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Upcoming Events

Thursday
Feb 15
MillerComm Lecture Series
Jody Sperling
5:00 pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory, Urbana

Jody Sperling considers the dynamic conversation between technology and nature as played out in the performance art of Loïe Fuller (1862-1928) and her own Fuller-inspired creations. Considered a technological wizardress, Fuller advanced the technologies of lighting and projection design often for the effect of conjuring natural elements onstage. Sperling has been furthering Fuller's idiom into…

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Monday
Feb 26
MillerComm Lecture Series
Christopher Barrett
3:00 pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory, Urbana

The numbers of people undernourished, unable to afford a healthy diet, or facing a food emergency have spiked over the past decade, reversing decades of rapid progress. Effectively tackling those food security challenges requires a holistic perspective that also addresses inextricably related crises related to climate change, conflict, emergent infectious diseases, air and water pollution, and…

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Monday
Mar 04
MillerComm Lecture Series
Eve Darian-Smith
12:00pm

TBD

In this talk, Professor Darian-Smith will focus on wildfires in California, Australia, and Brazil, connecting them to the broader economic, social, and political issues underlying climate change, and exploring how these wildfires have become important signifiers of an unfolding global calamity. She will include material gleaned from the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) that convened in…

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Thursday
Apr 25
MillerComm Lecture Series
Ruth Behar
TBD

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory, Urbana

Professor Ruth Behar‘s lecture will move between the personal essay and poetry, history and ethnography, exile and diaspora, and the role of the sea in remembrances of Sefarad in such places as Istanbul, Havana, Miami, New York, and Seattle. She will discuss the idea of dreaming about Sefarad and the dilemma of how to tell the story of waking from the dream to the loss of Sefarad. She will…

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