Campus Humanities Calendar
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/1/2024Coble Hall 306-801 S Wright St -
5:00 pm 10/1/2024108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright Street)Breaking the Cycle captures the political awakening among Thais after the rise and fall of Thanathorn, a young politician who calls to end the cycle of coups d’etat. The film explores the 2029 election in Thailand, which marked the end of five years of full military rule and a new group of young politicians who campaign against an authoritarian constitution...
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5:00 pm 10/1/2024108 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright Street) and virtual optionThis film captures the political awakening among Thais after the rise and fall of Thanathorn, a young politician who calls to end the cycle of coups d’etat. The film explores the 2019 election in Thailand, which marked the end of five years of full military rule and a new group of young politicians who campaign against an authoritarian constitution.
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 10/1/2024Timo Storck (Psychologische Hochschule Berlin) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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4:00 - 4:50 pm 10/2/2024
This webinar introduces the basic tools and resources for government statistics and data. Attendees will learn about the major federal government and intergovernmental organizations' statistics and data as well as strategies to search for government statistics.
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1:00 - 1:50 pm 10/3/2024Main Library 106
In this workshop, participants will learn about the role and the non-role of the reviewer in the peer review process in contrast to the roles of authors and editors. Participants will be invited to peer review some examples of reviewer’s reports.
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3:00 pm 10/3/2024306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820)Panel discussion on higher education in Ukraine, featuring our BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows: Volodymyr Bazylevych (Chernihiv Polytechnic, focusing on information security and military adaptation); Nataliia Faryna (Ivan Franko National University, specializing in Ukrainian linguistics and education); and Olha Telna (Kharkiv Academy...
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5:30 pm 10/3/2024Illini Union 314BJoin us for the second installment of the Gwendolyn Brooks Social Justice Initiative. This year's featured guest is Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, who will give a public reading Thursday, Oct. 3 2024 at 5:30PM.
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/4/2024
The HathiTrust Digital Library is the world’s largest, holding nearly 17.5 million digitized volumes from research libraries around the world. The HathiTrust Research Center is the research gateway to that enormous, near-universal library. This talk will briefly introduce the Center's text and data mining tools, which allow researchers to computationally analyze...
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4:00 - 6:00 pm 10/4/2024
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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9:30 am - 3:00 pm 10/5/2024Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 W Springfield Ave, Urbana
Champaign-Urbana area kids and families are invited to the 2024 Youth Literature Festival Community Day, a FREE event and open to the public. Join us to celebrate the love of books and reading. A full list of presenting authors is on the website. Puppet shows, author readings, book signings, live music, art displays, and hands-on activities will all be part of the fun!
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11:00 am - 4:00 pm 10/5/2024Japan House (EventBrite registration required)
Japan House's annual Fall Open House resumes on Saturday, October 5 featuring Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji. Traditional Japanese tea ceremonies will be offered at 11am, 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm. At 3pm, Gunji will be giving a free presentation about wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets) and seasonality with a live demonstration to show how to make wagashi.
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/7/2024Online via Zoom
Interested in free and openly licensed textbooks (OER) for your students? Come and learn where to find them, how to create them, and how and when to apply for a grant of up to $10,000 from the Library to make OER.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 10/7/2024809 S. 5th St., Champaign (GEO office in Channing Murray Foundation) / online
A series of discussions on Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin will take place Oct 7, 14, and 21.
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7:30 pm 10/7/2024Smith Memorial Hall, Room 220
Musician, Grammy Award-winner, and author of books including How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll: An Alternative History of Popular Music and Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, Wald will discuss his new book Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories (Hachette, 2024).
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/8/2024Illinois Street Residence Halls, Room ISR 50ABProfessor 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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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/8/2024
Against a backdrop of massive structural shifts in the economic balance of power within the Indian Ocean basin, Zanzibar Was a Country explores the crossed history of struggles for citizenship in Oman and Zanzibar after the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, including the failure of electoral democracy in Zanzibar, long distance Zanzibar nationalism, the negotiation of the...
