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A properly designed database makes it easier to work with up-to-date, accurate information. Investing the time required to learn the principles of good relational database design ensures that you will end up with a database that meets your needs and can easily accommodate change. This new workshop provides guidelines for planning an Access database.
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"The Walled City of Nicosia, Cyprus: History, Heritage and Visualization." This talk will address aspects of Nicosia’s history, the preservation and definition of its heritage by the British in the early 20th century, the challenges of the contemporary division and the ways digital technologies can help efforts to understand the layered complexities of historic cities.
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Participation in online media has seemingly lost its innocence: What once started as a hopeful promise for media and society in the 1990s, developed into the object of public fears and concerns among media and tech companies. Trolling, bullying and strategic manipulation seem to be very common in comment sections and social media these days.
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Lyudmila Parts is an Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University.
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CITL Innovation Spaces are hosting a variety of hands-on emerging technology topics for beginners. Workshops are open to everyone. (Note: This workshop counts towards the Certificate in Technology-Enhanced Teaching.)
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A Friday lunchtime series of free yoga classes introduces participants to the fundamentals of hatha yoga at Krannert Art Museum. Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public. Please visit http://kam.illinois.edu for more information.
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The IPRH-Mellon Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Group is a collective of students exploring how matters of the environment can be understood through a humanistic lens. As we do so, we seek to dive into the untold narratives of physical and social environments.
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Dexter is a free chatbot platform that uses the RiveScript, an easy to learn AI scripting language. It allows users to quickly create chatbots for multiple uses, including both web and hand-held interfaces as well as Alexa apps.
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The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for discussing broad, multi-disciplinary assessments of Oman's development by leading scholars in the field. This is expected to encourage further research on Oman and to offer insights and lessons for the country and the Middle East region.
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In this 2-hour short course you will learn how to comfortably move around in the Excel 2016 environment. Additional topics will include entering text and values in a worksheet, basic formatting, printing and using Help.
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This 6-hour course introduces the basics of Adobe Lightroom. Participants will work on the organization and management of photos, learning the Lightroom environment, managing images and workflow, reviewing images, sorting and organizing images as well as managing an image catalog.
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Jessie Labov (Resident Fellow, Center for Media, Democracy, and Society and Coordinator of the Digital Humanities Initiative at Central European University; Director of Academic and Institutional Development at McDaniel College Budapest)
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In this 3-hour course learn how to create and work with Access forms. Create a new form using the form wizard and explore layout and design view. Add and modify form controls including a calculated control and lookup control. Learn about control properties, form properties and setting tab order. Create a subform and learn about switchboard and navigation forms.
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William Hart-Davidson is Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education in the College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University.
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Alexander Marković is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His work explores affective politics, nationalism, and performance culture in the Balkans.
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Michael Silvers, author of "Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment" in Northeastern Brazil will give a talk at the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies.
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Aren Aizura is an assistant professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and the author of Mobile Subjects: transnational imaginaries of gender reassignment (Duke UP, 2018).
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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.
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In what used to be the empire of Ghana, Mali, Ashanti, Futa Djallon sit 17 countries today with diverse legal systems. Our speaker, Alpha Diallo, a human rights lawyer, will examine if there is a better way to advocate Human Rights laws.
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In this 2-hour short course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel 2016 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.
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Come hear this special artist talk, a Distinguished Alumni Lecture featuring Louise Fishman, painter. A reception following immediately afterward. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public.
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Poets from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student organizations including The Creative Writing Club, Flor Poetry, and The Collective Magazine will read their work selected around the evening’s theme of “culture.” Additionally, the event includes fun poetry writing activities and the Museum’s galleries will be open for you to explore and seek inspiration.
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Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely; and the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Rankine is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.
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This symposium is held in conjunction with the 11th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS11). This pre-conference symposium invites abstracts that focus of various semiotic practices.
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This 3-hour class introduces the query object. Topics include working in design view; creating a simple query by adding and removing fields and adding criterion. We will create multi-table queries; calculated fields and set field properties; explore a totals query, parameter query, action queries, find duplicates query, unmatched records query and basic SQL query.
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This panel examines community experiences related to India’s Partition in 1947. In the aftermath of the British Raj’s decision to leave behind a divided territory in South Asia, the subcontinent was wracked by violent communal aggressions.
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Join us at the AAAS New Books Reception at the Illinois Press booth in the exhibit hall.
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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, MillerComm Lecture Series 2019.
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Andrew Holman, co-author of "Hockey: A Global History", will give a book talk at Bridgewater State University.
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This two-day symposium offers us a chance to reflect on what makes our work unique and uniquely valuable. It gives us an opportunity to articulate what our scholarship and creative practice offer to a university seeking ever more social, cultural, and intellectual creativity.
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A Friday lunchtime series of free yoga classes introduces participants to the fundamentals of hatha yoga at Krannert Art Museum. Please bring a mat and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free (donations accepted) and open to the public. Please visit http://kam.illinois.edu for more information.
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The purpose of this summit is to highlight educational and research opportunities around e-sports, and to explore opportunities for making esports a varsity sport on our campus.
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The Illini Gadget Garage is a collaborative repair center that assists consumers with troubleshooting and minor repairs for personally-owned electronics and small appliances. Join us to learn how to fix your own devices during this free Pop-In Repair Clinic offered in CITL’s Innovation Studio (Armory 172).
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Prof. Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015).
