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Events Archive

MillerComm Lecture Series

Todd Gitlin
The social movements that rattled the world in 2011-12, from Tunisia and Egypt to Athens and Madrid to New York's Occupy Wall Street and other occupations, revolted against ruling elites and established institutions.  They used social media to create connections, but these connections need to spawn…
Misha Glenny
Award-winning journalist and author of The Balkans, 1804-1999, Misha Glenny will discuss his current research: the tangled relationship between weak government, corrupt business and crime as the foundation for the emergence of capitalism and the driving force in the region since 1989. Hosted by: …
Thavolia Glymph
Using the original documents for Mary Boykin Chestnut's Civil War diary, Thavolia Gymph shows how race, class, and gender affected perceptions of African American women in the Postbellum South. Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs…
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all.  Could this child invent a language?  Deaf children who are not exposed to sign language use gesture to communicate, and their gestures take on many of the forms and functions of language.  Hearing children, learning from a linguistic…
Michael Gomez
One should not speak of the African diaspora as a singular, unified experience. There are myriad components and contexts to the dispersal of Africans since the fifteenth century. This lecture will assess debates over convergences and divergences, such as debates over identity (including…
Marta Terry Gonzàlez
Hear from a leading protagonist in Cuba’s ongoing transformations: from a primarily oral culture, through a 1961 leap in literacy, to a literary culture where ordinary Cubans read—and write—books, essays, stories, poetry, and more. Cubans built literary institutions to their own specifications,…
Michael F. Goodchild
Geospatial information technologies now play a significant role in everyday life, as well as in science and administration. As they become easier to use, these technologies raise new issues of user interface design and present new challenges for education. The presentation will focus on the role of…
Joe Goode
Choreographer and performance/installation artist Joe Goode has explored the artistic process in both individual and collaborative work. In his latest work at Krannert Art Museum, About What's Underneath, he looks at the pursuit of tranquility or inner peace in artistic experience in the context of…
Lorna Goodison
"Lorna Goodison's new collection is a rooted, organic delight, true in its intonations to the Jamaican language she loves, fresh in its wit and pain and in the high, spiritual gossip of its leaves." – Derek Walcott   Speak of the Advent of New Light On a night of no stars it will spark from…
Jack Goody
This lecture is given in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cosponsored by Office of the President, Office of the Chancellor, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of History, The Center for Advanced Study…
Alison Gopnik
In the last 30 years, we have learned more about what young children know and how they learn than we did in the preceding 2500 years. Scientists have found that children know a great deal to begin with, literally from the time they are born. They have extremely powerful learning abilities, in some…
Suzanne Gordon
There is an acute shortage of health care providers, especially nursing care providers, creating a situation only expected to grow worse in the coming years. Suzanne Gordon considers a variety of proposals from nursing organizations and legislative sources intended to correct this problem. She…
Linda Gordon
Cosponsored by: College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, School of Human Resources and Family Studies, Department of Community Health, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Afro-American…
Lewis Gordon
In his latest book Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism, Lewis Gordon examines antiblack racism as an effort to evade the responsibilities of a human and humane world. This work has been called "a major contribution to Sartre studies...to the very meaning of color itself in human terms." Cosponsored by:…
Susanne Gordon
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Sioban Nelson
Our society is facing a national crisis in nursing.  Journalist Suzanne Gordon and historian Sioban Nelson discuss the critical role that nursing plays and has played in the development of the American health care system.  Focusing on the importance of nursing professionals in caring for sick and…
Brenda Dixon Gottschild
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Bebe Miller
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Ralph Lemon
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Ronald K. Brown
Throughout its history, African-American dance has evolved as a complex synthesis of aesthetic elements from different cultures and has been a major influence on America's social dance, popular entertainment, and concert dance. Black on White on Black: The Africanist Presence in American Concert…
Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton recreates the discipline of chronology in early modern Europe. Technical chronology?nowadays pursued by few?was a trendy area of scholarly inquiry in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its practitioners were polymaths, who used both astronomical data and historical…
Temple Grandin
"I think in pictures. Words are like second language to me. I translate both spoken and written words into full-color movies, complete with sound, which run like a VCR tape in my head. When somebody speaks to me, his words are instantly translated into pictures. Language-based thinkers often find…
William Greaves
Award winning filmmaker Robert Greaves discusses the making of his most recent production, Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey, selected for the Sundance Film Festival January 2001. A former Broadway, television and film actor, Greaves' experiences both in front of and behind the camera have…
Henry T. Greely
Everyone knows that we are living through the beginnings of "The Genetics Revolution," but what does that mean? One meaning is that the consequences of the human genetics research program are broad, uncertain, and confusing--a true revolution and not just a change. Henry Greely provides a structure…
Christopher Kenneth Green
Art historian Christopher Green discusses the artistic significance of the pioneering Cubist sculptor, Jacques Lipchitz, within the context of his remarkable circle of friends and contemporaries, particularly Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, as well as the social, political, and cultural developments…
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Billie Holiday's voice and image are used to sell cars and clothing; evoke atmosphere in restaurants, coffee shops, and bookstores; and set the mood for films, plays, novels, and poems.  She is widely recognized as one of our nation's major jazz artists.  Her image is also a familiar symbol to many…
Jan Gross
Jan Gross addresses the politics and memory of anti-Jewish violence in Poland after the Holocaust. Commenting on Polish-Jewish relations in the immediate postwar period, as well as on the ways in which Polish society has attempted to confront and master its own past, Gross considers questions of…
Lawrence Grossberg
Political culture in many parts of the world lives in the shadow of both fascism and the 1960s.  Yet we may have learned the wrong lessons from this history.  The possibilities of political struggle in the contemporary world depend on our capacities to re-imagine counter-cultural unities and to re-…
Elizabeth Grosz
Elizabeth Grosz explores Alfred C. Kinsey's researches on female sexuality, not as sociological, psychological or physiological contributions, but as part of an emerging philosophy of difference.  The relevance of Kinsey's works for feminist revisions of female sexuality has been clear since the…