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

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

    • All Day    11/8/2024 - 11/9/2024
    • Illini Union

    Join us for the Phi Alpha Theta Conference, our first regional undergraduate history conference. This year's theme is conflict and culture. Panelists will explore how cultural expressions reflect, respond to, and shape the nature of conflicts throughout history. Join us in exploring the powerful narratives that emerge when conflict and culture intersect.

    • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm    11/11/2024
    • Chez Veterans Center | 908 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL 61801

    The University of Illinois Chez Veterans Center and ROTC invite you to the 2024 Veterans Day Celebration. Join us for lunch as we honor our brave Veterans and welcome keynote speaker Matt Ballinger, a former U.S. Army Ranger and current Executive Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police at the University of Illinois.

    • 4:00 pm    11/11/2024
    • Room 4025, Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)

    Richard T. Rodríguez will discuss his recent book A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad, which explores the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their U.S. Latine audiences since the 1980s.

    • 6:00 pm    11/11/2024
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

    Inspired by a 1941 Jorge Luis Borges short story, artist Vicki Bennett's (People Like Us)The Library of Babel (2024) explores themes related to the complex interplay of infinity, knowledge, and the cosmic fabric, presented through the metaphor of a vast, seemingly infinite library. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Bennett and special guest Hearty White.

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm    11/12/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Jane Desmond (Anthropology, UIUC) and Jamie Jones (English, 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.

    • 6:00 - 8:00 pm    11/13/2024
    • Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium

    A free film screening of the US premiere. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 marked a moment of unprecedented material destruction and cultural rupture in modern Japan.

  • WOMEN IN SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    11/14/2024
    • University Archives Main Library Room 146

    Please join the University Archives for the Women in Science Lecture Series on Thursday, Nov. 14, 12-1 p.m., with Dr. Supriya Prasanth, Professor and Head of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology! This hybrid event will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) and over Zoom.

    • 4:30 pm    11/14/2024
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

    GAM Visiting Artist Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and University of Illinois Professor of Anthropology Brenda Farnell ask, How do we create an Indigenous theater that moves beyond the “victim narrative” while embracing an aesthetics of resistance?

    • 7:00 pm    11/14/2024
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center

    Join us for a live book event with author Daniel Kraus, whose novel Whalefall was named one of the “Best Thrillers of 2023” by the New York Times. Kraus will discuss the challenges of writing a science-based novel and his experience adapting it into a movie for Disney.

  • Rochelle Sennet (Professor of Piano, School of Music, University of Illinois)
    • 12:00 pm    11/15/2024
    • 0357 Music Building (1114 W Nevada St)

    Dr. Rochelle Sennet, Professor of Piano, shares her experiences performing solo and chamber works during residencies at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan (2016, 2024). She will discuss teaching, collaboration with faculty and students, master classes, and guest judging.

    • 4:00 pm    11/15/2024
    • Gregory Hall 223

    Please join us for a lecture by Candace Vogler, the David B. and Clara E. Stern professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, titled "The Highest Good."

    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm    11/18/2024
    • 809 S. 5th St., Champaign (GEO office in Channing Murray Foundation) / online

    University of Chicago professor Yueran Zhang will discuss workers' struggles in China's transition from state socialism to capitalism on Mon. Nov. 18. This event will follow a discussion of his writing at the HRI Organize & Analyze Social Movements Reading Group on Mon. Nov. 11. Lunch provided, open to all.

    • 4:00 pm    11/20/2024
    • English Building, Room TBA

    Professor Gillen Wood recreates the HMS Challenger's pioneering oceanographic expedition to colonial Australia in 1874. Victorian-era Sydney Harbor offers a case study in early industrial marine exploitation and “shifting baseline syndrome,” where lost species and their habitats are erased from cultural memory.

    • 10:00 - 10:50 am    11/22/2024

    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.

    • 8:30 am    12/11/2024

    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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    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm    1/29/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 108

    Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.

    • 12:00 pm

    Students selected to participate in the program will spend 8 weeks in the summer contributing to a community organization in the Champaign-Urbana area. With support from Humanities Without Walls and We CU, participants will connect with an organization, identify an area of need, and design a project to address that need.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    2/6/2025

    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.

    • 4:00 pm    2/12/2025
    • Location TBA

    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.

    • 5:30 - 7:00 pm    2/19/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

    More information and registration will be avilable in spring 2025.

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    • 7:30 pm    2/27/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    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.

    • 3:30 - 5:00 pm    3/5/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    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.

    • 7:30 pm    3/12/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

    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)

    • 7:00 pm    3/26/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    Reading from Yard Show: Black Life, Prairies, and Place Making In the Midwest, with musical accompaniment.

    • 4:00 pm    4/8/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Bryce Henson holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research with graduate certificates in cultural studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.

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    • 12:00 pm    4/16/2025
    • BNAACC

    Award-winning poet and essayist.

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    • 7:30 pm    4/16/2025
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center BallRoom

    A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay.

    • 4:00 - 6:00 pm    5/8/2025
    • Spurlock Museum Atrium

    Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.