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MillerComm Lecture Series

Joan Jacobs Brumberg
In the best-selling book, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, social historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century and why that experience is more difficult today than ever before. With an eye for the humor in as…
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
CANCELLED In The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, social historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century, and why that experience is more difficult today than ever before. With an eye for the humor in as well as the…
Michael Burawoy
The world—and the university, in particular—is at risk from privatization, corporatization, and regulation.  To meet these challenges, the disciplines must first, recognize and constitute publics apart from the policy world; second, critically reflect on their place in a global context; and third,…
Thomas Burrell
Throughout American history, mass media has been influential in contributing to the myth of Black inferiority.  In addition, media content continues to be a major factor in effecting attitudes and behavior among African Americans.  This presentation will show examples of how media messages utilize…
Janet Burroway
Janet Burroway is the author of six highly regarded novels, two volumes of poetry, numerous plays and a creative writing text. Her move, The Buzzards, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Raw Silk was nominated for the National Book Award, and Opening Nights was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate…
Abena P.A. Busia
"I begin with myself; what have my own travels, within Africa and around the world taught me about how I am seen, and how I see myself?of what significance is this knowledge, and what bearing does it have on the way I conduct myself, inside and outside the classroom, as a "Black African Woman"?…
Elsworth R. Buskirk, PhD
A Four-Part Series Nutrition and Exercise: Implications for Health and Physical Performance   In conjunction with: College of Applied Life Studies, College of Medicine, School of Human Resources and Family Studies, Department of Health and Safety Studies, Department of Kinesiology, Nutritional…
Urvashi Butalia
Present-day challenges to the post-colonial nation-state and its boundaries are often rooted in imperial partitions. Whether in Kashmir, Syria or Palestine, the legacies of partition form the everyday experiences of conflict and violence for millions of people. Renowned Delhi-based author,…
Kim Butler
In the narrative of black empowerment in the Afro-Atlantic diaspora, the concept of healing is transformational. The questions of coping, which W.E.B. DuBois wrestled with in his 1903 work, The Souls of Black Folk, are disturbingly familiar today. Examining African migration to Brazil and the…
Horace Campbell
Horace Campbell focuses on the Obama administration's Africa policy in a changing global landscape with a particular reference to the movements for social justice in Egypt and North Africa.  His presentation will draw out the importance of basic literacy on Africa so that disinformation on Africa…
Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of 1993 National Poetry Series Award winner for  The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World; the Lambda Literary Award for poetry for What…
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
"In my work I struggle with issues of accessibility.  I have a personal commitment to speak about people, histories, and ways of being that are not necessarily mainstream concerns; but I feel an individual obligation toward these narratives and would like to see them be a vehicle of inspiration and…
Hazel Carby
One of the most important and influential black feminist intellectuals writing in the U.S. today, Hazel Carby reflects upon issues of gender and the racialization of the body within the context of being a black European of Jamaican and Welsh parents. This talk is part of the Third Annual Graduate…
Ernesto Cardenal
A bilingual reading Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Department of Anthropology; Department of History; Department of Political Science; Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; Center for Latin…
Clayborn Carson
Cosponsored by University Library, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, African-American Cultural Program, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Program for the Study of Religion, Episcopal Church Foundation, Hillel Foundation, McKinley Presbyterian…
Matt Cartmill
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice chancellor for Student Affairs, The Council of Deans, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller…
Avshalom Caspi
A gene environment interaction occurs when an environmental pathogen (for example, poor diet, pollution, life stress) has an effect on health depending upon a person's genotype. Avshalom Caspi suggests that successful collaboration between genetic epidemiologists and neuroscientists can solve the…
Ross Chambers
Ross Chambers talks about the fictions of "artificial life" and what they have to do with contemporary concerns around cloning, genetic modifications and the like, including monsters, automata, vivisected animal and illusions.  His questions include "How do these figures interpellate vs. non-…
Iris Chang
"I first learned about the Rape of Nanking when I was a little girl.  The stories came from my parents, who had survived years of war and revolution before finding a serene home as professors in a midwestern American College town." A graduate of University High School and the Department of…
Alexandra Chasin
In the last six years, a new niche market has emerged in the United States: Gay and lesbian consumers have been targeted by mainstream corporate producers and by gay and lesbian producers.  During the same six years, the gay and lesbian political movement has achieved a level of social visibility…
George Chauncey
George Chauncey challenges the myth that gay people were inevitably isolated, invisible, and self-hating before the Stonewall rebellion and the emergence of the lesbian and gay liberation movement in the 1960s and 70s. In this lecture, he will detail the rich collective life developed by gay people…
Antonia Handler Chayes
Mrs. Chayes is a former Under Security of the Air Force, a practicing lawyer and chairman of Endispute, an alternative legal mechanism for resolving disputes. in conjunction with: Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS); College of Law; Department of Political…
David Chiriboga
Chiriboga’s guitar will be joined by singer Patricia Ortega and dancer Malu amidst the instrumental colors of an expanded ensemble of Illinois Jazz Studies students performing arrangements of traditional Flamenco pieces, popular Spanish folk songs and Chiriboga’s own Flamenco compositions. David…
Noam Chomsky
Language is often understood as a social practice, to be explained in terms of dispositions and regularities in behavior. This view has led to some far-reaching conclusions concerning questions of language, meaning, and mind. Rather different conclusions about the same questions arise from an…
Ping Chong
Ping Chong's work explores interdisciplinary art as an avenue for social change through the intersection of race, culture, history, art and technology in the modern world. Recipient of a 2014 National Medal of Art, he is acclaimed for bringing unheard voices to the stage and for creating art that…