Campus Humanities Calendar
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Join us Sept 3 from 12 - 1 pm for the Center for Children's Books Open House! You'll get a chance to check out our space, learn about what we offer, and get some free galleys.
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Critical Race Theory in Cinema Film Series. Sept. 3rd. 7:00 PM Art + Design building 3rd Floor Rm. 331. This week's film, "I Am Not Your Negro" Directed by Raoul Peck. Written by James Baldwin/Raoul Peck 2017
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Mariana Mora (Associate Professor - Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City) will present “When witnessing isn’t enough: reflections on justice and the transformative potential of research.” This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines...
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The SKY Happiness Retreat is an internationally acclaimed life-skills program that helps participants develop a relaxed, stress-free mind and an energetic, healthy body. The retreat teaches tools such as evidence-based meditation, yoga, breathwork, and self-exploration in a fun and experiential format. The retreat is fully funded for all UIUC students.
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Join us for a conversation with artist Millie Wilson, curators David Evans Frantz and Amy L. Powell, moderated by Jill H. Casid, part of the online series The New Social Environment, organized and hosted by the Brooklyn Rail. Sign up to get the Zoom link: kam.illinois.edu/events. (10 am Pacific / 12 pm Central / 1 pm Eastern)
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Join us for a screening of "In Search of Bengali Harlem" followed by remarks and a Q & A with Vivek Bald (director, producer, writer). This presentation is part of the Interseminars culminating event: Collisions Across Color Lines: Reconsidering Racism, Movements, and Epistemes in the Americas.
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Join us for a lecture by professor Jennifer Lackey, the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Her talk will explore how stories can epistemically wrong a person in life-altering ways and yet also be the source of the corresponding epistemic reparations that are called for in response.
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Please join us in our anti-panel conversations about our vessel works. During this segment of the culminating event, we will interact and think through the concepts of resistance, refusal, and re-existence across color lines. A reception will follow.
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Ronnie Grinberg, author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, to offer the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and HGMS kick-off event, generously funded by the Goldberg lecture series
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Ronnie Grinberg examines how masculinity and Jewishness were linked in the minds of the New York intellectuals. Men and women, Jews and non-Jews in the group, all embraced a secular Jewish machismo that at its core prized verbal combativeness, polemical aggression, and an unflinching style of argumentation. Light lunch will be provided.
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The HRI Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis Mondays at 5:30 pm, Lincoln Hall 3057.
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IUC Labor Education Program professor Augustus Wood will join HRI Social Movements Reading Group to discuss his book, Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification on Mon Sept 8 (discussion) and Mon Sept 15 (Q&A) 5:30PM Lincoln Hall 3057.
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Attend this session to learn about the Interseminars Co-Teaching Grant for tenure-stream faculty (application deadline October 3, 2025). Interseminars will fund three interdisciplinary graduate courses in the arts and humanities, each co-taught by two faculty instructors. Each team will receive programming funds for course-related guest speakers and events.
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Dive into Nabil Ayouch’s vibrant musical drama following Anas, a former rapper turned teacher, who empowers Casablanca youth to challenge traditions through hip-hop. Post-screening discussion led by Eric Calderwood (Director of CSAMES and Professor of Comparative & World Literature).
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Kicking off this year’s Modern Critical Theory lecture series, Peter Coviello (English, University of Illinois Chicago) will deliver a talk titled “What is Theory? Inside the Fascist Sequence.”
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This weeks movie: Ixcantul
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Riccardo Muti’s Cherubini Orchestra Cello Quartet will perform in Urbana as part of a five-city tour organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.
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Join the WRC for a discussion with Katie Simon, journalist and author of Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault. The author's talk will take place on Thursday, September 11, from 12-1 PM at the Women's Resources Center (616 E Green St, Suite #213).
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New York–based artist Ronny Quevedo will discuss his solo exhibition Ronny Quevedo: a l l s t a r s, on view at Krannert Art Museum through December 6, 2025. This expansive project includes drawings from several lenders across the United States and a monumental sculpture. He will be joined in conversation by Krannert Art Museum curators Amy L. Powell and Allyson Purpura.
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The Flatlands Dance Film Festival is dedicated to supporting and presenting Dance Cinema, a medium which explores and innovates the intersections between filmmaking and dance making. The festival builds educational platforms, encourages dialogue, and promotes a diverse range of cultural perspectives from around the globe. This year's films coincide with Dance at Illinois'
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is the author of three books of poetry, including Something About Living (UAkron, 2024)/ She is also winner of the 2024 National Book Award.
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Poet, essayist, translator, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is the author of three books of poetry, and a winner of the 2024 National Book Award. Her visit is part of the Illinois Global Institutes "Palestine in the World" series. The IGI Series on Global Responsibilities brings multidisciplinary and global perspectives to major contemporary questions.
