Campus Humanities Calendar
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As vehicles of self-expression and with content typically outside the mainstream, zines have proliferated in recent decades, and landscape has also become a significant concern in zine culture. Hosted at Space p11, a non-commercial gallery within the Pedway system of downtown Chicago, the Landscape Zine Reading Room will expose visitors to a wide variety of pertinent works
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This day and half symposium sponsored by The Animal Turn Research Cluster will highlight work being done across the university in engaging with historical, conceptual, artistic philosophical, humanistic and social scientific dimensions of human relations with animals and with the more-than-human world.
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In our concern for the more than human world, many discussions have focused on individual animal suffering and threats to entire species. What happens when we instead ask questions about what meaningful relationships between humans and animals are possible, what makes their lives livable, and what role empathy can play in complex ethical questions?
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Part of A Year of Creative Writers at Illinois 2020. Supported by the Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities.
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Intended for students from across the campus, Inside Scoop conversations invite Illinois undergraduates to engage with the exciting work conducted by scholars whose work helps us understand what it means to be human in a world of rapidly shifting global complexities. Open to all undergraduate students. Lunch will be served.
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A Year of Creative Writers Poet-in-Residence, Tyehimba Jess, will read from Olio, the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
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In this lecture Eleonora Stoppino, Associate Professor of Italian, explores the moments of social and ethical breakdown described by Boccaccio, as well as the potential for reconstruction after the plague.
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This performance is a tribute to death’s legacy in Mexico and its diasporas, religion, and remembrance through the figure of La Llorona. You may watch this performance live on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Zb2OxEW7SVo and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/vdecervantes/live/
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Krannert Art Museum is working to continue supporting our weekly yoga practice. We’ll publish a hatha yoga video here and to our facebook event each week at our regular yoga time. You can follow along from wherever you are.
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This annual exhibition represents the culmination of artistic development for graduate students in the School of Art + Design at Illinois.
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The Program in Jewish Culture & Society will be hosting a Zoom discussion session about Israeli writer Etgar Keret, focusing on Keret’s 2010 presentation at Illinois (see link in description).
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Carol Symes, Associate Professor of History, presents "Life After [the Black] Death." This presentation is part of "Living through the Plague: Lessons from Medieval Europe," a new virtual lecture series organized by the EU Center.
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Join us for a screening of "United in Anger: A History of ACT UP," then join in conversation with Amy L. Powell, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Jennifer Monson, Professor in Dance.
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Syrian-born Armenian artist Kevork Mourad will discuss how he conceptualizes migration, memory and place-making through his paintings and visual performances.
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Krannert Art Museum is working to continue supporting our weekly yoga practice. We’ll publish a hatha yoga video here and to our facebook event each week at our regular yoga time. You can follow along from wherever you are.
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Kim Sheahan, Spurlock Museum's resident storyteller, will be offering 30-minute live storytelling sessions on Spurlock's Facebook page. Family-friendly performance for all ages.
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In 1799, plague broke out in the French army during its invasion and occupation of Egypt and Syria under the leadership of General Napoleon Bonaparte. Bonaparte’s reaction to the contagion, and the representations of the disease he commissioned after his return to France, suggest interesting comparisons with contemporary debates about governmental response to COVID-19.