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For the first time, Dance at Illinois heads to the historic Virginia Theatre for Dance at Illinois Downtown, featuring the work of faculty members; Alexandra Barbier, Paige Cunningham-Caldarella, Dr. C. Kemal Nance, Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, 2nd year MFA candidate, Anna Peretz Rogovoy, and the late Dr. Kariamu Welsh, dance pioneer and founder of the Umfundalai technique.
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Robert Sampson, author of "Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins", will be signing books and speaking at the Vintage Base Ball Association Conference about his new book.
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics will include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by noon.
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In this 1-hour online course, you will learn about conditional formatting of data in Microsoft Excel. Topics will also include applying special formatting to numbers.
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Join us in an online session using OneNote where we will discuss the structure of notebooks and how OneNote notebooks work within MS Teams. Prereq: understand Teams and MS OneNote. Link sent if registered by noon
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Aria S. Halliday, author of "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S. Pop Culture", will be signing books and speaking at USC Annenberg about her new book.
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Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.
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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. Register by 8 am to receive the Zoom link.
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Microsoft Teams is a communications platform available through MS Office 365. During this two-hour live online workshop, we will focus on the Teams experience from a team member’s perspective. Topics include learning how to navigate Teams ; communicating with others in Teams (including chat); setting and managing notifications of Team activity. Link sent if registered by 8
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Ken Albala, author of "The Great Gelatin Revival: Savory Aspics, Jiggly Shots, and Outrageous Desserts", will be signing books and speaking at the University of the Pacific about his new book.
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Join Tara Bynum, author of "Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America," as she moderates “The Past, Present, and Future of Phillis Wheatley Peters: 250 Years Later”, a conversation with poet-scholars Dr. drea brown and Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
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In this 1 hour short course you will learn how to work with Excel Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts. Topics will include learning how to create a Pivot Table; rearrange and then format the data; set filters including the use of Slicers and Timelines; and finally creating a Pivot Chart of the data in the Pivot Table. This workshop is aimed at beginner users of Pivot Tables.
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Join us online on the first Thursdays of the month from 12pm-1pm as we welcome new faculty, new stories, and new ways of thinking about the art of teaching.
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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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Undergrad students in the arts and humanities: join HRI at Levis Faculty Center for an hour of coffee, cookies and discussion with HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellow Kadin Henningsen! Kadin will talk about how his background as an artist and printer and how it connects to his research. His mobile printing press will be on site for students to print a souvenir bookmark.
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Join us for the Spring 2023 University of Illinois Press Publishing Symposium. Panels will cover transforming your dissertation into a book and everything you ever wanted to know about book series. Learn more and register for the individual panels here:https://www.press.uillinois.edu/symposium/spring23symposium.html
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Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of "Made in Chicago", will be signing books and speaking at the Chicago Foodways Roundtable at Highland Park Public Library about their new book.
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In this panel discussion we bring together working artists, arts advocates, and affordable housing advocates to understand recent Illinois regional housing trends and to discuss how housing constitutes an important resource for the state’s artists and creative workers.
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Cynthia Clampitt, author of "Destination Heartland", will be signing books and speaking at Clarendale of Algonquin about her new book.
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Register for this 2-hour Outlook session to learn about specific features and tips for using Outlook more productively. Zoom link sent if registered by 8 am.
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Michelle Scott, author of "T.O.B.A. Time", will be signing books and speaking at the AOK Library about her new book.
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Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
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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. Link sent if registered by 8 am
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In this short online course you will learn how to use some of the data analysis features and tools using Excel. Topics will include learning how to subtotal a list of data; set up data validation rules; use Goal Seek, Solver, and Scenarios and basic data tables.
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While facilitating active learning is a great way of engaging students in your classroom, doing so can feel like a challenge in a large lecture hall. In this workshop, we’ll discuss several easy active learning strategies to utilize in lecture-based classes of any size!
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This one-hour online presentation is aimed at campus IT Pros and phone coordinators. We will begin by exploring the Teams Phones interface, management of Contacts, Calls, and Voicemail. We will take a look at the enhancement to Presence status update and Phone settings. We will finish up by sharing process information and support resources.
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Attendees will become familiar with the differences between a dissertation and first book manuscript, and will further learn about identifying points of revision, creating a revision plan/timeline, approaching editors/presses, writing a book proposal, and the publishing process at a glance.
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Robert Cherny, author of "Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend" will be signing books and speaking virtually about his new book.
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He will be in conversation with author Daniel Gumbiner, whose first book, The Boatbuilder, was nominated for the National Book Award and a finalist for the California Book Awards.
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We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Skype for Business, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Link sent if registered by 8 am.
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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.
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This one-hour online presentation is aimed at campus IT Pros and phone coordinators. We will begin by exploring the Teams Phones interface, management of Contacts, Calls, and Voicemail. We will take a look at the enhancements to Presence status upgrade and Phone settings. We will finish up by sharing process information and support resources.
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Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI. More information coming soon!