Campus Humanities Calendar
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Are you interested in Global Security? We will host guests to discuss topics related to Arms Control & Domestic and International Security. Our first guest speaker is a former professor, Baladas Ghoshal. His career spans decades throughout the world; in policy, security, and more. Join us for his seminar "How does the world deal with a resurgent China?"
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Flatlands Dance Film Festival presents feature film, BAD LIKE BROOKLYN DANCEHALL. This documentary film features an entrancing cast of Jamaican and New York luminaries who share their community story of building a cultural bridge between Jamaica and New York through dancehall.
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This hybrid workshop offers a beginner-friendly introduction to how tools like ChatGPT generate text. We'll explore best practices for using AI in your scholarship, creative practice, and work from a humanities perspective. There will be plenty of room for experimentation and questions!
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Jordan Alexander Stein (English, Fordham University) will deliver a lecture titled "What Does the Present Feel Like?" as the first in this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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Japan House will be featuring Japanese artist Seiran Chiba for a large-scale calligraphy execution of the character for peace. Following that is a live raking of the dry rock garden to showcase the character as a raked pattern. Afterward, there will be an origami crane foldraiser to support the Seattle Peace Garden. This free event will occur outside in the gardens.
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Join CSBS, the College of Education, and IHSI for the first event of the 2024-25 Community-Engaged Research Series. Connect with faculty and staff across campus involved in community-engaged research! Identify common goals and challenges in community-engaged research, learn from each other's experiences, find and share resources, and build your university and...
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Samuel G. Freedman, Krouse Family Visiting Scholar in Judaism and Western Culture, will present "Fighting Hatred in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey's Battles Against Extremism in Mid-Century America". Light refreshments will be served.
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This talk evaluates the impact of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign, & the Biden administration’s appeasement of the Islamic Republic & propose a theoretical framework for how future US administrations can prevent nuclearization in Iran.
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On Wednesday, September 11th, the Illinois Leadership Center & We CU will be holding our Entering Community Partnerships workshop. The workshop will guide humanities students on how to successfully collaborate in service partnerships with community organizations, and how to reflect both critically and personally on their service experience.
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Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
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This lecture provides a kind of bibliographic back story to Gerald Horne's latest book, "Armed Struggle? Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists & Liberals in Southern California through the Sixties & Seventies." This lecture will draw upon decades of scholarship by Horne that led to the publication of his latest book
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Renée R. Trilling, Angus Cameron Professor of Old English, Toronto: Early Medieval England boasts the earliest collection of vernacular medical texts north of the Alps. Many are translations of classical materials; others are native Old English “folk” medicine, charms, prognostics, and prayers. This lecture explores the hybrid medical discourse...
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Turn the pages of these human books and 'read' or hear about different countries represented in our community. Each station will feature a specific country where you can read or interact with the "book" (a person) and learn about different aspects of a country such as culture, language, or history.
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Professor Emeritus Kimiko Gunji will be presenting her new cookbook, Wagashi: Season by Season. After an intro about wagashi, guests will be treated to three unique wagashi paired with three kinds of tea. These wagashi will be seasonal recipes from the book and each month of tasting events will highlight a different menu based on seasonal ingredients and occasions.
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Judy Maltz is a senior correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. An award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Maltz was one of the founding editors of the Haaretz English edition. She will share some of her takeaways from an intensive year of writing about the repercussions of October 7 on Jewish Americans for one of Israel's leading newspapers...
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JSTOR is a digital library with access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines (primarily focused on humanities and social sciences). This workshop will focus on how to search text, images, and primary resources in JSTOR, and how to organize your research using the workspace feature.
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Amit Schejter is a professor of communication studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In his talk, he describes legal tools used to limit press and speech freedoms in the Israel-Hamas war and sets them in the context of similar and dissimilar tools used by other regimes in times of war in recent years. Lunch provided.
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In this talk, Jordan Pascoe draws on the resources of feminist philosophy to explore how disasters trigger social change – in both progressive and authoritarian ways. By examining how people learn from one another in disaster contexts, and how this learning can shift longstanding practices of collective knowing, she explores how and why disasters generate social change...
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Sebastian Rand (Philosophy, Georgia State University) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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Unlock the power of studying text on a large scale through this beginner-friendly introduction to text mining. In this workshop, we’ll provide an overview of analytical techniques, identify datasets that you can use for your research, and play with easy-to-use tools for understanding linguistic patterns in text. No prior experience needed! Registration required
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Come and visit the new space for the Center for Children's Books in the School of Information Sciences and hear about all we have to offer campus. Free galleys, donuts, and cider available until supplies last.
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We hope you will join us for an opening reception at Levis Faculty Center on the afternoon of September 18. Join us on the back patio to gather with the humanities community at Illinois. Rain location: Levis first floor atrium
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The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Director Judy Maltz, George Gasyna (Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Brett Ashley Kaplan (Director of HGMS).
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Building upon their recent article, “What Is Information History?,” Bonnie Mak (Information Sciences) and Allen Renear (Information Sciences) introduce ways in which the humanities can engage in the critical examination of AI. Part of the “Think Again...” Event Series.
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In an era of increased awareness of diversity and inclusion, understanding hidden bias and its impact on educational institutions has become paramount. Professor Mahzarin Banaji is an experimental psychologist who has spent 35 years understanding how the mind works in social contexts.
