ACES Office of International Programs
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Yahya Ashour was born in 1998 in Gaza, Palestine. He was a 2022 IWP Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. He spoke and read poetry in several American universities and organizations. He studied sociology and psychology and worked at several organizations in Gaza as a creative writing mentor for children and young adults.
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Friday Forum + Conversation Café Rev. Terrance Thomas, Pastor of Bethel AMA - Exploring the Radical Black Church Friday, February 2 ⋅ 12:00 – 1:00pm (CST) 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
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Taher highlights the place construction of first-generation immigrant Bangladeshi women living in New York, mainly by examining their dwellings and a network of locations within their residential environments and analyzes research participants’ physical and sensory ways of reconstructing spatial memories and their bodily experiences of transnational displacement.
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Join us as Dr. May Berenbaum discusses her research on the biochemical, genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying interactions between insects and plants and how she applies her knowledge to help develop sustainable management practices for natural and agricultural communities. She will also discuss the extensive public outreach programs she has developed.
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The Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop guides program leaders (faculty, staff, or students leading programs) in preparing for the safest possible experience abroad. Those who lead, or assist, short-term education abroad or other University-related travel abroad for students must attend at least one workshop a year.
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Friday Forum + Conversation Café Keith Knight, nationally acclaimed political cartoonist and musician - Cartooning Can Save the World! Friday, February 9 ⋅ 12:00 – 1:00pm (CST) 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
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The paper discusses the impact of Syrian refugees on the Jordanian economy and infrastructure, as well as the challenges and opportunities for their integration. It argues that the Syrian presence has both positive and negative effects on various sectors, such as public services, housing, trade, and the labor market. It highlights the role of donor funding..........
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The Wildflower is a 2022 Nigerian Film produced by Vincent Okonkwo and directed by Biodun Stephen under the distribution company of Film One Entertainment. The movie unveils the different domestic abuses faced by women in the society.
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Friday Forum + Conversation Café : Good Ole Abe and Emancipation and Reparation Illinois State Rep. Carol Ammons Friday, February 16 ⋅ 12:00 – 1:00pm (CST) 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
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"Victorian Geographies of Un/Belonging" Cornelia Sorabji at Oxford Faculty Affiliate Lecture De. Antoinette Burton Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Chair: Director of Humanities Reseach Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Friday, February 16 at 12 pm 306 Coble Hall, 801 S Wright Street
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The Program Leader Safety and Best Practices Workshop guides program leaders (faculty, staff, or students leading programs) in preparing for the safest possible experience abroad. Those who lead, or assist, short-term education abroad or other University-related travel abroad for students must attend at least one workshop a year.
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This talk will attempt to defamiliarize the history of this political demand. It does so by locating the question of the future of India alongside the future of Indians in the British empire. It aims to intervene in both a long-standing scholarship that had naturalized the transition from empires to nations and in the recent academic fascination with political forms ......
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Friday Forum + Conversation Café: Nadia Bolz-Weber, Lutheran Pastor, NYT Bestselling Author In Conversation with Rev. Leah Robberts-Mosser, Community United Church of Christ Friday, February 23 ⋅ 12:00 – 1:00pm (CST) 1001 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
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This talk revisits the Bhopal gas explosion of 1984 to consider the plural ways in which the Indian state has been imagined in its wake and to offer an example of what my larger book project, Reading Better States, calls a utopian method of reading. Bhopal has been dubbed the world’s worst industrial disaster and it is also a notorious example of environmental, corporate,
