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Richard Herman
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Charles Zukoski
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Thomas Ulen
With the growth of Asia's scientific and technological strength, American universities, including Illinois, have responded by increasing their engagement with the region. While there are clear benefits of doing so, including access to new collaborators and additional resources, there are also…
Chris Higgins
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Anke Pinkert
Join us for discussion in the backroom. Pizza on us.
The Learning Publics salons meet monthly and are open to all interested in the public humanities, intersectional activism, community collaboration and the future of public higher education.
Chris Higgins
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Anke Pinkert
Please join us for a discussion of the work people are already doing to connect UIUC with broader publics and for a more general discussion of how we can coordinate and extend this work. Participants include:
Education Justice Project
Odyssey Project
Public History Cluster
Sanctuary Movement…
Chris Higgins
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Anke Pinkert
Join the Learning Publics Salon
Please join us for an exploration of all things public at Illinois, and beyond. The Learning Publics Salon is open to all interested in questions at the intersection of education, public life, research and community collaboration.
This gathering will include…
Chris Higgins
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Anke Pinkert
Join the Learning Publics Salon
Please join us for an exploration of all things public at Illinois, and beyond. The Learning Publics Salon is open to all interested in questions at the intersection of education, public life, research and community collaboration.
Join us for discussion in the back…
Rana Hogarth
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This talk examines how ideas about race from the era of slavery propelled eugenicists to study race crossing in the early 20th century. In this talk Professor Hogarth will demonstrate how 20th-century eugenicists--namely Charles B. Davenport, branded mixed race people with African…
Frederick Hoxie
While Native Americans enjoy the rights of United States citizens, they also have rights as members of indigenous communities. In many instances, Native Americans have privileged access to natural resources, operate businesses that are exempt from local regulation, and organize govern-ment and…
Holly Hughes
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Kim Marra
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Jane Desmond, Organizer/Moderator
Well known performance artist Holly Hughes is joined by award-winning theater scholar Kim Marra to present work that explores human relations with animals through word, sound, image and movement in two performance pieces, with discussion following about the creative process and the growing field of…
Stephen Humphreys
Introduced by Valerie Hoffman, Religious Studies
Peter Huntoon
The south China karst belt has been profoundly and detrimentally impacted by massive post-1958 deforestation, especially by cutting associated with Mao's 5-year Great Leap Forward Campaign. The annual food-drought cycle has been sufficiently intensified by the loss of the green reservoir of the…
Rebecca Huss
Rebecca Huss will focus on emerging issues in animal law relating to companion animals. Her talk will begin by defining “animal law” and discuss the development of this area of legal practice. Other areas of the law that will be covered include housing issues, veterinary malpractice, how the law…
Kelly Joyce
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans are often linked to transparency, truth, and progress in media and popular science narratives. But, can MRI provide the corporeal transparency ascribed to it? Drawing on ethnographic research and in-depth interviews, Kelly Joyce will follow MRI scans from the…
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
Bud Powell (1924-66) was a legendary jazz pianist who was one of the architects of bebop, a style of modern jazz that emerged in the 1940s. This talk discusses Powell with respect to his experiences in the mental health system, the music industry and idiosyncrasies of his musical rhetoric.
Guthrie…
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
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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…
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…