Campus Humanities Calendar

Enjoy a dance performance at Krannert Art Museum! Anna Sapozhnikov’s evening-length Good House Keep is inspired by and designed to be presented in midcentury modern spaces throughout the Champaign-Urbana community and in conjunction with the Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture exhibition.

Michelle Campos is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University—the author of Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Early Twentieth Century Palestine., Charles Anderson is an associate professor of history at Western Washington University and a senior editor at Arab Studies Journal.

Join us for a lecture by American composer and pianist Amy Williams. This lecture will be accompanied by the premier of Williams' Last Lines featuring School of Music Professor of bassoon Ben Roidl-Ward.

On the 60th anniversary of U.S. publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, 100 years since Fanon’s birth, UIUC Urban & Regional Planning Professor and Fanon Scholar Lou Turner will join the HRI Social Movements Reading Group for a Q&A on Wretched and its impacts on U.S. social movements including Black Power, Black Studies, and Black Arts.

Jennifer Teper, Head of Preservation Services at the University of Illinois Library, will discuss how she uses science in her work to conserve library collections and special collections.

Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.

To support your summer planning, please join us for an informative session covering an array of opportunities, including fellowships (ACLS and Guggenheim) and sited programs (arts residencies, research libraries, institutes for advanced study). Panelists will share their experiences with the application process and related logistics, followed by conversation and Q & A.