Upcoming Events

In 2010, an oil pipeline transporting diluted bitumen from Alberta, Canada ruptured near Marshall, Michigan, spilling over a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River. This talk takes the Marshall spill as an occasion to examine some of the paradoxes of our current global energy infrastructure impasse. What happened in Michigan in 2010 is just one iteration of a much longer, deeper,…

11:00am, Benjamin Hooberman, Searching for the Next Paradigm Shift in Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland is the world's most powerful particle accelerator and investigates the building blocks of matter and fundamental forces by colliding together high-energy protons. After the 2012 Nobel-prize winning discovery of the…

11:00am, Andiara Schwingel, Advancing Health Equity through Community Health Workers

Professor Schwingel will discuss the pivotal role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in addressing health disparities. Though CHWs have limited formal education in healthcare, they are frontline public health workers uniquely positioned to address complex issues impacting communities of color…

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…

11:00am, Cory Suski, Enhancing Conservation and Management of Muskellunge Fisheries

Recreational fishing is a popular past time around the world. Successful management of recreational fisheries requires a synergy between anglers, managers and fish populations. The current project describes a series of studies intended to better understand angling vulnerability and spatial…

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…

Dr. Jessica Zychowicz Director, Fulbright Ukraine Head, IIE KYIV

Dr Rosalyn Lapier Professor of History, UIUC

Women's and Gender History Symposium – WGHS' Website (illinois.edu)

11:00am, Xiao Su

Noon, Teresa Cardador

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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…

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…