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Mobilization for World War II triggered profound changes in all areas of human endeavor. Innovations in microelectronics and computing are well known. Less familiar but of critical importance were vectors of change in the organization and retrieval of information. These changes drew on a concurrent…
November 17 and 18
Since the mid-nineteenth century, transformations in communications and technology have accelerated the pace of encounter and exchange between musical cultures. Participants in this workshop will come together in order to share disciplinary perspectives on the reshaping of…
The Global Midwest: The Midwest Goes Out to the World
Sponsored by the Humanities Without Walls Consortium
February 5-6, 2016
This workshop features collaborative research into the archival collections related to world music at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois and the…
Garland Allen
With the recent announcement of the completion of the sequencing of the human genome (along with the genomes of the fruit fly, the roundworm C. elegans and yeast) we are standing at a critical threshold of the interface between science and society. What does this new information mean---what are…
Renée Baker
Composer, conductor, performer Renée C. Baker is an accomplished instrumentalist who conducts new music throughout the world that seamlessly blends improvisation and composition. Baker is the founding music director of the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, which celebrates contemporary music…
Renée Baker
Composer, conductor, performer Renée C. Baker is an accomplished instrumentalist who conducts new music throughout the world that seamlessly blends improvisation and composition. Baker is the founding music director of the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, which celebrates contemporary music…
Renée Baker
Composer, conductor, performer Renée C. Baker is an accomplished instrumentalist who conducts new music throughout the world that seamlessly blends improvisation and composition. Baker is the founding music director of the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, which celebrates contemporary music…
Jessica Bardill
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Ripan Singh Malhi
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Monica Sans
Moderator: Frederick Hoxie, CAS Professor and Resident Associate, Department of History, University of Illinois
This genomics roundtable focuses on the interactions between science and the indigenous public, particularly how the genomic sciences can enable reclamation of histories and identities by…
Jim Barrett
The question is one of the oldest in our complex relationship with immigration: How did immigrants, steeped in their old world cultures, gradually and unevenly transform their own identities and begin to think of themselves as “Americans”? This paper considers the case of the particularly strong…
James R Barrett
Respondent:Augusto F Espiritu
Few experiences convey the transnational quality of historical change more dramatically than migration, yet we seldom consider what such massive population movements meant on a human scale - to the immigrants themselves. The experience shaped people who were themselves…
Jim Barrett
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Dave Roediger
Between the late nineteenth century and the Great Depression, a new multi-ethnic American city emerged amidst giant waves of migration of Europeans and people of color from around the globe. A large settled population of Irish Americans and their relations with these newcomers – in city streets,…
Walden Bello
Introduced by Jan Pieterse, Sociology
WILL-AM 580 FOCUS interview with Walden Bello
Lauren Benton
Practices and claims about the extension of protection over subjects featured in a wide variety of empires across regions and over several centuries. Colonial conflicts of the early nineteenth century British Empire brought this preexisting discourse of protection into sharp focus, transforming it…
David Blacker
Please join us for a colloquium with David Blacker following his lecture and reception. He will introduce the thesis of his new book, The Identity Factory.
The Learning Publics salons meet monthly and are open to all interested in the public humanities, intersectional activism, community…
David Blacker
FLYER
Modern state-provisioned education is based upon a moral premise of individuals’ serviceability. There is nothing inherently cynical about this premise. Yes there is the development of exploitable labor value in the Marxist sense, but there is also the potential for unfolding human capacity…
Sydney Brenner
The human genome sequence has aroused much interest especially for its potential impact in medicine and the potential social and legal problems that it may generate. In this lecture, renowned scientist Sydney Brenner will try to demonstrate how the knowledge of the sequence fits in with all of…
Nathan J. Brown
Many states in predominantly Muslim societies have written constitutions that go beyond proclaiming Islam the official religion to promising some role for Islamic law in the constitutional order. Such clauses seem to mix law of divine origin with that of human origin. Why are such clauses…
Anthony Brown
U.S. | 2012 | 27 mins
Director, Producers: Jim Choi, Chihiro Wimbush
Executive Producer: Donald Young
An intimate portrait of two godfathers of the Asian American Jazz movement, drummer Anthony Brown and bassist Mark Izu. Forged in the Bay Area civil rights movements of the 60s and 70s and built on…
Anthony Brown
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Mark Izu
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Masaru Koga
Anthony Brown, percussion; Mark Izu, bass and sheng; and Masaru Koga, saxophones and shakuhachi
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Composer, percussionist, educator, and ethnomusicologist Anthony Brown has played a seminal role in contemporary California creative music from his pioneering work with the Asian American jazz…
Richard Burkhardt
In terms of its size, complexity, pace, expense, and expected practical applications, the project of sequencing of the human genome is a far cry from the endeavors of a nineteenth-century gentleman naturalist like Charles Darwin. However, if the social organization of science has changed…
Kathleen Carley
Dynamic network analysis (DNA) is an emergent field centered on the collection, analysis, understanding and prediction of dynamic relations (such as who talks to whom and who knows what) and the impact of such dynamics on individual and group behavior. DNA facilitates reasoning about real groups…
Sean B. Carroll
The search for the origins of species has entailed a series of great adventures over the past 200 years. This talk will chronicle the exploits of a group of explorers who walked where no one had walked, saw what no one had seen, and thought what no one else had thought. Their achievements sparked a…
Tom Casadevall
In addition to the tens of thousands of relief workers who responded to the Sumatran earthquake and the related tsunami, earth scientists, including those in the USGS, were a part of the post-disaster assessment and recovery planning efforts.
The USGS provided real-time earthquake information to…
Tom Casadevall
The 1994 Rwandan refugee crisis was one of modern history's most complex humanitarian crises. In addition to the political, cultural, and military background to the crisis, volcano hazards had to be addressed when establishing temporary refugee camps in Zaire. This talk looks at the role earth…