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Richard Gilman-Opalsky (Politics & International Affairs, UI Springfield) and Matt Soener (Sociology, UIUC) will deliver lectures on Marxism as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series. Please check the MCT website for the latest location updates. The Box folder of readings for each lecture is available here.
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Join us for an event celebrating the publication of professor Gus Wood's book, Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Resistance, and Repression under Gentrification.
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Syphilis and other treponemal diseases have been understood as “New World” exports to Afro-Eurasia. But recent demonstrate the presence of these diseases in the “Old World."
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Dr. Kahyun Choi (School of Information Sciences), Maryann Naumann (Arizona State University Libraries), and Erika Immel (New Trier High School) join the CCB in a moderated panel discussion about how schools are using AI and the important considerations for youth, and the role of school libraries in supporting best practices.
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Critical Race Theory in Cinema presents the acclaimed 1992 film Daughters of The Dust. Set in the sea islands of South Carolina, this is the story of three generations of Gullah women.
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During this hybrid event, Center for Writing Studies faculty from across disciplines will unpack key terms central to writing research. Join us to hear faculty explore their favorite writing research keywords, the work these terms do in their own scholarship, and how these terms intersect or diverge across fields..
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Professor Jacob Darwin Hamblin will speak on Modeling Harm in Nuclear Environments. More information on The Nuclear Environment Symposium (September 19) can be found here.
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Students! Make sure you are ready to take on service with community organizations! We CU & the Illinois Leadership Center are hosting a workshop on Entering Community Partnerships on Thursday, September 18. The workshop will give students guidance on how to successfully collaborate in and reflect upon community service partnerships.
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Two panels and a roundtable on nuclear weapons and nuclear energy as environmental problems. Toshihiro Higuchi (History, Georgetown U) and Aanchal Saraf (Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute) speak on Temporalities of the Nuclear Age (9:30am-10:45am)...
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The ancient poet Sappho coined “sweetbitter” in one of her most evocative verses, still striking us to the heart nearly three thousand years later. But who was Sappho? RBML’s new exhibit will explore the enigmatic figure as poet, muse, and icon through the millennia. The opening reception will evoke an old form of a symposium: a party with spoken words and dance!
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Join us for a lecture by Sarah Clark Miller, a professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, titled "How to Ground the Ethics of Care."
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Join us for the opening of a Farm Aid exhibit with remarks by curator Dan Gilbert, live music by New Souls, and local refreshments.
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Dr. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Associate Professor, Brandeis University will present, "African Refugees, Gender and the Global Polycrisis" hosted by the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and co-sponsored by the Illinois International Programs, Center for African Studies, Center for Global Studies, Sociology, Gender & Women's Studies, Women's Resources Center...
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Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) in conversation with Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University), moderated by Antoinette Burton (History).
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Anna Hunt (Germanic Languages & Literatures, UIUC) and Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Philosophy, UIUC) will deliver lectures on Walter Benjamin as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series.
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Graduate students: join us to learn from two guest scholars about their experience publishing for different audiences: Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London; fellow of the British Academy) and Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University).
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This engaging documentary is less about religion and doctrine, than it is about a cultural throughline of the African American community from enslavement to our current Racist crisis in the United States. Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the series details how Black Americans adopted and adapted Christianity to create a liberating faith and the church became...
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Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) will present the lecture “Land, property, and the story of 18th century race-making: displacement and belonging between the Caribbean and Britain.” With Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University) responding.
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With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—Imagination, Faith, and Desire is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums.
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Encode AI is a student-led non-profit that co-sponsored SB 1047, California’s landmark AI safety legislation, and that helped developed the AI Bill of Rights under the Biden Administration. Kashyap Rajesh is a sophomore at Cornell University studying information science and government with a minor in Al.
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The Center for Writing Studies is happy to host Dr. Bernadette Calafell! She will be hosting a workshop titled "Using Critical Auto-methodological and Performative Methods in Our Scholarship," and giving a lecture titled "Revolutions are Built on Hope: Cassian Andor and the Revolutionary Politics of Hope in the Star Wars Universe."
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Join us for our first CEAPS Brown Bag of the 25-26 school year with Faculty Travel Grant recipient Sarah Park Dahlen & Michelle Lê for their talk, "Keeping Afloat: Water, War, and Vietnamese Diaspora in Picture Books." Sarah Park Dahlen 박사라 is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences.
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Japan House will be open from 4–6:30pm for Homecoming on Friday, September 26. Please stop by and have a bowl of tea and sweet at our Homecoming Matcha Café, view progress on the Ogura-Sato Annex, and enjoy the gardens!
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Join us for a hybrid event with Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, a historian of modern China and the world, currently teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the history of non-Western information and communication technologies, spanning from printing devices to artificial intelligence, and their intersections with political ideologies and social imaginaries.