Campus Humanities Calendar
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Learn how to effectively use researcher profile systems + scholarly communications networks to develop and manage your online scholarly presence.
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This talk will place trends in the modern era of vaccination in the context of issues related to the nuclear family, economy, health care, and federal politics. It will also discuss how shifting social values, environmental concerns, gender roles, the valuation of children, and the relationship between secular and religious values inform vaccination skepticism.
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This workshop will cover accessible practices when teaching online courses with a focus on open access, accessible e-resources from the University Library. This session is for anyone teaching online workshops or classes and wants to update their teaching materials to be accessible or anyone who would like to know more about accessible e-resources.
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K-14 PDH Educators Workshop: "A Short Introduction to Caribbean Studies." Hybrid event, presented in person and via Zoom.
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The Cancer Center at Illinois and Humanities Research Institute will be co-hosting speaker Olufunmilayo Olopade, Walter L. Pamer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and founding director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medicine.
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What does it mean to (de)classify something as derivative? What cultural values are at stake in the teleological designation of “derivative”? And, how can we apply pressure to those value judgements to better understand the intersections of Old English translation and settler colonialism in novel ways?
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For the first time, Dance at Illinois heads to the historic Virginia Theatre for Dance at Illinois Downtown, featuring the work of faculty members; Alexandra Barbier, Paige Cunningham-Caldarella, Dr. C. Kemal Nance, Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, 2nd year MFA candidate, Anna Peretz Rogovoy, and the late Dr. Kariamu Welsh, dance pioneer and founder of the Umfundalai technique.
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Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.
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Undergrad students in the arts and humanities: join HRI at Levis Faculty Center for an hour of coffee, cookies and discussion with HRI Campus Graduate Student Fellow Kadin Henningsen! Kadin will talk about how his background as an artist and printer and how it connects to his research. His mobile printing press will be on site for students to print a souvenir bookmark.
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Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.
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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 will be in conversation with author Daniel Gumbiner, whose first book, The Boatbuilder, was nominated for the National Book Award and a finalist for the California Book Awards.
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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.
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Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI. More information coming soon!
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Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating.
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Shape the future of the humanities through both open and guided conversation. Share your thoughts about ways that HRI can better support graduate students across campus in humanities-centered research throughout their academic careers. Please register in advance.
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Students from HRI-funded Humanities Research Lab courses, SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community and HIST 312: Immigrant America, showcase their community-engaged research as part of Undergraduate Research Week.
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The culminating event of the Central Asia Research Cluster. Watch for more details to come! This forum will be held on Zoom.
