College of LAS Events
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Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Monday, April 1, 2024
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This workshop will discuss types of bias in the peer review process such as gender, race, nationality, prestige, and reputation of authors, and share some recommendations to deal with reviewers and their biases.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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Author Curtis Chin is coming to Urbana-Champaign to discuss his latest publication, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant." Has has multiple speaking occasions throughout the day, so please check out this flyer for details!
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Join us for a hands-on workshop on project organization. We’ll discuss how a project charter can help you refine your research questions, identify models, and create a timeline. Plus, we’ll discuss examples from the humanities and social science to guide you as you think about your own project.
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In this workshop, you will learn about the role and the non-role of the reviewer in the peer review process in contrast to the roles of authors and editors, and we will discuss concepts such as bias and reviewer agreement.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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Dissertation Defense | A Phenology-Guided Deep Learning Framework for Near Real-Time Crop Monitoring
The interplay between climate change and global population growth poses significant challenges to food security. To tackle this issue, near real-time (NRT) field-level crop monitoring plays an important role in enabling timely assessment of crop status and early warning of food security.
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Dr. Maha Hilal will be presenting her lecture "Islamophobia, The War on Terror, and the Rhetorics of State Violence". See flyer for more details. Q&A and reception to follow.
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Join us for an evening with Caroline Bressey (Geography, University College London), Kennetta Hammond Perry (Black Studies, Northwestern University), and Rochelle Sennet (Music and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Fine and Applied Arts) as they share their research on Black Britons in a variety of media.
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Join us for an evening with Caroline Bressey (Geography, University College London), Kennetta Hammond Perry (Black Studies, Northwestern University), and Rochelle Sennet (Music and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Fine and Applied Arts) as they share their research on Black Britons in a variety of media.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
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Professor, Dept. Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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Join us for a screening curated by this year's Roger Ebert Fellows: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), a French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel. Set in France in the late 18th century, the film tells the story of an affair between two young women: an aristocrat and a painter commissioned to...
Friday, April 5, 2024
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Arab Heritage Month Conference
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The Department of History at the University of Illinois invites you to Bodies of Knowledge: A Symposium on the History of Medicine, Science, and the Embodiment of Difference on Friday, April 5, 2024, 9:00AM - 5:15PM at the I Hotel.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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This research on the global halal economy focuses on select halal markets, which are significant in size and their aspiration of leading halal certification and related quality standardization in the past few years. The MENA is a case in point.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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This event is part of the Interseminars series for "Improvise and Intervene," supported by the Mellon Foundation. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, teacher and writer. Silvia Federici is Emerita Professor at Hofstra University.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
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Grounded in a criminalized tradition of Black radical analysis, this lecture reframes “mass incarceration” as carceral war. In doing so, it demystifies the U.S. prison system as a modality of counter-insurgency.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
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Taylor Masamitsu (they/he) is a PhD student studying Social Sciences and Education Policy with a graduate minor in Queer Studies. They are presenting their talk "Applying Gestures in Educational Research: Some Methodological Musings".
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Thursday, April 18, 2024
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Associate Professor, Physiology, Molecular, and Cellular Biology
Friday, April 19, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Sunday, April 21, 2024
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Undergrads: Please remember to register for convocation!
Monday, April 22, 2024
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This year's Tanaka Talk will be given by second-year Ph.D. student, Qiaoyi Nie. Nie's research focuses on political behavior and race and ethnicity politics, particularly the sociological causes and psychological roots of individuals' political behavior in the American context.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been a threat to the world in two ways; as an epidemic and an Infodemic. Our study contributes to the understanding of the role of psychological ownership motivation and (SET) in Infodemic and the effect of digital nudging as a moderator.
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Join us for an engaging conversation with Joy Harjo (23rd United States Poet Laureate; member of the Muscogee [Creek] Nation) and Jenny L. Davis (American Indian Studies and Anthropology; member of the Chickasaw Nation).
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Calls to criminalise "ecocide" are, it seems, everywhere: from indigenous activists and those in the global periphery, to NGOs and political actors in the core. What unites these calls is both a sense of urgency and a need for international action. Yet this paper contends that ultimately the proposed crime of ecocide may be unable to tackle the social reality of ecocide an
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Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Joy Harjo, (23rd United States Poet Laureate; member of the Muscogee [Creek] Nation). Advanced registration required.
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Undergraduates of any major are invited to this informal lunch talk with Joy Harjo, (23rd United States Poet Laureate; member of the Muscogee [Creek] Nation). Advanced registration required.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Friday, April 26, 2024
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Annual awarding of Slavic Department prizes.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Monday, April 29, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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Please join us for the first event of the Science, Health, and Equity Series: Unintended Consequences of Premature Black Death at the Spurlock Museum on Tuesday, Apr. 30 at 4 p.m.