Humanities Research Institute Calendar

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  • Gilberto Rosas and Book Cover
    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm    1/29/2025
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 108

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

    • 12:00 pm    1/31/2025

    Students selected to participate in the program will spend 8 weeks in the summer contributing to a community organization in the Champaign-Urbana area. With support from Humanities Without Walls and We CU, participants will connect with an organization, identify an area of need, and design a project to address that need.

    • 12:00 - 1:00 pm    2/6/2025

    Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work. Whether you're looking to collaborate with international universities or explore global research opportunities, we’re here to support your efforts.

    • 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

    Based on two years of ethnographic interviews with patients of chronic illness and participant observation with practitioners of complementary medicine in California, this talk examines what “sensitivity” can provide as a source of information about the relationship between the individual and the environment, and how this impacts health.

    • 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.