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“We are each other’s harvest” : Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of Black Literary Canon
RecurringAll Day 9/26/2024 - 5/23/2025Main Library Room 346RBML’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. On display through May 2025.
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9:00 - 11:00 am 2/1/2025 - 4/5/2025Nevada Dance StudioCreative Dance for Children is an innovative community program provided by the University of Illinois Department of Dance under the direction of Betty Allen. Instructors collaborate to design and deliver creative dance classes tailored for children ages 4-10. -
All Day 2/28/2025 - 3/2/2025On-Campus, TBDThe SKY Happiness Retreat is an internationally acclaimed life-skills program that helps participants develop a relaxed, stress-free mind and an energetic, healthy body. The retreat teaches tools such as evidence-based meditation, yoga, breathwork and self-exploration in a fun and an experiential format. Join us on campus for a detox-weekend!
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10:00 am 3/1/2025Levis Faculty Center, 210William Stroebel (University of Michigan) ~ The Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923 was the first internationally legitimated project of forced deracination in modern history.
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10:00 am 3/1/2025210 Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois -
12:30 pm 3/2/2025State Farm CenterCelebrate Illinois Watches Women's Sports Day with Girl Krush! On Sunday, March 2 @ 12:30 pm, Girl Krush will be cheering on Illinois Women's Basketball vs. Michigan. Join us as we recognize Illinois Watches Women's Sports Day and cheer the Illini to victory in this BIG10 matchup!
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/2/2025Main Library 314Microsoft Copilot AI is a university-approved tool designed to enhance your research, writing, and presentations. Copilot can also assist with lesson planning, note-taking, and organizing information efficiently.
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/3/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF), Room 1035Dr. Arif Alvi, President of Pakistan from 2018 to 2024, will share his insight on Pakistan’s climate-related challenges and the country’s role in the current socioeconomic landscape of South Asia.
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/3/2025Room 1035, Campus Instructional Facility, 1405 Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 -
11:00 am 3/3/2025Siebel 3401 -
11:00 am 3/3/2025ESB Lab 3110 -
2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/3/2025Grainger Commons, Rooms 233/235In this session, new podcasters learn how to create an intentional, personalized brand to really make their show their own. We cover promoting and marketing podcasts through social media and other ways to get word out!
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4:00 pm 3/3/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210I propose postcards of defense practices for migrant communities in Mexico, as well as latent and manifest migrant struggles occurring in Mexico City in the 21st century. I call for Research with Implicating Passion (IPI) to study what we have called the 'global government of migrations.’
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4:00 - 5:30 pm 3/3/2025Women's Resources Center - 616 E Green St, Suite #213, Champaign IL 61820Join us for an Open House at the Women’s Resources Center on Monday, March 3, from 4 – 5:30 PM. Stop by the office to learn more about available resources and programming (including Women's History Month!) that the WRC can offer to support you in your role as a student leader on campus. Light refreshments will be provided.
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5:15 pm 3/3/2025Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 1212 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL -
5:15 - 6:45 pm 3/3/2025BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street)The What Now? Series continues March 3rd (Monday) from 5:15-6:45pm at BNAAC (1212 W. Nevada Street). Confirmed speakers include Ciro Incoronato and Jessica Greenberg.
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5:30 pm 3/3/2025316 Art & Design Building"Face and Myth: Some Soviet Theories of the Portrait," Samuel Johnson, Associate Professor, Syracuse University. Monday, March 3, 5:30 pm, Art & Design 316.
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5:30 pm 3/3/2025Temple Buell Hall Atrium | Plym Auditorium 134 -
11:00 - 11:50 am 3/4/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Ed Barnes, Professor of Physics and Moore Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech - "Quantum control and error mitigation from geometric space curves",
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11:00 - 11:50 am 3/4/2025Altgeld Hall 141Speaker: Matilde Lalin (Université de Montréal) Title: The shifted convolution problem in function fields
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12:00 pm 3/4/20251064 Lincoln Hall or VirtualDo you travel to present research in other countries? Do you collaborate with researchers at foreign institutions? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, your research may be subject to export control policies. Join LAS Office of Research and Office of Research Security Director Linda Lee Drozt to learn more about requirements and regulations affecting research. Click here to learn more or register for this event.Do you travel to present research in other countries? Do you collaborate with researchers at foreign institutions? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, your research may be subject to export control policies.
