm    4/7/2025
    • Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada Street, Urbana

    This panel will feature Karen Flynn (Terrance & Karyn Holm Endowed Professor, UIC); Julie A. Pryde (C-U Public Health District Administrator); Lauren R. Aronson (Clinical Professor of Law and Immigration Law Clinic Director); and Jessica R. Greenberg (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of EUC).

    • 11:30 am - 1:30 pm    4/8/2025
    • Union League Club of Chicago, 65 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604

    Samantha Ege will be in conversation with Frank Villella on her book, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene" and to share stories of the Black women whose creativity, perseverance, and energy transformed Chicago’s South Side into a wellspring of classical music making.

    • 12:00 pm    4/8/2025
    • English Building 109 (608 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801)

    Between the late 1920s and mid-1960s, several Jewish social scientists and humanities scholars laid the theoretical groundwork for ethnic and immigration studies in the United States. The concepts these scholars developed – terms such as acculturation, urbanism, assimilation, and cultural pluralism – reshaped the understanding of America as a pluralist society of...

    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm   EDT    4/8/2025
    • Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith FHI, Bay 4, C105, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd. Durham, NC 27701

    Darius and Catherine Brubeck reflect on running a jazz program at the University of Natal (Now Kwazulu-Natal), in the final years of apartheid. Join us for a presentation and discussion on their book "Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road" (University of Illinois Press July 2024).

    • 12:15 - 1:15 pm    4/8/2025
    • 22 Education Building

    The Third Wave of the Asian American Studies Movement: Advocating for & Advancing Asian American Studies in K-12 Classrooms

    • 4:00 pm    4/8/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.

    • 5:00 pm    4/8/2025
    • Illini Union, Room 314A (1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)

    This will be a conversation with Tobias Brinkmann about his recent book, Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe. It tells and contextualizes the stories of Jewish migrants and refugees from Eastern and Central Europe before and after the First World War. It explains how immigration laws in countries such as the United States influenced migration...

    • 3:30 pm    4/9/2025
    • Gregory Hall 100

    Please join us for a lecture by Herman von Hesse, an assistant professor of art history, titled "Love of Stone Houses: Anxious Transformations, Collateralized Ancestral Spaces and the Ambivalence of Security on the Gold Coast."

    • 5:00 pm    4/9/2025
    • Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208

    A concert pianist and a leading scholar and interpreter of the music of Florence Price, Samantha Ege is the author of a new book, "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene."

    • 4:00 pm    4/10/2025
    • Lincoln Hall, Room 1002; 702 S Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801

    The Department of Asian American Studies welcomes Dr. Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California to present his talk "Mutual Aid and Resisting Carceral Power: Asian American Strategies".

    • 6:00 - 7:30 pm    4/10/2025
    • 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610

    Samantha Ege, author of "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene", will be signing books and speaking at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL about her new book.

    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm    4/11/2025
    • 306 Coble Hall, 801 S. Wright Street

    Calling all graduate students, how fast can you present your research? Join this event to meet other Illinois graduate students and share your research in 3 minutes or less. Light lunch available for all registered participants. Registration is Required at https://go.illinois.edu/LightningTalk25

    • 3:00 pm    4/15/2025
    • 3019 Huff Hall

    The Interdisciplinary Sport Studies Research Cluster is pleased to host Dr. Letisha Brown, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Brown will give a guest talk on her upcoming book titled, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, with Rutgers University Press

    • 4:00 - 5:30 pm    4/15/2025
    • Illini Union Bookstore, Author's Corner, 2nd Floor

    Please join us to celebrate the book launch of LLS professor, Aja Y. Martinez's new book The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement, co-authored with Robert O. Smith (University of North Texas). The book weaves together the many sources of critical race theory, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and...

    • 5:30 pm    4/16/2025
    • Campus Instructional Facility, Room 3025

    Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Christine Rosen. Her lecture "Defending the Human in a Technological World" will explore what it means to be human in a world that promises near-endless opportunities for virtual, disembodied experience.

    • 12:00 pm    4/18/2025
    • 0359 Music Building (1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL 61801)

    Join us for a lecture by ethnomusicologist Olga Zaitseva-Herz on the role of music in Russia’s war on Ukraine. She explores how state-controlled and grassroots music scenes shape the war’s political and social dynamics. A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Zaitseva-Herz examines music as a tool of resistance, diplomacy, and identity.

  • John Norton
    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm    4/18/2025
    • Lincoln Hall 1002

    Join the Department of Philosophy for a lecture with John D. Norton, a distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh. His lecture "How the material theory of induction dissolves the problem of induction" will explore Hume's problem of induction and argues that attempts to revive the problem within material theory fail.

    • 7:30 pm   ET    4/18/2025
    • Howland Cultural Center, 477 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508

    Three fun-yet-informative visual presentations about Building Castles, Failed Spelling and the History of Black Westerns. Hear from Dr. Mia Mask, author of "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western."

    • 12:00 - 1:50 pm    4/21/2025
    • School of Labor and Employment Relations, Room 51, 504 E Armory Street

    Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.

    • 5:00 pm    4/23/2025
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory

    Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.

    • 5:00 pm    4/23/2025
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana, IL 61801-3759

    A presentation and book signing from Darius and Catherine Brubeck, authors of "Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road."

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    5/6/2025
    • University Archives (room 146, Main Library) or via Zoom

    Jennifer Teper, Head of Preservation Services at the University of Illinois Library, will discuss how she uses science in her work to conserve library collections and special collections.

    • 6:00 - 7:00 pm    6/4/2025
    • Newberry Library, Ruggles Hall, 60 West Walton Street Chicago, IL 60610

    Join us to hear from Nora Wendl, who will discusses her new book, "Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth." Copies of the book will be sold through the Newberry Bookshop and a book signing will be held after the talk.