Humanities News
Early Spring Literary Festival to feature Illinois Poet Laureate
Published Date:March 3, 2011
Illinois Poet Laureate Kevin Stein will be among the writers featured at the Early Spring Literary Festival at the University of Illinois March 13-16.
Published Date: March 3, 2011
Collection edited by U. of I. scholar focuses on poetry by American Indians
Published Date:February 28, 2011
A few years ago, Robert Dale Parker was in a basement library reading microfilm he had ordered from the Library of Congress when he found a trove of poems written by an Ojibwe Indian. The fact that the poems were literate and lyrical pleased Parker, a literary critic, but the fact that they were from 1815 made him ecstatic.
Published Date: February 28, 2011
Full-text search capability not without problems, scholars say
Published Date:February 24, 2011
The ability to search full-text sources is not the magical tool some scholars, laypersons and even some librarians would have us believe, say Kathryn LaBarre and Carol L. Tilley, professors of library and information science at Illinois.
Published Date: February 24, 2011
Events to examine use of films to develop, justify nuclear weapons
Published Date:February 14, 2011
Atomic Light in the Public Light, is a series of lectures and film screenings beginning Tuesday (Feb. 15) sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. The series examines the use of film as a tool of science and propaganda in national efforts to develop and justify the world's most powerful nuclear weapons.
Published Date: February 14, 2011
Dalkey Archive Press honored by National Book Critics Circle
Published Date:January 24, 2011
A nonprofit publishing enterprise once described by its founder as a hopelessly quixotic venture has been named recipient of the National Book Critics Circles Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
Published Date: January 24, 2011
