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Matthew Ehrlich, author of "Kansas City Vs. Oakland," will be speaking and signing books at the Oakland Raiders Booster Club.
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Attendees will become familiar with the Outlook 2016 calendar interface (including the enhanced Ribbon tools). You will also learn how to schedule and edit an appointment; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule meetings with the Scheduling Assistant and practice scheduling a conference room.
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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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Please make plans to attend this “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meeting to join the conversation about how the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future.
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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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Join Matthew Ehrlich for a reading and book signing for his new book "Kansas City Vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry that Defined an Era" at Books Inc. Almeda.
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"Reflections of a former Jerusalem correspondent" will focus on the latest events happening in the region, and the vast implications for the West, including the changing alliances in the Middle East, Israel's elections (take two), and the viability of "economic peace" with the Palestinians.
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Rebecca Ginsburg, associate professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership in the College of Education, and director of the Education Justice Project
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"Historical Archaeology and the Material Expressions of Religiosity in African Diaspora in Brazil in the 18th and 19th Centuries"
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Sharon Ammen, author of "May Irwin," will be speaking about her book at McNally Robinson in Winnepeg, Canada.
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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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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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Topics include how the EPI is structured; strategies for defining terms; practice with other workshop participants.
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This two-hour short course will introduce you to Microsoft's latest version of its relational database application, Access 2016. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports and spend some time working in the most important of all the objects--tables.
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In this three-hour workshop attendees will learn how to create and work with Access tables. We will create a table using application parts and also from scratch. We will create a primary key and start entering data. Finally, we will work with fields in a table from adding, deleting, re-arranging to setting field properties and finally lookup fields and calculated fields.
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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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Join us for a School of Art + Design Distinguished Alumni Lecture by pioneering gay conceptual photographer and U of I alumnus Hal Fischer. This event is free and open to the public. An award presentation and reception will follow.
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Lunch and conversation with gender-fluid drag queen and visual artist Sasha Velour for undergraduate students.
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This exhibit, featuring materials loaned by drag performers connected to the local area, steps into the closet of the drag queen and highlights the aesthetic practices of costuming and styling that make her fabulous. Join us for the opening celebration Sunday 9/15, 1:30–4 pm.
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In this session we distill the magic that just might take your next presentation from bland to grand. See full description for more info.
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John Enyeart, author of "Death to Facism," will be giving a book talk at The Coop, the Harvard/MIT cooperative bookstore.
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Brooks Blevins, author of "A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks," will be singing books and speaking at Springfield Library Center, Springfield, MO.
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This program provides employees at the University of Illinois an overview of software applications and IT practices that are critical to success within the campus environment. All sessions are led by experienced trainers with handouts available. Attendees can register for one, two, or more of the monthly scheduled sessions. All sessions held in Suite 26 Illini Hall.
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CITL Innovation Spaces is hosting a variety of hands-on emerging technology topics for beginners. Workshops are open to everyone. (Note: workshops can count towards the Certificate in Teaching-Enhanced Technology, but may require a short reflection paper.)
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Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of An American Classic" will be signing books at the UNC Campus / English Department, Raleigh, NC.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of An American Classic" will be signing books at Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC.
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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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This workshop will explore basic principles of Community Accountability & Transformative Justice and engage in honest conversation about the challenges we face when using this framework.
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This brown bag 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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Dr. Lance Larkin (CERL, UIUC), an anthropologist, will discuss the challenges of fitting research on the personal experiences of impoverished urban South Africans into projects generally driven by the insights of quantitative research.
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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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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to adjust a photo’s color and brightness in Lightroom; crop, straighten, and fix perspective, brush over certain parts of a photo for local adjustments; and work with photos on multiple devices. No prior knowledge of Lightroom is required.
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In this lecture, Mariame Kaba will argue that shrinking the prison industrial complex by relying on non-reformist reforms can help move us towards an abolitionist future, offering examples of past and current abolitionist campaigns.
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Wednesday, September 18, 5:30 to 6:45pm. Learn how to use clarification and negotiation strategies to improve your listening and communication skills in English.
