Library - Scholarly Commons
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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This interactive session will provide tools to create a virtual or in-person classroom that is conducive to accessibility and inclusivity. We will delve into strategies and perspectives to create the right conditions to make your course a learning community and welcoming environment.
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A book talk and conversation with Jeremy Zallen (Lafayette College) on American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865.
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Each spring, the local AAUP Chapter sponsors a workshop for assistant and associate professors on Achieving Tenure and Promotion.
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Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
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A panel discussion on Blues music moderated by Professor Gabriel Solis, musicology and theater (UIUC). Drawing on work in African American studies, anthropology, and history, he addresses the ways people engage the past, performing history and memory through music. Other panelists include Candy Foster, Dawn Clark, Bob Paleczny, and Augustus Wood.
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Come explore Blues Dance and African American vernacular dance as it evolved and is practiced today in our local community. Included in the exhibit are artworks by contemporary artists, archival photographs, and video interviews with local African American community members and University alumni sharing personal stories of dance and music.
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SITI Company’s Talking into the Future series meets Krannert Center’s CultureTalk, exploring the art of assembly in all its forms and investigating the challenges of our time. This installment of the series features conversation between SITI Company co-artistic director Anne Bogart and New York Live Arts founding director Bill T. Jones, moderated by Krannert Center directo
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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An award-winning debut by Chicago-based filmmaker Jiayan Shi, ‘Finding Yingying’, presents the tragic story of Yingying Zhang, the 26-year-old Chinese student who disappeared from the University of Illinois campus in 2017.
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An award-winning debut by Chicago-based filmmaker Jiayan Shi, Finding Yingying presents the tragic story of Yingying Zhang, the 26-year-old Chinese student who disappeared from the University of Illinois campus in 2017.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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The 95th annual Faculty Exhibition highlights current work by School of Art + Design faculty in studio arts, art education, craft, new media, and design disciplines. The exhibition represents excellence in arts research and practice, as well as the collaborative relationship between the School of Art + Design and Krannert Art Museum.
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Art Sparks are engaging talks open to members of the Krannert Art Museum Council. At Art Sparks we focus on one work of art and have a lively discussion about it. This month, author, artist, and archaeologist Sarah Wisseman and KAM Council President Sharon Williams spark a great conversation of Migrations II by Wosene Worke Kosrof, on view in Encounters: the Arts of Africa
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Photos and stories from local author Carol Spindel's recently released book.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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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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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10-11am and Wednesday from 1-2pm on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, student engagement, Zoom, PowerPoint, and other educational technologies on campus! Ask us anything! If we don’t have the answer, we’ll point you to someone who does.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10am - 2pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Virtual reality experiences look complicated, but they are easier than you thought and anyone can do it! During this workshop we introduce you to virtual reality, 360 videos and the available headsets at CITL Spaces. While the workshop is online, you are invited to join us at the Innovation Studio and actually experience VR during our open hours (Tue/Wed 12-3p).
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Dipesh Navsaria (MS ’04), Pediatrician and Medical Director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin, is speaking as part of The Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration.
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Please join us for a conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, and Mohammad Darawshe, a leading political analyst who has spent more than three decades advocating for Israel’s Arab sector. They will discuss their evolving views on Israeli-Arab relations and, more generally, how we can engage...
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Calling all teen creators! Join the Urbana Arts and Culture Program and Krannert Art Museum for a chance to flex your creative muscle in conjunction with the Pandemics as a Portal to Change Exhibition.
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Calling all teen creators! Join the Urbana Arts and Culture Program and Krannert Art Museum for a chance to flex your creative muscle in conjunction with the Pandemics as a Portal to Change Exhibition. This workshop will provide a creative space for you to envision artworks in all mediums that address some of the most pressing issues of our time.
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An award winning documentary debut by Chicago-based filmmaker Jiayan Shi, Finding Yingying presents the tragic story of Yingying Zhang, the 26-year-old Chinese student who disappeared from the University of Illinois campus in 2017.
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Join the Birthplace of Country Music Museum on Tuesday, April 6, 7:00pm for a conversation with author Lydia R. Hamessley about her book Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10am - 2pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian, professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, will present “Critical Algorithm Studies: A View From Inside Computer Science” on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. The event will take place on Zoom from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Central time. Register and learn more at just-infras.illinois.edu.
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tyehimba Jess will be the featured guest at this Inside Scoop as part of the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center Food for the Soul series.
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During this talk, Blair Ebony Smith will interactively engage her current exhibition on view at the Krannert Art Museum, Homemade With Love: More Living Room, a multimedia publicly engaged installation exploring Black girls, women, and femmes everyday interior life and creativity and what it means to make space for it, specifically in a museum context.
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Craft talk with Year of Creative Writers Poet in Residence Tyehimba Jess titled "Poetry’s Musical Bloodline: A Sociohistorical Soundtrack."
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This South African-made film is about Solomon Mahlangu (Thabo Rametsi), a young man who struggles with his political identity in 1970s South Africa. A hero of the struggle against apartheid, Mahlangu would become an international icon of South Africa’s liberation. Discussion moderated by Professor Teresa Barnes.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Drawing on the conceptual distinction between emotionology and actual emotional experiences, this talk calls to reorient critical analysis away from affective computing’s design epistemics to its social life.
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Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
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A book talk and conversation in celebration of Assistant Professor of Classics Clara Bosak-Schroeder's Other Natures: Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography (University of California Press, 2020). Other Natures examines how the ancient Greeks thought about natural resources and how it is relevant to responding to climate change today.
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Presidents, candidates, and politicians of all stripes have visited the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign to solicit student votes, speak on pressing topics, or hold photo-ops. History Professor Nathan Tye (University of Nebraska Kearney) will begin his talk by discussing Abraham Lincoln’s days as a local attorney prior to the University’s founding.
