Urbana Campus Research Calendar
Monday, October 26, 2020
GerShun Avilez, author of "Black Queer Freedom", will be hosted by the University of Maryland's Africana/Black Studies Colloquium for the launch of her new book. Registration opens two weeks in advance of the event.
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", will be speaking about her new book in a lecture presented by Princeton University's Department of French and Latin. If you would like to participate, please contact Kelly Eggers for the Zoom ID.
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
vRRES features presentations by railroaders, consulting engineers, academics and others involved in all aspects of railroad environmental topics.
Fox Family Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lecture Scott Uknes, PhD co-Founder and co-CEO, AgBiome
Join us for an up-close look at several valuable materials. We'll explore how our modern built environment relies on them, and how this reliance has consequences for our planet. Emeritus Prof. Stephen Marshak presents Part 2, "Precious Stuff," of iSEE's three-part lecture series on "Where Stuff Comes From."
Chris Lehmann, research integrity officer in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, will discuss research integrity. Registration is required.
Join Professor Lisa Ainsworth (USDA ARS) for a journey that will take us through the past, present, and even the future. Learn how our distant ancestors changed the course of history through selective plant breeding.
Lectures and discussions on current work in research and development in nuclear engineering and related fields by staff, advanced students, and visiting speakers.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
vRRES features presentations by railroaders, consulting engineers, academics and others involved in all aspects of railroad environmental topics.
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Hive is a site-specific sculpture and sound commission by Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal, two artists with distinctive practices collaborating for the first time at Krannert Art Museum.
Come join us for a fun event featuring delicious food! Petiya Stoichkova, an undergraduate student studying Linguistics and Communication, will be cooking tarator, a traditional Bulgarian cold soup, for us. The recipe will be shared with all attendees after the event so that all of you can make it at home as well!
Thursday, October 29, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Join us on Thursday, October 29 at 4:00 p.m. for the ECE Distinguished Colloquium Series with ECE alumnus speaker, Jim Giles (PhD '00). Giles is the Engineering Director responsible for Google Drive.
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, author of "Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire", will be speaking about her new book at a workshop presented by Princeton University's Department of African American Studies. To register, contact Shelby Sinclair at shelbys@princeton.edu.
Join the Champaign Public Library and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library as we explore the history of European witchcraft from the medieval period through modern popular culture. Tune in via YouTube or Facebook at Champaign.org/live.
Friday, October 30, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
What would it mean to co-create and be in a homemade space of interior world making imagined for and with Black girls, women, and femmes as part of their everyday creative livelihoods? Homemade, with Love: More Living Room is a multimedia installation of artwork made during Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truth’s (SOLHOT) sessions at Urbana and Franklin Middle Schools.
From the creators of Genome Day . . . Genomes at Home! Join us for a series of hands on activities for an hour every Saturday from October 17 to November 21, starting at 2:00pm.