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Upcoming Events

Monday
Mar 25
Presentations
Xiao Su
,
M. Teresa Cardador
11:00am-1:00pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
919 W. Illinois St
Urbana

11:00am, Xiao Su, Electrochemically-Mediated Enantioselective Interaction through Chiral Redox Metallopolymers

Chirality plays a critical role in various industrial domains, such as molecular recognition, asymmetric catalysis and chiral purification. Thus, constructing and leveraging precise chiral structures for enantioselective interaction can benefit healthcare, diagnostics…

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Tuesday
Apr 16
Presentations
Jessie Shelton
,
Prashant Jain
11:00am-1:00pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
919 W. Illinois St
Urbana

11:00am, Jessie Shelton, Gravitational Footprints of Dark Particle Physics in the Very Early Universe

The earliest direct probes of our universe come from the abundance of light elements, which started forming when the universe was about a second old. What happened in the second before that remains one of the biggest outstanding questions in both cosmology and particle physics…

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Monday
Apr 22
Initiatives
multiple
Noon-5:00pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
919 W. Illinois St
Urbana

Noon-1:30pm, Dominic Boyer, Keynote

2pm-5pm, Graduate Student Symposium

Monday
Apr 22
Initiatives
Dominic Boyer
12:00pm

Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
919 W. Illinois St
Urbana

We know that our current mix and magnitude of energy is ecologically unsustainable and threatens collapse in the 21st century. But how did we get here? And how might we find our way forward to a more sustainable modernity? In this talk, Professor Boyer will discuss the historical evolution of the current high energy growth paradigm of global civilization by investigating the overlapping energy…

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Thursday
Apr 25
MillerComm Lecture Series
Ruth Behar
4:00pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory, Urbana

In this presentation, Ruth Behar will discuss her recent turn from anthropology to writing coming-of-age novels. These works of historical fiction feature Jewish Cuban and Sephardic young girls seeking to understand their identities and heritage and their quest for freedom and a home where all are welcome. Behar will discuss the borders and blurring between ethnography and fiction, and how her…

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Sunday
Jun 23
Presentations
María Elena García
6:30pm

Center for Advanced Study
Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
919 W. Illinois, Urbana

A young Quechua woman refuses to kill her alpaca, so both are killed by Shining Path militants. An elderly woman tearfully recounts the guilt she feels about her inability to prevent the killing, and grilling, of her donkey by Peruvian military forces. A man describes being forced to hang his dogs and burn his lands to save his family. This talk will explore these and other accounts of…

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Monday
Jun 24
Presentations
Claire Jean Kim
2:00pm

Virtual presentation

This talk addresses the following question: How should we undertake the fight for animal life and dignity in a world structured around the phobic avoidance and hatred of Blackness?

Thursday
Jun 27
Presentations
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
2:30pm

Center for Advanced Study
Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
919 W. Illinois, Urbana

This talk illustrates the development of several types of robotic animal and insect ‘agents,’ from animal drones and ‘spys’ to artistic robotic/cyborgean animal installations. The aim is to begin to discern cases in which a possible animal ‘agency’ might provoke a rethinking of the human-technological-nonhuman-animal relationship and to think about how theatre and performance can be a staging…

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Friday
Jun 28
Presentations
Chris Green
2:00pm

Center for Advanced Study
Levis Faculty Center, Room 210
919 W. Illinois, Urbana

As animal advocates have attempted to win policy advances through the traditional vehicles of legislation and regulatory action, they often have run into roadblocks within the relevant legislative committees and agencies. These barriers persist despite polling that shows the overwhelming majority of voters support such animal welfare measures. Accordingly, advocacy organizations have had to…

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