Campus Humanities Calendar

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    • 7:00 pm    11/1/2024 - 11/2/2024
    • Links Hall, Chicago

    Dance at Illinois alumni gather in Chicago to present choreographic works, featuring Laura Chiaramonte, Esteban Donoso, Mark Kater, Mya McClellan, Laina Reese Werner-Powell, Chris Johnson, Melissa Pillarella, Isabella Saldana, Kaleigh Dent Christine Betsill, Johannah Wininsky, Alyssa Motter, Alex Kinard, Skylar Males, Anna Sapozhnikov and Bevara Anderson

    • 5:00 pm    11/2/2024
    • Main Quad

    Celebrate the biggest campus Diwali in the U.S. with IGSA! Join us on Nov. 2 for a vibrant night of festivities. Experience live performances, henna art, DIY rangoli, and much more. Indulge in authentic Indian food and dance the night away to our DJ party. Don't miss this unique opportunity to celebrate the triumph of good over evil!

    • 12:00 pm    11/4/2024
    • Zoom

    "Where the Wild Things Are: North America's Cultural Influence Over the Brazilian Editorial Market" Isabel Lopes Coelho is the author of The Representation of the Child in Children's Literature (2020).

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm    11/4/2024
    • Gregory Hall 213, 810 S Wright St Urbana, IL 61801

    The United States struggles with a seemingly incurable case of historical amnesia. But a remedy for that affliction is ready for mobilization. If historians-in-training choose to acquire Applied History’s tricks of the trade, they could replace the fog of historical amnesia with the clarity of historical perspective.

    • 5:00 pm    11/4/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    The documentary touristic intents centers on the never-completed Nazi resort of Prora, built to house 20,000 working-class Germans and used in propaganda to advance a promise of leisure time for the masses. The film asks: Is there an obligation to remember a building’s dark past?

    • 12:00 - 12:50 pm    11/5/2024
    • Main Library 314

    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 tools to efficiently gather insights, structure arguments, and streamline your res

    • 4:00 - 6:00 pm    11/5/2024
    • Gregory Hall 100 810 S Wright St

    In recent times, alarm over the future of history departments and programs in higher education has been widespread. In that same era, Patty Limerick has had innumerable opportunities to provide historical perspective to audiences far beyond the borders of the academic world.

    • 5:00 - 8:00 pm    11/6/2024
    • Spurlock Museum

    An evening of fun art making with renowned graphic artist Sumit Kumar with snacks, stories, and wonderful art pieces that you get to take home! Meet us at Spurlock Museum on November 6, 5-8 PM. Art supplies will be provided. Please register in advance.

    • All Day    11/7/2024 - 11/9/2024

    Conference Date: Nov 7-9, 2024 Submission Deadline: July 30, 2024

    • 3:00 - 5:00 pm    11/7/2024
    • 346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr

    Professor Bob Morrissey joins us in the RBML to showcase the John Eliot Bible, published in 1663, and discuss how this unusual text can be used to examine American origin stories, as well as histories of historical interpretation and practice in our land-grant institution. Come take a look at RBML’s copy of this exceedingly rare book!

    • 4:00 pm    11/7/2024

    This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.

    • All Day    11/8/2024 - 11/9/2024
    • Illini Union

    Join us for the Phi Alpha Theta Conference, our first regional undergraduate history conference. This year's theme is conflict and culture. Panelists will explore how cultural expressions reflect, respond to, and shape the nature of conflicts throughout history. Join us in exploring the powerful narratives that emerge when conflict and culture intersect.

    • 9:00 am - 3:30 pm    11/8/2024
    • Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center 1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL, 61801

    The Black Europe Symposium brings together experts in the field for interdisciplinary discussion around the notion of formations of Blackness broadly defined in Europe and the diaspora.

    • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm    11/11/2024
    • Chez Veterans Center | 908 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL 61801

    The University of Illinois Chez Veterans Center and ROTC invite you to the 2024 Veterans Day Celebration. Join us for lunch as we honor our brave Veterans and welcome keynote speaker Matt Ballinger, a former U.S. Army Ranger and current Executive Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police at the University of Illinois.

