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David O'Brien
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Eighteenth-century Paris is at the center of Jürgen Habermas’s famous account of the rise of the bourgeois public sphere in Europe. Habermas saw in this sphere the possibility of a discourse characterized by reason, inclusion, and truth. This lecture examines some of the ways…
Jon Orwant
For the first time in our history, it's possible to analyze the entire input of our society at once. All the books, all the pictures, all the people: each is a corpus of information now amenable to computational processing. In this talk, I'll give some examples and talk about the implications of…
Chris Peck
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Jon Moniaci
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Stephen Rush
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Crystal Mooncone is an electroacoustic band with a psychedelic sensibility, mixing playful interaction with committed listening and melding virtuosic musicianship with a taste for risk. With over ten years of collaborative improvisation and composition combining piano, organ, flute and…
Chris Peck
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Jon Moniaci
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Stephen Rush
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Crystal Mooncone is an electroacoustic band with a psychedelic sensibility, mixing playful interaction with committed listening and melding virtuosic musicianship with a taste for risk. With over ten years of collaborative improvisation and composition combining piano, organ, flute and…
Carolyn de la Peña
My talk explores the ways in which gender and power influenced the making and marketing of cyclamates and saccharin between 1945 and 1980 in the United States. The first part explores the role of men between 1945 and 1969 through a case study of the development and early marketing of canned fruits…
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Disability is everywhere in the world, including in transformative justice. How does it show up in our work to create alternatives to police and prison to create safety, healing and justice by and for survivors of violence? In this lively talk with lots of swearing, disability and transformative…
Emily Pope-Obeda
In 2012, the US deported almost 410,000 immigrants—the most in its history. This talk traces the growth of America's deportation machinery from a small-scale effort aimed at eliminating specific immigrant "threats" to the massive and complex contemporary system, and explores the evolving politics…
Alejandro Portes
In this essay, I review opposite positions on the relationship between migration and the socio-economic development of sending countries and regions and the theoretical schools that underlie each of them. In order to adjudicate between these competing perspectives, it is necessary to distinguish…
Hector Postigo
Video games, be they PC games or games for dedicated consoles like the Xbox or the Wii, are now relatively ubiquitous among American households and have quickly become more than just another entertainment medium. Hector Postigo discusses characteristics of video game culture, focusing on user-…
Clyde Prestowitz
The world created in the wake of World War II is the only one most of us have ever known and certainly the one all of us have known the longest. Certain aspects of this world - America as the global hegemon; the U.S. economy as the world's largest; the dollar as the world's money - are so taken for…
Jean Pyle
As large numbers of Asian women migrated internationally for work over the past few decades they often encountered challenging socio-economic environments. This migration presented serious policy dilemmas for national governments. On the one hand, governments seeking to find viable employment for…
Avereeyl Ra
The Gray Wilkerson Ra Trio has long been integral to the Chicago jazz community. Avreeayl Ra (percussion, flute), Ed Wilkerson, Jr., (saxophone, clarinet), and eclectic multi-instrumentalist Larry Gray (double bass, cello) are noted for their tremendous rapport, wide range of color, and boundless…
Avreeayl Ra (percussion, flute)
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Ed Wilkerson, Jr (saxophone, clarinet)
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Larry Gray (double bass, cello)
The Gray Wilkerson Ra Trio has long been integral to the Chicago jazz community. Avreeayl Ra (percussion, flute), Ed Wilkerson, Jr., (saxophone, clarinet), and eclectic multi-instrumentalist Larry Gray (double bass, cello) are noted for their tremendous rapport, wide range of color, and boundless…
A.J. Racy
Award-winning performer and composer, A. J. Racy is internationally recognized for his extraordinary musicianship. A master of traditional Middle Eastern instruments including the ‘ud (a lute), the nay (a reed flute), and the buzuq (a fretted lute) he has composed for and performed with the Kronos…
Rayna Rapp
In the last two decades, genomic scientists, clinicians, and patient health groups have formed coalitions to produce new genetic knowledge. For three years, our research teams observed and interviewed among constituencies involved in finding genes for connective tissue disorders. New forms of…
Jolene Rickard
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Jane Mt. Pleasant
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Stephen Brush
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Elizabeth Fitting
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Scott Manning Stevens
More than seven thousand years ago, indigenous peoples in Mexico domesticated maize (corn), the most important agribusiness plant of the twenty-first century. For the past four millennia corn has been a vital crop, inspiration for ritual calendars and cosmovisions, fiber for communal cohesion and…
Andrew Rowan
In the past 200 years, there have been substantial changes in how human societies view and treat animals. Today, there are considerable tensions and inconsistencies in how humans perceive and treat animals both within societies and across different societies. This presentation will explore some of…
Abigail Salyers
An important part of the human condition this is usually overlooked by everyone except microbiologists is the fact that humans are born into a world that is dominated by a complex microbial population. An infant is colonized withing the first few days of life and carries this microbial population…
Monica Sans
Monica Sans will present work from a project described in her latest book Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay. Advance readings available upon request from Jessica Bardill (jbardill@illinois.edu) or Ripan Malhi (malhi@illinois.…
James Savage
Universities and colleges have now benefited from $6.5 billion in earmarked or pork barreled federal research funds. When universities, and particularly their presidents, decide to bypass peer review and pursue earmarked dollars, what ethical choices do they make, and with what consequences for…
AnnaLee Saxenian
Highly-skilled immigrants are transforming what was once seen as a brain drain into a far more complex, two-way process of "brain circulation." By Transferring skills and connections developed in technology centers like Silicon Valley to their home countries, the new Argonauts have seeded new…
Dietram A. Scheufele
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For a while now, a growing chorus of voices of scholars and policy actors has warned about an alleged “infodemic” surrounding public debates about science. The term infodemic typically refers to a flood of truth claims, especially online, that makes it difficult for citizens to…
Dorothee Schneider
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Douglas A Kibbee
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Alejandro Lugo
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Gale Sumerfield
How are nations around the world dealing with the challenges presented by immigration? How do US policies differ from those in other societies? Are our own national policies addressing the most important issues and how might we reform these policies?
Each of our speakers will address the issue of…
Karen Schönwälder
All over Europe, the integration of immigrants and members of ethnic minorities is currently being debated with a new urgency. Against the background of urban conflicts and acts of terrorism, previous policies are called into question. But has multiculturalism really failed? And do the new policies…