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Lecture series to focus on humanities perspective about climate change

Julie Cruikshank, an ethnographer and anthropologist who lived and worked for many years in the Yukon Territory, will deliver on Tuesday (Nov. 10) the inaugural lecture in a series focusing on the humanities perspectives about climate change and the changes that people are likely to experience in the coming decades.

Published Date: November 5, 2009


Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker to receive lifetime achievement award

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, longtime contributor to The New Yorker magazine, and the writer who exposed both the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq and the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, will be this years recipient of the Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism.

Published Date: November 4, 2009


Brazilian literature in translation to be focus of talk, readings at U. of I.

The Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois will host a culture talk and bilingual readings focusing on Brazilian literature in translation on the Urbana-Champaign campus on Nov. 16. The program will be repeated on Nov. 17 in Chicago.

Published Date: November 2, 2009


Personal reflections on Berlin Wall to be subject of symposium

Personal accounts by people living in Germany before, during and after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 will be among the highlights of a symposium planned on the University of Illinois campus Nov. 11-13.

Published Date: November 2, 2009


Events at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Nov. 5 through 22

Events at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Nov. 5 through 22

Published Date: October 30, 2009