OCR Event Manager - Master Calendar
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This informal group aims to bring together graduate students from across campus to share their enthusiasm for the thought-provoking scholarship that animates them as people. Stop by to listen, chat, and share lunch! Light refreshments provided. If you are interested in sharing something, please contact Chloe Parrella.
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Dr. Nadim Bawalsa is a historian of modern Palestine. He holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from New York University.
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Musicologist Mackenzie Pierce examines the role of Polish Jewish musicians in shaping concert music amid antisemitism, Nazi occupation, and postwar rebuilding in his forthcoming book. Reconstructing their lives from the 1920s to the 1950s, he reveals how music became both a means of cultural preservation and a tool for reinvention.
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The RBML welcomes Justine Murison, editor of a new critical edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel. Murison will discuss the work’s historical and literary contexts, the revolutionary politics with which the novel engages, and the enduring questions it asks about American society. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free, and a
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Join us for a panel featuring Mary Arends-Kuenning, “Government Policies and Their Impacts on Women’s Empowerment.” Vernita Pearl Fort, "Forging a Human Rights Economy within Planetary Boundaries: A Response to unprecedented ‘Glocal’ Crises and Opportunities." McKenzie Johnson, “The Work of Women Environmental Defenders in Extractive Economies”...
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The speaker for the India Studies Lecture for 2025 is Vasudha Narayanan. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida and a past President of the American Academy of Religion. Her lecture will be on "Tamil Culture: More sweet than celestial nectar, more precious than one’s breath." It will be held at the Spurlock Museum...
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Join us for talks by recent CAS Associates. At 11am Yuguo Chen (Statistics) discusses how statistical network analysis is used to develop methods to account for the complex dependencies in network data; and at noon, Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) argues for moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical to better understand youth activism.
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Join us on Friday, April 4th for a Graduate Student Lunch & Learn: Publishing on Gender Related Topics. Please rsvp at https://go.illinois.edu/GradLunchLearn
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Join us for a talk by recent CAS Associate Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) on moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical, inside/outside, or status-quo/anti-establishment to better understand youth activism.
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This panel will feature Karen Flynn (Terrance & Karyn Holm Endowed Professor, UIC); Julie A. Pryde (C-U Public Health District Administrator); Lauren R. Aronson (Clinical Professor of Law and Immigration Law Clinic Director); and Jessica R. Greenberg (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of EUC).
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Between the late 1920s and mid-1960s, several Jewish social scientists and humanities scholars laid the theoretical groundwork for ethnic and immigration studies in the United States. The concepts these scholars developed – terms such as acculturation, urbanism, assimilation, and cultural pluralism – reshaped the understanding of America as a pluralist society of...
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The Third Wave of the Asian American Studies Movement: Advocating for & Advancing Asian American Studies in K-12 Classrooms
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Dr. Bryce Henson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and an Africana Studies Program Affiliate at Texas A&M University.
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This will be a conversation with Tobias Brinkmann about his recent book, Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe. It tells and contextualizes the stories of Jewish migrants and refugees from Eastern and Central Europe before and after the First World War. It explains how immigration laws in countries such as the United States influenced migration...
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The Department of Asian American Studies welcomes Dr. Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California to present his talk "Mutual Aid and Resisting Carceral Power: Asian American Strategies".
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Faculty, staff, and students in the College of Media are invited to attend this year's Harry J. Skornia Distinguished Lectureship in Public Broadcasting.
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Calling all graduate students, how fast can you present your research? Join this event to meet other Illinois graduate students and share your research in 3 minutes or less. Light lunch available for all registered participants. Registration is Required at https://go.illinois.edu/LightningTalk25
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Join us for a lecture by professor Sarah Clark Miller, an associate professor of philosophy, bioethics, and women's gender, and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University.
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Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern, University of Maryland
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The Interdisciplinary Sport Studies Research Cluster is pleased to host Dr. Letisha Brown, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Brown will give a guest talk on her upcoming book titled, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, with Rutgers University Press
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Please join us to celebrate the book launch of LLS professor, Aja Y. Martinez's new book The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement, co-authored with Robert O. Smith (University of North Texas). The book weaves together the many sources of critical race theory, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and...
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Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Christine Rosen. Her lecture "Defending the Human in a Technological World" will explore what it means to be human in a world that promises near-endless opportunities for virtual, disembodied experience.
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Join us for a lecture by ethnomusicologist Olga Zaitseva-Herz on the role of music in Russia’s war on Ukraine. She explores how state-controlled and grassroots music scenes shape the war’s political and social dynamics. A postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Zaitseva-Herz examines music as a tool of resistance, diplomacy, and identity.
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Join us for a lecture by John D. Norton, a distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Join the Department of Philosophy for a lecture with John D. Norton, a distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh. His lecture "How the material theory of induction dissolves the problem of induction" will explore Hume's problem of induction and argues that attempts to revive the problem within material theory fail.
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Scholarly interest in British Black Power has grown over the last decade with the movement increasingly situated as a key conjuncture in modern British history and an important site in the global history of Black Power. Yet there is still more to know about how Black Power operated at the grassroots in communities across Britain.
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Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
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Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.
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Join us for a lecture from professor Professor Jeff McMahan from the University of Oxford.
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Jennifer Teper, Head of Preservation Services at the University of Illinois Library, will discuss how she uses science in her work to conserve library collections and special collections.
