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Join the Women in Law Society for a panel discussion on how the law can be a tool and a barrier for domestic violence survivors. Explore how abuse, substance use, citizenship status and incarceration can complicate survivors' access to legal remedies and how legal advocates are working to break that cycle.
Tamarra James-Todd, Phd Harvard University; Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Environmental Chemical Exposures & Women's Reproductive Health"
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
As part of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (University of the Witwatersrand) Public Positions series "Fanon After Fanon," Helen Neville (Educational Psychology and African American Studies) will present "Fanonian Foundations of Liberation Psychology and Social Justice Counseling" and Lou Turner (Urban and Regional Planning) will present...
The second webinar in the iSEE Congress series on "Circular Food Systems" will feature an expert panel discussing the need for technology improvements, market incentives, appropriate policies, and systems-oriented thinking to advance the environmental sustainability of agriculture & food systems.
Map and Geography Librarian Jenny Marie Johnson will talk about the collection and about work being done to provide access to collection materials to individuals beyond the Library’s walls. She will also highlight some recent acquisitions and personal favorites and place them into the context of the collection as a whole.
On Oct. 28 at 7pm, join a virtual screening of and discussion about the film, 'Sonita.' After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through rap music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions.
Franita Tolson is Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history and employment discrimination.
This symposium will examine how culture moves and circulates: across space, time, material conditions, technologies and affects. We will consider how movement shapes and reshapes the cultural domain, creating new relationships between people, objects and practices. How does movement shape a community’s perception of local space and cultural identity?
Join us for another dialog in WGGP’s ongoing conversation with grassroots activists. This time we will explore with activists from Brazil and South Africa how their movements engage in practices of care and solidarity to combat insecurity in food, health, land and housing, and violence based on race, class, and gender inequalities.
Fall 2021 YMCA Friday Forum | Unpacking Racism: What Are We Carrying? Friday, October 29 @ 12:00pm CST In-person at Latzer Hall or online via Zoom Speaker: Catherine Shieh, Anti-Hate Training Coordinator at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Chicago
Please join the Rare Book & Manuscript Library for our upcoming virtual Halloween event, Bats & Bobs! RBML curator Dr. Cait Coker will present some fascinating Halloween-themed items from the collection, and host a live discussion with viewers over Zoom. Tune in to ask questions about our first edition of Dracula, 17th century magical texts, and poetry about bats!
Assistant Professor, Dr. Ryan Calder from Johns Hopkins will present on Political Economy and Islamic Finance.
Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois, at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early 1990s for the AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment.
Speaker: Christian Schaffner, U Amsterdam
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Join iSEE for a discussion about true food circularity — and how it must include waste reduction on the agricultural and consumer sides. Panelists are Brian Roe, Van Buren Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State; and Tom Theis, Director of The Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago.
"Delving into delta-catenin's contributions to dendrite morphology: actions of a novel phospho-switch." Director, Genetics and Epigenetics Program.
"Patient-derived in Vitro Model of Fatty Liver Disease" Department of Pathology. Regulation of hepatic development, metabolism, and paths towards cancer.
Professor Magdalena Novoa will give her presentation titled, "Wounded Landscapes: Race, gender, and grassroots preservation in Wallmapu" on November 5th at 12pm.
Fall 2021 YMCA Friday Forum | Unpacking Racism: What Are We Carrying? Friday, November 5 @ 12:00pm CST In-person at Latzer Hall or online via Zoom Lecture: "Anti-Violence means Anti-Oppression" - University YMCA in collaboration with the Women’s Resources Center
This talk examines Sophocles’ Philoctetes from an ecofeminist perspective, arguing that the setting of the island of Lemnos is crucial to the play’s depiction of its central figure. Email cperry@illinois.edu or cbosak@illinois.edu for Zoom link and password
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dr. Brian Foster from University of Virginia will be presenting on "I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life."
Speaker: Andrew Jordan, Chapman/Rochester
Associate Director of Healthcare Innovation, Professor Colleen Bushell will present on her interdisciplinary approach to research in computing and healthcare, especially on analyzing genetic data.
The negative economic and environmental effects of agricultural waste can be mitigated through some cutting-edge processes and technologies. Join iSEE for this discussion, moderated by Ximing Cai, Lovell Endowed Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and iSEE Associate Director for Campus Sustainability.
Women in Science - November Lecture Guest Speaker: Professor Colleen Bushel November 9, 2021 @ 12:00pm CST via Zoom
"Regulating Genomic Sequencing" Jacob Sherkow, J.D. University of Illinois; Professor of Law IGB Faculty, Genomic Security and Privacy theme
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Join us for the University of Illinois Press Fall Publishing Symposium on November 9, 2021 from 4-5:50 PM CST. Panels are Beyond the Monograph and New Directions for Marketing Academic Work. Learn more and register for the panels here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/symposium/fall21symposium
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Neuroscience. The focus of the Olsen lab is to better understand the role of astrocytes in normal and abnormal central nervous system function.
Fall 2021 YMCA Friday Forum | Unpacking Racism: What Are We Carrying? Friday, November 12 @ 12:00pm CST In-person at Latzer Hall or online via Zoom Lecture: "Shamar Betts Case: Unequal Justice in the Aftermath of George Floyd’s Murder" Speakers: Elisabeth Pollock, Savannah Donavan, Dr. Brian Dolinar
Poetry Reading and Q&A with Tracy K. Smith, the 2017 United States Poet Laureate.
Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Join us for a moderated conversation between Roxane Gay and Jericho Brown.
Join us for a moderated conversation between Roxane Gay and Jericho Brown.
Join us for a reading and Q&A with bestselling writer Roxane Gay.
Do you like crafts? Do you REALLY like crafts? Then join the Museum staff for our Makers Multitude program on November 14, from 1:00-3:30 PM. In this free, family-friendly program, participants are invited to do a wide variety of crafts from around the world.
