Campus Humanities Calendar

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    • 4:00 pm
      9/19/2024

    Building upon their recent article, “What Is Information History?,” Bonnie Mak (Information Sciences) and Allen Renear (Information Sciences) introduce ways in which the humanities can engage in the critical examination of AI. Part of the “Think Again...” Event Series.

    • 4:00 pm
      9/19/2024
    • Auditorium, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

    In an era of increased awareness of diversity and inclusion, understanding hidden bias and its impact on educational institutions has become paramount. Professor Mahzarin Banaji is an experimental psychologist who has spent 35 years understanding how the mind works in social contexts.

    • 4:00 pm
      9/19/2024
    • Lincoln Hall 1028

    Join the Animal Turn Research Cluster for their first event of the term. Babette Tischleder is Professor of North American Studies at University of Göettingen, Germany. Her talk is titled Hidden Among Us: Urban WildLife and Nonfiction Writing.

    • 4:00 pm
      9/19/2024
    • 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St.)

    Join Erik Scott for a discussion of his recent book, "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World." This groundbreaking book, recently published by Oxford University Press, explores how defectors, pursued by their home states and coveted by the U.S. and allies, influenced global borders and intelligence rivalries.

    • 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
      9/20/2024
    • Illini Union, Room 210

    On 20 September, the Trowbridge Initiative will host Sunny Xiang in conversation with Joe Ponce, and Lucy Alford in conversation with Rachel Galvin to discuss their recent studies in American literary history in Room 210 in the Illini Union. Admission is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

    • 10:00 - 10:50 am
      9/20/2024
    • CITL 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?

    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm   Every Monday from 12:00pm-1:30pm starting September 23rd
      9/23/2024
    • 809 S. 5th St (GEO Office in McKinley Foundation) or online

    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.

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm
      9/24/2024
    • Levis 210

    Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology, UIUC) & Lou Turner (Urban & Regional Planning, 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.

    • 7:00 - 8:00 pm
      9/25/2024
    • Analog Wine Library, 129 N Race St, Urbana

    Join us to co-create the rest of the year's schedule of events for the Generative AI Futures Reading Group. We will discuss authors, themes, philosophies, and more in a relaxed cocktail-party-type atmosphere. Light refreshments provided.

  • Jesse McCarthy
    • 12:30 - 2:00 pm
      9/26/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 108

    Join Jesse McCarthy (English and African American Studies, Harvard University) and Christopher Freeburg (English) for a lunchtime book discussion. Professor McCarthy will briefly introduce his book "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (2024), and then Professor Freeburg will moderate a discussion. Registration required!

    • 3:00 pm
      9/26/2024
    • Coble Hall, Room 306

    "Sexual violence against indigenous women and transitional justice. The case of Guatemala" focuses on the problematic nature of court-ordered reparations and the struggle for human rights for indigenous people, specifically women, in Guatemala by discussing the Sepur Zarco case.

    • 4:00 pm
      9/26/2024
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Auditorium

    kato-kiriyama offers a dynamic evening of poetry, storytelling, community conversation, and even a prompt or two to take with you and continue your verses.

  • Jesse McCarthy
    • 4:30 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Identity is at once the most central and the most unhappy word in contemporary discourse. Debates continue to rage within literary studies in the academy and in the public sphere at large about when, how, and to what extent, the discourse of identity, and sometimes its associated identity politics, should apply when we engage questions around...

    • 5:00 - 6:30 pm
      9/26/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center Room 300

    Bjørn Sletto is Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Austin and co-editor of Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America (UT Press) and Decolonizing Planning: Power and Knowledge in the Informal City (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming).

    • 4:00 pm
      9/27/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    Panel: Improvise & Intervene Reflections and Acknowledgements For this cohort of Interseminars fellows and conveners, circle-keeping and reflection have been a methodological commitment. In this talkback, we invite you to learn and hear about the joys, challenges, and lessons of forming an interdisciplinary collective. Refreshments will be served.

    • 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
      9/28/2024
    • Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (202 S. Broadway Suite 100; Urbana, IL 61801)

    This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Saturday's events include the Body Mapping Family Workshop, Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment I & II, a workshop with invited guest Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and more.

    • 1:30 - 8:00 pm
      9/29/2024
    • Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (202 S. Broadway Suite 100; Urbana, IL 61801)

    This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Sunday's events include a tour, Closing Collage & Movement, and Community Dinner Reception.

  • Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
    • 5:30 pm
      10/3/2024
    • Illini Union 314B

    Join 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.

    • 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!

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
      10/8/2024
    • Illinois Street Residence Halls, Room ISR 50AB

    Professor 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.

  • Robert Townsend
    • 4:00 pm
      10/22/2024

    Robert 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.

  • Mary Ton
    • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
      10/23/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

    Join 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.

    • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
      10/24/2024
    • Levis 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."

    • 4:00 pm
      10/28/2024
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center

  • Rebecca Walkowitz
    • 7:30 pm
      10/30/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    Focusing 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...

    • All Day
      11/7/2024 - 11/9/2024

    Conference Date: Nov 7-9, 2024 Submission Deadline: July 30, 2024

    • 4:00 pm
      11/7/2024

    This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.