Events Archive
Presentations
David Wright
Professor Wright’s novel tells the story of an unlikely love triangle — between a Holocaust survivor, a student from colonial West Africa, and a black GI — set in the tumult of post-WWII Paris. This presentation will focus on the African student, Sebastien Danxomè. Sebastien is driven to outdo the…
Donald Wuebbles
Climate change, or global warming as it is often called, is one of the most important issues facing humanity. All available evidence indicates that human activities are responsible for most of the changes in climate that have been documented over the last four decades. If we continue our current…
Yilan Xu
The economic and sociology literature has shown strong persistence in wealth, income, and education across generations and over one’s lifetime, leading to social immobility. In this study, the roles of genes, environments, and their interactions will be explored in order to explain social mobility…
CultureTalk
Anne Bogart
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Bill T. Jones
Event link will be available the day of the event. Please check here.
SITI Company’s Talking into the Future series meets Krannert Center’s CultureTalk, activating creative friction and bold questions; exploring the art of assembly in all its forms; and investigating the challenges of our time.…
Nancy Cantor
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Steven Pinker
This season's CultureTalk explores issues of psychology of gender, violence, public support for arts and culture, the politics of education, and the role of the humanities in our lives today. Steven Pinker, a cognitive linguist and evolutionary psychologist (Harvard University), is widely hailed…
Nikky Finney
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Ruth Nicole Brown
Nikky Finney and Ruth Nicole Brown (African American Studies, Michigan State University and Founder, Saving Our Lives, Hearing Our Truths - SOLHOT) in conversation, with Janice Harrington (Creative Writing, Department of English) moderating.
Cosponsored by the College of Fine and Applied Arts,…
Barry Lopez
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Deke Weaver
National Book Award winner Barry Lopez is acclaimed for his passionate essays on ethics and ecology, but what defines his voice is a poetic narrative on humanity itself. Lopez paints a broad picture of our acknowledgment of, reciprocity with, and frequent disassociation from the land, water, and…
W. S. Merwin
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Robert Pinsky
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Richard Powers
Dante's masterpiece The Divine Comedy will provide the basis for a conversation that coincides with the major academic conference "Translating the Middle Ages," sponsored by the U of I's Program in Medieval Studies and the Center for Translation Studies.
W. S. Merwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet…
Jonathan Miller
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Susan Sontag
The relationship between the arts and contemporary society is constantly evolving, changing to reflect vast societal and political changes. But what effect has the mass media and rapidly changing technology had on these relationships? What about the growing trend to globalization? What is the…
Philippe Petit
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Elizabeth Streb
Innovative risk takers, inspired creators, and tenacious artists: action hero Elizabeth Streb and high-wire artist Philippe Petit live life without a net. Join them on the ground for an engaging conversation about their fearless philosophies, unduplicated feats, and artistic longevity.
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Anna Deavere Smith
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Julia Wolfe
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Lisa Gaye Dixon
Following her one-woman presentation the previous evening, playwright, actor, and educator Anna Deavere Smith will join Julia Wolfe in CultureTalk, an exploration of the ideas surrounding the arts and culture, presented in collaboration with the Office of the Dean of the College of Fine and Applied…
Co-Sponsored Events
Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Co-organizers: Donna A. Buchanan (Professor, Music, Anthropology, Slavic Languages & Literatures); Maureen E. Marshall (Associate Director, REEEC; President, ARISC)
Co-organized by ethnomusicologist Donna Buchanan (…
Ralph E. Gomory
The Arnold O. Beckman Lectures on Science and Innovation
In conjunction with: Graduate College, Center for Advanced Study, Research Board, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seitu Jones
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Dawn Blackman
VIDEO
Listen in online to one-on-one sharing of stories at kitchen tables in Champaign-Urbana and St. Paul. Artist Seitu Jones will visit virtually with Champaign-Urbana food and environmental justice activists (Dawn Blackman and Jennifer Monson) to discuss local issues related to access and…
Seitu Jones
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Ruby Mendenhall
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Magdalena Novoa Echaurren
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Bobby Smith II
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Rachel Lauren Storm
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Jennifer Monson
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Dawn Blackman
VIDEO
Artist Seitu Jones' life work has been grounded in the civil rights movement and the Black Arts movement, so the impacts of structural and systemic racism frame his approach. The pandemic, as we know, has revealed injustices that have been there all along, as well as the generous spirits that…
Seitu Jones
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Jennifer Monson
VIDEO
Listen in online to one-on-one sharing of stories at kitchen tables in Champaign-Urbana and St. Paul. Artist Seitu Jones will visit virtually with Champaign-Urbana food and environmental justice activists (Dawn Blackman and Jennifer Monson) to discuss local issues related to access and…
Ivan Krastev
The war in Ukraine is having a dramatic impact on the political imagination of Europe. It has reframed the East-West divide by replacing the Cold War narrative of the past decades with one of decolonization and the threat for the sovereignty of the European nation states born out of the…
GAM Visitor
Thursday and Friday, January 19th and 20th at 7:00 pm ~ Saturday, January 21st at 3:30 pm
The Met Cloisters and the Program in Medieval Studies & Illinois Theatre present the world premiere of The Play of Adam, a medieval comic drama in a new English verse translation by Carol Symes, directed…
David Barr III
March 28 - April 1, 2010
Hosted by: African American Studies, Journalism, History
History on Center Stage: Discovering Dramatic Power in Real-Life Narratives
George A. Miller Visiting Artist David Barr III will conduct a series of campus, public and local community programs in connection with the…
Jimmie Briggs
September 14-18, 2008 Jimmie Briggs, journalist and George A. Miller Visiting Professor
Department of African American Studies
Julian Dibbell
Full Spring semester, 2010
Hosted by: Media, iFoundry
The Chinese Game Room: Play, Productivity, and Computing at Their Limits
During this semester long visit, Julian Dibbell presented a series of campus-wide lectures related to advanced computing and modeling society and co-taught two semester-…
Wang Guangyi
Jerrold Ziff Distinguished Lecture in Modern Art
For more information contact Gary Xu (East Asian Languages and Cultures)