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Join us in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, November 1 from 3 – 5pm for a Dad's Weekend Open House. Enjoy a relaxing Friday afternoon exploring newly-acquired rare books and other choice selections from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s collections. This event is free and open to the public; all are welcome.
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Reception immediately following in the Atrium of the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.
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Professor Batnitzky will present work from her current, book-length project on comparative conversion controversies in Israel and India. The paper will be circulated in advance. Participants are encouraged to read and come prepared to discuss the discuss, but everyone is welcome to attend.
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This Distinguished Lecture is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speaker Series.
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Wildland fire smoke contains hazardous levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a pollutant shown to adversely affect health. Estimating fire attributable PM2.5 concentrations is key to quantifying the impact on air quality and subsequent health burden.
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Leora F. Batnitzky is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies at Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her teaching and research interests include philosophy of religion, modern Jewish thought, hermeneutics, and contemporary legal and political theory.
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Mauna Kea Solidarity Group is a new coalition of students and faculty across the sciences and arts who came together to express solidarity with Indigenous Hawaiians, particularly in response to the proposed construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea.
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Join us for interactive presentations about how energy efficiency can impact maintenance, costs and increase efficiency at wastewater treatment facilities in Illinois.
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This annual conference will feature senior representatives of state and federal regulatory agencies who will provide a unique perspective on developing issues related to air quality regulations.
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Women in Entrepreneurship Lunch & Learn Seminar with Bela Gandhi
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CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2018-19 CAS Associate David O'Brien.
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Metal oxide films exhibit a spectrum of exotic physical properties, and turning them into freestanding membranes enables novel applications due to the absence of substrates. This seminar will cover the production of freestanding single crystal perovskite oxide membranes, and the fabrication of nonvolatile oxide ferroelectric tunnel junction memories on Si as an application
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This talk will posit elision and silence as a strategy both Jewish and non-Jewish writers used to underscore the inherent generalizations and stereotypes of the word “Jew” in Polish discourse and to express fractured, multivalent Polish- Jewish identities.
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Women in Entrepreneurship hosts Entrepreneur Roundtable with Alumna Guest Bela Gandhi (Founder & President, Smart Dating Academy)
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In this talk I will describe ongoing work focused on how the experiences of both mothers and fathers can induce epigenetic, neurobiological and behavioral effects and the interactive and multigenerational consequences of these effects.
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This talk contextualizes the mobilization of secessionism in Scotland and Catalonia. It explores the role that European integration as well as domestic dynamics of electoral competition have had in the independence movements in these regions. While EU membership may provide appeal and viability to secessionism, electoral competition generates the motivation for nationalist
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Marlon Mitchell of FirstFollowers of Bethel A.M.E. Church, Evelyn Reynolds of Champaign County Bailout Coalition, Hiba Ahmed and Shameem Razack of Believer's Bail Out will share the stories about their organizations and their work to address mass incarceration through a faith lens.
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"Film and Literature by North African Women: Looking at Postcolonialism, Gender, and Religion.
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Are trade wars good for American agriculture and agribusiness? Ambassador (retired) Mustard, who served over three decades in USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) promoting exports, including 19 years abroad as an agricultural attache, counselor, and minister-counselor, will comment on current U.S. agricultural trade policy from his perspective as the FAS historian.
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Non-Traditional Publishing and Digitization in Slavic and East European Countries is a workshop focused on Slavic and East European resources, specifically primary sources created by underground, alternative, and counter-culture social groups.
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This talk will show how image adjustment software can assist in the detection of now faded or whitewashed wall paintings in Armenian churches.
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MillerComm Lecture Series event featuring Natalie Kofler.
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TIGER is the 5th performance from Deke Weaver’s life-long Unreliable Bestiary project: a performance for each letter of the alphabet, each letter represented by an endangered animal or habitat.
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TIGER is the 5th performance from Deke Weaver’s life-long Unreliable Bestiary project: a performance for each letter of the alphabet, each letter represented by an endangered animal or habitat.
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In this talk, Dr. Morten Oxenboell will discuss how rural populations in medieval Japan dealt with conflicts and maintained order and security in such an environment and how this may change the way we look at medieval Japanese society.
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This Colloquium is part of the Illinois Computer Science Speakers Series.
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Reception immediately following lecture in 'A' Atrium of Chemical Life Sciences Laboratory
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Paul DeMain, former special projects coordinator in the Great Lakes for the Intertribal Agriculture Council and award-winning Chef Pete Halfaday will speak followed by a demonstration.
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Please join us for this event as we 1) help connect misinformation researchers at the university, 2) foster some interdisciplinary teams interested in collaborating on external submissions, and 3) learn more about the needs of existing and emerging research groups on campus.
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A virtual roundtable series
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Scaling Social Enterprises: The Challenge of a Double Bottom Line
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“Let’s Have a Kiki” is a series of half hour informal gallery talks during the run of the exhibit In Her Closet—How to Make a Drag Queen. Exhibit participants talk about their drag practice and exhibit-related themes, concepts, and materials.
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Rebecca Darr is an Illinois alumna (BS, Psychology) and CEO of WINGS Program, Inc.
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This talk will focus on the role of the gastrin releasing peptide receptor (GRPR), the first itch-specific receptor identified in the spinal cord, in itch transmission. He will also discuss about the differences between itch and pain sensations.
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Readings and details at criticism.english.illinois.edu.
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Alexis Trouillot will discuss how mathematical science meets inheritance law in 19th century Mauritanian manuscripts.
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by November 10th.
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Mark Roseman is a Professor of History and the Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. He is a historian of modern Europe, with particular interests in the History of the Holocaust and in modern German history.
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Mark Roseman is a Professor of History and the Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University. He is a historian of modern Europe, with particular interests in the History of the Holocaust and in modern German history.
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with Peter Fritzsche (History), and Mark Roseman (History, Indiana University Bloomington. Moderated by Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature). Co-sponsored by Jewish Culture & Society.
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with Peter Fritzsche (History), and Mark Roseman (History, Indiana University Bloomington. Moderated by Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages & Literatures and Comparative & World Literature). Co-sponsored by Jewish Culture & Society.
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This month’s event will feature Lilah Leopold, curatorial intern and PhD student in Art History, and will highlight “Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape.” Reception to follow.
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“The First Mountain to Be Removed: Yellow Fever Control and the Construction of the Panama Canal.” Paul Sutter, (History, University of Colorado Boulder), is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (2002) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (2015).
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“The First Mountain to Be Removed: Yellow Fever Control and the Construction of the Panama Canal.” Paul Sutter, (History, University of Colorado Boulder), is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (2002) and Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (2015).
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Dr. Marshall, American Indian Studies Postdoc, will talk about her research into the connections between them and how Indigenizing our historical narratives and research methodologies can begin to address the problem.
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WGGP and Center for African Studies are hosting a Grant Writing Workshop and Graduate Student Discussion on Tips for Applying for Grants and Fellowships on November 15, 2019 in 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street. Lunch will be provided from 12:00-12:30.
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Prof. Hiroyoshi Iwata will speak about the application of genomic selection to specific crops.
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Graphic designer Rex Parker will speak about Frederic Goudy's typographic collaborations with his wife Bertha and with the English author H.G. Wells. Works designed and printed by the Goudys from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's collections will be on display at the event. This event is free and open to the public; all are welcome.
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Park Ridge artist Rex Parker will present an illustrated program, “Frederic Goudy & H. G. Wells: The Time Traveler’s Typeface.”
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Dr. Susan Molins-Lliteras (Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative; Historical Studies Department, Univ of Cape Town)