Campus Humanities Calendar
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The 2025 MLK Jr. Commemorative theme is “Our Beloved Community: Protecting, Freedom, Justice & Democracy”. The Committee invites nominations for the 2025 MLK Champions Recognition.
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Celebrate the end of the semester with this special movie screening courtesy of the Japan Foundation Film Series! Japan House will feature Finding Calico, 2015, dir. Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA, a highly acclaimed film to showcase Japanese cinema. Admission to the screening is free but registration is required due to limited space.
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Celebrate the end of the semester with this special movie screening courtesy of the Japan Foundation Film Series! Japan House will feature Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, 2021, dir. Ayumu WATANABE, a highly acclaimed film to showcase Japanese cinema. Admission to the screening is free but registration is required.
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Are you hosting a Black History Month event? Whether it’s a discussion, performance, or community activity, we want to feature it! We are gathering Black History Month events into one central calendar, so submit your program to https://go.illinois.edu/BHMC2025 by January 8, 2025! Allow us to highlight all the amazing work happening on campus and in the local community!!
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Zisl Sleplovitch and co., Songs from Testimonies
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Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.
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The Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us at this info session for more information about this opportunity.
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Are you interested in expanding your global connections, working abroad, or learning about funding opportunities for international projects? Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work.
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Lunch launch of HGMS and German Professor Anke Pinkert’s new book, Remembering 1989.
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Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
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Join Digital Humanities Librarian Mary Ton for a hands-on workshop on project design. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. We’ll also identify tools to help you organize your citations, files, and photos.
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Based on two years of ethnographic interviews with patients of chronic illness and participant observation with practitioners of complementary medicine in California, this talk examines what “sensitivity” can provide as a source of information about the relationship between the individual and the environment, and how this impacts health.
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The Humanities Research Institute and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline that changed the field in important ways.
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Community Speaker Series panelists: Tracy Barkley (Directory, Sola Gratia Farm) Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education) Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction)
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Join us for an evening of jazz and poetry with award-winning poet Janice N. Harrington (Creative Writing/English) and musician Charles “Chip” McNeill (Music). Harrington will read selections from her book Yard Show with musical accompaniment by McNeill and student musicians from the University of Illinois School of Music.
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Keynote speakers: Dr. Rituparna Roy and Vishwajyoti Ghosh.
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Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.
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A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay.
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Photographers Ara Oshagan and Levon Parian will present a two-part art exhibit from their iWitness project at the Siebel Design Center in the spring culminating in a moderated talk at 5pm on April 24th at the Siebel Center.
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Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.