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Mark Your Calendars for the Fall University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium!
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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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Join us on as Cheick Diabate, West African historian in the Griot tradition and world-recognized master of the ngoni, a Malian traditional instrument, tells us the musical journey of his life. All are welcome!
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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 Spurlock Museum presents the panel discussion Looking Back, Looking Forward. The discussion is held in honor of the 26th anniversary of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Resource Center at the University of Illinois.
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“Mindfulness and Science-Based Approaches to Criminal Justice for the 21st Century.”
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Jason Salavon, new media artist
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Conversations among Gender & Women's Studies Graduate Minors and Interested Graduate Students.
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Join Jonathan Y. Okamura for a book talk and signing for "Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai'i: Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case."
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Join Co-Editors and Contributors, Ellen Sandor, Donna Cox, and Janine Fron for a special book signing of "New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts" at Expo Chicago.
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grandma's medicine, iraganeko zuloa is a performance of diasporic memory that draws together the story of my great grandmother's salve (amumaren medikunza, or grandma's medicine), Basque mythology, and futures made from irretrievable pasts. This performance traces an indigenous memory from Bizkaia to Idaho and Buenos Aires through diasporic memorial pathways.
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Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown," will be in conversation with Piedmont Laureate David Menconi, about his new book at Quail Ridge Books.
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Attendees will become familiar with the Outlook 2016 calendar interface (including the enhanced Ribbon tools). You will also learn how to schedule and edit an appointment; work with calendar labels and tasks displayed on the Calendar. We will schedule meetings with the Scheduling Assistant and practice scheduling a conference room.
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In this short course you will learn how to use some of the data analysis features and tools in Excel 2016. Topics will include learning the basics of PivotTables; using subtotals in a list of data; setting up data validation rules; using Goal Seek, Solver, Scenarios and more.
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InDesign is a desktop publishing program by Adobe. In this 6-hour workshop, we start with the basics, we progress to creating multi-column threaded text, formatting type and paragraph styles, working with colors, images, and finish by packaging for distribution.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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R II: Inferential Statistics with R
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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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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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Join us for a book signing with Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic".
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SPSS II: Inferential Statistics with SPSS
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Learn strategies for answering open-ended questions in teaching and everyday contexts.
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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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Join us for a reception celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest series at La Casa. José Ángel N. will read from his book "Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant." Refreshments will be served.
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CITL Innovation Spaces will host a VR booth at the Pygmalion Tech Demo.
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Andrew E. Stoner, author of "The Journalist of Castro Street," will be speaking about his new book at the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center
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Celebrate opening night for KAM’s newest exhibitions, including “Art Since 1948,” “All this Beauty and Color: Highlights of the WPA,” and “Revealing Presence: Women in Architecture at the University of Illinois.”
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Known throughout the indie music world for her solo project, Japanese Breakfast, Michelle Zauner will read from her upcoming memoir, Crying in H-Mart, a story of searching for identity in a hybrid culture, to be published by Knopf. A short-form version has appeared in The New Yorker.
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"Creating an Inclusive Media and Cinema Ecosystem," will feature panel discussions on diversity in film, diversity in journalism, and diversity in advertising and communication at the iHotel and Conference Center. Cael Keegan, author of "Lana and Lilly Wachowski" will be speaking on a morning panel: Diversity in Film.
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The symposium aims to strengthen the alumni and bring further visibility to issues for women in architecture. For information on keynote speakers, discussion panels, and networking opportunities, visit arch.illinois.edu/arch-womens-symposium.
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The Center for Writing Studies is excited to announce its Fall Symposium—Race, Translanguaging, and Language Ideologies Across the Lifespan, featuring Laura Gonzales and Ramón Martinez.
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Babette B. Tischleder is a professor of North American Studies and Media Studies at the Univ. of Göttingen, Germany. Her books include The Literary Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction (2014) and the coedited volumes Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age (2015) and An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World (2019).
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In this session, Lucas will use a simple technique for running good discussions to run a good discussion about running good discussions (it will be a meta-discussion). We will occasionally pause to examine the very discussion we are having and hence learn how to make a discussion go well.