Campus Humanities Calendar
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Louise Fishman (United States, 1939-2021) was an established artist known for her ambivalent engagement with male-centered abstract painting traditions. Her physical and process-driven work remakes the abstract expressionist gesture and the minimalist grid into tools that communicate history and emotion centered in her identities as Jewish, feminist, and lesbian.
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Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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Please join us to see the current moment in Afghanistan through a historical feminist lens revealing how imperialism and religion weave the patriarchal order in Afghanistan and how Afghan women resist this order. Three outstanding Afghan scholar-activists will share their experiences and analyses.
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Mary L. Gray, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, will present on Wednesday, September 8, 2021.
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Join us for a two-day virtual symposium on Global Photography produced in partnership with the School of Art + Design and the University of New Mexico Art Museum.
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Join us on September 9th to hear our alumni reflect on their experience with HWW and how it has shaped their career trajectories. This round table discussion will be followed by a Q&A about the workshop and the application process.
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Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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Since World War II, NATO has played a crucial role in defending western countries and the liberal democracy against the threat of the Soviet Union. However, the world has changed, and so has NATO. Especially after the Cold War, NATO lost its utmost enemy and its raison d'être. Does NATO have any plan to overcome all the noises? What could be the lessons of NATO’s case...
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Join KAM Education Center Coordinator Ishita Dharap for a virtual tour exploring the theme of immigration and discover stories of identity and belonging through artworks.
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Professor Julia Creet of York University will present on her latest research on the genealogy industry. Her research explores the widespread phenomenon of desiring to know one’s ethnic origins to thus better “know” oneself, as well as the complex practices behind the major organizations with genealogical databases.
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Dr. Margarita Terán-Garcia, Assistant Dean for Integrated Health Disparities Programs and Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences, will share her research on obesity including genetic and environmental influences on obesity and diseases related to obesity.
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We welcome you to an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center. Visit our newly renovated space on the first floor and gather in community outdoors on the south patio near Admissions (weather permitting). We look forward to seeing you!
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A+D Visitor Series: Jim McDowell “American Face Jugs: Thoughts Become Art Inspired by the Ancestors”
In his artist’s lecture, Jim McDowell will discuss his face jugs. They represent, in part, the lives of enslaved people abducted from Africa, and their descendants who lived through slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow South, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights era on into today's Black Lives Matter movement.
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There is a long oral tradition and written record for the legend of the White Snake. As a woman, her “original sin” is being a snake. She is a snake who has cultivated herself for hundreds of, if not thousands of years to attain the form of a beautiful woman...
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Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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Roy Scranton presents the talk "Climate Change and the Virtues of Pessimism." Scranton is the author of five books, including Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization and the monograph Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature.
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Join yoga instructor Jodi Adams for a free one-hour yoga session highlighting art on display at Krannert Art Museum.
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Join Curator Amy L. Powell for a free, guided tour of A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing titled “Queer Uses of Abstraction.”
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In this talk, I first review research findings on different dimensions of speech fluency. Then, using speech data from local and international language tests, I demonstrate how macro- and micro-level fluency features differ in their relations to (other components of) language proficiency.
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Join us for a special Friday night reception to open our fall 2021 season! You can enjoy viewing any of our collection galleries on the main and lower levels as well as the season’s special exhibitions. Admission is free. Pre-registration is not required.
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Rosana Pinheiro Machado is an anthropologist and a social scientist focusing on economic and political transformations in emerging economies. She has been conducting fieldwork and developing international research collaborations across the global south, especially Brazil and China. Her research deals with the topics of globalization, development, and poverty.
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Join us for a discussion of Samuel Moyn's new book Humane followed by commentary from respondents Avital Livny (Political Science) and Patrick Keenan (Law).
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Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg are computer scientists whose work in machine learning focuses on transparency and interpretability, as part of a broad agenda to improve human/AI interaction. They are also well-known for their contributions to social and collaborative data visualization. They will present on Wednesday, September 29, 2021.
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A multitude of academic disciplines explore the complex networks of relationships between humans and other beings. Through the lens of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), I describe human/non-human relationships as they are represented in museums and other repositories.
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This talk, presented by Sandy Sufian (University of Illinois Chicago), presents a unique, humanities-driven approach to structural competency that addresses the socio-political aspects of health and healthcare.
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This talk presents results from several studies using newly collected firm-level and corporation-level data from the Russian Empire that reconcile the dynamism of the Russian industrial economy with remaining obstacles, thus permitting a more nuanced assessment of economic development under the Tsars.
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Join us for this Scholar Lecture with Jill H. Casid, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Please join the College of FAA Arts Impact Initiative for a much-needed dialogue about the challenges and opportunities facing creative communities as they reemerge and reimagine equitable futures for art, artists and their communities in recovery from COVID-19 and systemic racism.
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This lecture will address the challenges and relevance of transitional justice twenty years after the events of 9/11 and in the context of the return of the Taliban to territorial control of Afghanistan. Lessons learned over the past twenty years, and in particular the relevance of accountability, truth, justice, and reparations to the 'war on terror' will be examined.