    • 4:00 pm    11/11/2024
    • Room 4025, Campus Instructional Facility (CIF)

    Richard T. Rodríguez will discuss his recent book A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad, which explores the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their U.S. Latine audiences since the 1980s.

    • 6:00 pm    11/11/2024
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

    Inspired by a 1941 Jorge Luis Borges short story, artist Vicki Bennett's (People Like Us)The Library of Babel (2024) explores themes related to the complex interplay of infinity, knowledge, and the cosmic fabric, presented through the metaphor of a vast, seemingly infinite library. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Bennett and special guest Hearty White.

    • 5:15 - 6:45 pm    11/12/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Jane Desmond (Anthropology, UIUC) and Jamie Jones (English, 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. Relevant readings are available in the corresponding Box folder.

    • 6:00 - 8:00 pm    11/13/2024
    • Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium

    A free film screening of the US premiere. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 marked a moment of unprecedented material destruction and cultural rupture in modern Japan.

  • WOMEN IN SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    11/14/2024
    • University Archives Main Library Room 146

    Please join the University Archives for the Women in Science Lecture Series on Thursday, Nov. 14, 12-1 p.m., with Dr. Supriya Prasanth, Professor and Head of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology! This hybrid event will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) and over Zoom.

    • 4:30 pm    11/14/2024
    • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

    GAM Visiting Artist Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and University of Illinois Professor of Anthropology Brenda Farnell ask, How do we create an Indigenous theater that moves beyond the “victim narrative” while embracing an aesthetics of resistance?

    • 7:00 pm    11/14/2024
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center

    Join us for a live book event with author Daniel Kraus, whose novel Whalefall was named one of the “Best Thrillers of 2023” by the New York Times. Kraus will discuss the challenges of writing a science-based novel and his experience adapting it into a movie for Disney.

  • Rochelle Sennet (Professor of Piano, School of Music, University of Illinois)
    • 12:00 pm    11/15/2024
    • 0357 Music Building (1114 W Nevada St)

    Dr. Rochelle Sennet, Professor of Piano, shares her experiences performing solo and chamber works during residencies at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan (2016, 2024). She will discuss teaching, collaboration with faculty and students, master classes, and guest judging.

    • 4:00 pm    11/15/2024
    • Gregory Hall 223

    Please join us for a lecture by Candace Vogler, the David B. and Clara E. Stern professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, titled "The Highest Good."

    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm    11/18/2024
    • 809 S. 5th St., Champaign (GEO office in Channing Murray Foundation) / online

    University of Chicago professor Yueran Zhang will discuss workers' struggles in China's transition from state socialism to capitalism on Mon. Nov. 18. This event will follow a discussion of his writing at the HRI Organize & Analyze Social Movements Reading Group on Mon. Nov. 11. Lunch provided, open to all.

    • 4:00 pm    11/18/2024
    • International Area Studies Library, Third Floor IASL 1408 Gregory Dr. #321, Urbana, IL 61801

    This paper will begin by outlining my current book project, scheduled for publication in 2025. Following this introduction, I will present and discuss a summary of one of the book’s chapters, entitled “The Music of the Mashriq and the Making of the Western Mediterranean”

    • 4:00 pm    11/20/2024
    • English Building, Room TBA

    Professor Gillen Wood recreates the HMS Challenger's pioneering oceanographic expedition to colonial Australia in 1874. Victorian-era Sydney Harbor offers a case study in early industrial marine exploitation and “shifting baseline syndrome,” where lost species and their habitats are erased from cultural memory.

    • 4:00 pm    11/20/2024
    • Gregory Hall, Rm 307

    Professor Gillen Wood recreates the HMS Challenger's pioneering oceanographic expedition to colonial Australia in 1874. Victorian-era Sydney Harbor offers a case study in early industrial marine exploitation and “shifting baseline syndrome,” where lost species and their habitats are erased from cultural memory.

    • 10:00 - 10:50 am    11/22/2024

    This webinar introduces the basic tools and resources for government statistics and data. Attendees will learn about the major federal government and intergovernmental organizations' statistics and data as well as strategies to search for government statistics.