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Events Archive

MillerComm Lecture Series

Andrew Flinn
Over the last fifty years a significant number of grassroots non-professional archives, sometimes known as community archives, have been established in all corners of the world. Andrew Flinn examines the nature of these archives and the challenges they face in sustaining their activity over time.…
Nancy Folbre
Nancy Folbre addresses the changing "care sector" of the economy, including the declining supply of unpaid labor and the difficulty of increasing labor productivity in jobs that require emotional and personal contact.  Efforts are underway to develop robots that can help meet the personal care…
William A. Fowler
Our sun formed 4.6 thousand million years ago and inherited chemical elements from stars which had been born, aged, and died during the previous six thousand million years in the history of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Our bodies consist primarily of oxygen and carbon with traces of still heavier…
Renée C. Fox
Drawing on first-hand data that are part of an ongoing sociological study of Médecins Sand Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, this lecture will focus on key principles and values of MSF, practical and moral dilemmas of its humanitarian and witnessing action, and how these value-commitments and…
Ursula Franklin
In conjunction with: Department of Anthropology; Department of Classics; Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Department of Physics; Honors Program; Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials; Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Women's Studies Program; World…
Nancy Fraser
Do the demands of cultural recognition on the basis of nationality, ethnicity, 'race' or gender essentially conflict with the more traditional demands for justice that focus on exploitation and the need for economic redistribution? Nancy Fraser's books include Justice Interruptus: Rethinking Key…
George Fredrickson
The nation's leading writer of comparative history brings together the trajectories of anti-semitism and of white supremacy over the last 500 years, emphasizing both similarities and differences.  Frederickson traces the decline of the religious universalism that had set limits on the elaboration…
Stig Fredrikson
Stig Fredrikson was a young Swedish reporter in Moscow when he met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the 1970 Nobel Laureate for Literature. Their association reads like a spy novel, with secret meetings, dead drops and disguises. The relationship became more complicated when Fredrikson began smuggling…
Paulo Freire
Every human being, no matter how ignorant or submerged in the "culture of silence," is capable of looking critically at his world through dialogue with others. He is capable of becoming conscious of his reality and dealing with it. A teacher with profound insights into the learning process and a…
Albert French
"I want to put the stuff I see in my mind on the page.  I want to draw with works, draw the feelings of it, draw the feelings into little words . . . I can't stop writing: I don't want to, either." Self taught author Albert French celebrates the human spirit through his words and stories.  Twenty…
Vanessa Northington Gamble
Miss Evers' Boys, a play based on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, will be presented Friday, April 23 at 8:00pm in 112 Gregory Hall.  Cosponsored by: Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign; College of Nursing; Department of Community…
Rajmohan Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent approach to liberation from British colonial rule was successful not only in gaining India's independence—it also inspired similar approaches in other parts of the world, most notably in Martin Luther King's civil rights movement.  The Mahatma's political philosophy,…
Isabelle Ganz
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David Weinstein
Cosponsored by: College of Fine and Applied Arts, Graduate College, School of Music, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Lorado Taft Lecture Committee, Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Unit One, WILL-AM-FM, Women's Studies…
Marjorie Garber
A renowned Shakespearean scholar, Marjorie Garber is also one of the foremost cultural analysts of modern America, and she has been especially influential in the field of gender studies. Two of her recent books, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (1992) and Vice Versa:…
Matt Garcia
Watch the video HERE Food production has been at the center of significant discussions on climate change as the rising temperatures affect farmworkers in the fields and the COVID-19 pandemic has halted food production in meat processing plants, illustrating the humanity behind food production…
Sheldon M. Garon
Sheldon Garon explores how the modern state and ordinary people in Japan have competed and cooperated throughout the twentieth century in pursuit of their own interests and goals, much as peoples and states have interacted elsewhere in the world.  By revealing how the state and ordinary people…
Alexander N. Gennadiyev
Cosponsored by: Department of Agronomy, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Agricultural Experiment Station, Illinois Natural History Survey, Illinois State Geological Survey, Institute of Environmental Studies, International Programs and Studies, Office…
George Gerbner
Cosponsored by Office of the Chancellor; College of Communications; Broadcast Journalism Unit; Department of Advertising; Campus Honors Program; Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics; Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS); Institute of Communications…
Patty Gerstenblith
Objects of cultural heritage have increasingly become the subject of media attention, legal disputes, and international debates not merely because of their considerable monetary value, but because of their significance for cultural heritage, identity and our understanding of the past. This lecture…
Masha Gessen
Since starting his third presidential term in March 2012, Vladimir Putin has refashioned himself as an ideological leader. His ideology is that of "traditional values." Masha Gessen tells the story of the creation of that ideology, beginning with the antigay campaign, ballooning into a…
John H. Gibbons
The Fifth Daniel Alpert Lecture in honor of Dan Alpert's continuing interest in promoting communication across disciplinary boundaries and relating the search for new knowledge to the capacity for using knowledge effectively in dealing with human problems.   In conjunction with: Office of the Vice…
Paula Giddings
Paul Giddings, author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women in America, presents the first coherent analysis of the role of black women in America, both past and present. Through a historical perspective, the author also explores contemporary issues such as the crises of the black…
Sander L. Gilman
The origin of aesthetis surgery in 19th-century Germany and the United States set the  pattern for meaning associated with changing the body for purposes of "passing." The history of aesthetic thus is closely related to the history of race and its consequences for minorities. Cosponsored by:…
Jane Gilmor
Champaign-Urbana is facing a crisis in housing for low-income families and the under-sheltered. To bring this issue into sharper focus, the University Y’s Art@ the Y program, in collaboration with the School of Art + Design and the School of Social Work, initiated BED SHOE HOME, a community-based…
Glenda E. Gilmore
Historians agree that the switch of African Americans from the Republican to the Democratic Party in the 1936 election is one of the major events in twentieth century U.S. politics. By tracing the roots of that switch to the South and to the passage of woman suffrage, Gilmore argues that the…