Center for Global Studies
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Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series. Faculty Host: Josep Torrellas.
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Just Infrastructures announces its inaugural Speaker Series with Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, presenting “What is Media Manipulation?” on Feb. 3, 2021. The event is on Zoom from 12-1p.m. central time.
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This talk focuses on detention care and its deadly consequences in the United States. Between October 2003 and November 2020, there were at least 216 deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, many the result of grossly inadequate medical practices.
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Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
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Join us for another installment in our Spring Seminar Series, featuring our very own Professor Caitlin Vitosky Clarke. This seminar will take place on Friday, February 5th, 2021 at 9AM via Zoom. We hope to see you there!
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Looking for a way to jump start your semester? Join the SRS for an afternoon of trivia on the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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In February 2021, HRI will be hosting a series of grant development workshops with Professor Bill Hart-Davidson from Michigan State University. These sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more.
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Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series. Faculty Host: Tianyin Xu
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February 9th guest speaker Dr. Brenda Molano-Flores is Senior Plant Ecologist at the Illinois Natural History survey part of the Prairie Research Institute and will speak about her research on plant reproductive ecology, conservation biology and plant-insect interactions.
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Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series. Faculty Host: Chengxiang Zhai.
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Led by Assistant Dean for Career & Professional Development in the Graduate College, Derek Attig, this information session for potential applicants to the HWW Summer Bridge Experience will explain the application process.
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Join us for a conversation with Amna Akbar and Jackie Wang on abolition. Featuring two scholar-activists who focus on the law and political economy, this conversation seeks to address questions of policing, imprisonment, and long-unfolding threats to democracy...
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We look forward to welcoming Sociology at Illinois alum Chloe E. Bird (MA/PhD) as a speaker in our Spring Seminar Series. Bird currently serves as a Senior Sociologist at the RAND Corporation, where she studies women's health, determinants of differences between men's and women's health, and health care. Join us on Friday, February 12th, 2021 at 10AM via Zoom.
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In February 2021, HRI will be hosting a series of grant development workshops with Professor Bill Hart-Davidson from Michigan State University. These sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more.
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YMCA Friday Forum Series: February 12 | #DigitalFaith – Keeping the Faith Remotely Speaker: Dr. Sable Manson, The University of Southern California Description: In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, many of us are using technology more than ever before. The world of technology opens many doors for global connection, but does it also come with consequences?
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Welcome back to school and to Sociology! Student Ambassadors will host an event for students to connect with each other, for Ambassadors to introduce themselves and discuss our event calendar, and meet some faculty and staff!
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Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series. Faculty Host: Darko Marinov.
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Book club discussion for Illinois Alumna Mikki Kendall’s book “Hood Feminism”. Please email Anita Kaiser at arkaiser@illinois.edu if you would like a complimentary copy of the book. Limited copies available.
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Tenure-stream faculty who wish to learn more about the Interseminars Initiative are encouraged to attend this Zoom info session. This new initiative will provide funding and administrative infrastructure for interdisciplinary inquiry, including collaborative teaching, graduate fellowships, and support for public- or community-facing research in the humanities and arts.
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Women & Gender in Global Perspectives and the Women’s Resources Center are thrilled to host a virtual screening of the acclaimed documentary, RBG. This film follows the life and legacy of the late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It will be available for viewing, for free, beginning at 4 p.m. CST on Tuesday, February 16th until 4 p.m. CST Thursday, February 18th
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On Wednesday, February 17th at 4 p.m. CST, there will be a virtual conversation with RBG film directors, Julie Cohen and Betsy West. This is event is hosted by Women & Gender in Global Perspectives and the Women’s Resources Center and is co-sponsored by Gender & Women’s Studies. Please share widely, and we hope to see you there!
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What pressures have graduate students faced while trying to conduct their international research in the past year? How can universities respond, and what lessons can we save for the future? Join us as graduate students and faculty reflect on these important questions, based on their experiences in the past year.
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In this talk, Professor Gad Yair from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will present results from a qualitative study of 40 adults, aged 27-35, who at age 17 underwent examinations for serving in elite Israeli military units. The results provide sobering testimonies for the symbolic violence that examinations exert on young people.
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In February 2021, HRI will be hosting a series of grant development workshops with Professor Bill Hart-Davidson from Michigan State University. These sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more.
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YMCA Friday Forum Series: February 19 | "Disrupting Disinformation" Speaker: Miriam Larson, Independent Media Center Description: In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, many of us are using technology more than ever before. The world of technology opens many doors for global connection, but does it also come with consequences?
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Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
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Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
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Carwil Bjork-James conducts immersive and historical research on disruptive protest, grassroots autonomy, state violence, and indigenous collective rights in Bolivia. He is an assistant professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia (University of Arizona Press, 2020).
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Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series. Faculty Host: Ruta Mehta
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Come join us for a fun event featuring delicious food! On February 23rd at 3:30pm, Kuldeepa Vartak-Mehta will make traditional chai tea for us. The recipe will be shared with all attendees after the event so that all of you can make it at home as well!
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Catherine D’Ignazio, Director of the Data + Feminism Lab at MIT, and Lauren Klein, Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Emory, will be presenting Data Feminism on Wednesday, February 24th, 2021. The event will take place on Zoom from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Central time. Find more information and register for the event at just-infras.illinois.edu.
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Panelists include Shahram Khosravi (Anthropology, Stockholm University), Maurice Stierl (Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick) and Martina Tazzioli (Politics and International Relations, Goldsmiths University).
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Part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series. Faculty Host: Sanmi Koyejo
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The Slavic Reference Service at UIUC invites you to attend our online Doctoral Dissertation Workshop on Feb. 25th from 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM. Topics include publishing, research support, peer mentoring and much more.
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Working on Chiang and Wong’s (2016) call to ‘queer the transnational turn’ through a consideration of regionalism in the examination of queer modernities in Asia, five panelists are assembling for a discussion of queer global Asias.
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This installment of our Spring Seminar Series features our second international presenter, Juliette Galonnier, of the Center for International Studies in France. Join us on Friday, February 26th, 2021 at 9AM via Zoom.
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In February 2021, HRI will be hosting a series of grant development workshops with Professor Bill Hart-Davidson from Michigan State University. These sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more.
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YMCA Friday Forum Series: February 26 | "Technology and Data for Positive Social Impact" Speaker : Lauren Haynes, Code for America Description: In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, many of us are using technology more than ever before. The world of technology opens many doors for global connection, but does it also come with consequences?
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The Sociology Advising Office is happy to announce a Spring internship/job resource workshop series for undergraduate students! This first installment aims to give our students all the tools they need to conduct a successful job/internship search, step by step.