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Professor Bilal will provide an overall introduction to an anthology meant to end the invisibility of activist women in Armenian historiography. Then, drawing on Yelbis Gesartin's work, she will discuss the interrelatedness of discourses on gender, sexuality, body, emotion, culture, history, nation, modernity, land and music in 19th century Armenian intellectual narratives
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This talk will provide an overview of open education, explore both sides of the debate, and offer reasons why engaging in open education doesn't—and shouldn't—stop at cost-savings.
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This Yom Ha' Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we are honoring the life and work of Italian author and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi. The evening will feature readings by Kirsten Wynne Pullen (Theatre) and Philip Phillips (Physics) and brief commentaries by Jonathan Druker (Italian, ISU) and Eleonora Stoppino (French & Italian).
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In this 2-hour workshop we will explore the whole set of features for managing information in tables in Excel 2016. These features make all the typical tabular manipulations—sorting, filtering, analyzing, and formatting, easier than ever.
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Every year, IPRH celebrates excellence in humanities scholarship by awarding IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities. Please join us in honoring this year's recipients at this year's ceremony.
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This Spring Luncheon and Lecture invites you to hear from Kevin Hamilton, Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts. The public is invited, and reservations are required. Please contact Chris Schaede (217 244 0516 or kam@illinois.edu) for reservation information.
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You are welcome to the opening reception of a temporary exhibition featuring work from artists in the Bachelor program at the School of Art + Design. The gallery will be open until 7pm on the Saturday, after which the gallery will be open during normal museum hours.
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This 6 hour course will prepare you to use the most common basic features of Adobe Photoshop CC.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking as part of the IISH Lecture Series in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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We invite you to join us for an informative strategy session covering a range of external funding opportunities – including ACLS, Guggenheim, and residential fellowships (e.g., research libraries, arts residencies, institutes for advanced study).
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking as part of the Collaborative Research Group Seminar at the University of Leiden.
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Fraser Ottanelli, coauthor of "Assassins against the Old Order," will be speaking at Red Emma's in Baltimore, MD about his book.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking as part of a seminar on international activism by dockworkers at the University of Lisbon.
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Marcia Hansen Kraus, author of "George Szell's Reign: Behind the Scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra" will give a book talk at Cleveland's Hungarian Museum.
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Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Take this short course and learn the basics, including how to use the new 2016 interface to create slides and put content on them; format and custom design the slides; and prepare speaker notes and handouts.
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This 6-hour course introduces the basics of Adobe Illustrator. Topics will include design principles, elements, and graphics composition; creating documents containing basic shapes and customized paths. We will also learn how to insert text and typographical characters.
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Emily Thuma, author of "All Our Trials," will be giving a lecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz about her book.
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Every graduate student hears many times “the dissertation is not the book,” but what does that really mean? Dawn Durante, a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press, will discuss the differences between the dissertation and the book and give helpful advice on how to approach revisions.
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Peter Cole, the author of"Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area", will give a talk at the Work Organisation and Employment Relations Research Centre.
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Emily Thuma, author of "All Our Trials," will be giving a lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara about her book.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking at Queen Mary University of London.
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This talk reveals the untold story of the transnational efforts the University and its students went to support the war effort in 1917.
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Melanie Holmes, author of A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston, will be give a book talk at 12pm and 2pm at the Johnston Ridge Observatory on the anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption.
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Richard Hughes, author of "Myths America Lives By 2nd edition: White Supremacy and the Stories that Give us Meaning" will give a lecture at the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing.
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Cicero M. Fain III, the author of "Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story" will give a book talk at the D.C. Chapter of The Ohio State University Alumni.
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This 6-hour, hands-on course is an intro to web page design using Dreamweaver CC. Students will become familiar with the Dreamweaver environment, interface elements, layout customization, website creation and publishing. Activities will include creating a new site, laying out basic pages and text, using text styles and containers, inserting images, uploading a simple site.
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In "The Fabrication, Materials, Design, Cultural Context, Uses, and Miracle of Paper," Sidney E. Berger explores the most extraordinary forms of paper decoration, and offers a look at many of its uses.
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In this 2-hour workshop participants will learn how to use Photoshop to do basic photo correction, use selection tools, manipulate, save, and store images. No prior knowledge of Photoshop is required.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to create and open Illustrator documents, navigate the user interface, use vector shapes to create a logo that looks good on screen and in print. No prior knowledge of Illustrator is required.
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In this 3 hour course, participants will learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages to images.
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Michael Jeffords and Susan Post, co-authors of "Curious Encounters with the Natural World: From Grumpy Spiders to Hidden Tigers", "Exploring Nature in Illinois", and "Butterflies of Illinois" will give a book talk at Hartfield Book Company.
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Wish you had a smarter, more efficient way to arrange your Outlook 2016 email and more? In this two-hour workshop, you will learn how to use the conversation view; how to insert a screenshot into a message; sorting messages; advanced searching techniques, including filters; working with folders; using flags, color categories, and rules.
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In this 2-hour 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.
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This two-part series offers tips on what you can do to increase your confidence as a teacher. In Part 1, topics include creating a comfortable teaching and learning environment, making the material your own, and tips on using your voice effectively. You will be asked to create a 1-2 minute lesson to present during the workshop.
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Join us for a book launch celebrating the release of "A Hero on Mount St. Helens: The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston by Melanie Holmes at the David Johnston Community Center in Oak Lawn, IL.
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Richard Hughes, author of "Myths America Lives By 2nd edition: White Supremacy and the Stories that Give us Meaning" will give a lecture at the Council of Christian Colleges Institute for New Faculty, Calvin College, Grand Rapids