Campus Humanities Calendar
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Just Infrastructures announces its inaugural Speaker Series with Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, presenting “What is Media Manipulation?” on Feb. 3, 2021.
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This talk focuses on detention care and its deadly consequences in the United States. Between October 2003 and November 2020, there were at least 216 deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, many the result of grossly inadequate medical practices.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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In this lecture, Dr. Amelia M. Kraehe discusses white liberalism as an ideological stance that masks racism in contemporary K-20 arts education before introducing abolitionism as a contemporary praxis grounded in a Black radical tradition to move the arts beyond gestures of goodwill and toward racial justice.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Workshop: “Creative Abolitionism: A Contemporary Praxis” Dr. Amelia M. Kraehe facilitates a workshop on creative abolitionist strategies to grapple with racism in and through the arts. Register to attend
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Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
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Looking for a way to jump start your semester? Join us for an afternoon of trivia! Our theme: The Nobel Prize in Literature. Test your knowledge and win a prize!
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Join Dr. Kelly Wisecup to explore the archives of Indigenous groups from the Great Lakes region.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Join local C-U Lockdown Trivia host, Julie Laut, for a night of fun and challenging online trivia on Saturday, February 6, 2021 @ 7:30pm. In conjunction with the Spurlock’s current exhibit, Debates, Decisions, Demands: Objects of Campaigns and Activism, Laut will lead four rounds of trivia from the world of politics.
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The Champaign County Museum Network, along with the Spurlock, Krannert Art Museum, and other area museums, will host a trivia contest January 12 through February 7! This family-friendly contest challenges community members to experience local museums, science centers, nature centers, and archives virtually in order to answer some fun and engaging trivia questions.
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Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the spiritual leader of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda, will be speaking on the existence of his religious community in Uganda.
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Led by Assistant Dean for Career & Professional Development in the Graduate College, Derek Attig, this information session for potential applicants to the HWW Summer Bridge Experience will explain the application process.
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Join us for a conversation with Amna Akbar and Jackie Wang on abolition. Featuring two scholar-activists who focus on the law and political economy, this conversation seeks to address questions of policing, imprisonment, and long-unfolding threats to democracy...
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Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
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This pandemic has drastically shaped how class material is presented and taught. This seminar will investigate the challenges of remote instruction, as well as the challenges in language instruction, and propose modalities to ease the transition from in-person classrooms to remote settings.
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Aneesha Dharwadker is an educator and design practitioner with interests in global urbanism, material history, and rural healthcare. She is the founder of Chicago Design Office and editor of Transect, an annual journal of design criticism.
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On February 17, 7 pm CT, join The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures for a discussion-based film series, Internation Activism in Film. During this session, we will be joined by Robert Tigan to discuss the film Milada, a historical biopic about the politician Milada Horáková and her resistance to a communist coup in the Czech Republic.
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This talk draws on three studies conducted to explore how children develop as readers and how public libraries enable that development: an investigation of what happens at baby storytimes with a special focus on the babies themselves; an observation study of preschool girls during and immediately after one of their regular trips to a public library with their mothers...
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Join us for a talk by Kim Lane Scheppele entitled “Europe’s New Democracy Deficit: Creeping Autocracy in Hungary and Poland.” This event is part of the REEEC Critical Methods Series in Legal Studies and co-sponsored by the European Union Center.
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This talk explores the gimmick as a form that simultaneously repels and attracts us and the judgment by which we express this ambivalent mixture of feelings. Sianne Ngai (Professor of English at University of Chicago).
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Monstrous Women in Comics (2020, University Press of Mississippi), co-edited with Elizabeth Rae Coody, explores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability.
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Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
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Join the Asian Educational Media Service for the film screening of Edo Avant Garde, directed by Linda Hoaglund
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Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
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Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
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This year’s Illinois School of Architecture Lecture Series: Framing the Future features women architects who are shaping the future of the profession.
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Join the Asian Educational Media Service for an online discussion of Linda Hoaglund's film Evo Avant Garde.
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Catherine D’Ignazio, Director of the Data + Feminism Lab at MIT, and Lauren Klein, Director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Emory, will be presenting Data Feminism on Wednesday, February 24th, 2021.
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Panelists include Shahram Khosravi (Anthropology, Stockholm University), Maurice Stierl (Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick) and Martina Tazzioli (Politics and International Relations, Goldsmiths University).
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Professor Emerita Betsy Hearne is speaking as part of The Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration.
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A panel and conversation celebrating the publication of Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press) with its editors Carolyn Fornoff (Department of Spanish and Portuguese), Bethany Wiggin (University of Pennsylvania), and Patricia Eunji Kim (New York University).
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The European Union Center, as part of its 19th annual European Union Day celebrations, will host a moderated discussion with Swedish hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité about his music, his recent memoir (A Drop of Midnight), and his current podcast project he produces with celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson (This Moment).
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Working on Chiang and Wong’s (2016) call to ‘queer the transnational turn’ through a consideration of regionalism in the examination of queer modernities in Asia, five panelists are assembling for a discussion of queer global Asias.
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Led by Bill Hart-Davidson, these sessions will aid applicants to the Humanities Without Walls Seed Grant and Grand Research Challenge in shaping ideas, pitching, project management, and more. Attendees are highly encouraged to attend these workshops with their potential team members.
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Join the Asian Educational Media Service for the film screening of Edo Avant Garde, directed by Linda Hoaglund
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The Spurlock Museum of World Cultures and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at the University of Illinois are hosting a free, family-friendly Zoom program to celebrate Eastern European International Women’s Day. There will be crafts and short lessons on the Russian language, along with highlights from the Museum’s collection and a Russian story.