Center for Advanced Study

Saturday, April 19, 2025

• • 1:00 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801

  Stories of Fukushima: The Journey of Seiran Chiba

  • Performance

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory

  Playing the Changes: Jazz and Education in South Africa

  Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

• • 4:00 - 5:30 pm
  • Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039

  Reflecting on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the Illinois Energy Landscape

  This panel convenes energy researchers and activists to reflect on lessons learned from the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in Illinois, and on present-day issues in our energy landscape. 

  • Lecture

Monday, May 5, 2025

• • 4:00 pm
  • Music Building Auditorium, 1114 W. Nevada

  CAS/MillerComm, Amy Williams, Music, Drama, and the Piano

  American composer and pianist Amy Williams will speak about her work, especially its connection to poetry, art, and dramatic literature. Bassoon Professor Ben Roidl-Ward joins for a concert premiering Professor Williams’ Last Lines for bassoon and piano.

  • Lecture