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Mariame Kaba
AUDIO Prisons are not ‘broken’ nor are they rehabilitative. They exist to punish and control. In fact, the prison industrial complex (PIC) reinforces and reproduces systems of oppression that perpetuate the violence we experience. Founded in 2009, Project NIA has been organizing to end the PIC by…
Mark Katz
This talk takes as its focus the transformation of the turntable from a playback device to a musical instrument during the early years of hip-hop.  It will examine landmark innovations in turntable technique – including Grandmaster Flash's development of the clock theory method of mixing records…
J. Kehaulani Kauanui
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Paul DeMain
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Karla Palma
Moderated by Robert Warrior, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois Indigenous media promises to play a crucial role in the future of Indigenous peoples' political, cultural, and social fortunes. This panel brings together a range of scholarly and nonacademic voices to help think through…
Evelyn Fox Keller
Keller argues that much of the theoretical work involved in constructing explanations of development from genetic data has historically been linguistic--more specifically, that it has depended on productive use of the cognitive tensions generated by ambiguity, polygamy, and, more generally, by the…
Susan Kieffer
Normally the earth slowly releases energy stored from its formation and from on-going radioactive decay, but sometimes the releases are very rapid. Such releases create disasters catastrophic to humans--landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts and…
Barbara J. King
Biological anthropologist Barbara J. King considers the implications of consciously creative and highly variable animal lives for the very popular (and very reductive) models of human behavior coming out of evolutionary psychology. If there is no chimpanzee nature, or elephant nature, what does…
Christina Klein
  Christina Klein considers some of the effects that globalization is having on film industries in the US and Asia.  Taking the contemporary martial arts films as a case study, she explores the emergence of an increasingly trans-Pacific mode of film production and film style.  She also…
Jake Kosek
This talk is hosted by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.  More information.
Daniel Langenberg
4:00pm Illini Union, General Lounge, Rm 210 Urbana (View Map) Daniel Langenberg
Kevin Leicht
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Brant Houston
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Joseph T. Yun
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Loretta Auvil
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Eamon Bracht
Watch video here The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted some of the social and cultural flaws in our ability to communicate about vital issues of public health. In this presentation we examine how COVID-19 misinformation has spread and the effectiveness of different social media platforms in…
Susanne Lohmann
Tamara Loos
The talk focuses on the life of a renegade Thai prince named Prisdang (1851-1935), who spent half of his life abroad in political exile. He has been expunged from the mainstream record of Thai history but is well-positioned for a comeback because of his critique of Siam’s absolute monarchy in the…
Rudi Colloredo Mansfield
Jay McClelland
Jay McClelland's research examines the nature of human cognition within the Parallel Distributed Processing framework: cognitive functions are viewed as emerging from the distributed and interactive activity of neurons in many regions of the brain; learning, memory, and cognitive development are…
Thollem McDonas
Thollem McDonas
Flyer This solo piano performance will combine composition and improvisation reflecting an exceptional continuum of pianists expressing individually unique voices, transporting listeners across extraordinary histories and styles of music. http://thollem.com/index.html http://thollem.com/solo-piano.…
Thollem McDonas
Flyer Who are U.S. is a film by Silver Ochre (Thollem and AC Villa). Traveling throughout the continental U.S. from March to November 2016, Silver Ochre created a full length, visual tone poem documenting a moment of the American experience in the early 21st century. Silver Ochre states, “Though…
Thollem McDonas
Flyer The Sudden Sound concert, SO Live, is a collaborative site-specific audio/video experience featuring Silver Ochre (Thollem and AC Villa) with members of Improvisers Exchange. AC Villa’s work focuses the eye on the parallels of reality shaping and defining each moment of our lives within and…
Adam McKeown
Most histories of world migration from 1840 to 1940 erase more than 100 million long distance migrants that did not depart from Europe. This forgetting underpins the claims of newness and crisis that have shaped understandings of globalization and calls for migration reform over the last century.…
Eliseo Medina
Eliseo Medina has been a national leader in the unionization of recent immigrants in the US, many of whom work in low paying jobs. Beyond improving the living standards of these immigrants, the Service Employees International Union has trained them to be effective leaders in their neighborhoods and…
Tiya Miles
Respondents:Jodi Byrd
Toby Miller
  Additional support from the Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture.
Masao Miyoshi
As the "global" economy intensifies, the university is undergoing a radical change.  While technology is the driving force of this transformations, disciplines in the humanities are absorbed with the problems of difference in gender and ethnicity.  The recognition of diversity is liberating, of…
Jerry Nelson
Proponents of the new biology in agriculture promise to solve world hunger and save the environment; opponents predict frankenfoods and superweeds.  The future lies somewhere in between with the old biology, economics and politics determining the outcomes.  This presentation explores the…
Anita Nikolich
Watch video HERE Dis- and misinformation projects, studies and solutions have proliferated over the past five years. But how does one judge the effectiveness of such efforts in the real world? Can they make a dent in the information landscape given the low cost, complex motivations and…