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3:00 pm 3/4/20251005 Forbes Natural History Building, 1816 S Oak Street, Champaign -
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4:00 pm 3/4/2025Illini Union Book Store: 2nd Floor Author's CornerHUDA J. FAKHREDDINE is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She will talk about translating Salim Barakat's book "The Universe All at Once" and Ibrahim Nasrallah's "Palestinian".
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All Day 3/4/20252035 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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6:30 pm 3/4/2025Join us for a film discussion on "Funmilayo Ransome Kuti" which is a powerful movie tell the story of a fearless female leader who sparks a revolution against colonialism and patriarchy in Nigeria. The film is based on the renowned Nigerian activiist Fela Kuti. Watch the film on Amazon Prime and then join PhD Student Adetutu Faburoso for discussion.
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6:30 - 8:00 pm 3/4/2025Funmilayo Ransom Kuti Film Discussion Tuesday | March 4 | 6:30-8:00pm CST | via Zoom Discussion led by: Adetutu Faburoso, Ph.D Student in Human Resource Development (HDR) and minor in Gender Relations and International Development (GRID)
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10:00 - 11:00 am 3/5/2025Are 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! This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
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11:00 - 11:45 am 3/5/2025Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois, Room 210Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate David Wright Faladé on his new work, a non-fiction treatment of his novel The New Internationals, based on his parents.
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11:00 - 11:45 am 3/5/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W IllinoisJoin us for a talk by recent CAS Associate David Wright Faladé on his new work, a non-fiction treatment of his novel The New Internationals, based on his parents.
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm 3/5/20251 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL 61820 -
12:00 pm 3/5/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology"Illuminating Brain Circuit Architectures" Xiaotang Lu, Assistant Professor, Chemistry
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12:00 pm 3/5/2025Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center 1212 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL 61801Food for the Soul, part of the Lunch on Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the many communities globally within the African Diaspora and our allies. This week's event is "Black Joy and Resistance: A Womanist Panel Discussion" w/ Whitney Clarke, Danisha Moore, and Cherese Waight.
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2:00 3/5/2025Material Sciences Building, 1304 W Green St, Urbana - Room 119 -
3:30 pm 3/5/2025HYBRID: 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science or online -
3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/5/2025Levis Faculty Center, Room 300The Humanities Research Institute and Women & Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline that changed the field in important ways.
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/5/2025Levis Faculty Center, Third FloorThe Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) and the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are co-hosting our eighth annual event, “11 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories” bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 3/5/2025Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor“11 Women Who Changed the World: Untold Stories” brings together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.
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4:00 pm 3/5/2025Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom -
4:00 - 6:00 pm 3/5/2025Turner Student Services Building 1st Floor (610 E John St, Champaign, Il 61820) -
5:00 pm 3/5/2025Illini Union, Room 210 (1401 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801)This presentation will highlight some of the central dilemmas that scholars of antisemitism face today and propose one possible avenue for the potential resolution of the intersecting interests and pressures that influence the study and understanding of antisemitism and other contemporary issues that straddle the academic and public realms.
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6:00 - 7:30 pm 3/5/2025Women's Resources Center - 616 E Green St, Suite #213, Champaign IL 61820Join us for dinner and a transformative 60-minute workshop tailored for first-generation college students from diverse backgrounds. In this interactive session at the Women's Resources Center , we will explore the importance of inclusivity in the workplace and equip you with the tools to identify and contribute to inclusive work environments.
