Campus Humanities Calendar
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Professor Fritzsche (History, UIUC) is the author of numerous books including Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (2020), An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler (2016), and Life and Death in the Third Reich (2008). He will discuss recent events through the lens of European-Jewish history.
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Crafts, Folklores, and More will bring you an artsy combo of folktales with related crafts, youth presentations, and interactive sessions—all from the comfort of your homes. This is a family-friendly event sponsored by Ascending Aesthetics and co-sponsored by the Spurlock Museum and the Museum of the Grand Prairie.
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This talk explores how late imperial Russia's kopeck newspapers constructed images of Russian backwardness and Western modernity, and how they instrumentalized those images to argue that Russia's future lay in imitating the West.
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Associate Professor Kate McDowell (MS ’99, PhD ’07) is speaking as part of The Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration.
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For complete details and speaker information, please visit https://wggp.illinois.edu/news-events/wggp-40th-anniversary-symposium
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A book talk and conversation on Stephen Macekura's The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2020), which explores critiques of economic growth across the twentieth-century world by revealing how reformers have challenged and sought to rethink "growth."
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2021 will mark the first anniversary of COVID-19 in the United States and the 40th anniversary of HIV/AIDS. Yet both pandemics continue to affect our well-being and health. How might history help us move beyond oversimplified comparisons between the two, while showing us that health is always more than the absence of disease?
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The European Union Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will host a virtual performance of "The Suppliants" by Aeschylus, a tragedy about migration and asylum. The performance will include an international, diverse cast, including American, British, and Greek actors.
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The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and the Humanities Research Institute and co-host this annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.
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Please join us for our March lecture with Dr. Catherine J. Murphy, who will discuss her research on inorganic nanomaterials applications and the chemical interactions these nanomaterials have with their surroundings.
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Join Nathan Matias, Founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab, as they present on Governing Human & Machine Behavior.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and current political upheavals have triggered a general state of anxious ‘doomscrolling’ of social media and 24-hour online news. Reading this experience alongside Don DeLillo’s The Silence (2020), Professor Salisbury’s talk takes as its starting point the insight of the phenomenological psychiatrist Eugene Minkowski (1933) that much mental...
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Join KAM for a film screen on Tiffany Harris' short film Becoming. A film about exploring Black femme relationships to land, nature, southernness, and girlhood. The films will screen through a Livestream on KAM’s youtube page and remain active online for a week after the screening event.
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In this talk, the data-sitters will reflect on the value of public-oriented feminist collaboration: what’s worked, what’s failed, what kinds of questions they’ve come closer to answering. They will also share advice for other scholars interested in undertaking collaborative DH work.
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Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
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This talk is the inaugural event of Ricardo Basbaum's hybrid art residence at UIUC as part of the project "On-Contamination: An Extended Space for Sustaining Encounters through Art."
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Sudden Sound and Nick Rudd Music Experience present a special webinar event featuring exclusive pre-recorded performance content and live discussion with Mark Deutsch, a visionary artist who created the bazantar, a six-string acoustic bass fitted with an additional 29 sympathetic strings and four drone strings.
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Join the U-C Comics Colloquium for a conversation with Ryan Estrada, co-author with Kim Hyun Sook of Banned Book Club. Set in 1980s South Korea, Banned Book Club tells a story of a group of students who resist an authoritarian regime with a secret club for reading banned books.
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A book talk on Jessica Hurley's Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Hurley is an Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University.
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Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
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The Early Years of a Prairie Populist: William Jennings Bryan in Illinois, 1860 to 1887, will be presented by Professor Nathan Tye (University of Nebraska Kearney), on March 18 at 4:00 pm on Zoom (Register below). Professor Tye curated our current exhibition: Debates, Decisions, Demands: Objects of Campaigns and Activism. He joins us to talk about Jennings Bryan, who appea
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A lecture part of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center New Direction Series featuring Professor Holly Case of Brown University.
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Art Talk Thursdays are accessible 30-minute presentations highlighting art in KAM'ss collection or in one of their special exhibitions. Until KAM can gather for in-person events, KAM will hold these events virtually, via Zoom. This talk will feature Kasia Szremski and Allyson Purpura.
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In this talk, Dr. Henrichs and Dr. Heather Froehlich will reflect on the impact of the Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights. They’ll discuss postdocs as a vocational practice, and how they have applied (or not) the Bill of Rights in their own roles, and what that means in practice.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Sarah Park Dahlen (MS ’09, PhD ’09), Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, St. Catherine University, is speaking as part of The Center for Children's Books 75th Anniversary Celebration.
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Can the library broaden the canon, or does it merely reinforce it? What critical interventions might we make to resist our canonizing tendencies, for today and or tomorrow? Join us for a discussion on decentering the canon in the architectural library.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Featuring past HWW research projects based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (links below), this session will present best practices for including graduate students as co-researchers, co-curators, and co-writers on HWW projects.
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Maria Luz Garcia works with Ixil Maya communities in both Guatemala and the United States as a linguistic anthropologist. Her research focuses on how Ixil speakers make use of the resources of their language to construct and reflect social and political realities.
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Homemade, with Love Studio Art Days, will be in an onsite workshop, a space held and led by the curator for artists and people to skill-share and make art and at-home art kits for local Black girls. Artwork and kits made will be prompted with critical art concepts in tune with Black girlhood studies, Black girls’ creativity, and lived experience.
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Join DREAM@UIUC for their film screening and discussion focused on Disability Rights, Education, Activism, and Mentoring.
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The Spurlock Movie Club will be hosting a discussion of the film, A Thousand Cuts, as part of their new series, International Activism in Film. The event is held in partnership with the Asian American Cultural Center and will feature Visiting Assistant Professor Leland Tabares from the Department of Asian American Studies at UIUC.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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The ability to craft an effective funding proposal can reap a lifetime of rewards. As a graduate student, now is the time to hone your grantwriting proficiency. In this workshop, designed for students in the humanities and social sciences, you will learn how to identify funding opportunities, strategize the components of an effective proposal, and think like a grantwriter.
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This online symposium will showcase recent scholarship at the intersection of American literary studies, environmental humanities, as well as the RBML's outstanding collections in polar print culture.
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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How do we, as scholars at a Primarily White Institution (PWI) like Illinois, engage with institutions whose missions center populations who have historically been, and continue to be, denied opportunities to access to higher education? What opportunities emerge when we envision collaborating with Community College faculty and students?
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Two pieces from last year's Great ARTdoors outdoor exhibit are now on view at the Spurlock. Come visit to see Kinsey Fitzgerald's sculpture 'Mother & Child,' and Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure's mixed media painting 'Seeds of Injustice.'
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Ranveer Chandra, CTO of Agri-Food and Chief Scientist at Microsoft Azure Industry, will present “Empowering Farmers with Affordable Digital Agriculture Solutions” on Wednesday, March 31, 2021.
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Join us for a conversation between Emily St. John Mandel and Professors Alex Shakar and Amy Hassinger from the University of Illinois Creative Writing Program.