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/8/2024Architecture 205 and online via Zoom
Participants will dive into AI's multimodal capabilities, discovering how it can generate compelling ideas through conversation, craft vivid imagery, and enhance accessibility. The workshop will cover tools and techniques for integrating AI into various stages of the storytelling process—from brainstorming and character development to world-building and narrative design.
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2:00 - 2:50 pm 10/8/2024Online via Zoom
Mediaspace (mediaspace.illinois.edu) is a YouTube-like service that allows U of I people to post and share videos, and you can use it to promote your research, for teaching, or outreach.
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11:00 - 11:50 am 10/9/2024Grainger 335
This session will cover conceptual design, storytelling techniques, and scriptwriting. Our goal is to set a strong foundation to help researchers understand communication in this popular, innovative format. We will have four subsequent sessions that go into more depth, but this first workshop is paramount to getting started!
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/9/2024University Archives Main Library Room 146 OR on ZoomLecture by Dr. Jennifer T. Bernhard, Department Head and Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. This is a hybrid event and will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) or you can register for the Zoom link.
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/9/2024Main Library 314
This interactive workshop will use practical applications of two AI tools—Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity AI. These tools support your research process, offering intelligent assistance with brainstorming, refining ideas, finding sources, and enhancing your writing development.
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12:00 pm 10/11/2024108 English Building
Join visiting Fulbright researcher Rozafa Berisha for a talk exploring how young women from low-income backgrounds navigate hope and disappointment in a deindustrializing town in north Kosovo.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 10/11/2024Gregory Hall 223 (and virtual option)
Please join us for a lecture by J. David Velleman, the Miller Research Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. In “A Method for Metaethics,” Velleman considers the question “What turns a fact into a reason for acting?” but he doesn’t answer the question; rather, he proposes a method for finding the answer.
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3:30 10/11/2024Room 223 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street
Research regarding Artificial Intelligence is expanding but comes with methodological hurdles. This presentation will focus on the use of qualitative interviews and methods to understand people’s interactions with and perceptions toward AI. It will highlight key methodological challenges as well as outline strategies for addressing them.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 10/14/2024809 S. 5th St., Champaign (GEO office in Channing Murray Foundation) / online
A series of discussions on Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin will take place Oct 7, 14, and 21.
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5:00 pm 10/14/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210From 1918 to 1922 as many as 40,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms of the Russian Civil War. The mass violence in Ukraine was part of a global phenomenon of ethnic and racial violence, which also included the Armenian genocide. This book talk examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the pogroms and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of...
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/15/2024Coble Hall, 801 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820Neide Sosvianin , co-founder of *Versátil Andaimes*, a leading construction equipment rental company, also founded the *Beija-Flor Institute* in 2010 to support vulnerable children and adolescents. Through both ventures, she combines business success with social impact, empowering young people to overcome inequality.
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 10/15/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Near Eastern Studies, Princeton) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/16/2024Main Library 106 and online via Zoom
This workshop will provide a beginner-friendly overview of how artificial intelligent tools interpret pictures and sound to generate new images, videos, and voices.
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 10/17/2024CITL Innovation Studio, Armory 172
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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3:30 - 5:00 pm 10/18/2024Room 223 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street
The Institute of Communications Research (ICR) is delighted to invite you to our Research Seminar event featuring Caleb Carr, Professor of Communication at Illinois State University, speaking on AI in Communication Research.
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12:00 pm 10/21/2024Room 126, 501 E. Daniel OR Zoom
Gryphon Lecture: Rethinking the Influence of Religion and Religious Identity in Contemporary US Children's Literature. A lecture by Professor Anastasia Ulanowicz. This talk centers on middle-grade novels produced during the oft-neglected Second Golden Age of children's literature (1950-1980), which demonstrate complex engagements with religious identity and practice.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 10/21/2024809 S. 5th St., Champaign (GEO office in Channing Murray Foundation) / online
A series of discussions on Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Fernando Gapasin will take place Oct 7, 14, and 21.
