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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 Gina Velasco, author of "Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora" for a book talk.
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A properly designed database makes it easier to work with up-to-date, accurate information. Investing the time required to learn the principles of good relational database design ensures that you will end up with a database that meets your needs and can easily accommodate change. This online workshop provides guidelines for planning an Access database.
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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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Dr. Frantsuz investigates the impact of sociopolitical instability on fertility by developing a model based on a modified version of uncertainty reduction theory. He analyzes fertility data from Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia from 1959 to 1998, a period marked by various kinds of instability, to explain some of the sudden short-term fluctuations in fertility.
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Join us on Tues., Nov. 2, at 12:00pm, as Angela Lyons, ACE, UIUC; Josephine Kass-Hanna, Business Admin & Management, Saint Joseph Univ. of Beirut; and Alejandro Montoya Castano, ACE, UIUC, discuss "Targeting the Poor during an Economic Crisis and Pandemic: Insights from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon."
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In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.
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In-person and Online. Do you have questions about being a Teaching Assistant? Join us for TA Huddle to share stories and discuss your concerns with other TAs. In this informal, collaborative space you can talk about all aspects of your teaching experiences and develop your TA toolkit, one chat at a time.
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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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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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In this 2-hour online workshop, you will learn how to select data in an Excel worksheet and work with Chart tools to customize the chart type, chart layout, and chart style that best represents the selected data. Once the chart is exactly the way you want it, we will learn how to save it as a template to use again.
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The story of budding love between two Chicana teens growing up in the Huntington Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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In this 2-hour online course learn how to create and work with Access forms. Create a new form using the form wizard and explore layout and design view. Add and modify form controls including a calculated control and lookup control.
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The Newbery Medal – the oldest and most prestigious children’s literature award – is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The symposium will feature scholars from multiple fields – including English, library science and education – and practicing librarians who will discuss the history, legacy, influence and future of the award.
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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 Einav Rabinovtich-Fox, author of "Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism," for an online lecture about her book.
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The University of Illinois Press is having an overstock yard sale on Saturday November 6 from 9am-12pm! $1 paperbacks, $2 hardcovers. Come visit our tent at 1325 S Oak Street, Champaign. Street parking available.No presales. No sale if it rains.
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A daylong, international gathering of scholars and artists responding to the work of gay conceptual photographer Hal Fischer, organized in conjunction with HAL FISCHER PHOTOGRAPHS: SERIALITY, SEXUALITY, SEMIOTICS, curated by Tim Dean.
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Join Tomie Hahn, author of "Arousing Sense: Recipes for Workshopping Sensory Experience," for a workshop at ACMHE.
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Join Deborah Kanter, author of "Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican," for a book talk at the The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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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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Learning communities are a powerful way for people to come together to achieve common learning goals. However, fostering conditions that promote an online community for shared learning and knowledge construction can be daunting to even the most experienced facilitators. Join us as we discuss effective ways to establish and grow productive online learning communities.
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Associate Director of Healthcare Innovation, Professor Colleen Bushell will present on her interdisciplinary approach to research in computing and healthcare, especially on analyzing genetic data.
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Join us Tues., Nov. 9, at noon, as Md Alamgir Hossain, English, UIUC, discusses, "Uneven Development, Dispossession, and Environmental Degradation in Twenty First Century South Asian Fiction." After the discussion, our speaker will address comments and answer questions. All are welcome! Register in advance.
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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 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 for the University of Illinois Press Fall Publishing Symposium on November 9, 2021 from 4-5:50 PM CST. Panels are Beyond the Monograph and New Directions for Marketing Academic Work. Learn more and register for the panels here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/symposium/fall21symposium
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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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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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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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will start working through some curriculum, work with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Register by 8 am to get meeting link sent.
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the whole set of features for managing information in Excel tables. These features make all the typical tabular manipulations—sorting, filtering, analyzing, and formatting, easier than ever.
