Humanities Research Institute Calendar

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    • 1:00 pm
      3/2/2021

    Join us for an information session with Emily Stone and Katie Shumway and learn more about this program, which is designed to develop mutual aid between Illinois students and Champaign-Urbana community partners and their projects.

    • 4:00 pm
      3/4/2021

    2021 will mark the first anniversary of COVID-19 in the United States and the 40th anniversary of HIV/AIDS. Yet both pandemics continue to affect our well-being and health. How might history help us move beyond oversimplified comparisons between the two, while showing us that health is always more than the absence of disease?

    • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
      3/8/2021

    This annual event brings 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 the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.

  • Laura Salisbury
    • 12:00 pm
      3/10/2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic and current political upheavals have triggered a general state of anxious ‘doomscrolling’ of social media and 24-hour online news. Reading this experience alongside Don DeLillo’s The Silence (2020), Professor Salisbury’s talk takes as its starting point the insight of the phenomenological psychiatrist Eugene Minkowski (1933) that much mental...

    • 4:00 pm
      3/31/2021

    Tenure-stream faculty who wish to learn more about the Interseminars Initiative are encouraged to attend this Zoom info session. This new initiative will provide funding and administrative infrastructure for interdisciplinary inquiry, including collaborative teaching, graduate fellowships, and support for public- or community-facing research in the humanities and arts.