Campus Humanities Calendar
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As a Kickoff Event for this year’s New Directions Series, the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center invites you to join a roundtable discussion on the role of race and racism in our region and scholarly field.
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The University of Illinois Archives is hosting a monthly Women in Science Lecture Series that will feature speakers from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diverse and multidisciplinary scientific enterprise.
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Please join Andrea Stevens, Associate Professor of English, and the EU Center for a lecture on racial masquerade at the English Caroline court.
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Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 PRESENTED BY: Dr. Jocelyn Landrum-Brown, Dr. Teresa Mok, Dr. David Chih
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This talk by Phillip M. Ayoub, Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College, will be given as part of the European Union Center’s fall reception.
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This collaborative lecture (presented by a transatlantic historian of race and a Slavist) brings together little-remembered newspaper records, personal correspondence, and others texts—from the mid-1830s onwards—to recover how Pushkin was regarded as a black intellectual.
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Professor Tony Ballantyne of the University of Otago kicks off HRI's 2020-21 research theme The Global and Its Worlds with a talk titled “Beyond the Shadow of Empire? The state, mobility and difference in New Zealand’s COVID-19 response.”
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The “open” is a common metaphor in the era of global connections, and a foundational modern value, albeit prone to contradictions. Exploring the implications of this concept, Akcan’s lecture introduces her latest book, Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA - 1984–87, which defines open architecture as the translation of
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Join two faculty members from C-HeARTS (Community Healing And Resistance Through Storytelling) Research Cluster as they present "How Do We Survive, Resist, and Heal Oppressive Realities?" After the presentation there will be time for audience Q&A.
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Featuring: Genesee Spridco, Aaron Muñoz, Sara Hook, Endalyn Taylor, and Catherine Prendergast
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This event is part of the Becoming A Trans Inclusive Library project. Archie Bongiovanni is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Minneapolis.
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Dr. Natalya Chernyshova is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Winchester. She specializes in late Soviet history, with a focus on Belarus, and is the author of Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era (Routledge, 2013).
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The Second Book Project Symposium brings together scholars from across the field of American literary studies. This fall's symposium will be held over the course of two days, on September 25 and 26.
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University of Illinois-affiliated faculty and students are invited to join this Humanities Without Walls (HWW) information session as we cover: 2021–22 grant opportunities and themes; plans for fall and spring HWW events; seed grant application information and process.
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Blackness has been (and continues to be) under attack globally, but particularly within our country. As colleges and universities across America begin to grapple with some of the wider ranging and material effects of racism, particularly anti-Blackness, three scholars will hold a joint book talk to chart cultural histories of Blackness through law, politics, and media.
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The Second Book Project Symposium brings together scholars from across the field of American literary studies. This fall's symposium will be held over the course of two days, on September 25 and 26.
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Join us for An Evening with Elizabeth Acevedo. National Poetry Slam Champion Elizabeth Acevedo received the 2018 National Book Award for her New York Times best selling novel, The Poet X.