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10:00 am 3/6/2025Looking for a new way to conduct your research? Tired of getting zero results in your database searches? This workshop will break down how to identify resources, and search for articles, books, and other scholarly works. We’ll cover chasing citations, creating optimal keyword searches, using built-in database functions to improve your searches, and other strategies to make
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10:30 am - 12:00 pm 3/6/2025Center for Children’s Books 501 E. Daniel, Room 211With: Rebekah Fitzsimmons (Carnegie Mellon, and iSchool Visiting Research Fellow), Tan Debnath & Glen Layne-Worthey (iSchool). Join our research team to explore data from 78 years of children’s book reviewing in the CCB’s Bulletin! BYOD - Bring Your Own Device. Free donuts will be available.
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11:00 am 3/6/2025Charles Miller Auditorium, B102, CLSLAssistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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4:00 pm 3/6/20251066 Lincoln Hall (702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801) -
4:00 pm 3/6/20251066 Lincoln Hall (702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801) -
4:00 pm 3/6/2025Siebel School of Computing and Data Science 2405 -
4:30 pm 3/6/2025Illini Union Bookstore: Authors CornerA reading by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, made possible by the Kaplan Family Writer in Residence Series.
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6:00 - 7:30 pm 3/6/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignSPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It’s an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
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6:00 - 7:30 pm 3/6/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignSPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. It’s an open-mic public performance space at Krannert Art Museum curated by local artist, Shaya Robinson, featuring guest performers and welcoming all to the mic.
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7:30 - 9:00 pm 3/6/2025 - 3/8/2025Krannert Center for the Performing ArtsStudiodance re-imagines the relationships between space, sound, and movement as choreographers reinvent the visual environs of the magical “black box” theatrical laboratory.
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All Day 3/7/2025Illini UnionThe 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign celebrates a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry.
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All Day 3/7/2025 - 3/8/2025210 Levis Faculty Center -
All Day 3/7/2025 - 3/8/2025Illini UnionILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work.
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All Day 3/7/2025 - 3/8/2025Levis Faculty Center RM 210What does it mean to imagine and implement climate justice? This interdisciplinary symposium is driven by the urgent need for a range of interventions and tools: critique, experimentation, imagination, pragmatics and policy.
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9:00 am - 5:00 pm 3/7/2025Spurlock Museum, Knight AuditoriumSpeakers will address the history, mechanism, and goals of political protest, looking at it from the various perspectives of ethics, efficacy, communication, strategy, solidarity, public policy, parliamentary channels, and law.
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9:00 am - 6:00 pm 3/7/2025Knight Auditorium, Spurlock MuseumSpeakers will address the history, mechanism, and goals of political protest, looking at it from the various perspectives of ethics, efficacy, communication, strategy, solidarity, public policy, parliamentary channels, and law.
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9:45 am - 4:30 pm 3/7/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge in the Foreign Languages BuildingNow Unfashionable is a symposium that will be hosted in the Lucy Ellis Lounge on Friday, March 7. Invited panelists will address ostensibly outmoded methods of literary study in the field of American literary history. The event will be open to the public. Food and refreshments will be served.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/7/20251001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL, 61820Friday Forum + Conversation Cafe Defending Immigrants under a Trump Administration: An Immigrant Advocate's Perspective by Diana Rashid, Berkeley Public Interest Law Fellow and Attorney, National Immigrant Justice Center, in conversation with current La Colectiva students March 7, 2025 | 12:00 pm -1:00 pm (CST) | University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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12:00 - 3:00 pm 3/7/2025GRID Student Forum featuring graduate student research projects March 7, 12 pm - 3 pm via Zoom.
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12:00 - 3:00 pm 3/7/2025Join us as we hear from five graduate students and recipient of fellowships through the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity. This online forum will include student presentations and Illinois faculty discussants. Research talks include discussions from Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, and Senegambia. Full details at https://go.illinois.edu/GraduateForum.
