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Faye Harrison, “Afro-Diasporic Women Navigating Dangerously Uneven National and Global Terrain”

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 12:00 pm, 314 Illini Union The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program will present a talk by Faye Harrison, Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology. More information is available here.

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Ed Liebow, “Nuclear Weapons and Hanford’s Tribal Neighbors”

Thursday, February 22, 2018, 3:00 pm, Davenport Hall Room 109A As part of its Liebman Engaged Anthropology Speaker Series, the Department of Anthropology will present a lecture by Ed Liebow, Executive Director of the American Anthropological Association, on how the Cold War

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Jayur Mehta, “Coupled Ecosystem Resilience and Native American Monumental Architecture Along the Mississippi River Delta”

Friday, February 9, 2018, 3:00 pm, National Soybean Research Laboratory Room 149 The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Anthropology will present a talk by Jayur Mehta,  Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology. More information is

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“Postwar Printmaking in the United States, 1945-1955”

Thursday, October 5, 2017 through Saturday, March 17, 2018, All Day, KAM Rosann Gelvin Noel Gallery The Krannert Art Museum presents an exhibit on experimentation in American artistic printmaking in the aftermath of the Second World War. More information is

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Anne L. Alstott, “Law and the 100-Year Life”

Monday, March 12, 2018, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Rowe Auditorium, Law Building The College of Law will present the Ann F. Baum Memorial Elder Law Lecture, given by Anne L. Alstott, Jacquin D. Bierman Professor in Taxation at Yale Law School. She will discuss

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Wendy K. Tam Cho, “The Law & Social Science of Political Gerrymandering”

Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Law Building Classroom A The College of Law Program in Law, Behavior, and Social Science will present a lecture by Wendy Tam Cho, Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Statistics, Asian American

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Teresa A. Sullivan, “Free Speech After Charlottesville”

Friday, February 16, 2018, 12:00 pm, Rowe Auditorium, Law Building The College of Law will present the David C. Baum Lecture on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, given  by Teresa A. Sullivan, President of the University of Virginia. She will discuss

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University of Illinois Press Public History Exhibit

Saturday, February 3, 2018 through Wednesday, February 28, 2018, All Day, Main Library North-South Corridor In celebration of its centennial, the University of Illinois Press presents an exhibit highlighting its history of design and printing, award winning scholarship, Illinois history publications,

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Licia Fiol-Matta, “Voice in the Archive: Listening to the Counterintuitive”

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 4:00 pm, 161 Noyes Lab The Department of Latina/Latino Studies will present a talk by Licia Fiol-Matta, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, on the specific concerns that arise when studying voice via archival work; analyzing

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Humanities and Public Life Symposium

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 8:30 am-5:00 pm, I Hotel and Conference Center As part of the Illinois 150: The 21st Century University and Research for the Public Good conference, the Public Humanities Research Cluster, sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in

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