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Showing events filtered by Dates: April 1, 2023 to April 30, 2023.

  • Interseminars | Macarena Gómez-Barris: “Unwriting the Colonial Anthropocene”

    Time
    7:30 pm    4/4/2023
    Location
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on the decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, queer Latine epistemes, media environments, cultural theory and artistic practice.

    Headshot of Macarena Gomez-Barris

  • HRI Undergraduate Coffee Hour

    Time
    4:00 - 5:00 pm    4/6/2023
    Location
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

  • Interseminars | Artist Talk with David Shrobe

    Time
    7:30 pm    4/11/2023
    Location
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

    Visiting artist David Shrobe will discuss his work in this public talk.

    Headshot of David Shrobe

  • Authors in Conversation: Dave Eggers & Daniel Gumbiner

    Time
    6:00 pm    4/12/2023
    Location
    I Hotel, Chancellor Ballroom

    Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He will be in conversation with author Daniel Gumbiner, whose first book, The Boatbuilder, was nominated for the National Book Award and a finalist for the California Book Awards.

    Dave Eggers and Daniel Gumbiner headshots

  • Dave Eggers on Working with Community Organizations and Nonprofits

    Time
    2:00 pm    4/13/2023
    Location
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern

    Dave Eggers standing outside wearing a brown jacket

  • Distinguished Lecture | Françoise Baylis: "Designer Babies: What Are They and Do We Want Them?"

    Time
    4:00 pm    4/14/2023
    Location
    I Hotel, Chancellor Ballroom

    Presented by the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and cosponsored by HRI.

  • Food for the Soul/Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney

    Time
    12:00 pm    4/19/2023
    Location
    Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center

    Inside Scoop with Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina

    Nikky Finney headshot

  • CultureTalk | Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown

    Time
    7:30 pm    4/19/2023
    Location
    Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium in person; livestream at go.illinois.edu/culturetalk

    Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating.

    Images of Nikki Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown

  • Poetry Reading and Book Signing: Nikky Finney

    Time
    7:30 pm    4/20/2023
    Location
    Alice Campbell Alumni Center

    Part of the Un/Doing Event Series. Poetry Reading: Nikky Finney, John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, University of South Carolina Photo by Forrest Clonts

    Nikky Finney headshot

  • Graduate Student Town Hall

    Time
    12:00 - 1:00 pm    4/27/2023
    Location
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    HRI's Graduate Student Advisory Committee invites graduate students to attend a town hall lunch! Shape the future of the humanities through both open and guided conversation. Share your thoughts about ways that HRI can better support graduate students across campus in humanities-centered research throughout their academic careers. Please register in advance.

  • Humanities Research Lab Showcase

    Time
    12:00 - 2:00 pm    4/28/2023
    Location
    Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Students from HRI-funded Humanities Research Lab courses, SPAN 232: Spanish in the Community and HIST 312: Immigrant America, showcase their community-engaged research as part of Undergraduate Research Week.