Campus Humanities Calendar
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Louise 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.
Rosana Pinheiro Machado is an anthropologist and a social scientist focusing on economic and political transformations in emerging economies. She has been conducting fieldwork and developing international research collaborations across the global south, especially Brazil and China. Her research deals with the topics of globalization, development, and poverty.
Join us for a discussion of Samuel Moyn's new book Humane followed by commentary from respondents Avital Livny (Political Science) and Patrick Keenan (Law).
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are computer scientists whose work in machine learning focuses on transparency and interpretability, as part of a broad agenda to improve human/AI interaction. They are also well-known for their contributions to social and collaborative data visualization. They will present on Wednesday, September 29, 2021.
A multitude of academic disciplines explore the complex networks of relationships between humans and other beings. Through the lens of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), I describe human/non-human relationships as they are represented in museums and other repositories.
This talk, presented by Sandy Sufian (University of Illinois Chicago), presents a unique, humanities-driven approach to structural competency that addresses the socio-political aspects of health and healthcare.
This talk presents results from several studies using newly collected firm-level and corporation-level data from the Russian Empire that reconcile the dynamism of the Russian industrial economy with remaining obstacles, thus permitting a more nuanced assessment of economic development under the Tsars.
Join us for this Scholar Lecture with Jill H. Casid, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Please join the College of FAA Arts Impact Initiative for a much-needed dialogue about the challenges and opportunities facing creative communities as they reemerge and reimagine equitable futures for art, artists and their communities in recovery from COVID-19 and systemic racism.
This lecture will address the challenges and relevance of transitional justice twenty years after the events of 9/11 and in the context of the return of the Taliban to territorial control of Afghanistan. Lessons learned over the past twenty years, and in particular the relevance of accountability, truth, justice, and reparations to the 'war on terror' will be examined.
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
HRI is pleased to co-sponsor a series of programs on music improvisation featuring New England-based guitarist Joe Morris, widely recognized as one of the most original and important improvising artists of our time. Morris will offer a lecture and performance on Wednesday, October 6 and workshop on Friday, October 8, 2021.
HRI is pleased to co-sponsor a series of programs on music improvisation featuring New England-based guitarist Joe Morris, widely recognized as one of the most original and important improvising artists of our time. Morris will offer a lecture and performance on Wednesday, October 6 and workshop on Friday, October 8, 2021.
ow on campus following their virtual conversation with Chancellor Jones this past spring, Yossi Klein Halevi, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, and Mohammad Darawshe, a leading political analyst and advocate for Israel’s Arab sector, will delve more deeply into the impact of current conflicts and how we can remain in dialogue...
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
Dr. Tanya L. Saunders is an Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Gender, Sexualities and Women's Studies at the University of Florida. Their 2015 book, Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, was published by the University of Texas Press and is recently translated into Portuguese.
HRI is pleased to co-sponsor a series of programs on music improvisation featuring New England-based guitarist Joe Morris, widely recognized as one of the most original and important improvising artists of our time. Morris will lead a workshop on the afternoon of Friday, October 8, where students, faculty, and community members are invited to participate.
Lecture by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Professor and Chair of Near Eastern Studies Department and Director of Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.
Join us for the “Transformative Learning through Zine Making” research cluster’s capstone event where you’ll hear from students, librarians, faculty, and staff about how zines and comics have enhanced their scholarship and teaching practices.
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
Join Spencer Keralis (DH Librarian) and Glen Worthey (Associate Director for Research Support Services, HathiTrust Research Center) for an Open Office Hours to chat about DH projects and resources at Illinois. All are welcome! Drop in for as little or as much time as you’d like.
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
This symposium will examine how culture moves and circulates: across space, time, material conditions, technologies and affects. We will consider how movement shapes and reshapes the cultural domain, creating new relationships between people, objects and practices. How does movement shape a community’s perception of local space and cultural identity?
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.