Campus Humanities Calendar

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Monday, November 18, 2024

    • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    • 809 S. 5th St., Champaign (GEO office in Channing Murray Foundation) / online

    University of Chicago professor Yueran Zhang will discuss workers' struggles in China's transition from state socialism to capitalism on Mon. Nov. 18. This event will follow a discussion of his writing at the HRI Organize & Analyze Social Movements Reading Group on Mon. Nov. 11. Lunch provided, open to all.

    • 4:00 pm
    • International Area Studies Library, Third Floor IASL 1408 Gregory Dr. #321, Urbana, IL 61801

    This paper will begin by outlining my current book project, scheduled for publication in 2025. Following this introduction, I will present and discuss a summary of one of the book’s chapters, entitled “The Music of the Mashriq and the Making of the Western Mediterranean”

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

    • 4:00 pm
    • English Building, Room TBA

    Professor Gillen Wood recreates the HMS Challenger's pioneering oceanographic expedition to colonial Australia in 1874. Victorian-era Sydney Harbor offers a case study in early industrial marine exploitation and “shifting baseline syndrome,” where lost species and their habitats are erased from cultural memory.

    • 4:00 pm
    • Gregory Hall, Rm 307

    Professor Gillen Wood recreates the HMS Challenger's pioneering oceanographic expedition to colonial Australia in 1874. Victorian-era Sydney Harbor offers a case study in early industrial marine exploitation and “shifting baseline syndrome,” where lost species and their habitats are erased from cultural memory.

Friday, November 22, 2024

    • 10:00 - 10:50 am

    This webinar introduces the basic tools and resources for government statistics and data. Attendees will learn about the major federal government and intergovernmental organizations' statistics and data as well as strategies to search for government statistics.