Humanities Research Institute Calendar

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  • Robert Townsend
    • 4:00 pm
      10/22/2024

    Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.

  • Mary Ton
    • 5:30 - 7:30 pm
      10/23/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

    Join Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, for dinner and discussion at the Humanities Research Institute about how to engage with AI ethically and effectively in your research and teaching through beginner-friendly tools.

    • 4:00 pm
      10/28/2024
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana

    IGB-HRI Distinguished Public Lecture Series: "Linking Life Sciences and Humanities" with Jennifer Raff, PhD. Raff is an award-winning author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas (KU).

  • Rebecca Walkowitz
    • 7:30 pm
      10/30/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...

    • 4:00 pm
      11/7/2024
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    This event is part of the Interseminars event series for “Collisions Across Color Lines.” Supported by the Mellon Foundation. This multimedia presentation explores the practice of cinéritual by African diaspora women and non-binary filmmakers.

  • Book's cover
    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
      1/29/2025

    Book discussion lunch with Gilberto Rosas, Anthropology and Latina/Latino Studies.

    • 4:00 pm
      2/12/2025
    • Location TBA

    Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.

    • 5:30 - 7:00 pm
      2/19/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 424

    Dinner Graduate Workshop with Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, on Planning Humanities Research Projects.

  • Kalindi Vora's headshot
    • 7:30 pm
      2/27/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Think Again series events: Kalindi Vora, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women's Gender and Sexual Studies, Yale University, holding public lectures on Feb.27.

    • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
      3/5/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    The Humanities Research Institute and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline that changed the field in important ways.

    • 7:30 pm
      3/12/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

    Community Speaker Series panelists: Tracy Barkley (Directory, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).

    • 7:30 pm
      3/26/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    Reading from Yard Show: Black Life, Prairies, and Place Making In the Midwest, with musical accompaniment.

    • 4:00 pm
      4/8/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Bryce Henson holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research with graduate certificates in cultural studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.

  • Ross Gay's headshot
    • 12:00 pm
      4/16/2025
    • BNAACC

    Award-winning poet and essayist.

  • Ross Gay's headshot
    • 7:30 pm
      4/16/2025
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom

    A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay.

    • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
      5/8/2025
    • Spurlock Museum Atrium

    Gather with us in community to toast this year's HRI research prize recipients and to mark the close of another academic year.