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“Sousa and Tsar Nicholas II’s Birthday: An Unexpected Tour Adventure”

Monday, August 21, 2017 through Monday, August 6, 2018, All Day, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music Now through August 6, 2018, the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music will host an exhibition on John Philip Sousa’s 1903 tour of

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Adam Doskey and Krista Gray, “Designed, Displayed, & Discarded: Ephemeral Printing in Alton, Illinois, 1835-1855”

Thursday, February 18, 2018, 3:00pm-5:00pm, Rare Book & Manuscripts Library The University Library will be hosting an opening event for the exhibition “Designed, Displayed, & Discarded: Ephemeral Printing in Alton, Illinois, 1835-1855.” This event will feature Adam Doskey, Visiting Curator

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Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, “‘We Offer Our Lives as a Moral Protest:’ High-Risk Activism, Spectacular Speech, and the 1994 UC Santa Barbara Hunger Strike”

Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 4:00 pm, 161 Noyes Lab The Department of Latino/Latina Studies will present a talk by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara, on hunger striking as a form of “high-risk activism,”

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Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo, “Cultural Survival and Land Dispossession: A Photographic Essay on The Sioux and the Embera Peoples of North and South America”

Thursday, November 30, 2017, 12:00 pm, La Casa Cultural Latina La Casa will present a talk by professional Colombian-American photographer Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo. More information is available here.

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Coco Fusco, “Artist Talk”

Friday, November 10, 2017, 4:00 pm, KAM Lower Level Auditorium

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Stacey Jessiman de Nanteuil, “Jewish and Indigenous Looted Treasures: Comparing Legal and Ethical Approaches to Provenance Research and Restitution”

Thursday, February 8, 2018, 5:30 pm, KAM Auditorium The Krannert Arm Museum will present a talk by Stacey Jessiman de Nanteuil, Co-chair of the Advocacy Committee for Lawyers Commitee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, a legal consultant for JFK Law Corporation, and

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Eliot A. Cohen, “The Big Stick: Military Power and American Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump”

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 7:30 pm-9:00 pm, Alumni Center Ballroom As the keynote for their American Grand Strategy and the Changing Global Order symposium, the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research will present a talk by Eliot A. Cohen, Robert E. Osgood

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American Grand Strategy and the Changing Global Order Roundtable

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm, Rm 314 Illini Union As part of their American Grand Strategy and the Changing Global Order symposium, the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research will present a discussion and public forum, moderated by Scott

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Fatima Goss Graves, “Promises, Mandates, and Social Norms: Title IX at 45”

Thursday, November 9, 2017, 12:00 pm-1:05 pm, Rowe Auditorium, Law Building As their David C. Baum Memorial Lecture on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, the College of Law will present a talk by Fatima Goss Graves, President of the National Women’s Law

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Abdul Alkalimat, “The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago”

Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 5:30 pm-7:00 pm, Rm 315 Art and Design Building The School of Information Sciences will present a talk by Abdul Alkalimat, professor emeritus in the iSchool and the Department of African American Studies at the University of

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