Library - Scholarly Commons
This calendar includes events sponsored by the Scholarly Commons as well as those by
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Louise Fishman (United States, 1939-2021) was an established artist known for her ambivalent engagement with male-centered abstract painting traditions. Her physical and process-driven work remakes the abstract expressionist gesture and the minimalist grid into tools that communicate history and emotion centered in her identities as Jewish, feminist, and lesbian.
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Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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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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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Tuesdays from 10am - 4pm. Experience 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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During this two hour-long session, we will go over the basics of the Photoshop interface and some resources on how to continue learning features. Instructor will point out her favorite beginner tutorials and resources. Q & A to follow
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Tyrone McKinley Freeman, author of "Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow," will give the opening plenary at the Indiana Philanthropy Alliance's Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Symposium.
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HRI is pleased to co-sponsor a series of programs on music improvisation featuring New England-based guitarist Joe Morris, widely recognized as one of the most original and important improvising artists of our time. Morris will offer a lecture and performance on Wednesday, October 6 and workshop on Friday, October 8, 2021.
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Join Jake Johnson, author of "Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America" for a virtual event with NYU's Center for Religion and Media.
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Join Deborah Kanter for a virtual author lecture during Hispanic Heritage Month.
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HRI is pleased to co-sponsor a series of programs on music improvisation featuring New England-based guitarist Joe Morris, widely recognized as one of the most original and important improvising artists of our time. Morris will offer a lecture and performance on Wednesday, October 6 and workshop on Friday, October 8, 2021.
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ow on campus following their virtual conversation with Chancellor Jones this past spring, Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, and Mohammad Darawshe, a leading political analyst and advocate for Israel’s Arab sector, will delve more deeply into the impact of current conflicts and how we can remain in dialogue...
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Are you an international graduate student preparing to take the English Proficiency Interview (EPI) this Fall? In these workshops, you will learn about the structure of the exam, get tips on how to prepare effectively, and practice answering questions with other workshop participants.
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Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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Dr. Tanya L. Saunders is an Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Gender, Sexualities and Women's Studies at the University of Florida. Their 2015 book, Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, was published by the University of Texas Press and is recently translated into Portuguese.
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HRI is pleased to co-sponsor a series of programs on music improvisation featuring New England-based guitarist Joe Morris, widely recognized as one of the most original and important improvising artists of our time. Morris will lead a workshop on the afternoon of Friday, October 8, where students, faculty, and community members are invited to participate.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Tuesdays from 10am - 4pm. Experience 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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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.
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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 Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for an Instagram live with Harriet's Bookshop to celebrate her new book, "The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora."
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Join the Evanston History Center for a presentation by Cara A. Finnegan as she discusses her new book, Photographic Presidents, Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital.
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Lecture by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Professor and Chair of Near Eastern Studies Department and Director of Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.
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Join us for the “Transformative Learning through Zine Making” research cluster’s capstone event where you’ll hear from students, librarians, faculty, and staff about how zines and comics have enhanced their scholarship and teaching practices.
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Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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Join us virtually for the second session of the Poverty Seminar Series on Friday, Oct. 15, at noon, as University of Chicago Prof. Julia Henly presents "Policy Measures to Increase Child Care Stability for Low-Income Families: Equity Impacts of Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Reform." Register & submit questions for Q&A following the presentation.
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Join Rachel Afi Quinn, PH.D. and Dr. LeConte Dill for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo."
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Tuesdays from 10am - 4pm. Experience 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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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 after registration.
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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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Tyrone McKinley Freeman, author of "Madam C.J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy During Jim Crow," will give the closing keynote at the Association of Fundraising Professionals' LEAD.
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Curators Dr. Maureen Warren (Krannert Museum of Art), Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle (University of Massachusetts Boston), Dr. Anita Haldemann (Kunstmuseum Basel), and Dr. Sooa Im McCormick (Cleveland Museum of Art) will discuss how the pandemic and racial struggles have reshaped global museum work.
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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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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Word interface while we type text on a page, fix spelling errors, change spacing and page margins, and save our work. We will practice navigating the document; select text to make revisions; and move text by cutting and pasting. Formatting tools will be next, where we will learn how to emphasize text.
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Join Spencer Keralis (DH Librarian) and Glen Worthey (Associate Director for Research Support Services, HathiTrust Research Center) for an Open Office Hours to chat about DH projects and resources at Illinois. All are welcome! Drop in for as little or as much time as you’d like.
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In this 2-hour workshop we will explore the mail merge features in Word including working with various data sources such as Excel and Access; working with rules; and creating and printing labels. Email merge will also be explored.
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Join Jenny Carson, author of "A Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice" for a book talk with LAWCHA.
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Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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Join Wanda Hendricks, author of "Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women’s Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid", as she speaks at the YWCA World Service Council virtual meeting.
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Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, author of The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora for a book talk at the Well Read Black Girl Festival.
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In this 2-hour short online course, you will become familiar with the Excel's interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Tuesdays from 10am - 4pm. Experience 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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This two-hour online session will introduce you to Access, Microsoft's relational database application. Attendees will take a tour of the objects in an Access database, including tables, queries, forms, and reports.
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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.
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Are you a PhD or MFA student in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign thinking of applying for a residential Humanities Research Institute Campus Fellowship for AY 2022-23? If so, please join us for a discussion of how to approach the application process.
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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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he first of New Books, New Feminist Directions event will feature Stephanie Vander Wel, Associate Professor of Music at UB, whose book Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women’s Country Music 1930-1960 (Illinois 2020) was named by PopMatters as one of the top nonfiction books of 2020. Professor Nadine “Dean” Hubbs from the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the
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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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In this 2-hour short course you will learn how to add, divide, multiply, and subtract by entering formulas into Excel 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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Learn tricks on how to captivate your audience with a more engaging presentation. *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_certificates.
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Learn the basics of Skype for Business to get started including navigating the interface, learning about availability or presence status, adding contacts to a contact list, and more. We will explore voice and video features, settings, and messaging.
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In this 2-hour online workshop, participants will learn how to create a two-page InDesign brochure from scratch, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Link sent after registration.
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This information session is for graduate students interested in applying to the inaugural Interseminars graduate cohort (2022-2023) on the theme of “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas.”
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Franita Tolson (Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law in the Gould School of Law, University of Southern California) will present on her forthcoming book In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era, followed by responses from Marsha Barrett (History) and Michael Morley (Law, Florida State University).
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This symposium will examine how culture moves and circulates: across space, time, material conditions, technologies and affects. We will consider how movement shapes and reshapes the cultural domain, creating new relationships between people, objects and practices. How does movement shape a community’s perception of local space and cultural identity?