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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. On display through May 2025.

Speaker: Hamoon Mousavi, Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Title: The weight part of Serre's conjecture for GL_n and GSp_4

Dr. A. Susan Jurow is professor of learning sciences and human development at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Jurow’s scholarship centers on ameliorating systems that marginalize communities. Her work involves research and design with historically non-dominant youth in school and community settings, progressive social activists and technology designers.

Speaker: Zoi Rapti (UIUC). Title: Stability of generalized Lotka-Volterra equations on graphs

Lecture in Temple Buell Hall Plym Auditorium, room 134, begins at 2PM. Presentation of 'analog' film documenting Plym Studio collaboration, followed by a panel with Director Mark Raymond and Director Francisco Rodriguez.

Eren Kızıldağ talks about "Shattering and Overlap Gap Property in Ising p-Spin Glass Model."

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri from the Mata Amritanandamayi Math and President of Amrita University in India will give a talk on 'Compassion in Action' highlighting its effectiveness in addressing today’s global challenges.

Chuck Todd, NBC News’ chief political analyst and former moderator of the network’s flagship Sunday public affairs program Meet the Press, will be on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for a conversation about the presidential election results on Tuesday, Dec. 3, from 5-6 p.m.

Help run Lab 217 at the MMLI retreat on Thursday, December 4th from 1pm-6pm. You do not need to present for the entire time. 1 shift=1 hour, training will be separate. Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/PUzByWnsTu

Dr. Omaris Zamora will discuss her fabulated story of La Cigüapa, a Dominican folktale figure similar to Mexico's La Llorona, as an exercise for thinking about her character and the historical context in which she is initially imagined.

The Generative AI Futures Reading Group's next meeting will be Wednesday December 4, 2024, at 7-8pm, hosted as a private event at the Analog Wine Library, 129 N Race St, Urbana. We will discuss the novel "Don't Bite the Sun" by Tanith Lee, the first of two novels of the "Biting the Sun" duology.

"MINFLUX for Dynamic Structural Cell Biology" Jonas Ries University of Vienna

Associate Professor of Psychology, Dr. Sadaghiani will discuss her research on large-scale neurocognitive networks, functional connectivity, and cognitive control.

The University of Illinois Archives is hosting a monthly Women in Science Lecture Series that will feature speakers from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diverse and multidisciplinary scientific enterprise. The lecture series seeks to highlight the important innovations and contributions of women in the sciences at the University of Illinois.

Please join the University Archives for the Women in Science Lecture Series on Thursday, December 5, 12-1 p.m., with Dr. Sepideh Sadaghiani, Associate Professor of Psychology! This is a hybrid event and will take place in the University Archives (146 Main Library) and over Zoom.

An informal discussion of books published in the past year by Medieval Studies faculty affiliates Claudia Brosseder, Eric Calderwood, and David Cooper: Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in The Andes * On Earth and in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus * The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth.

Krannert Art Museum is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.

FSHN Graduate Seminar Series Presenter | Shelby Keye, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Health and Kinesiology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Title | The Influence of Health Behaviors on Childhood Cognitive and Motor Functions Room 180 Bevier 11:00 AM Friday, December 6, 2024

In this talk, hosted by the Center for Writing Studies, Dr. Jordan Woodward, Humanities Without Walls Postdoctoral Research Associate, will share her work with Appalachian communities while working to establish meaningful partnerships with coal-reliant communities in Illinois.

Join Dance at Illinois student choreographers in an eclectic evening of dance works, presented in DRK, Level 2, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. eight dances, three floors down features 8 choreographers: Khiari Everett, Damiyah Williams, Takashe Fulce, Alex Brown, Jeremiah Jordan, Jade Lajeune, Chelsea Wahrendorf, and Ethan Pak Rome.

Join the Physics Department for this fall's Saturday Physics for Everyone on Saturday, the 7th. This in-person lecture series concludes with Jaki Noronha-Hostler's "Reverse Alchemy: Turning Gold into the Most Perfect Liquid". Breakfast will be served at 10:00AM and the lecture begins at 10:15AM.

Join us for an electrifying concert uniting award-winning flamenco virtuoso and George A. Miller Visiting Artist Adam Del Monte with the Latin American Ensemble, featuring Del Monte's original compositions reimagined through a vibrant fusion of flamenco and Latin American rhythms.

Dr. Andrea Shafer, Duke University, will lecture on "Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging; Transitioning from the Academic to Industry Approach to Research."

The Biomedical Imaging Center & The Stephens Family Clinical Research Institute at Carle Health seminar series continues with Dr. Jon-Fredrik Nielsen, Research Associate Professor in the fMRI laboratory at University of Michigan, and will lecture on Harmonizing MRI data acquisition with Pulseq: Why, how, and current state of the field

Gary Durack Principal Cytometrist and Engineering Fellow Cytonome/ST "Inventing your Future: A discussion of the personal costs and rewards of tech entrepreneurship after 40 years as a founder and inventor"

Matthew C. Ehrlich, author of The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine, joins Ryan A. Ross of the University of Illinois Alumni Association to discuss the book. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.

Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.

The 2025 MLK Jr. Commemorative theme is “Our Beloved Community: Protecting, Freedom, Justice & Democracy”. The Committee invites nominations for the 2025 MLK Champions Recognition.

Celebrate the end of the semester with this special movie screening courtesy of the Japan Foundation Film Series! Japan House will feature Finding Calico, 2015, dir. Yoshihiro FUKAGAWA, a highly acclaimed film to showcase Japanese cinema. Admission to the screening is free but registration is required due to limited space.

Celebrate the end of the semester with this special movie screening courtesy of the Japan Foundation Film Series! Japan House will feature Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko, 2021, dir. Ayumu WATANABE, a highly acclaimed film to showcase Japanese cinema. Admission to the screening is free but registration is required.

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