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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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Join us for a celebration of new books and their authors and journals and their editors at AMS.
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Henry Kisor, co-author of "Traveling with Service Animals," will be giving a presentation at the Hearing Loss Assn. of America Chicago Lincoln Park Chapter about his new book.
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Professor Batnitzky will present work from her current, book-length project on comparative conversion controversies in Israel and India. The paper will be circulated in advance. Participants are encouraged to read and come prepared to discuss the discuss, but everyone is welcome to attend.
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Leora F. Batnitzky is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies at Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her teaching and research interests include philosophy of religion, modern Jewish thought, hermeneutics, and contemporary legal and political theory.
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Mauna Kea Solidarity Group is a new coalition of students and faculty across the sciences and arts who came together to express solidarity with Indigenous Hawaiians, particularly in response to the proposed construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea.
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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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This talk will posit elision and silence as a strategy both Jewish and non-Jewish writers used to underscore the inherent generalizations and stereotypes of the word “Jew” in Polish discourse and to express fractured, multivalent Polish- Jewish identities.
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This 6-hour course covers work with transitions and animations; slide masters; and practice skills using audio and video files in their presentations. Finally students will learn about more features and methods for delivery an effective presentation.
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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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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at Kentucky Historical Society.
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"Film and Literature by North African Women: Looking at Postcolonialism, Gender, and Religion.
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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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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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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Adobe Illustrator CC.
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George van Dusen and Michael Dorf, authors of "Clear it with Sid!" will be giving a book talk at the Union League Club of Chicago.
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at University of Kentucky entitled “’A Kentucky Portia’: The Legal Career of Sophonisba Breckinridge”.
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This talk will show how image adjustment software can assist in the detection of now faded or whitewashed wall paintings in Armenian churches.
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This workshop introduces attendees to the potential uses of virtual reality in the humanities or social science classroom. We will explore two systems, the HTC Vive and Google Cardboard, in order to better understand a budget-conscious range of classroom applications.
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Join us at ASA's welcome reception to celebrate the publication of "Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights," "Black Sexual Economies," and "The World in a City."
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TIGER is the 5th performance from Deke Weaver’s life-long Unreliable Bestiary project: a performance for each letter of the alphabet, each letter represented by an endangered animal or habitat.
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Visiting Lecturer/Choreographer Omri Drumlevich will present a reconstruction of a masterwork by Ohad Naharin (Batsheva Dance Company) as part of the KCPA "November Dance 2019".
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Join us for a reception celebrating new books and their authors, journals and their editors, and the Bruno Nettl Fund for Ethnomusicology at SEM.
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Anya Jabour, author of "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America", will give a book talk at Southern Historical Association.
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Matthew Ehrlich, author of "Kansas City Vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry that Defined an Era," will be speaking about his book at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at Leawood's Town Center Plaza.
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Brooks Blevins, author of "A History of the Ozarks Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks," will be presenting Vol. 1 at Southeast Missouri State University Crisp Museum.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of "Cinematic Encounters 2," will be speaking about his new book at the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore in Chicago, IL.
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Contributors from "Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights" will participate in a roundtable about the book at ASA.
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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 Dismantle, Change, and Build Center in Portland, Oregon.
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Henry Kisor, co-author of "Traveling with Service Animals," will be giving a presentation at the North Shore Senior Center about his new book.
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Paul DeMain, former special projects coordinator in the Great Lakes for the Intertribal Agriculture Council and award-winning Chef Pete Halfaday will speak followed by a demonstration.
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Frances R Aparicio, author of "Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago," will be speaking about her book at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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In this 6-hour course, you will import and export data into Excel 2016, work with conditional formatting, and learn about macros. Additional topics will include summarizing data using subtotals and data validation; and analyzing data using Goal Seek and Solver along with what if scenarios. Prerequisite: Completion of Excel 2016 Level 1 or equivalent knowledge
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“Let’s Have a Kiki” is a series of half hour informal gallery talks during the run of the exhibit In Her Closet—How to Make a Drag Queen. Exhibit participants talk about their drag practice and exhibit-related themes, concepts, and materials.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at the University of Washington at Tacoma.
