Campus Humanities Calendar
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10:00 am - 4:00 pm 8/26/2021 - 2/26/2022Krannert Art Museum,Main Level, East Gallery, 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820Louise Fishman (United States, 1939-2021) was an established artist known for her ambivalent engagement with male-centered abstract painting traditions. Her physical and process-driven work remakes the abstract expressionist gesture and the minimalist grid into tools that communicate history and emotion centered in her identities as Jewish, feminist, and lesbian.
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12:00 pm 11/2/2021
Dr. Frantsuz investigates the impact of sociopolitical instability on fertility by developing a model based on a modified version of uncertainty reduction theory. He analyzes fertility data from Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia from 1959 to 1998, a period marked by various kinds of instability, to explain some of the sudden short-term fluctuations in fertility.
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12:00 pm 11/2/2021
Join us on Tues., Nov. 2, at 12:00pm, as Angela Lyons, ACE, UIUC; Josephine Kass-Hanna, Business Admin & Management, Saint Joseph Univ. of Beirut; and Alejandro Montoya Castano, ACE, UIUC, discuss "Targeting the Poor during an Economic Crisis and Pandemic: Insights from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon."
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4:00 pm 11/2/2021
This information session is for graduate students interested in applying to the inaugural Interseminars graduate cohort (2022–2023) on the theme of “Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas.”
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4:00 pm 11/3/20211024 Chem Annex
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7:00 pm 11/3/2021100 Gregory Hall
The story of budding love between two Chicana teens growing up in the Huntington Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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5:30 pm 11/4/2021Krannert Art Museum, 500 E Peabody Dr., Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62)
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9:00 am - 4:30 pm 11/5/2021The Newbery Medal – the oldest and most prestigious children’s literature award – is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The symposium will feature scholars from multiple fields – including English, library science and education – and practicing librarians who will discuss the history, legacy, influence and future of the award.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/5/2021Krannert Art Museum, Hood Classroom
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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3:00 - 4:30 pm 11/5/2021
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10:00 am - 6:00 pm 11/6/2021Krannert Art Museum, Lower Level, Auditorium (Room 62)A daylong, international gathering of scholars and artists responding to the work of gay conceptual photographer Hal Fischer, organized in conjunction with HAL FISCHER PHOTOGRAPHS: SERIALITY, SEXUALITY, SEMIOTICS, curated by Tim Dean.
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1:00 - 2:30 pm 11/6/2021University YMCA (1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820)
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All Day 11/9/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/9/2021Associate Director of Healthcare Innovation, Professor Colleen Bushell will present on her interdisciplinary approach to research in computing and healthcare, especially on analyzing genetic data.
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12:00 pm 11/9/2021
Join us Tues., Nov. 9, at noon, as Md Alamgir Hossain, English, UIUC, discusses, "Uneven Development, Dispossession, and Environmental Degradation in Twenty First Century South Asian Fiction." After the discussion, our speaker will address comments and answer questions. All are welcome! Register in advance.
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All Day 11/10/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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4:00 pm 11/10/2021
Please join us for an information session about the inaugural request for proposals for the Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program.
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7:00 pm 11/10/20211090 Lincoln Hall
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
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All Day 11/11/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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10:30 am - 12:00 pm 11/11/2021
This talk explores the peripatetic life and work of the 1930s Shanghai modernist writer Hei Ying. The formal experimentation and musicality of his writing — and especially his engagement with Hollywood cinema and the globally circulating popular music of Hawai'i — allow us to chart the complex material and media circuits out of which Chinese modernism emerged...
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5:30 - 6:30 pm 11/11/2021Hybrid event: Krannert Art Museum Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62) and virtual via Zoom
Join us for an artist talk by Casey Noonan, responding to the work on display in Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics. This artist talk is a hybrid event. Join us in-person in the Krannert Art Museum Auditorium, or attend virtually via Zoom.
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All Day 11/12/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/12/2021Krannert Art Museum, Hood Classroom
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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12:00 pm 11/12/2021Room 210, Levis Faculty Center, Second Floor (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana)Lunch and conversation with Tracy K. Smith, award-winning poet and past U.S. poet laurate. For undergraduate students of all majors!
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3:00 - 4:00 pm 11/12/2021
According to Democracy Index released by The Economist Intelligence Unit based in UK, it says that in the world, there is a declining trend of democracy. There is a growing assumption that the problem lays is in building popular confidence to implement democracy caused by the trust deficit happening in many countries towards the key players and institutions.
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4:30 pm 11/12/2021Krannert Center for the Performing Arts -
All Day 11/13/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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11:30 am - 1:30 pm 11/13/2021
Speaker: Andrew F. Jones (University of California, Berkeley); Robert Tierney (University of Illinois); Jingling Chen (University of Illinois); Tie Xiao (Indiana University); Manling Luo (Indiana University). A session in proseminar, focusing on the studies in modern Chinese literature field and about graduate school and career.
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2:00 pm 11/13/2021Krannert Center for the Performing Arts -
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All Day 11/14/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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All Day 11/16/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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12:00 pm 11/16/2021
Join us Tues., Nov. 16, at noon, as Prof. Magda M. Hasabelnaby, English & Comparative Literature, Ain Shams University, Egypt; Program in Comparative & World Literature, UIUC discusses "The Qur'an as Intertext in Muslim Women Writers in America." After the discussion, our speaker will address comments and answer questions. All are welcome!
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All Day 11/17/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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7:00 pm 11/17/2021100 Gregory Hall
The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.
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7:00 pm 11/17/2021
Film screening of We Loved Each Other So Much on Wed., 11/17, via Zoom, at 7:00pm. A discussion will follow with Mona Khneisser, UIUC Sociology Doctoral Student. Registration link below. All are welcome!
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All Day 11/18/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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3:00 pm 11/18/2021
How does attention to and stewardship of soils point to alternative frameworks for living and dying? Dr. Lyons explores the way life strives to flourish in the face of violence, criminalization, and poisoning produced by militarized, growth-oriented development in the midst of the U.S.-Colombia war on drugs.
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4:00 pm 11/18/2021
Professor Rishi Goyal is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center (in Medical Humanities and Ethics and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society) and founding director of the major in Medical Humanities.
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All Day 11/19/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 11/19/2021Krannert Art Museum, Hood Classroom
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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All Day 11/20/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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All Day 11/21/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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All Day 11/23/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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All Day 11/24/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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All Day 11/25/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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All Day 11/26/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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All Day 11/27/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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All Day 11/28/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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All Day 11/30/2021Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana)
A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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7:30 pm 11/30/2021
Watch brief presentations on Odyssey Project adult education programs throughout the Midwest from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin Madison, and Illinois Humanities (based in Chicago). A Q & A session—and opportunities for conversation— will follow. Community members are welcome and encouraged to attend!