Campus Humanities Calendar
Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Join us for the opening of a Farm Aid exhibit with remarks by curator Dan Gilbert, live music by New Souls, and local refreshments.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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Dr. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Associate Professor, Brandeis University will present, "African Refugees, Gender and the Global Polycrisis" hosted by the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and co-sponsored by the Illinois International Programs, Center for African Studies, Center for Global Studies, Sociology, Gender & Women's Studies, Women's Resources Center...
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Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) in conversation with Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University), moderated by Antoinette Burton (History).
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Anna Hunt (Germanic Languages & Literatures, UIUC) and Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Philosophy, UIUC) will deliver lectures on Walter Benjamin as part of the Fall 2025 Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series.
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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Graduate students: join us to learn from two guest scholars about their experience publishing for different audiences: Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London; fellow of the British Academy) and Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University).
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This engaging documentary is less about religion and doctrine, than it is about a cultural throughline of the African American community from enslavement to our current Racist crisis in the United States. Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the series details how Black Americans adopted and adapted Christianity to create a liberating faith and the church became...
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Catherine Hall (Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London) will present the lecture “Land, property, and the story of 18th century race-making: displacement and belonging between the Caribbean and Britain.” With Jennifer Morgan (History, New York University) responding.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
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With over 100 prints on display—including works by Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer—Imagination, Faith, and Desire is extraordinary for the significance of the works and the exceptionally high quality of the impressions, the excellence of which rivals the holdings at many major museums.
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Encode AI is a student-led non-profit that co-sponsored SB 1047, California’s landmark AI safety legislation, and that helped developed the AI Bill of Rights under the Biden Administration. Kashyap Rajesh is a sophomore at Cornell University studying information science and government with a minor in Al.
Friday, September 26, 2025
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The Center for Writing Studies is happy to host Dr. Bernadette Calafell! She will be hosting a workshop titled "Using Critical Auto-methodological and Performative Methods in Our Scholarship," and giving a lecture titled "Revolutions are Built on Hope: Cassian Andor and the Revolutionary Politics of Hope in the Star Wars Universe."
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Join us for our first CEAPS Brown Bag of the 25-26 school year with Faculty Travel Grant recipient Sarah Park Dahlen & Michelle Lê for their talk, "Keeping Afloat: Water, War, and Vietnamese Diaspora in Picture Books." Sarah Park Dahlen 박사라 is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences.
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Japan House will be open from 4–6:30pm for Homecoming on Friday, September 26. Please stop by and have a bowl of tea and sweet at our Homecoming Matcha Café, view progress on the Ogura-Sato Annex, and enjoy the gardens!