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5:00 pm 10/21/2024Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St.)
Join us for a free screening of The Guide, a film that follows a young boy and a blind man as they navigate the treacherous landscapes of Ukraine during the 1930s, escaping from Soviet authorities and seeking safety amidst the backdrop of the Holodomor famine. The screening is free and open to the public and is part of the Stand With Ukraine Through Film Initiative.
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/22/2024
This workshop provides an overview of the legal considerations for researchers, creatives, and professionals navigating the evolving landscape of AI. We will learn about ownership, fair use, and legal obligations when using copyrighted material.
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4:00 pm 10/22/2024Robert 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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5:15 - 6:45 pm 10/22/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Eddie O'Byrn (African American Studies, UIUC) & Emma Velez (Gender & Women’s Studies, UIUC) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Relevant readings are available in the corresponding Box folder. For more information, including access to the readings, please contact t
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10:00 - 10:50 am 10/23/2024
JSTOR is a digital library with access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines (primarily focused on humanities and social sciences). Recently, JSTOR merged with Artstor, a digital image database.
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12:00 - 12:50 pm 10/23/2024
Attendees will become familiar with the differences between a dissertation and first book manuscript, and will further learn about identifying points of revision, creating a revision plan/timeline, approaching editors/presses, writing a book proposal, and the publishing process at a glance.
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5:30 - 7:30 pm 10/23/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 424Join 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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6:00 pm 10/23/2024Knight Auditorium at Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801Join us for a FREE screening of Padauk: Myanmar Spring followed by a discussion led by the Director of The Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS), Matt Winters. Padauk: Myanmar Spring takes the viewer to the streets of Myanmar during the heady days following the February 2021 military coup.
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11:00 am - 1:00 pm 10/24/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Please join us for 2 talks by recent CAS Associates! At 11am, Brett Kaplan (Comparative & World Literature) discusses her most recent book project, "Epiphany's Lament" and at noon, Ben Grosser (Art + Design) speaks on "Finite Social Media, Degrowth Aesthetics, and Reimagined Digital Futures."
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4:00 - 6:00 pm 10/24/2024182 ArmoryFaculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome to attend the launch of HEAT, a new initiative connecting cultural and global studies with interactive, immersive, and AI-related design tools that encourage critical and collaborative engagement.
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5:30 pm 10/24/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Gloria Groom will discuss an exhibition of the work of Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte, coming next year to the Art Institute of Chicago next year.
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6:00 pm 10/24/2024Zoom registration required
Jesse Erickson, Astor Curator of Printed Books & Bindings at the Morgan Library, joins the RBML virtually to discuss Black bibliographical exploration and trace the migrations of Black Vernacular English (BVE) from 18th-century literature to that of the hip hop generation. This Zoom presentation is open to the public; please pre-register at go.illinois.edu/Erickson.
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8:20 am 10/25/2024 - 10/26/2024Room 108 of the Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., UrbanaIn keeping with the general tendency of contemporary scholarship, the most prominent works on “Socratic” theology to date are really works on the theology of Socrates as it is represented in Plato’s writings.
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9:00 am - 6:30 pm 10/25/2024Levis Faculty Center
Join us for the Latine Studies Graduate Student Conference "Reclaiming Insurgency." The conference will feature interdisciplinary graduate research and keynote speakers Joshua Briond and Akua N.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 10/25/2024Exploring the Gutters: Illinois’ South Asian Comics Collection This talk by Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies & Global Popular Culture Librarian, will look into the history and evolution of the South Asian comics collection situated within the context of comics production and circulation in South Asia and showcase samples
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11:00 am - 4:00 pm 10/25/2024Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 10/25/2024Natural History Building Room 2049 & Zoom
Prof. Alzate explores ways of “entering the body” as something that can be mapped, in connection to place: family spaces, hospitals, the space where we migrated from, and larger social spaces. She will describe the affordances of body maps to explore the body as storage of trauma, maps as narratives, and pushes for communal aesthetics in graphic design.
