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Events Archive

Initiatives

Steve Gorn
Indian classical music is passed from generation to generation, from master to disciple, as a living oral tradition. The music combines the classicism of traditional repertoire, fixed melodic forms, and precise intonation, with improvisation and spontaneous creation.   Indian classical music is a…
Steve Gorn
Steve Gorn leads Improviser Exchange ensemble members in music reflective of his pioneering work in cross-cultural collaborative music, such as the landmark Indian-Jazz fusion recording “Asian Journal”, his 2011 Grammy winning recording “Miho – Journey to the Mountain,” with Dhruba Ghosh and the…
Mary L. Gray
Microsoft Research Drawing from my research in queer studies, especially ethnographic approaches to youth and media, I argue that critical studies provides a compelling framework as a particular kind of “big data.” Big data researchers who aspire to build technologies for human communication must…
Eric Green
The Human Genome Project recently reached an important milestone with the completion of a preliminary draft of the human genome sequence.  This new and powerful foundation of genetic information is empowering investigators to tackle complex problems in human biology and disease.  It will likely…
Jon Hale
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Sarah McCarthey
Watch the video HERE This presentation provides a general overview of the “Propaganda of History” since the origination of public schools in the United States during the 1840s. Connecting this history to recent legislation in the state of Illinois around Media Literacy, this presentation provides…
Michael K. Hansen
 
Jim Hansen
Watch the video HERE We live in a technological era that seems to have lost its capacity to come to a consensus about what counts as fact and what as fiction. As a result, we find ourselves bombarded by irrational and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories on a nearly daily basis. While this problem…
Ron Haskins
In 1996, Congress enacted sweeping changes in welfare policy.  Among other reforms, the cash welfare program that guaranteed benefits to qualified families was replaced by a program that required work and imposed a five-year time limit on receiving benefits. Haskins will review the effect of the…
Grant Heiken
Akrotiri was an island town located along the southern coast of Thira (Santorini), Greece. It was but one of many Minoan towns scattered across the Aegean that were part of a powerful kingdom centered on Crete. Life on the island and possibly across the Aegean was shattered in the 17th Century BCE…
Margaret Heldring
Introduced by Noreen Sugrue, Nursing Institute
Klaus-Dirk Henke
This lecture will focus on a) a global perspective on financing of the health care system, b) background on what the goals are for integrated structures and c) implications for different forms of budgeting
Richard H Herman
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Jorge Chapa
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Amy Gajda
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Martin Manalansan
We launch the CAS Campus initiative by probing our understanding and experience of the relationship between immigration and food. Chancellor Herman will address the significance of immigration for our university and for us as individuals. Several scholars will briefly and informally discuss the…
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 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…
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…
Rana Hogarth
Watch video HERE 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…