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French film screening.
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Film Screening: "Forgetting Vietnam" with introduction by filmmaker/theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of Rhetoric and Gender & Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
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GWS 40th Anniversary lecture; Trinh T. Minh-ha, "The Everyday Interval of Resistance".
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Moms Weekend Spring Open House Books on display: new acquisitions & spring-themed rare book favorites Our curators will be on hand to answer questions. Students and parents interested in rare books and special collections are encouraged to stop by! Free and open to the public; refreshments will be served.
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French Festival will have fun activities created by several groups of undergraduate students and orchestrated by Amy Clay and Dan Maroun. Part of the Festival will be the handing out of undergraduate awards.
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Naureen Butt will use the lens of first-person narrative to discuss the recent history of Pakistan, particularly the challenges faced by women during the rise of the Pakistani Taliban.
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The Italian Talent Show, sponsored by the Department of French & Italian, will feature 40 student artists who will sing, recite, act, and perform music.
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Dominique Kalifa is a historian and professor at the University of Paris 1, where he heads the Center for 19th-Century History. His latest book,"Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld," is forthcoming in spring 2019 from Columbia University Press.
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Workshop for graduate students in History and in French and Italian to talk with Prof. Dominique Kalifa about his new book: Vice, Crime and Poverty in the Western Imagination. GRAD STUDENTS: Please email your RSVP for this workshop to tchaplin@illinois.edu.
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In celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday, Professor Lori Humphrey Newcomb will be speaking on the legacy of University of Illinois professor T.W. Baldwin. The Baldwin Collection at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, comprised of approximately 5,800 early modern books, was built by T.W. Baldwin in an attempt to document education in Elizabethan England.
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This Yom Ha' Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and on the 100th anniversary of his birth, we are honoring the life and work of Italian author and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi. The evening will feature readings and discussion of the author's work.
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Do you need a study break? Color with us at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Thursday, May 2nd from 3-5 PM. We'll have coloring pages from some of our favorites in the collection that you can take home and the books that inspired the pages will be on view. Come see how your masterpieces stack up to the originals!