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Flyer Don Pandeiro and Di Freitas are performers, artisans, and instrument builders who represent two different Brazilian contexts and musical styles: urban and rural, Southeast and Northeast, and samba and música nordestina. This event will showcase the unique combination of musical talent and…

In much modern Christian theology we find highly human-centered modes of discourse that focus attention on the value and dignity of the person and that eclipse attention to the "order of creation," to nature, and to our place within it. Moral value has unfortunately come to be understood as the…

In a zoo in Holland, a modern day Macbeth unfolds. Hominid is based on the true story of conspiracy, murder and empathy captured by eminent primatologist Frans de Waal in Chimpanzee Politics; Sex and Power Among the Apes. Hominid will be performed by University of Illinois Theatre students under…

Even as it again debates immigration restriction, the United States is almost alone worldwide in proclaiming itself a "nation of immigrants." Many Americans wrongly assume that immigrants had a uniquely important role in the making of America. In fact, many nations have depended on migration to…

The cover of the May 2006 issue of Vanity Fair featured movie stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney alongside political luminaries Al Gore and Robert Kennedy, Jr. A stylist had dressed the four in complementary shades of green and set designers posed them Hollywood-style in front of a mossy, ivied…

Traditionally, "the law" has been viewed as an instrument of colonial rule.  After all, conquest typically involves the imposition of the conquering authority's definition of what is and is not "legal."  Justin Richland is a student of a fascinating Native American legal system that was created in…

If the character of public discourse, long chaperoned by the broadcast networks and major publishers, is now increasingly in the hands of online media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, then we must ask some quite old questions about how these commercial information providers navigate…

A number of trends illuminate the proactive and reactive social-spatial dynamics that shape the carceral geographies that have arisen unevenly as the earth’s surface has become increasingly ensnared by globalizing capital. Not surprisingly, the trends coalesce around categories: policing,…

  Legal reform has been on the agenda for East Asian states for the last two decades and has led to significant transformations of legal institutions in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China.  The reforms include overhauls of legal education, new quasi-jury systems, and new methods of selecting…

AUDIO Transcript.pdf Nationwide, movements to remove police officers, or “special resource officers,” from public schools have been gaining momentum and winning campaigns—in Oakland, Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Madison, Seattle, Denver, and more. Built on years, even decades, of…

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 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…

This workshop by Bansuri virtuoso Steve Gorn will explore a Hindustani morning raga in two parts.  Participants will first learn the melodic structure through singing in sargam, the Indian equivalent to solfege, in alap (free of rhythm).  In the second half of the workshop, this material will be…

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…

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…

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…

 

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…

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…

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…

Introduced by Noreen Sugrue, Nursing Institute

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

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…