Center for Global Studies
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In this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change- in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change, and
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We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
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Building upon their recent article, “What Is Information History?,” Bonnie Mak (Information Sciences) and Allen Renear (Information Sciences) introduce ways in which the humanities can engage in the critical examination of AI. Part of the “Think Again...” Event Series.
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Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from community leaders tackling our most pressing public concerns through an unwavering pursuit of social justice. Champaign County Welcoming Plan in Action by NAWC + William Estrada. Free lunch provided.
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Join Jesse McCarthy (English and African American Studies, Harvard University) and Christopher Freeburg (English) for a lunchtime book discussion. Professor McCarthy will briefly introduce his book "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (2024), and then Professor Freeburg will moderate a discussion. Registration required!
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Identity is at once the most central and the most unhappy word in contemporary discourse. Debates continue to rage within literary studies in the academy and in the public sphere at large about when, how, and to what extent, the discourse of identity, and sometimes its associated identity politics, should apply when we engage questions around...
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Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from community leaders tackling our most pressing public concerns through an unwavering pursuit of social justice. We are excited to focus the fall series towards Democracy. Braver Angels. Free Lunch Provided
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AAUW Since 1888, AAUW has been one of the largest funders of women's graduate education, investing in women who go on to change the world. This information session will focus on AAUW's International & American Fellowship.
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Panel: Improvise & Intervene Reflections and Acknowledgements For this cohort of Interseminars fellows and conveners, circle-keeping and reflection have been a methodological commitment. In this talkback, we invite you to learn and hear about the joys, challenges, and lessons of forming an interdisciplinary collective. Refreshments will be served.
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This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Saturday's events include the Body Mapping Family Workshop, Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment I & II, a workshop with invited guest Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and more.
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This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Sunday's events include a tour, Closing Collage & Movement, and Community Dinner Reception.
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Dr. Luz Angela Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Rural and Regional Development at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. This is Part 1 of the series on Women Environmental Defenders and Climate Change in the Amazon.
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"Community Engagement, Rural Edition: Navigating Local Power and Conquering the Fear Factor" explores the unique challenges and opportunities faced by rural communities in fostering effective community engagement. This talk aims to provide practical insights for academics, policymakers, and community leaders working to enhance civic involvement in rural settings.
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Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from Aaron Ammons on Elections and Voting: 2024 and Beyond. Free lunch provided.
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Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed happy hour gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!
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Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.
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Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from Democracy as a way of life by Harry Boyte and Marie Ström. Free lunch provided.
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WGGP Faculty Affiliate Lunch Talk by Dr. Eunmi Mun "Egalitarian Workplaces: Organizational Patterns of Gender Wage Inequality in High Income Countries". This hybrid talk will be hosted in-person at 306 Coble Hall and available via Zoom.
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Giving Voice to the Middle by Jeremy Hobson, host, creator, and executive producer of The Middle. Free lunch provided
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Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.
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Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.
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Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from Rev. Terrance Thomas & Pr. Michael Crosby on 'Bad Faith' documentary. Free lunch provided.
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Effective Fellowship Writing Workshop, October 25, 12-3pm, 306 Coble Hall. Lunch provided with RSVP
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Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...
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Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from community leaders tackling our most pressing public concerns through an unwavering pursuit of social justice. We are excited to focus the fall series towards Democracy. Steve Schwinn. Free lunch provided.
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This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.
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Please join the University YMCA and Diversity & Social Justice Education for our Fall 2024 Friday Forum + Conversation Café series. We will hear from Ilana Redstone on The Certainty Trap: Democracy’s Existential Threat. Free lunch provided.
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Election 2024 on Campus and Across the Country by Prov. John Coleman
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More information to come!
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Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
