Humanities News
Previously unknown Sandburg poem focuses on power of the gun
Published Date:January 18, 2013
In an apparently unpublished and previously unknown poem, Carl Sandburg addressed the topic of guns. Titled A Revolver, the short piece was discovered last week among Sandburgs archives, housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Published Date: January 18, 2013
Guide makes it easier to find the right books to give children
Published Date:November 27, 2012
Holiday shoppers hoping to please the youngsters on their gift lists can turn to the Guide Book to Gift Books published by the Center for Childrens Books at the University of Illinois.
Published Date: November 27, 2012
Collaborative journal to be first focused on pre-modern Chinese culture
Published Date:November 12, 2012
Zong-qi Cai, a professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Illinois, has created a unique scholarly journal in partnership with Peking University in Beijing and Duke University Press.
Published Date: November 12, 2012
Multilingual 'Divine Comedy' marathon to take place Tuesday at Illinois
Published Date:October 19, 2012
England, Greece, heaven, hell, Portugal, Poland, purgatory and Russia all these locales will be on the itinerary Tuesday (Oct. 23) when the Italian studies program at the University of Illinois hosts a Dante marathon. Beginning at 9 a.m., Dantes Divine Comedy will be read aloud, in its entirety, following a tradition that dates back to the first circulation of the 14th-century text in Florence, Italy. In a gesture meant to engage the broader campus community, the reading will involve speakers of more than a dozen languages, ranging from the texts original Italian to Arabic, Catalan, Czech, English, French, Galician, German, modern Greek, Hungarian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Published Date: October 19, 2012
Lecture series at Illinois to explore 'digital divide'
Published Date:September 13, 2012
Overcoming the disparity of the "digital divide" -- the gap between people who have access to modern technology and those who do not -- is the subject of a lecture series sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
Published Date: September 13, 2012
