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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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In this workshop, we will begin by discussing resources that are available to TAs who are dealing with difficult situations. We will then ask the TAs how they would deal with these difficult situations themselves and identify the pros and cons of these approaches.
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Dr. Oğuz (Visiting Scholar from Yildirim Beyazit University, Antkara) will discuss the relationship between institutional analysis of the rule of law--how social norms, religious attitudes, and their change affect economic development with an emphasis on Ottoman Empire and recent Turkey. After the talk, Dr. Oğuz will answer questions and address comments. All are welcome.
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This 7-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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Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. A scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is the author most recently of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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STATA I: Getting Started with STATA
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Professor Atoma Batoma (International and Area Studies Library) will explore traditional personal naming practices in precolonial Togo, which were disrupted by colonial-era education and religious systems. After the presentation, Prof. Batoma will answer questions and address comments. All are welcome to attend!
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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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SAS I: Getting Started with SAS will cover the following topics
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Wednesday, October 2, 5:30 to 6:45pm. With other workhops participants, practice completing sample EPIs; set goals for oral English improvement; learn about resources you can use to improve your English skills. Note: This session will be most beneficial if you also attend one or more of the earlier sessions. The content in session 4 pulls together everything learned in ses
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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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We know that active learning in the classroom is important, but how do you make it happen, especially when trying to juggle the responsibilities of grad student life? This session introduces dozens of easy and engaging learning activities that you can use in any discipline.
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“The Climate Change Comedy Hour”
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This workshop with Jennifer Monson, Professor of Dance uses the framework of the iLANDing scores (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance) to research works of art in KAM’s collection. We will use these simple instructions to shift our modes of observation with the whole body, eyes touching, ears drawing, and weight coloring. No particular dance or movement
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Radical Illini: Conversations on Student Activism will be a two day symposium exploring the past and present of student activism at the University of Illinois inspired by the recently published UIP book "Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois" by Michael Metz.
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Join us at the Illinois Press booth in the exhibit hall of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History 2019 Conference for a reception and book signings with authors Tiffany Gill and Jonathan Fenderson, and to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the New Black Studies Series and the new Darlene Clark Hine African American History Fund.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" will be speaking at The East Side Freedom Library, Saint Paul, MN.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power," will be speaking about his book at East Side Freedom Library.
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Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown," will be giving a book talk at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Radical Illini: Conversations on Student Activism will be a two day symposium exploring the past and present of student activism at the University of Illinois inspired by the recently published UIP book "Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois" by Michael Metz.
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TechHub will have a booth at Heartland Maker Fest
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Michael Dorf and George Van Dusen, authors of "Clear it with Sid!" will be speaking about their book at the Seminary Co-Op in Chicago, IL.
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Emily Thuma, author of "All our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence," will be speaking about her book at Chicago's 57th Street Books in conversation with Bill Ayers and Tara Betts.
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Brooks Blevins, author of "A History of the Ozarks Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks," will be speaking about his new book at the Old Independence Regional Museum.
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Emily Thuma, author of "All our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence," will be speaking about her book at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Melissa Littlefield, professor of English. Interests include sociotechnical studies, “the body,” and culture. She has written about the cultural concept and consequences of technologies such as lie detectors, MRI, and EEG.
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Prof. Winters and Ms. Chen (Dept. of Political Science, UIUC) will explore if a connection between local government revenues and city services increases citizens’ willingness to pay local property taxes in Zomba, Malawi. After the talk, the speakers will answer questions and make comments.
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Please join us for "Financialization at the Margins: Women, Money & Social Capital in Gujarat, India," sponsored by the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The talk will be given by Dr. Tara Nair, Visiting Scholar at UIUC College of Media and Professor at Gujarat Institute of Development Research.
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Questionnaire Design
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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STATA II: Inferential Statistics with STATA
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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 Malaprop's Bookstore in Asheville, NC.
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Sowande' Mustakeem, author of "Slavery At Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage," will deliver the keynote address at the Studying Slavery 2019 Fall Symposium
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Sowande' Mustakeem, author of "Slavery At Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage," will deliver the keynote address at the Studying Slavery 2019 Fall Symposium.
