Upcoming Events

As Covid-19 case numbers ticked up, George Floyd was killed by police. Masked protesters burst onto the streets of Minneapolis, then spread to New York City, to Portland, to the world entire. Later, disinformation flourished about a stolen election, culminating in thousands storming the U.S. Capitol. 600,000 Americans dead; the largest protest mobilization in U.S. history; an attempted…

DUE TO INJURY, PROFESSOR BANAJI HAS CANCELED HER VISIT TO ILLINOIS. THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR SPRING 2025. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES!

In an era of increased awareness of diversity and inclusion, understanding hidden bias and its impact on educational institutions has become paramount. Professor Mahzarin Banaji is an experimental psychologist who has spent 35 years…

Food for Thought: A series of public events featuring research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows.

We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in when you can to learn about the exciting…

Join us for a talk and reading with traci kato-kiriyama on transgenerational trauma and delight, collective self-care, and creative self-determination. She will discuss the memories she both needed to face and wanted most to engage in with the communities surrounding her—from fighting cancer to navigating other “Death Moments”; from her parents’ and grandparents’ history in American…

Dietary intake and environmental exposures in early life are key to establishing trajectories for lifelong health. Childhood overweight and obesity, which affect nearly a third of 2 to 19-year-olds in the U.S., result from a complex interaction of genetic, microbial, nutritional, and physical and social environmental factors. To advance our understanding of these interactions, Professor…

Food for Thought: A series of public events featuring research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows.

We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in when you can to learn about the exciting…

GAM Visiting Artist Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and University of Illinois Professor of Anthropology Brenda Farnell’s recent book, Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Indigenous Embodied Performance (2023) chronicles a story of collaborative embodied exploration, land, and archival research mobilized to serve an Indigenous dramaturgy. What emerges is an…