Campus Humanities Calendar
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Is this a good journal to publish in? Is it using predatory practices? Participants in this workshop will learn features to look for when evaluating publication opportunities in order to make an informed choice about where to submit research. Participants will also understand the utility and drawbacks of different journal ranking metrics as a way to evaluate quality.
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Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
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Qualitative research includes a wide range of research methods and data types, which can make it difficult to choose an approach for analyzing your qualitative or mixed-methods data. We’ll explore analyzing data based on research questions, data format and volume, and the intended outcome of your research.
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Learn about our new SCIM Lab, an advanced A/V recording studio for 360 video and motion capture, equipped with advanced AR/VR headsets, 4k cameras, immersive audio systems, greenscreen, and much more. Library tech spaces are available to all campus users.
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Lü Pin is a prominent Chinese feminist activist and an emerging scholar specializing in Gender and Politics. In 2009, she established Feminist Voices, a pioneering and largest new media platform dedicated to women's issues in China, which was banned in 2018. Join us as she reflects about her experiences of being part of the Chinese feminist movement.
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In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how AI can help you brainstorm topics, craft titles and abstracts, create outlines, and copyedit. Along the way, we’ll discuss techniques for writing effective prompts as well as copyright considerations and the limitations of AI-generated texts. There will be plenty of room for experimentation and questions!
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We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 14. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois.
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Join the Interseminars Initiative’s first cohort for a symposium brimming with scholarly panels, installations, exhibitions, and performances, concluding with a reception and book release celebration.
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Qualitative research includes a wide range of research methods and data types, which can make it difficult to choose an approach for analyzing your qualitative or mixed-methods data. We’ll explore analyzing data based on research questions, data format and volume, and the intended outcome of your research.
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KAM is proud to present an artist talk and workshop by Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo in conjunction with Pattern and Process, an exhibition encouraging viewers to investigate how pattern can create and challenge our ways of knowing and interpreting the world.
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We will discuss free tools that are available for conducting qualitative data analysis, with a focus on Taguette and spreadsheet tools. This workshop does not assume any previous knowledge of Taguette or other QDA software, but does expect that you know how to work with data in spreadsheet format.
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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, short stories, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
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We will take a behind-the-scenes look at how these tools are built and discuss the ways people are using AI generated images to create new bodies of work, streamline the research process, and beautifully muddy current and future copyright waters. You’ll learn your rights as an image creator, and hopefully have a few more answers about where the machine’s art ends...
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Arthur Longworth is the author of Zek: An American Prison Story (Gabalfa Press, 2016). He is also a six-time PEN America Prison Writing Award winner, a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee, and a 2019-2020 Writing For Justice Fellow.
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In this talk, Daria Semenova (Slavic Languages & Literatures, UIUC) looks at the early 2000s turn of Ukrainian authors to children's detective stories and adventure fiction to familiarize their readers with topics from Ukrainian history. She will consider stories centered around historic artifacts and places where notable historic events took place...
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Featuring author of "The Intersectional Environmentalist", Leah Thomas, sustainable fashion designer, Niha Elety, Ecofeminism Trivia, and more, the Summit will explore the intersection of social oppression and environmental justice through a series of engaging events.
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The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory offers a series of public lectures on the topics of critical theory every fall semester. Helmut Puff (University of Michigan, Departments of History and Germanic Languages) will deliver a lecture titled “Architectures of Waiting: The Time of the Antechamber.”
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Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use! Zotero is the citation manager of choice for many humanists.
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Award-winning compositions by Anna-Louise Walton (USA), Louis J. Goldford (USA), and Lina Tonia (Greece) will be performed by the Illinois Modern Ensemble, Carlos Carrillo and Stephen A. Taylor, co-directors. The compositions were selected from 402 submissions for the 27th Annual Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award.
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Throughout your life you will, almost certainly, give presentations. We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression?
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Come get rowdy with Rory Book & the Volumes for their big debut at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts!! Rory Book & the Volumes are an up-and-coming Swampadelic Cosmic Country n' Blues band based out of Urbana, Illinois.
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Celebrate the artistry of the calligraphy students of Shozo Sato as they show their work in the Hood Classroom. This is a companion exhibition to The Ink Wash Paintings of Shozo Sato in the Contemporary Gallery.
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Join author Patti McCracken as she discusses her first book, The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring, which tells the story of the so-called Angel Makers of Nagyrev, Hungary.
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Trying to figure out how one event fits within the larger picture? Want to find patterns across hundreds or thousands of texts? Unlock the power of studying text on a large scale through this beginner-friendly introduction to text mining. We'll provide an overview of analytical techniques, identify datasets you can use for your research, and play with...
