Campus Humanities Calendar

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    • 5:00 pm    1/27/2025
    • Spurlock Museum

    Music culled from testimonies will be accompanied by stellar musicians for a unique experience in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Songs from Testimonies brings to life through music how people managed to survive one of the worst experiences in human history.

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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.

    • 7:30 - 9:30 pm    1/30/2025 - 2/1/2025
    • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

    February Dance 2025 celebrates the fierce commitment to artistic innovation in the Department of Dance. Works by Associate Professor Paige Cunningham Caldarella and MFA alumna Anna Peretz Rogovoy (’24), Professor Rebecca Nettl-Fiol and two MFA thesis works by Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez and Banafsheh Amiri are included in the concert.

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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.

    • 9:00 - 11:00 am    2/1/2025 - 4/5/2025
    • Nevada Dance StudioCreative Dance for Children is an innovative community program provided by the University of Illinois Department of Dance under the direction of Betty Allen. Instructors collaborate to design and deliver creative dance classes tailored for children ages 4-10.

    • 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.

    • 6:00 - 7:30 pm    2/6/2025
    • Spurlock Museum

    A reading and book launch by Creative Writing faculty members David Wright Faladé and Chris Kempf.

    • 12:00 pm    2/12/2025
    • 109 English

    Lunch launch of HGMS and German Professor Anke Pinkert’s new book, Remembering 1989.

    • 4:00 pm    2/12/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422 or Livestream

    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.

    • 10:00 am - 2:30 pm    2/13/2025
    • Illini Union 314B

    The LAS Office of Research and Department of History will offer the spring program, “From Scholars to Storytellers” an introduction to the world of trade publishing. Sessions will be led by Dr. John Ghazvinian, an author, historian and former journalist. Space is limited. To learn more or register for any part of this event, visit our website by Feb. 6th.

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

    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.

    • All Day    2/20/2025 - 2/22/2025
    • Levis 210

    Join us for the 23rd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium: Gender and the Law, featuring graduate research and keynote speakers Dr. Neil J. Young (Historian, Writer, and Podcaster) and Dr. Laura Goffman (Professor of History, U of I). This will be a hybrid event. Learn more and register here: https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/

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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.

    • 4:00 pm    3/3/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    • 12:00 pm    3/4/2025
    • 1064 Lincoln Hall or VirtualDo you travel to present research in other countries? Do you collaborate with researchers at foreign institutions? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, your research may be subject to export control policies. Join LAS Office of Research and Office of Research Security Director Linda Lee Drozt to learn more about requirements and regulations affecting research. Click here to learn more or register for this event.

    Do you travel to present research in other countries? Do you collaborate with researchers at foreign institutions? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, your research may be subject to export control policies.

    • 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 422

    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)

  • Janice Harrington and Chip McNeill
    • 7:00 pm    3/26/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    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.

    • 9:00 am - 5:00 pm    3/28/2025
    • Levis 210

    Keynote speakers: Dr. Rituparna Roy and Vishwajyoti Ghosh.

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

    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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    • 12:00 pm    4/16/2025
    • Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (1212 W Nevada St., Urbana)

    Free lunch and informal talk for undergraduates of any major. With poet and essayist Ross Gay.

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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.

    • 5:00 pm    4/24/2025
    • Siebel Design Center

    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.

    • 12:00 pm    4/30/2025
    • 1064 Lincoln Hall or Virtual

    Join the LAS Office of Research to learn more about grant support for faculty researchers in LAS. Our team will share information on pre-award services, such as budgeting, document review, and preparing for submission to SPA. This session will be particularly helpful for faculty without access to dedicated unit-based grant support staff.

    • 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.