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Register for this live session to learn about InDesign and make a brochure from scratch. Link sent after registration.
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Students are invited to join members of the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Humanities Research Institute, and the Humanities Professional Resource Center to learn about undergraduate humanities research opportunities on campus and how to translate humanities research experience on a resume.
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Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds about 500,000 volumes and 5,000 linear sq.ft. of archival material. This large collection of primary source material is available digitally to all interested individuals.
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In this presentation, titled "The Volatile Market for Globalization," Professor Arjun Appadurai will address the recent debates about the rebirth of the nation-state in the era of pandemic disease, and about whether globalization is about to be rolled back or marginalized.
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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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In part one of this two part series, you'll learn tips and strategies to ensure that your next Zoom session is effective, productive, and engaging.
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10am to 11am on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, educational tech on campus, and anything else of interest!
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Let's meet online to talk about Illustrator. In this two-hour live session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then work through a tutorial together to create our own vector graphic logo.
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Engaging with our students is harder now than ever, but with a few tweaks, you can still foster an exciting active learning environment. This hands-on workshop will cover what active learning is, why it’s beneficial to students, and how you can encourage it in your class.
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Robert Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will share some recent findings about the state of humanities departments, preview findings from a forthcoming survey of the general public about the humanities, and answer any questions you might have about the state of the field.
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Featuring: Cynthia Oliver, Abby Zbikowski, Ollie Watts Davis, and Tamara Chaplin
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CITL and the ESL-ITA Program are offering a series of two weekly workshops to help graduate students prepare for the English Proficiency Interview (EPI). Attendance is free, but registration is required.
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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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Connect online and share your ideas at this fun and informal Happy Hour hosted by the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning. Fast-paced forum features topics of interest to Graduate Instructors and Teaching Assistants.
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Join Dr. Koritha Mitchell for a workshop on ethical teaching entitled Violence in U.S. Education: Approaches & Practices.
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Join Dr. Koritha Mitchell for a workshop on ethical teaching entitled Violence in U.S. Education: Approaches & Practices.
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In this new 1-hour online course, you will learn about conditional formatting of data in Excel 2016. Topics will also include applying special formatting to numbers.
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Victoria Ford Smith is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2017), which won the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. Her research interests include child agency, child-produced culture, and authorship and book studies.
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Register for this live session to learn about InDesign and make a brochure from scratch. Link sent after registration.
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CITL and the ESL-ITA Program are offering a series of two weekly workshops to help graduate students prepare for the English Proficiency Interview (EPI). Attendance is free, but registration is required.
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Join Koritha Mitchell, author of "From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture" for a MillerComm Lecture titled Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury.
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Koritha Mitchell is a literary historian, cultural critic, and associate professor of English at Ohio State University. She is author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, which won book awards from the American Theatre and Drama Society and from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
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Join us in a live, online 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.
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Join us this Indigenous People’s Day for a collaborative panel discussion led by Native researchers and practitioners in the Big Ten. The panel will focus on Native experiences in academia, Indigenous led research and pedagogy, and how these are reflected in the national political and social climates.
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The second workshop in this two-part series will include demonstrations of advanced features and discussions of security, audio sharing, video sharing, screen sharing, recording, breakout rooms, and more.
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10am to 11am on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, educational tech on campus, and anything else of interest!
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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.
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The University of Illinois Archives is hosting a monthly Women in Science Lecture Series that will feature speakers from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diverse and multidisciplinary scientific enterprise.
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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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Listen in online to one-on-one sharing of stories at kitchen tables in Champaign-Urbana and St. Paul. Artist Seitu Jones will visit virtually with Champaign-Urbana food and environmental justice activist Jennifer Monson (Dance) to discuss local issues related to access and affordability of food, as well as caring for the earth that nurtures us.
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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.
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This virtual panel celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and the launch of the bilingual book ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas co-authored by Adrian Burgos and Margaret Salazar-Porzio. The panel will explore the contemporary issues, journeys, and passions of Latinas/os/xs in baseball.
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Madeline Y. Hsu, co-editor of "A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965", will be virtually hosted by University of Texas at Austin for talk about her new book. Zoom Registration Link: https://utexas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QoXodu64TtKEMAS4eO-2pg
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Join us in a one-hour online session to learn about the basic features of Zoom. This session is aimed for first time or beginner users.
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A workshop to help instructors navigate online exams.
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Can a society be governed by data? In the age of big data, we seem certain that it can and should be. Despite many decades of research exposing its blind spots and biases, data collection is more insidious than ever, while the Covid-19 pandemic has propelled our already computerized lives into a the digital stratosphere.
