Campus Humanities Calendar
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Students are invited to join members of the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Humanities Research Institute, and the Humanities Professional Resource Center to learn about undergraduate humanities research opportunities on campus and how to translate humanities research experience on a resume.
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library holds about 500,000 volumes and 5,000 linear sq.ft. of archival material. This large collection of primary source material is available digitally to all interested individuals.
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In this presentation, titled "The Volatile Market for Globalization," Professor Arjun Appadurai will address the recent debates about the rebirth of the nation-state in the era of pandemic disease, and about whether globalization is about to be rolled back or marginalized.
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Robert Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicators for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will share some recent findings about the state of humanities departments, preview findings from a forthcoming survey of the general public about the humanities, and answer any questions you might have about the state of the field.
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Featuring: Cynthia Oliver, Abby Zbikowski, Ollie Watts Davis, and Tamara Chaplin
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Join Dr. Koritha Mitchell for a workshop on ethical teaching entitled Violence in U.S. Education: Approaches & Practices.
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Victoria Ford Smith is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2017), which won the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. Her research interests include child agency, child-produced culture, and authorship and book studies.
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Koritha Mitchell is a literary historian, cultural critic, and associate professor of English at Ohio State University. She is author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, which won book awards from the American Theatre and Drama Society and from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
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Join us this Indigenous People’s Day for a collaborative panel discussion led by Native researchers and practitioners in the Big Ten. The panel will focus on Native experiences in academia, Indigenous led research and pedagogy, and how these are reflected in the national political and social climates.
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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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Listen in online to one-on-one sharing of stories at kitchen tables in Champaign-Urbana and St. Paul. Artist Seitu Jones will visit virtually with Champaign-Urbana food and environmental justice activist Jennifer Monson (Dance) to discuss local issues related to access and affordability of food, as well as caring for the earth that nurtures us.
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This virtual panel celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and the launch of the bilingual book ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas co-authored by Adrian Burgos and Margaret Salazar-Porzio. The panel will explore the contemporary issues, journeys, and passions of Latinas/os/xs in baseball.
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Can a society be governed by data? In the age of big data, we seem certain that it can and should be. Despite many decades of research exposing its blind spots and biases, data collection is more insidious than ever, while the Covid-19 pandemic has propelled our already computerized lives into a the digital stratosphere.
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Listen in online to one-on-one sharing of stories at kitchen tables in Champaign-Urbana and St. Paul. Artist Seitu Jones will visit virtually with Champaign-Urbana food and environmental justice activist Dawn Blackman to discuss local issues related to access and affordability of food, as well as caring for the earth that nurtures us.
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Join directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera for a Q & A on their film The Infiltrators.
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Lazarus Letcher (they/them) is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at the University of New Mexico on Tiwa Pueblo Land. Their research focuses on Black and Indigenous solidarity, 2SLGBTQIA+ history and organizing, and white supremacy within the queer and trans community.
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Meet the woman breaking down barriers in Israel: Ashager Araro. Araro helped lead a movement which culminated in the founding of Ethiopian Cultural Center in Tel Aviv. She will speak about the work that the center has engaged in, both before and during the pandemic, and its struggle to survive in the face of increasing COVID-related pressures.
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Emmy Lingscheit and Ben Grosser on making art within and about the pandemic
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The Kremlin, as well as other state actors and far-right groups, divide and deceive populations around the world using social media and other online warfare tactics. Nina Jankowicz, an expert in online disinformation, will discuss these governments’ responses to Russian information warfare tactics.
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Rachel Havrelock presents “Washing with No Water: Environmental Justice, Deregulation and Climate Change Amidst a Pandemic” as part of HRI's Out of Isolation series. Out of Isolation examines the intersection of COVID-19 with research on race and ethnicity, class and gender, labor and poverty, access and public education, climate change and other “preconditions."
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This informal discussion, moderated by Urbana arts and culture coordinator, Rachel Storm, will feature Dawn Blackman, Ruby Mendenhall, Jennifer Monson, Magdalena Novoa, and Bobby Smith II, in conversation with Seitu Jones.
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Join us for a virtual roundtable and discussion about different challenges to human rights and rule of law in contemporary Europe. Our speakers will address cases in Hungary, Turkey, France, Germany, and at the European Court of Human Rights.
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Online discussion with filmmakers Dianne Fukami and Debra Nakatomi.
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In this talk, Professor Ostherr will discuss the ways that Medical/Health Humanities can develop translational practices that bring novel insights and methods to frontline pandemic responses, highlighting the importance of collaboration across fields of scholarship and practice, particularly across humanities, engineering, and clinical practice.
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For this 90-minute panel conversation, Illinois faculty will draw on their multidisciplinary research and expertise on elections to provide insights into how current events are shaping our approach to democracy, political divisiveness, and the media in a time of turmoil and crisis.
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Guen Montgomery, Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Art + Design, will lead participants through the creation of hand-printed postcards to share with legislators or fellow voters in this in-person workshop.
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Enjoy a free weekly yoga practice, presented online by Krannert Art Museum and taught by Jodi Adams, certified yoga instructor, and Ayurveda specialist.
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How diverse, inclusive, and representative are our digital library collections — and our library collections in general—and how can we know that? How and why does this matter? What can we do about it, and what are we doing about it?
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Improvisers Exchange will host an online, open classroom workshop with Sam Newsome and Improvisers Exchange students on the practice of music improvisation.