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Please join us for an information session about the inaugural request for proposals for the Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program.
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Join Kathy Forde, co-editor of "Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America," for a book talk at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT.
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Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
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Join Benetta Jules Rosette and JR Osborn authors of "African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture "for a workshop hosted by the Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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This 2-hour online class introduces the Access 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, and action queries.
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This talk explores the peripatetic life and work of the 1930s Shanghai modernist writer Hei Ying. The formal experimentation and musicality of his writing — and especially his engagement with Hollywood cinema and the globally circulating popular music of Hawai'i — allow us to chart the complex material and media circuits out of which Chinese modernism emerged...
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Join us for an artist talk by Casey Noonan, responding to the work on display in Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics. This artist talk is a hybrid event. Join us in-person in the Krannert Art Museum Auditorium, or attend virtually via Zoom.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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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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Lunch and conversation with Tracy K. Smith, award-winning poet and past U.S. poet laurate. For undergraduate students of all majors!
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Please join us for this event as we 1) help connect misinformation researchers at the university, 2) foster some interdisciplinary teams interested in collaborating on external submissions, and 3) learn more about the needs of existing and emerging research groups on campus.
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According to Democracy Index released by The Economist Intelligence Unit based in UK, it says that in the world, there is a declining trend of democracy. There is a growing assumption that the problem lays is in building popular confidence to implement democracy caused by the trust deficit happening in many countries towards the key players and institutions.
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Join Sowande' Mustakeem, author of Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage for a lecture about her book as part of the Pioneers in Preservation Series.
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Join Mecca Jamilah Sullivan author of "The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora," at the 40th Anniversary Celebration of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color with Cherríe Moraga, Cheryl Clarke, and others.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Speaker: Andrew F. Jones (University of California, Berkeley); Robert Tierney (University of Illinois); Jingling Chen (University of Illinois); Tie Xiao (Indiana University); Manling Luo (Indiana University). A session in proseminar, focusing on the studies in modern Chinese literature field and about graduate school and career.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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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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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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Are you concerned that your students may not be adequately engaged during online learning activities? Being fully engaged 100% of the time is not a realistic expectation, but there are a variety of ways to promote student engagement so they can get the most out of their online learning. This workshop will focus on practical strategies to engage our students.
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Join us Tues., Nov. 16, at noon, as Prof. Magda M. Hasabelnaby, English & Comparative Literature, Ain Shams University, Egypt; Program in Comparative & World Literature, UIUC discusses "The Qur'an as Intertext in Muslim Women Writers in America." After the discussion, our speaker will address comments and answer questions. All are welcome!
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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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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Join Robert M. Marovich and Rev. Dr. Stefanie Minatee for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Peace Be Still: How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic" on November 17 at 12pm CT.
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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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The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.
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Film screening of We Loved Each Other So Much on Wed., 11/17, via Zoom, at 7:00pm. A discussion will follow with Mona Khneisser, UIUC Sociology Doctoral Student. Registration link below. All are welcome!
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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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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How does attention to and stewardship of soils point to alternative frameworks for living and dying? Dr. Lyons explores the way life strives to flourish in the face of violence, criminalization, and poisoning produced by militarized, growth-oriented development in the midst of the U.S.-Colombia war on drugs.
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Professor Rishi Goyal is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center (in Medical Humanities and Ethics and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society) and founding director of the major in Medical Humanities.
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Join Join Benetta Jules Rosette and JR Osborn authors of "African Art Reframed: Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture" for a museum panel at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference in Baltimore.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Join Cynthia Clampitt author of, "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a talk with the LaSalle Library.
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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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University of Illinois Prof. Eliza Forsythe will present "Inequality and Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic."
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Join Tomie Hahn, author of "Arousing Sense: Recipes for Workshopping Sensory Experience," for a lecture titled “Troubling failure(s): Situating bodies in research and art” at AMS.
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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 NWSA