Campus Humanities Calendar
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Professor Batnitzky will present work from her current, book-length project on comparative conversion controversies in Israel and India. The paper will be circulated in advance. Participants are encouraged to read and come prepared to discuss the discuss, but everyone is welcome to attend.
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Leora F. Batnitzky is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies at Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her teaching and research interests include philosophy of religion, modern Jewish thought, hermeneutics, and contemporary legal and political theory.
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Mauna Kea Solidarity Group is a new coalition of students and faculty across the sciences and arts who came together to express solidarity with Indigenous Hawaiians, particularly in response to the proposed construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea.
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This talk will posit elision and silence as a strategy both Jewish and non-Jewish writers used to underscore the inherent generalizations and stereotypes of the word “Jew” in Polish discourse and to express fractured, multivalent Polish- Jewish identities.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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"Film and Literature by North African Women: Looking at Postcolonialism, Gender, and Religion.
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This talk will show how image adjustment software can assist in the detection of now faded or whitewashed wall paintings in Armenian churches.
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TIGER is the 5th performance from Deke Weaver’s life-long Unreliable Bestiary project: a performance for each letter of the alphabet, each letter represented by an endangered animal or habitat.
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Visiting Lecturer/Choreographer Omri Drumlevich will present a reconstruction of a masterwork by Ohad Naharin (Batsheva Dance Company) as part of the KCPA "November Dance 2019".
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Paul DeMain, former special projects coordinator in the Great Lakes for the Intertribal Agriculture Council and award-winning Chef Pete Halfaday will speak followed by a demonstration.
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“Let’s Have a Kiki” is a series of half hour informal gallery talks during the run of the exhibit In Her Closet—How to Make a Drag Queen. Exhibit participants talk about their drag practice and exhibit-related themes, concepts, and materials.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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A public lecture by History Professor Craig Koslofsky
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Alexis Trouillot will discuss how mathematical science meets inheritance law in 19th century Mauritanian manuscripts.
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Mark Roseman is a Professor of History and the Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. He is a historian of modern Europe, with particular interests in the History of the Holocaust and in modern German history.
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with Peter Fritzsche (History), and Mark Roseman (History, Indiana University Bloomington. Moderated by Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature). Co-sponsored by Jewish Culture & Society.
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This month’s event will feature Lilah Leopold, curatorial intern and PhD student in Art History, and will highlight “Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape.” Reception to follow.
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“The First Mountain to Be Removed: Yellow Fever Control and the Construction of the Panama Canal.” Paul Sutter, (History, University of Colorado Boulder), is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (2002) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (2015).
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Dr. Marshall, American Indian Studies Postdoc, will talk about her research into the connections between them and how Indigenizing our historical narratives and research methodologies can begin to address the problem.
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Park Ridge artist Rex Parker will present an illustrated program, “Frederic Goudy & H. G. Wells: The Time Traveler’s Typeface.”
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Dr. Susan Molins-Lliteras (Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative; Historical Studies Department, Univ of Cape Town)
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In this lively talk with lots of swearing, disability and transformative justice movement worker and writer/editor Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will examine just what happens when we "crip" TJ.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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This talk will look at Bird’s life and his extraordinary achievements as one of the most prominent Black leaders in Illinois during the late 19th century.
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Survey for Immigrant Welcoming Plan for Champaign County.