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All Day 3/7/20252090B Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Building (707 S. Mathews Ave., 2nd FL) -
2:00 - 4:00 pm 3/7/2025Women's Resources Center - 616 E Green St, Suite #213, Champaign IL 61820Join us for a communal sewing event with artist, Erica Fitzgerald. This special session of Crafternoons will to bring women (and others with any gender identity) together to stitch a 30-ft-long red fabric curtain that will be feature in the upcoming MFA thesis exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum in April.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 3/7/2025Main Library Room 346Concluding the first annual Global Book History at Illinois workshop, distinguished professors Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Agamemnon Tselikas, and George Xenis will touch on their work championing the study of classical and medieval Greek letters and literatures and reflect briefly on this groundbreaking new program.
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3:00 - 5:00 pm 3/7/2025346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory DrPlease join us for a roundtable discussion featuring distinguished professors Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Agamemnon Tselikas, and George Xenis, who will reflect on their work championing the study of classical and medieval Greek letters and literatures.
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2:00 - 3:30 pm 3/8/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignExperience a performance in the galleries by video artist ACVilla and keyboardist/vocalist Thollem McDonas, as part of their national tour. The Sudden Sound Concert Series presented by Krannert Art Museum and Improvisers Exchange features leading artists in avant-garde jazz and music improvisation.
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2:00 - 3:30 pm 3/8/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignExperience a performance in the galleries by video artist ACVilla and keyboardist/vocalist Thollem McDonas, as part of their national tour. The Sudden Sound Concert Series presented by Krannert Art Museum and Improvisers Exchange features leading artists in avant-garde jazz and music improvisation.
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11:00 am 3/10/2025Siebel 3401 -
12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/10/2025Women's Resources Center - 616 E Green St, Suite #213, Champaign IL 61820Join us for our Dish It Up/Lunch on Us Series at the Women's Resources Center every 2nd & 4th Monday at noon (12 p.m. CST), while listening to speakers, lecturers, and panelists explore a variety of topics at the intersection of gender and other social identities.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 3/10/2025Women's Resources Center - 616 E Green St, Suite #213, Champaign IL 61820Join us for our Dish It Up/Lunch on Us Series at the Women's Resources Center every 2nd & 4th Monday at noon (12 p.m. CST), while listening to speakers, lecturers, and panelists explore a variety of topics at the intersection of gender and other social identities.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 3/10/2025Main Library 314Google Scholar is a popular and useful tool for research with several features that scholars may not be familiar with. This workshop will elaborate on the difference between searching in Google Scholar and academic databases, demonstrate how to use Google Scholar’s Advanced Search, explain how to connect your library access to Google Scholar...
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11:00 - 11:50 am 3/11/2025190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801Speaker: Nicholas LaRacuente, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University - Bloomington
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11:00 - 11:50 am 3/11/2025Altgeld Hall 141Speaker: Xiannan Li (Kansas State University) Title: One level and n-level density for a large orthogonal family of L-functions
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12:00 pm 3/11/2025612 Conference Center Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic BiologyAlanna Schepartz, PhD T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry; University of California, Berkeley "Expanding the Functional Proteome"
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1:00 pm 3/11/2025The Cline Center will be holding a Zoom information session for faculty interested in the AY2025-26 Linowes Faculty Fellows Program. If you would like to attend, email Scott Althaus to receive a Zoom link for the session.
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3:00 pm 3/11/20251005 Forbes Natural History Building, 1816 S Oak Street, Champaign -
3:45 - 4:45 pm 3/11/2025134 Astronomy Building -
4:00 - 4:50 pm 3/11/20252035 Campus Instructional FacilityLectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
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5:00 pm 3/11/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge -- room 1080, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Building -
5:00 pm 3/11/2025Lucy Ellis Lounge -- 1080 Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics BuildingIt has been estimated that, for every manuscript now surviving from medieval England, another twenty were lost. Given what we have learned recently about medieval book production, the scale of the loss may be nearly twice that: the conventional understanding has been based on an unrepresentative minority of volumes saved by accident or an individual’s design.
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5:30 pm 3/11/2025Campus Instructional Facility, Room 4025Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with John Durham Peters. Both in journalistic coverage and everyday life, there is now a striking level of detailed judgment about the minutiae of nonverbal and nonpublic expression.
