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Anne Trubek, “The Midwest in the Age of Trump”

Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 4:00 pm, IPRH Lecture Hall, 4th floor Levis Faculty Center IPRH will present a talk by Anne Trubek, founder and director of Belt Publishing, on perceptions of the Midwest pre- and post- the election of Donald

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José Angel N., “Inside Scoop: José Angel N.”

Thursday, January 25, 2018, 12:30 pm, IPRH Lecture Hall, 4th floor Levis Faculty Center IPRH will present a conversation with José Angel N., author of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant. More information is available here.

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José Angel N., “IPRH Reads: Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant“

Thursday, January 25, 2018, 7:30 pm, IPRH Lecture Hall, 4th floor Levis Faculty Center IPRH will present an author reading of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant, the memoir of José Ángel N. More information is available here.

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Amanda Gailey, “How to Edit When the World is Burning”

Monday, November 13, 2017, 3:30 pm, IPRH Lecture Hall, 4th floor Levis Faculty Center IPRH will present another talk by Amanda Gailey on practicing the digital humanities in the current political climate. More information is available here.

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Amanda Gailey, “Digital Scholarship, Children’s Literature, and Classroom Collaboration: Reflections on Making The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk“

Monday, November 13, 2017, 12:00 pm, Center for Children’s Books IPRH will present a workshop by Amanda Gailey, Associate Professor in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and co-editor of the journal Scholarly Editing, on her NEH-supported digital humanities project The Tar

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Anthony Ryan Hatch, “Racial and Racist Narratives of Metabolic Syndrome”

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 4:00 pm, IPRH Lecture Hall, 4th floor Levis Faculty Center The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities will present a talk by Anthony Ryan Hatch, Associate Professor of Science in Society at Wesleyan University in Middletown,

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5th Annual Graduate Research Symposium

Friday, December 8, 2017, 3:00 pm-6:00 pm, 319 Gregory Hall The Department of History will present their 5th annual symposium featuring original research by history graduate students. More information is available here.

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Christopher Wells, “Reaching for the Car Keys: An Environmental History of Car Dependence”

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 3:30 pm-5:00 pm, 1000 Lincoln Hall As part of their Fall lecture series, the Center for Historical Interpretation will present a talk by Chris Wells, Professor of Environmental Studies at Macalester College. More information is available here.

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Lisa Lowe, “Colonial Pasts and Conditional Futures”

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 5:00 pm, 1090 Lincoln Hall As part of their 20 Years of Asian American Studies at Illinois lecture series, the Department of Asian American Studies will present a talk by Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and

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Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center

Natural Hair Academy, UIUC Chapter, “More than a Movement: The Evolution of Black Hair” Saturday, November 4, 2017 As part of their Food for the Soul lunch talk series, the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center will present a

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