Events Archive

Independent journalist, author and activist Mark Hertsgaard has twice traveled around the world investigating the declining health of the world environment. From the boardrooms of Paris to the streets of Bangkok and Beijing, Hertsgaard spent over six years traveling to nineteen countries…

Focusing on the relations between Jewish and Christians theologians in modern Germany, Heschel highlights the conflicting and self-serving attempts to redefine the nature of Jesus between 1857 and 1945. The Fourth Paul and Ann Krouse Lecture Hosted by: Drobny Interdisciplinary Program for the Study…

Poet, playwright, composer, performer, artist, and publisher, Dick Higgins is one of the preeminent transmedia artists of our time. Mr. Higgins became interested in pattern poetry (modern visual poetry) in 1967 and has spent the past two decades collecting examples from all corners of the world.…

Based on new research, Robert A. Hill re-charts the intellectual origins of the Harlem Renaissance. Here he traces the genesis back, broadly to Marcus Garvey's Ethiopianism, and, more specifically, to the astonishing impact of the "Egyptian Revival" during the 1920s. Organized as a slide…

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith has become internationally famous as one of the major authors in Chicano literature. This talk focuses on his Texan birthplace as the base of his fictional work and explores how place has influenced his writing and points of view. The use of two languages from the two…

One of the most important Japanese "little theatre" troupes of the past twenty years, Seinendan, will perform two comedies by Oriza Hirata in Japanese with English supertitles. In The Yalta Conference, three actresses recreate the February 1945 meeting at which Stalin, Churchill, and a terminally…

While casually reading a book on an airplane, Adam Hochschild noticed a reference to Mark Twain's involvement in a worldwide movement protesting atrocities in the Congo, events that had taken five to eight million lives. The savagery of Belgium's King Leopold II, the incredible human tragedies and…

Professor Hofmeyr will provide an accessible history of the Indian Ocean world by focusing on five objects: a tombstone in Yemen; a piece of fabric from inland southern Africa; a ship, HMS Columbine; a world famous book (Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj); and a jelly fish.  Each object will illuminate a set of…

The widely known author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid argues that every concept in our minds arises from an accumulation of analogies stretching back to our earliest childhood, and that thinking–the pinpointing of the right concept at the right time–is the result of a relentless…

Jacob Holdt is a Dane who hitchhiked 100,000 miles across the United States between 1971 and 1975, taking 15,000 photographs. He lived in more than 400 homes--from those of the poorest southern sharecroppers to those of America's wealthiest families. When he returned to Denmark in 1975, he selected…

How does the immune system organize itself to recognize and repel agents of infectious disease? How has the complex instinctive behavior of animals evolved?  How does a city like New York or Tokyo manage to deliver food, medicine, clothing, and other essentials to millions of inhabitants without…

After a screening of his latest film, Silent Pain, acclaimed director Martin Holly will offer his perspective on film-making as his country changes from Communism to a free-market economy. Silent Pain will run approximately one hour. Other films by Martin Holly will be shown throughout the month in…

Pierrette Hondagnue-Sotelo focuses on the Posada Sin Fronteras, a religious and political event that calls attention to the rising death toll at the U.S.–Mexico border caused by changes in U.S. border enforcement policies. She analyzes the Posada as a collective ritual, and examines the meanings it…

Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy–distinguished physicist, educator, documentary filmmaker, political commentator, and activist –will discuss the complex interactions between the forces of globalization and development of nuclear technology. He will examine the collapse of international nonproliferation…

Evelyn Hu-DeHart examines the movement of women and men from Asia to the Americas.  She discusses the diasporic patterns, costs the migrants bear, and how the migrants shape the societies and cultures of their new countries. Hosted by: Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program In conjunction…

Scientific education initiates students into a cultural enterprise, with its own history and system of beliefs. One of those beliefs is that the march of science is immune from political and societal pressures, that scientists can function in an ideological vacuum. This belief has been proved wrong…

Warrington Hudlin has long been recognized as a pioneer in the black independent cinema movement.  Born and raised in East St. Louis, he graduated form Yale in 1974; the documentary Black at Yale soon followed. In addition to producing feature films, including House Party, Boomerang and Bebe's Kids…

Arthur Hummel, former American ambassador to Burma, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China, will be sharing his personal reflections on his thirty-five year career as an American diplomat. At the time of his retirement in 1985, he was the State Department's highest ranking Foreign…

Thursday, October 8, 4:00pm lecture/demonstration Room 25, lower level, Smith Music Hall, 805 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana There are few aspects of Latin American life that articulate the coming together of the Native American, African and European heritages as clearly and as forcefully as music.…

Ayesha Imam has worked in the field of human rights, women's rights and democratic developments for over twenty years.  Her courage and commitment to protect women's rights under customary, secular and religious law in Nigeria have won her worldwide recognition. Ayesha Imam will speak on how the…

One of the world's most celebrated living artists, Jörg Immendorff, presents an illustrated talk about his work and his career. Sponsored by: School of Art and Design In conjunction with: Art History Program, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures,…

Building on his extensive experience investigating intersections of public policy and disability rights, Andy Imparato considers economic empowerment as a means to secure the complete integration of people with disabilities into American civic life. This talk provides a moment of critical…

CANCELED In 1970 when Portugal began constructing a dam at Cahora Bassa, colonial officials claimed that the massive hydro-electric project would play a critical role in the development of the Mozambican countryside. The growing success of the Mozambican Liberation Movement (FRELIMO) turned the dam…

America's music transforms our experiences into potent messages inspiring social justice, enlivening collective action, and reflecting chemistries of our national collective social fabric.  Alan Jabbour discusses the roles archives, libraries, and heritage centers play in the preservation of music…

The human ability to learn language is a human cognitive specialization encoded (in some unknown way) in our genes. The evident adaptivity of linguistic communications suggests that this capacity arose through natural selection. It is therefore a challenge for linguistics to find a plausible route…