Library - Scholarly Commons
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For the thirtieth anniversary of Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presents seven new videos responding to the ongoing urgencies of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Featuring work by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters, and Derrick Woods-Morrow in collaboration with Patric McCoy.
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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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Ms. Veliu examines "balkanization" as a long-standing discourse of identity construction, otherness and stereotyping through Twitter.
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4th Annual IPRH Work-In, led by the members of the African American Community Healing Through Storytelling Research Cluster (C-HeARTS) as a community workshop. It is not open to the public. Information about C-HeARTS can be found at their web page: go.illinois.edu/c-heartscollaborative.
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In this romance-comedy, handsome Sicilian Tanino (Corrado Fortuna) finds himself taken with Sally (Rachel McAdams), a sophisticated rich girl vacationing in Italy
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In this 6-hour course, attendees will begin by exploring the PowerPoint 2016 interface. Next we will create and save a presentation; view and navigate, and edit text on slides; add and modify graphical objects in a presentation; work with tables and charts; and prepare to deliver a presentation.
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Andrew Shea, artist, critic
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This month’s event will feature Amy L. Powell, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and will highlight “Art Since 1948.” 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 the Howard Zinn Book Fair about his new book.
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In this workshop, I will ask the audience to consider such textbook language choices and discuss why it matters.
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Israel Institute Visiting Scholar, Liat Maggid Alon, will present a work in progress based on her extensive research on the history of Jews in Egypt.
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Anita Greenfield (Grad. Student, UIUC, Linguistics) will present.
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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 Tech Workers Coalition of San Francisco and 223A Collective about his new book.
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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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Photoshop Level 2 workshop builds on techniques learned in Level 1. This 6-hour course covers:brushes, gradients, and tool presets to create raster images; vector paths, shape drawing tools, type, and type special effects; advanced layer techniques with masks, filters, layers, and smart objects.
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In this 3 hour course, we will go beyond how the program works to include organizational strategies and tips to hyperlink to other notebooks and files, integrating with the rest of MS Office including linking to Outlook with Tasks to add reminders, Meeting notes that integrate with Skype for Business and other meetings, and other tips to boost the power of OneNote.
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The talk will focus on Hélène Cixous's recourse to the figure of Jonah in her short story "Jonah's Whale," which rewrites the Biblical Book of Jonah, concentrating on Jonah's response to the calling of his name, the significance of mastery when it aims to obliterate others, and the notion of responsibility to others.
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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 California Historical Society about his new book.
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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 2-hour course you will learn how to work in the People window to add a new contact; change views; use color categories to organize & search your contacts. We will also look at contact groups. The Tasks features of Outlook help you create lists of task-related items. We will look at the different views in the Task window; we will add tasks and assign tasks.
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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 Niebyl Proctor Marxist Libraryabout his new book.
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library Annual Holiday Party, with Informal workshop on cutting your own quill. Presented by the Conservation Department as well as Doug Sanders, Paper Conservator for the Indiana University Libraries.