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12:00 - 1:30 pm 10/25/2024514 Illini Union Bookstore
The Critical Disciplinarity Collective convenes faculty of all ranks to reflect on disciplinarity – how it shapes our research + teaching, how we shape-shift to succeed in our disciplines, + how we might reshape our disciplines to be more welcoming to scholars + scholarship underrepresented in the academy.
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10:00 am - 4:00 pm 10/26/2024Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
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8:00 am 10/28/2024University YMCA Latzer Hall, Monday, October 28, 2024 11:30-1pm
What does “civic health” mean? Civic health measures how healthy a community is in a civic sense, including how much people vote, volunteer, talk to neighbors, trust government, and feel they belong and matter.
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11:30 am - 1:00 pm 10/28/2024University YMCA Latzer Hall, Monday, October 28, 2024 11:30-1pm
What does “civic health” mean? Civic health measures how healthy a community is in a civic sense, including how much people vote, volunteer, talk to neighbors, trust government, and feel they belong and matter.
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4:00 pm 10/28/2024Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, UrbanaIGB-HRI Distinguished Public Lecture Series: "Linking Life Sciences and Humanities" with Jennifer Raff, PhD. Raff is an award-winning author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas (KU).
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5:00 pm 10/28/2024Gregory Hall 223
Join us for Dr. Claire Jiménez's lecture "Noise As Meaning: An Exploration of Voice." Drawing upon the Barbadian scholar and poet Kamau Brathwaite’s assertion that the “noise” is part of the meaning, Jiménez, author of What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez, explores the pedagogical implications of teaching “voice” in the creative writing workshop.
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5:30 pm 10/28/20241001 Huff Hall
In this presentation, titled "Free to Exist: Insights into the Participation of LGBTQIA+ Young People in Sport and Physical Activity", Dr. Ryan Storr (Swinburne University, Australia) will share data on factors influencing LGBTIQA+ young people’s engagement in sport/physical activity and share recommendations for creating inclusive and welcoming sports environments.
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3:30 pm 10/29/2024Illini Union Book Store: 2nd Floor Author's Corner
Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia offers a history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom
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5:15 - 6:45 pm 10/29/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
Tithi Bhattacharya (History, Purdue University) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Relevant readings are available in the corresponding Box folder.
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3:00 - 3:50 pm 10/30/2024
This workshop will teach you how to make common word processing documents accessible for screen readers and how to make presentations accessible for a wide range of users. We’ll cover MS Word, PPT, Google Docs, PDFs, and best practices for accessibility you can incorporate across formats.
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6:00 pm 10/30/2024Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium
The Civic Café is a conversation series by scholars, educators, and community advocates to advance pillars of democracy and civic education.
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6:00 pm 10/30/2024Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium
The Civic Café is a conversation series by scholars, educators and community advocates to advance pillars of democracy and civic education. Join Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, President of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), and Will Creeley, Legal Director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), for a discussion on the landscape...
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7:00 - 8:00 pm 10/30/2024Analog Wine Library, 129 N. Race Street, Urbana
Please join us for a group discussion of our first reading of the year: Richard Powers' new novel Playground. We will use this novel as a lens to discuss the roles of technology in society, and the dread, fear, and awe that technology may inspire.
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7:30 pm 10/30/2024Levis Faculty Center, Room 300Focusing 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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3:30 pm 10/31/2024Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801
Please join the EU Center this Halloween for a screening of the critically acclaimed Swedish horror film, "Let the Right One In,” which tells the story of the friendship between a bullied boy and a child vampire, Eli. Dr. Theo Malekin (Germanic) will give brief opening remarks.