Campus Humanities Calendar
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Please make plans to attend this “Advancing IPRH” Town Hall meeting to join the conversation about how the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities might better support and sustain the research ecosystem that we have created together, and how we can evolve for the future.
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"Reflections of a former Jerusalem correspondent" will focus on the latest events happening in the region, and the vast implications for the West, including the changing alliances in the Middle East, Israel's elections (take two), and the viability of "economic peace" with the Palestinians.
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Rebecca Ginsburg, associate professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership in the College of Education, and director of the Education Justice Project
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"Historical Archaeology and the Material Expressions of Religiosity in African Diaspora in Brazil in the 18th and 19th Centuries"
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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"Field Work: Deaf Refugee Farmers, Literature, and Public Health Humanities." Based in the disciplinary framework of public health humanities, Garden explores the ways that insights from literature can illuminate understandings of health disparities and clinical healthcare.
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Join us for a School of Art + Design Distinguished Alumni Lecture by pioneering gay conceptual photographer and U of I alumnus Hal Fischer. This event is free and open to the public. An award presentation and reception will follow.
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Lunch and conversation with gender-fluid drag queen and visual artist Sasha Velour for undergraduate students.
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This exhibit, featuring materials loaned by drag performers connected to the local area, steps into the closet of the drag queen and highlights the aesthetic practices of costuming and styling that make her fabulous. Join us for the opening celebration Sunday 9/15, 1:30–4 pm.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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This workshop will explore basic principles of Community Accountability & Transformative Justice and engage in honest conversation about the challenges we face when using this framework.
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This brown bag information session is dedicated to helping interested applicants learn more about this three-year faculty development initiative. Attendees will discover how the program and application process works; hear the experiences of current fellows; and have an opportunity to ask questions.
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Dr. Lance Larkin (CERL, UIUC), an anthropologist, will discuss the challenges of fitting research on the personal experiences of impoverished urban South Africans into projects generally driven by the insights of quantitative research.
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In this lecture, Mariame Kaba will argue that shrinking the prison industrial complex by relying on non-reformist reforms can help move us towards an abolitionist future, offering examples of past and current abolitionist campaigns.
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Join us on as Cheick Diabate, West African historian in the Griot tradition and world-recognized master of the ngoni, a Malian traditional instrument, tells us the musical journey of his life. All are welcome!
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The Spurlock Museum presents the panel discussion Looking Back, Looking Forward. The discussion is held in honor of the 26th anniversary of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Resource Center at the University of Illinois.
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“Mindfulness and Science-Based Approaches to Criminal Justice for the 21st Century.”
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Jason Salavon, new media artist
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Conversations among Gender & Women's Studies Graduate Minors and Interested Graduate Students.
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grandma's medicine, iraganeko zuloa is a performance of diasporic memory that draws together the story of my great grandmother's salve (amumaren medikunza, or grandma's medicine), Basque mythology, and futures made from irretrievable pasts. This performance traces an indigenous memory from Bizkaia to Idaho and Buenos Aires through diasporic memorial pathways.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Celebrate opening night for KAM’s newest exhibitions, including “Art Since 1948,” “All this Beauty and Color: Highlights of the WPA,” and “Revealing Presence: Women in Architecture at the University of Illinois.”
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Known throughout the indie music world for her solo project, Japanese Breakfast, Michelle Zauner will read from her upcoming memoir, Crying in H-Mart, a story of searching for identity in a hybrid culture, to be published by Knopf. A short-form version has appeared in The New Yorker.
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The symposium aims to strengthen the alumni and bring further visibility to issues for women in architecture. For information on keynote speakers, discussion panels, and networking opportunities, visit arch.illinois.edu/arch-womens-symposium.
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The Center for Writing Studies is excited to announce its Fall Symposium—Race, Translanguaging, and Language Ideologies Across the Lifespan, featuring Laura Gonzales and Ramón Martinez.
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Babette B. Tischleder is a professor of North American Studies and Media Studies at the Univ. of Göttingen, Germany. Her books include The Literary Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction (2014) and the coedited volumes Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age (2015) and An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World (2019).
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library will open the exhibit The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Conservation Treatments and Decision Making Through the Ages. The event will include a guest lecture by Consuela (Chela) Metzger, Head of the UCLA Library Conservation Center, who will discuss modern book and paper conservation. Refreshments provided; free and open to the public.
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A live-cinema solo, TIGER is the 5th performance from Deke Weaver’s Unreliable Bestiary: a performance for each letter of the alphabet, each letter represented by an endangered animal or habitat.
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A free, public reading by poets J. Allyn Rosser and Mark Halliday.