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Join the Animal Turn Research Cluster for their first event of the term. Babette Tischleder is Professor of North American Studies at University of Göettingen, Germany. Her talk is titled Hidden Among Us: Urban WildLife and Nonfiction Writing.
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Join Erik Scott for a discussion of his recent book, "Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World." This groundbreaking book, recently published by Oxford University Press, explores how defectors, pursued by their home states and coveted by the U.S. and allies, influenced global borders and intelligence rivalries.
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On 20 September, the Trowbridge Initiative will host Sunny Xiang in conversation with Joe Ponce, and Lucy Alford in conversation with Rachel Galvin to discuss their recent studies in American literary history in Room 210 in the Illini Union. Admission is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
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We have all sat through presentations that were boring, confusing, and drab. How do you communicate your message most succinctly? What visuals will captivate and inform your audience the best? Is it only about your slide design or are there other techniques that leave a lasting impression?
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Are you overwhelmed by organizing your sources? Zotero is a free, open-source citation manager that helps you store and organize your files and insert formatted citations into papers. You will leave this hands-on workshop with a Zotero library set up and ready to use!
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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, short stories, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
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Join the Center for Children's Books to hear from six different children's book publishing houses about the intersections of religion, culture, and sacred belief during two Zoom panels. For those on campus, a watch party and discussion also will take place at the School of Information Sciences, 614 E. Daniel, 4th Floor Multipurpose Room.
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Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology, UIUC) & Lou Turner (Urban & Regional Planning, UIUC) will deliver a lecture as part of this year's Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series, organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.
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This workshop will use practical applications of two AI tools—Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity AI. These tools support your research process, offering intelligent assistance with brainstorming, refining ideas, finding sources, and enhancing your writing development. You will learn how to use these tools to efficiently gather insights, structure...
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Are you having trouble organizing all of your sources but don’t know where to start? A citation manager can help you store your files, create citations, and insert formatted citations into papers. This hands-on workshop will introduce you to three popular citation managers—Mendeley, Zotero, and Endnote. We will go over pros and cons of each one and give you a preview...
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In the 1920's and 1930's, African American musicians in Shanghai became crucial to define that era. This documentary is about a story of "the half has never been told," that is the history of jazz as experienced by African American and Chinese musicians in China from past to present. Featuring musicians Jasmine Chen and Theo Croker. Free screening, then virtual discussion
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"The Palestinian Citizens in Israel in Time of Crisis" by Mohammad Darawshe Sep 25, 2024 6:00 pm , Latzer Hall (inside University YMCA), 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign Prof. Mohammad Darawshe is the Director of Strategy, Givat Haviva Center for Shared Society
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Join us to co-create the rest of the year's schedule of events for the Generative AI Futures Reading Group. We will discuss authors, themes, philosophies, and more in a relaxed cocktail-party-type atmosphere. Light refreshments provided.
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Join Jesse McCarthy (English and African American Studies, Harvard University) and Christopher Freeburg (English) for a lunchtime book discussion. Professor McCarthy will briefly introduce his book "The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War" (2024), and then Professor Freeburg will moderate a discussion. Registration required!
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"Sexual violence against indigenous women and transitional justice. The case of Guatemala" focuses on the problematic nature of court-ordered reparations and the struggle for human rights for indigenous people, specifically women, in Guatemala by discussing the Sepur Zarco case.
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RBML’s new exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 'Annie Allen' – the poetry collection that won the first Pulitzer Prize by a Black author – and explores the rich history of Black literature’s emergence into the mainstream. Opening reception will feature remarks by Brooks’s daughter, Nora Brooks Blakely. Exhibit will be on display through May 2025.
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kato-kiriyama offers a dynamic evening of poetry, storytelling, community conversation, and even a prompt or two to take with you and continue your verses.
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Identity is at once the most central and the most unhappy word in contemporary discourse. Debates continue to rage within literary studies in the academy and in the public sphere at large about when, how, and to what extent, the discourse of identity, and sometimes its associated identity politics, should apply when we engage questions around...
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Bjørn Sletto is Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Austin and co-editor of Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America (UT Press) and Decolonizing Planning: Power and Knowledge in the Informal City (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming).
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Interested in a free undergrad study abroad program to China over the summer? Come to our event to hear from our fellows this past summer and their experiences! Lunch provided for all attendees
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Panel: Improvise & Intervene Reflections and Acknowledgements For this cohort of Interseminars fellows and conveners, circle-keeping and reflection have been a methodological commitment. In this talkback, we invite you to learn and hear about the joys, challenges, and lessons of forming an interdisciplinary collective. Refreshments will be served.
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This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Saturday's events include the Body Mapping Family Workshop, Performance & Panel: Culminating Reenactment I & II, a workshop with invited guest Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and more.
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This is part of the culminating event series with Interseminars "Improvise & Intervene." Sunday's events include a tour, Closing Collage & Movement, and Community Dinner Reception.
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Join us for a compelling reading and discussion with Ukrainian-American poet, translator, and activist Olga Livshin. Recently published in the New York Times and Ploughshares, Livshin also co-organized the large online reading of Ukrainian poets "Voices for Ukraine" during the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.