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To support participants in their personal exploration of the exhibit theme Pandemics as a Portal to Change, we’re offering a panel discussion with local artists. Join us for a talk with local creatives to explore art as a tool for social change. We are seeking submissions of art, performance, poetry, spoken word, dance, performance, and more.
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A Year of Creative Writers Poet-in-Residence, Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess, will read from his work. This virtual event is free and open to the public.
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Imara Jones—whose contributions to media and social justice have won Emmy and Peabody Awards—is a journalist, intersectional news producer, and creator of TransLash, a multi-episode series about what it is like to be trangender, especially a trans person of color, at a time of social backlash.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Get to know IFLEX, the newest active learning classrooms on campus. Features and benefits of all the IFLEX classrooms on this campus, including the new Campus Instructional Facility. *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certifica
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Join the Rare Book & Manuscript Library online for our Moms Weekend Virtual Open House. Spend some time with a few unique finds in our collection, such as a historical board game! Visiting Curator Ruthann Mowry will be hosting the virtual session through Zoom and will be available for questions, comments, and conversations. Stay for the whole time or drop-in for 5 minutes.
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Madness as a Curable Illness: Legal Justice and Medical Authority in Qing China (1644-1912) (by Yujie Pu, Ph.D. student in the department of EALC) Women in the Eighteen-Century Jiangnan Region: Commercial Publishing, Recipes, and Everyday Knowledge of Herbal Medicine (by Xinge Zhang, Ph.D. student in the department of EALC).
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Join local C-U trivia host Julie Laut of CU Lockdown trivia for a night of fun and challenging online trivia on world history and cultures. Laut will lead four rounds on empires, geography, mythology, and food. To sign up, fill out the online registration form by Friday, April 9.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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A symposium featuring the work of scholars who study Jewish communities in the Caribbean (18th to 21st centures). Featured speakers include Dara E. Goldman (Illinois), Laura Leibman (Reed College), Stan Mirvis (Arizona State), Dana Rabin (Illinois), and Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carelton University).
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A symposium featuring the work of scholars who study Jewish communities in the Caribbean (18th to 21st centures). Featured speakers include Dara E. Goldman (Illinois), Laura Leibman (Reed College), Stan Mirvis (Arizona State), Dana Rabin (Illinois), and Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carelton University).
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Join us for virtual office hours every Tuesday from 10-11am and Wednesday from 1-2pm on Zoom. Jamie and Megan will be there to answer your questions about the CITL Innovation Spaces, emerging technologies, student engagement, Zoom, PowerPoint, and other educational technologies on campus! Ask us anything! If we don’t have the answer, we’ll point you to someone who does.
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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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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10am - 2pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Have questions about Zoom? Want to learn some new techniques? Join us for a Zoom Showroom event! This event will be held both in-person and virtually, on Tuesday, 4/13 and Wednesday, 4/14 from 10am to 2pm. Drop-ins are welcome and no appointment is needed.
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Join Jenifer L. Barclay, author of The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, author of Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean for an event celebrating the release of their books on April 13 at 12pm ET. Daina Ramey Berry will moderate.
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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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Join us for a screening of the documentary film From Here, followed by a Q & A with director Christina Antonakos-Wallace and two of the film’s subjects, Sonny and Tania. If you have already viewed the film and would like to attend the panel discussion only, you are welcome to register for this event and join us in progress.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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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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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10am - 2pm. Experience 3D printing, Virtual Reality, Laser Cutting and more. Activities are free!
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In this 2-hour online 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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The question of who belongs is at the heart of the political divide in the United States and the European Union. In this interactive workshop, participants will dig into the immigration history of Germany and the U.S., media representations of immigrants, and make connections to their own stories.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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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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In this 2-hour online class, learn how to create a basic Access report, and explore layout and design view. 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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Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
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In this panel, we will talk with the people that know the most about the life cycle of your article and how you can understand its impact. Additionally, we will take a closer look at some of the metrics used to measure impact and ask whether they are useful tools for evaluating scholarship in the humanities.
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Join photographic artist Sheila Pree Bright as she leads Daily Illini student photographers and journalists Farrah Anderson, Salem Isaf, and Quentin Shaw in conversation about the role of photography in capturing moments of civil unrest. This event is part of our Contemporary Conversations series, which instigates conversations around contemporary cultural issues, themes,
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The Big Tech, Information, and Society HRI Reading Group is pleased to host author Alec MacGillis to discuss his book about Amazon, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America. The event is intended to be an informal Q&A rather than a "book talk." We look forward to your contributions and attendance.
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Join the University of Illinois Press for informative sessions about academic publishing. Note, you must register for each panel individually.
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This panel will feature practical tips on virtual events, and address how to partner with your press to raise your book's profile, how to plan out your publicity campaign if you have a forthcoming book, and strategies for pitching op-eds.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Join us as we celebrate the great new things happening on this campus! The Breaking New Ground webinar will offer video tours of brand new buildings: the Siebel Center for Design and the Campus Instructional Facility, plus keynote presentations, campus trivia, prizes, and breakout conversation spaces. Brought to you by the Reimagining the Classroom Symposium.
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Microsoft Teams is a communications tool available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour online workshop, we will learn how to navigate the Teams environment and communicate with others in Teams. We will practice participating in online Teams meetings, and discuss sharing screens and files during meetings. We will create a team and channels.
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"Planetary Entanglements," Virtual Forum with Achille Mbembe (University of Witwatersrand), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (University of Coimbra), and Denise Ferreira da Silva (University of British Columbia). Moderated by Susan Koshy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).