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Professor Rosalyn LaPier will give a keynote talk titled "Anti-trans Policies Jeopardize Indigenous Peoples’ Rights & Religious Expression" at this year's events for Indigenous People's Day.
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This lecture examines the phenomenon of “PRL Noir”: a series of tele-cinematic returns to Poland’s socialist period (PRL standing for “People’s Republic of Poland”) that channel present-day anxieties over communism’s grim legacy through the highly stylized medium of crime drama.
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Food for Thought, a Lunch-on-Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community.
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Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with John Durham Peters: Considering Forgiveness in a Time of Ubiquitous Recording.
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Nadine Naber (Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago) will present the lecture “Radical Mothering as Prison Abolition Pedagogy in Chicago” as part of the Story & Place event series.
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Friday Forum + Conversation Café: LGBTQ + Stories of Change: A Journey Through History by Dywaine Betts, Jr. Time: October 17 at 12 pm Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign
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Please join Japan House for tea ceremonies and for an art show/sale and talks by four visiting artists from Fukushima at Fall Open House!
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What does it mean to engineer with—not just for—people? In this talk, Brock introduces Human-Centered Engineering (HCE) as a response to a growing recognition: that many technical systems, however sophisticated, fall short when they overlook the messy, contextual, and deeply human dimensions of the world they aim to improve.
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Join Spurlock for a lecture by Professor Pamela Riney-Kehrberg titled "The Farm Crisis and Fallout: The Rural Midwest in the 1980s and After."
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This talk by Dr. Hilit Surowitz-Israel explores Curaçao's pivotal role at the height of its influence by examining the production and circulation of religious material culture, focusing on the significance of "the gift" within Sephardic communities across the Americas.
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More than 500 years after its printing, the production details of the Catholicon are still a much debated topic in incunabula research. Come learn about the most recently discovered clues with the subject’s preeminent scholar, Paul Needham!
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Join John Doe, co-founder of the legendary band X, for a conversation about the band’s appearance at the inaugural Farm Aid concert in Champaign in 1985.
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Join us for the second webinar in the Costumes & Customs Lecture Series, sponsored by the Office of Arts Integration and organized in collaboration with the University Library, the Department of Theatre, the Department of Classics, the Spurlock Museum, and the Krannert Art Museum, explores the history and cultural significance of clothing across time and place.
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As part of the annual Roger Ebert Lecture and Screening, join us for the screening of Piccadilly (1929). E.A. Dupont’s film starring Chinese-American pioneer Anna May Wong is a formative cinematic entry in the transition from silent to sound films.
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Friday Forum + Conversation Café: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolishionist Future by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver Time: October 24, 12 pm Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign
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In this talk, we’ll explore what entanglement is, how to create, shape, and detect it, and how we're learning to harness it for revolutionary technologies. We’ll also learn why it deeply troubled some of the greatest minds in science.
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This lecture examines the war diary, the most prominent genre at the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Food for Thought, a Lunch-on-Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community. Past discussions include topics such as nutrition, mental health, sexual health, and media representation of Asian Americans.
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Black Uncanny: Tales of the Black + The Weird by Stacey Robinson Time: October 31 at 12 pm Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign
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Juno Salazar-Parreñas, Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Competing Colonialisms in the Great Acceleration
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When lead nuclei collide at near light speed in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, they create the hottest matter in the universe, the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a state that existed moments after the Big Bang. University of Illinois researchers developed radiation-hard detectors to study how this plasma forms and evolves, advancing the quest to recreate matter from the dawn of time.
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Food for Thought, a Lunch-on-Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community.
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In 14th-century Provence, the volume of contracts produced by public notaries increased rapidly from thousands each year to millions. Reliance on writing impacted even the most remote rural communities and marginalized actors, including women, peasants, and religious minorities. Why did written records become so wildly popular so quickly? What were the consequences?
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Friday Forum + Conversation Café: Fighting for Algorithmic Justice in an Age of AI-Driven Surveillance by Clara Belitz Time: November 7 at 12 PM Location: University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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This presentation will introduce participants to a groundbreaking project called CraftCells: A Window into Biological Cells. This is the first tool that lets anyone—from researchers to curious students—step inside an accurate 3D model of a cell and see how life is organized at the tiniest scale.
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Food for Thought, a Lunch-on-Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community.
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Gillen D’Arcy Wood will speak about his new book, "The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline".
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School of Integrative Biology graduate student Vivian Cheng will discuss her research using genetics, ancient DNA, and historical archives to understand the effects of climate change and colonialism on narwhals. November 13 |12pm till 1 pm (CST) | Main Library Room 146 or Zoom
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School of Integrative Biology graduate student Vivian Cheng will discuss her research using genetics, ancient DNA, and historical archives to understand the effects of climate change and colonialism on narwhals.
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Join us for the Ebert Center screening of Ari Aster’s debut feature-length film "Hereditary" (2018), one of the most notable horror films of the 2010s.
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Friday Forum + Conversation Café: In the Deep End by Jameel Bridgewater Time: November 14 at 12 PM Location: University YMCA, 1001 S Wright St, Champaign
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Did you know the internet is distributed using light? A quantum network uses the smallest possible blips of light, called photons, to share information in a fundamentally different way, based on the concepts of quantum mechanics. This presentation will share the work that led to the launch of the first Public Quantum Network (PQN) at The Urbana Free Library.
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In this talk, award-winning classicist and bestselling author Dr. Emily Hauser explores the many different ways in which we can start to uncover the women of the ancient world. Hauser's writings range from deep analysis of Greek texts, to popular contemporary myth retellings, to innovative takes on history that mix fact and fiction to uncover new ways of knowing.
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Food for Thought, a Lunch-on-Us series, is a weekly noontime discussion focused on topics relevant to the Asian American community.
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Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Tara Isabella Burton: God-making: Magic and Transhumanism from the Renaissance to the Digital Age.
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'Pioneers on the wild frontiers of local fascism:' Rethinking U.S. fascism through the Black antifascist tradition" Speaker: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy Date and Time: November 19 at 12 pm Location: 108 Coble Hall 801 S Wright St Champaign 61820
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Join the College of Media Frank Center in person or register to join us via Zoom (link to come) for this Q&A with Chris Cillizza, an independent news creator on Substack and YouTube.
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Join us for a lecture in the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age Speaker Series with Matthew DeCamp: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: More than a Tool We Use.
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Dr. Pinshane Huang, Professor and Racheff Faculty Scholar of Materials Science and Engineering, will discuss her research on transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy of two-dimensional materials and soft-hard interfaces.
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Medical Humanities lecture with Justin Garcia from the Kinsey Institute
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Story & Place event series: Anke Pinkert Book Talk
