Friday, April 8, 2022, 5:30 pm, Krannert Art Museum, Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62). School of Art + Design and Professor Emerita (UIUC) Bea Nettle will lecture about her career that began in 1970 with the publishing and exhibiting of…
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A + D Distinguished Alumni Lecture – Harvest of Memory: Bea Nettles
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Public Opinion, Social Media, and the Identitarian Citizen in a Democracy
Monday, April 4, 2022, 4:00 – 5:30 pm, Gregory Hall, Room 319. Join the HRI’s Big Tech, Information, and Soceity Research Cluster as Dr. Shannon Gregor as she lectures on studies about using social media to understand public opinion. Topics…
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Vijay Iyer + Trio: A Musical Performance
Saturday, May 7, 2022, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Location TBD. Vijay Iyer and his trio will be performing live at an event sponsored by the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory and the Department of Asian American Studies. This…
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Faculty-Graduate Seminar: Gendered + Sexualized Forms of Anti-Asian Racism
Monday, April 18, 2022, 5:00- 7:00 pm, Zoom. Join UIUC’s Susan Koshy, Soo Ah Kwon, and Junaid Rana as they discuss gendered and sexualized forms of Anti-Asian Racism. Register for the event on Zoom here. Email Hyeree Ellis or Ashli Anda in…
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Faculty-Graduate Seminar: Histories + Theories of Anti-Asian Racism
Monday, April 4, 2022, 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Zoom. Join UIUC’s Susan Koshy, Soo Ah Kwon, and Juniad Rana as they lead a seminar about the histories and theories of Anti-Asian Racism. Register for the event on Zoom here. Email Hyeree…
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An Unseen Unheard Minority
Thursday, March 3, 2022, 7:00 pm, Zoom. Dr. Sharon Lee will be discussing her recent book about the history of Asian American student activism at UIUC (which led to the creation of the Asian American Studies department and cultural center…
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Passing for Model Minority with erin Khuê Ninh (UCSB)
Thursday, March 3, 2022, 5:30 pm, Zoom. The second event of the “In Plain Sight: Reckoning with Anti-Asian Racism” series wherein erin Khuê Ninh (Department of Asian American Studies, UCSB) talks about the idea of the model minority and racial…
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Blues Dancing and its African American Roots
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 – Tuesday, May 31, 2022, All Day, Spurlock Museum. Visit the Spurlock Museum and walk through this exhibit that explores the history of “blues dance” – popular dance practices from African American communities in the United…
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Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 – Thursday, July 7, 2022, All Day, Spurlock Museum. Visit this exhibit at the Spurlock Museum where certain quilt panels made in the 1980s and 1990s, from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, are being displayed.…
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Spurlock Book Club, Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika
Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 7:30 pm, Zoom. Join the Spurlock Museum Book Club as they discuss Part 2 of Angels in America (“Perestroika”), set during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. This event will be held in conjunction with Sewn in…
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