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Listen in online to one-on-one sharing of stories at kitchen tables in Champaign-Urbana and St. Paul. Artist Seitu Jones will visit virtually with Champaign-Urbana food and environmental justice activist Dawn Blackman to discuss local issues related to access and affordability of food, as well as caring for the earth that nurtures us.
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Join directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera for a Q & A on their film The Infiltrators.
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Lazarus Letcher (they/them) is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at the University of New Mexico on Tiwa Pueblo Land. Their research focuses on Black and Indigenous solidarity, 2SLGBTQIA+ history and organizing, and white supremacy within the queer and trans community.
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Let's meet online to talk about Photoshop. In this two-hour session, we will start working through some curriculum, work with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Register by 11 am to get meeting link sent.
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Elizabeth Clendinning, author of "American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination", will be hosted by Wake Forest University on Zoom for a virtual launch of her new book. Join Zoom Meeting https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/j/98914636518?pwd=c2ZPR2JzSmtEcDhLV0NVZ2lZZSt1UT09 Meeting ID: 989 1463 6518 Passcode: gamelan
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Meet the woman breaking down barriers in Israel: Ashager Araro. Araro helped lead a movement which culminated in the founding of Ethiopian Cultural Center in Tel Aviv. She will speak about the work that the center has engaged in, both before and during the pandemic, and its struggle to survive in the face of increasing COVID-related pressures.
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Emmy Lingscheit and Ben Grosser on making art within and about the pandemic
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10am to 11am on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, educational tech on campus, and anything else of interest!
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Visit the TechHub during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12pm - 3pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free! Please wear a mask and note that only 3 visitors are allowed in the space at a time.
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The Kremlin, as well as other state actors and far-right groups, divide and deceive populations around the world using social media and other online warfare tactics. Nina Jankowicz, an expert in online disinformation, will discuss these governments’ responses to Russian information warfare tactics.
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In this 2 hr online workshop, participants 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. We will work with fields in a table from adding, deleting, re-arranging to setting field properties. Finish up using lookup fields and calculated fields
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Visit the TechHub during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12pm - 3pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free! Please wear a mask and note that only 3 visitors are allowed in the space at a time.
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Register for this session to learn about specific features and tips for using Outlook more productively, followed by Q&A of specific scenarios.
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In this 2-hour online course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive method. Register by noon to have link sent.
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SafeAssign in Compass 2g Yes, SafeAssign “detects plagiarism” but how does it work and what are its limitations? How can you use it in non-punitive ways so students can improve their own writing? Learn best practices for using this commonly misunderstood tool at a FREE workshop on October 22, at 1 pm. Join the Zoom meeting here: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81093536503?pwd
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Rachel Havrelock presents “Washing with No Water: Environmental Justice, Deregulation and Climate Change Amidst a Pandemic” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series. Out of Isolation examines the intersection of COVID-19 with research on race and ethnicity, class and gender, labor and poverty, access and public education, climate change and other “preconditions."
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Looking to optimize your performance in your online classes? Join us for a workshop full of ideas to help you do your best.
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GerShun Avilez, author of "Black Queer Freedom", will be hosted by the University of Maryland's Africana/Black Studies Colloquium for the launch of her new book. Registration opens two weeks in advance of the event.
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Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", will be speaking about her new book in a lecture presented by Princeton University's Department of French and Latin. If you would like to participate, please contact Kelly Eggers for the Zoom ID.
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This informal discussion, moderated by Urbana arts and culture coordinator, Rachel Storm, will feature Dawn Blackman, Ruby Mendenhall, Jennifer Monson, Magdalena Novoa, and Bobby Smith II, in conversation with Seitu Jones.
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10am to 11am on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, educational tech on campus, and anything else of interest!
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Join us in a live, online 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.
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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 online workshop provides guidelines for planning an Access database.
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Danielle Fuentes Morgan, author of "Laughing to Keep From Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century", will be giving a book talk on Zoom about her new book.
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Join us for a virtual roundtable and discussion about different challenges to human rights and rule of law in contemporary Europe. Our speakers will address cases in Hungary, Turkey, France, Germany, and at the European Court of Human Rights.
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Visit the TechHub during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12pm - 3pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free! Please wear a mask and note that only 3 visitors are allowed in the space at a time.
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It’s actually pretty common to teach material that might be a bit of a stretch for you. Using ideas from Therese Huston’s excellent book Teaching What You Don’t Know, we’ll discover some strategies for comfortably and confidently teaching material that is not your specialty.
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Online discussion with filmmakers Dianne Fukami and Debra Nakatomi.