International Studies Research Lab 2018
Dates: July 8 - July 20
Application Deadline: April 15
The Center for Global Studies, International & Area Studies Library,
and Russian, East European & Eurasian Center at the University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are pleased to announce fellowships
and research honoraria to support the internationalization of community
colleges nationwide. We invite applications from faculty, librarians,
and administrators interested in expanding global studies curricula,
instruction in less commonly taught languages, library collections, or
international education programs at their home institutions. Participation
in ISRL provides resources and time for research otherwise unavailable
to applicants. Fellows will have the opportunity to work one-on-one
with international and area studies reference librarians and explore the
unlimited print and online resources at the University Library. |
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March 5, 5-6:30pm
Levis Faculty Center, Music Room
The Learning Publics Salon will meet twice during Spring 2018 and is open to all interested in questions at the intersection of education, public life, research and community collaboration. This discussion will include the framing of public engagement and the humanities in the campus' new strategic planning process. |
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March 6, 12:00-1:00pm
309 International Area Studies Library
This is a reading group discussing the future of global studies. The first book we will be discussing is Michael Kennedy's Globalizing Knowledge. |
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March 6, 4:00pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Ai-jen Poo, renowned activist and thought-leader, will speak about the current political climate and the importance of creating a multi-racial, multi-generational movement that centers on the most vulnerable among us. Using the work of the National Domestic Worker Alliance as an example, Poo will explore the enormous potential for change in this moment as well as her conviction that we are “all activists now.” |
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March 8, 4:00pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
This talk draws on more than a decade of research—-in molecular biology labs, commercial startups, governmental agencies, and civic spaces—-to examine how genomics may be transformed from an information science practiced by a few well-financed scientists and engineers in the West, to a struggle for membership in twenty-first century societies embraced by peoples all over the world. |
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March 14, 12:00pm
Levis Faculty Center - 208 Music Room
Employing sound, code, robotics, and video, Ben Grosser will discuss a series of his computational artworks that attempt to engage the world as artists. Through these projects, he will examine our fear (or lack thereof) of software-based systems, questions of computational agency, and how autonomous art machines can reveal the machinic nature of human vision. |
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