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SAS II: Inferential Statistics with SAS
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Jillian M. Báez, author of "In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship" will give a talk at Greg Hall as part of the Distinguished Alum Speaker Series.
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Author of the One Book One Campus 2019–2020 selection Heads of the Colored People. Reception and book signing to follow.
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Brooks Blevins, author of "A History of the Ozarks Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks," will be speaking about his new book at the Ozark County Historium.
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A discussion with undergraduates about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Co-sponsored by the Department of Asian American Studies.
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The Library Consultation Working Group, a campus committee charged by the Provost, will host a campus-wide Town Hall presentation and discussion of the 100% submittal of the Main Library Redevelopment Plan Programming and Conceptual Design Study by the firm of JLK/brightspot.
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Omri Drumlevich will be presenting a “first view” of students learning a master work by Ohad Naharin, former Artistic Director of the Israeli company, Batsheva Dance Company. Join us for a sneak preview of the dance and a lively discussion with the artists. Light appetizers and drinks will be served. Please rsvp to masko@illinois.edu if you plan to attend.
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This marquee series of the Visitors Program is designed to showcase notable national and international artists, designers, and scholars whose work or point of view is engaging and topical. Paul Ardenne, art historian, critic, curator
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Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Featuring George Takei and many others who were incarcerated, as well as newly rediscovered photographs of Dorothea Lange.
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Friday, October 11th from 11am - 4pm, faculty are encouraged to drop in at various locations across campus to set up their Adobe Creative Cloud accounts and download the Creative Cloud Desktop App to manage downloads and access to instructional content.
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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 Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, TN.
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Brooks Blevins, author of "A History of the Ozarks Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks," will be signing books at Springfield History Museum on the Square
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Brooks Blevins, author of "A History of the Ozarks Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks," will be presenting Vol. 1 at Galena Public Library.
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John Enyeart, author of "Death to Fascism: Louis Adamic's Fight for Democracy" will give a talk and sign books at Mac's Backs-Books in Cleveland Heights, OH.
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Come to this workshop to begin the process of identifying your teaching philosophy, deciding which parts of it belong in your statement, and avoiding common mistakes.
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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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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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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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ATLAS.ti: Qualitative Data Analysis
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Richard Hughes, author of "Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories that Give us Meaning," will be speaking about his book at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, GA
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Emily Thuma, author of "All our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence," will be speaking about her book at Seattle's Third Place Books in conversation with Angélica Cházaro.
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Featuring Emily McKown, Olivia Tasch, and Carrie Chandler, members of Girls Rock! Champaign-Urbana. Moderated by Fiona Ngô (Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies).
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at the University of Chicago.
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Humanities faculty, students, and friends are invited to a discussion of the state of lobbying efforts on behalf of the humanities and opportunities to contribute to those efforts.
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A lecture by activist and photographer Dr. Doris Derby. Part of the 1619 & Beyond Series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois.
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
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Sowande' M. Mustakeem, author of "Slavery At Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage," will be speaking about her book at the University of Nebraska
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Part of August Wilson’s celebrated Pittsburgh Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.
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Richa Nagar, author of "Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability" will attend the Author Meets Critics Roundtable at the Annual Conference of South Asia, Madison, WI.
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
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Richa Nagar, author of "Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability," will present her new book at the Author Meets Critics session at the The Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison.
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Join us for an introduction to Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape by independent curator Jennie Lamensdorf and Joan Linder, Chair and Associate Professor in Art at the University of Buffalo.
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Jonathan Okamura, author of "Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai’i: Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case," will be speaking about his book at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i,
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Join Henry Kisor and his service dog Trooper for a book signing and presentation of "Traveling with Service Animals: By Air, Road, Rail, and Ship Across North America."
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Brooks Blevins, author of "A History of the Ozarks Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks," will be speaking about his new book at Donald W. Reynolds Library.
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at Willard House.
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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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Jake Johnson, author of "Mormons, Musicals, and Belonging in America," will give a book talk at Ohio State University.
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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.