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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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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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George van Dusen and Michael Dorf, authors of "Clear it with Sid!", will be giving a book talk at the Cliff Dweller's Club.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 23 Hall.
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A public lecture by History Professor Craig Koslofsky
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Richa Nagar, author of "Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability," will be speaking about her book at the University of Toronto.
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In this 3-hour class learn how to create and work with Access reports. Create a basic report and explore layout and design view. Use the report wizard to create reports. In design view add controls and set properties for those controls; learn about calculated controls, apply sort & group feature to report data, finish up with graphics (themes and conditional formatting).
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Lightroom Level 2 is the second course in Lightroom, utilizing the Develop module, to concentrate on making image corrections in a non-destructive manner. Topics include: Develop module basics, Image adjustment basics, working with color, fixing common image problems like straightening and cropping, as well as more advanced topics like creating snapshots and panoramas.
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Alexis Trouillot will discuss how mathematical science meets inheritance law in 19th century Mauritanian manuscripts.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at St. Martin's University.
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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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Mark Roseman is a Professor of History and the Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. He is a historian of modern Europe, with particular interests in the History of the Holocaust and in modern German history.
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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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with Peter Fritzsche (History), and Mark Roseman (History, Indiana University Bloomington. Moderated by Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature). Co-sponsored by Jewish Culture & Society.
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This workshop will cover the basics of working with Unity, including navigating the interface, importing and using assets, setting up basic scenes and building out a game. Attendees will leave the workshop with an understanding of the essential concepts of how Unity can be used to create and distribute 2D and 3D games.
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This month’s event will feature Lilah Leopold, curatorial intern and PhD student in Art History, and will highlight “Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape.” Reception to follow.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at University of Washington at Seattle.
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“The First Mountain to Be Removed: Yellow Fever Control and the Construction of the Panama Canal.” Paul Sutter, (History, University of Colorado Boulder), is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (2002) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (2015).
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Dr. Marshall, American Indian Studies Postdoc, will talk about her research into the connections between them and how Indigenizing our historical narratives and research methodologies can begin to address the problem.
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Peter Cole, author of "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" , will be giving a book talk at the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 19 Hall.
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Park Ridge artist Rex Parker will present an illustrated program, “Frederic Goudy & H. G. Wells: The Time Traveler’s Typeface.”
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Join us for a reception at NWSA to celebrate new books and their authors and journals and their editors.
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Dr. Susan Molins-Lliteras (Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative; Historical Studies Department, Univ of Cape Town)
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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 the National Women's Studies Association in San Francisco, CA.
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Sophie Richter-Devroe, author of "Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival" will participate in an Authors Meet Critics session at NWSA.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of "Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues" and "Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics", will give a talk and sign books at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Jessica Wilkerson, author of "To Live Here, You Have To Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice" will be on the New Appalachian Woman Panel at the Kentucky Book Fair.
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Henry Kisor, author of "Traveling with Service Animals," will be speaking about his new book at the Evanston Public Library.
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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 Shiloh Museum of Ozark History.
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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 San Francisco State University as part of the Women and Gender Studies Lecture Series.
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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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George van Dusen and Michael Dorf, authors of "Clear it with Sid!", will be giving a book talk at The Standard Club of Chicago.
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In this lively talk with lots of swearing, disability and transformative justice movement worker and writer/editor Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will examine just what happens when we "crip" TJ.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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This six-hour course covers topics in Word 2016 such as templates, styles, working with columns and tables, sections and graphics. We will also learn how to do mail merges (form letters, labels, etc.) and explore document collaboration.
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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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Attendees will 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, practice scheduling a conference room, and discuss scheduling Online Meetings for Skype for Business. We will work with additional calendars, calendar groups, and calendar permissions.
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This talk will look at Bird’s life and his extraordinary achievements as one of the most prominent Black leaders in Illinois during the late 19th century.
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Join us to explore pre-production and preparation for a 360 degree video shoot, field production best practices for a point and shoot 360 degree capture, and post-production with GoPro Fusion Studio, Adobe Premiere Pro and GoPro VR Plugins.
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Thomas Goldsmith, author of "Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown," will be speaking about his book at the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC.
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