Events Archive
MillerComm Lecture Series
Ai-jen Poo
Due to the ongoing strike by our graduate student employees in their efforts to secure a fair contract protecting tuition waivers, a marginal raise, and affordable healthcare (among other issues), the events featuring Aijen Poo will be moved from the Levis Faculty Center to the University YMCA,…
Richard A. Posner
Judge Posner will argue that, while philosophical pragmatism is of little relevance to adjudication, pragmatism in its everyday sense has much to contribute to it.
Hosted by: College of Law, Department of Philosophy
In conjunction with: Department of Economics, Department of Political Science,…
Snigdha Prakash
Did Merck & Co. imperil millions by hiding the risks of its painkiller Vioxx? Former NPR reporter Snigdha Prakash was “embedded” with top plaintiffs’ lawyers as they battled the drug giant in a New Jersey courtroom. Her riveting account is titled, All the Justice Money Can Buy: Corporate Greed…
Vijay Prashad
What did the Russian Revolution look like from India or Egypt or Southern Africa? What aspirations did it carry, what sentiment did it hold for people held in thrall of European colonialism? Why was it that these anti-colonial movements celebrated when Japan defeated the Tsarist forces in 1904 and…
Mary Louise Pratt
What does it mean to say we live in a world that is "post-colonial"? Have our geopolitical relations, institutions, structures of knowledge been "decolonized?" Who is the "we"? Mary Louise Pratt asks what a critical scholarly practice might be in the context of changing imperial dynamics in the…
Awadagin Pratt
Awadagin Pratt: Black in America is a one-hour presentation by the internationally renowned pianist combining live musical performance with students from the School of Music, autobiographical narrative, and silent film with recorded piano accompaniment. Pratt’s narrative, the program’s centerpiece…
Michael B. Preston
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate College, College of Education, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of History, Department of…
Richard Price
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Council of Deans, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller…
Sally Price
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Council of Deans, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller…
Wu Qing
Approximately 100 million people have migrated from rural areas to the cities of China since the transition reforms began in the late 1970s. Laws restricting internal migration still exist and limit the ability of the migrant children to get an education. Wu Qing is presently fighting for the…
Jorge Rabassa
Global warming is changing the glaciers. Since 1978, the mountain glaciers of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego have been undergoing rapid glacial recession, ice thinning, rise in snow line elevation, and permafrost reduction. Most of the mountain glaciers of this region may soon disappear. Global…
Doron Rabinovici
Austria's Freedom Party, under the leadership of Jrg Haider, is the largest right-wing party in Europe. Since February 2000, it has been a part of Austria?s government. Doron Rabinovici, Austria?s leading public intellectual, has spearheaded a massive resistance movement against the Freedom Party…
Janice Radway
In the 1990s, girls around the world created underground publications known as "zines." First as fans responding to the music of girl bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile and Huggy Bear, they later participated in a dynamic social movement known as Riot Grrl. When Riot Grrl zines were taken up by…
Arjun Raina
A lecture-demonstration about Kathakali, a dance-theater from Kerala, India and how it can be 'crossed' with other theatrical traditions to create dynamic new forms of theatre. Arjun Raina (with Rajendran Pillai) will present classical pieces from the Mahabharata, perform extracts from Shakespeare'…
Lana Rakow
Communication technologies often develop according to economic, industrial, or technical imperatives. Drawing on her research in how communities use and interact with communication technologies, Lana Rakow argues for the value of public input at the community level. In this talk she addresses…
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is an internationally known syndicated journalist and cartoonist whose work appears in over 140 newspapers. An outspoken opponent of the current administration, Rall will provide cogent analyses of recurring problems—including border control and social security—with deep insights into the…
James Randi
For decades, James Randi, MacArthur Fellow and magician, has entertained audiences with spectacular feats of magic. In recent years, he has used his skills to expose the fakery of psychic powers and debunk pseudoscientific phenomena.
In conjunction with: Campus Honors Program, College of…
Terence Ranger
Building on his extensive and unparalleled record of research and publications on the social and political history of Zimbabwe, Terence Ranger explores themes of embodiment, social cohesion and dislocation in the aftermaths of violence in that country. He pays particular attention to recent…
Peter H. Raven
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David Jablonski
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Jared M. Diamond
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Russell A. Mittermeier
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Alan R. Templeton
Extravagant human exploitation of natural resources is causing mass extinction of plant and animal species to take place at an ever-increasing pace. This five-part series will explore the extinction crises from causes to consequences and examine conservation issues and efforts to stem this threat…
Evelyn S. Rawski
The Sixth Annual Howard J. Wechsler Memorial Lecture
Cosponsored by: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate College, College of Education, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian…
W. Boyd Rayward
H.G. Wells argued that it is only by creating "a permanent organization of knowledge, systematically assembled, continuously extended and made freely and easily accessible to every one, that there is the slightest hope of our species meeting the serried challenges of destiny that are advancing upon…
Jenny Reardon
While the sequencing of the human genome was a landmark achievement, the availability and manipulation of such a vast amount of data about our species inevitably led to questions that are increasingly fundamental and urgent. Now that information about human bodies can be transformed into a natural…
James Reason
Sixth Annual Lyle Lanier Lecture in Psychology
This lectureship is in honor of Lyle Lanier who served as Head of Psychology, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cosponsored by Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and…
Kent H. Redford
Increasingly, the world is treating biodiversity conservation as possible only under circumstances where it is of direct use to people. Kent Redford explores the paradox of conservation through use, focusing on the neotropics.
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost and Vice…
Ishmael Reed
An uncompromising, challenging and complicated voice, Ishmael Reed is widely considered one of today's preeminent African American literary figures. Consistently inventive and provocative, Reed?s career spans over four decades and has been recognized with numerous awards including the Guggenheim…