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Interlocutions in American Literary History: A Trowbridge Event (March)

Friday, March 1, 2024 Room 113 in the English Building The second Symposia in the “Interlocutions in American Literary History” series, hosted by the Trowbridge Initiative, will take place on March 1. Featured interlocutors will present in Room 113 of

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Interlocutions in American Literary History: A Trowbridge Event (February)

Friday, February 2, 2024 Lucy Ellis Lounge in the Foreign Languages Building The first of two Trowbridge Symposia—”Interlocutions in American Literary History”—will take place on February 2, to be followed by another symposium on March 1. The first symposium will

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Unpublished America

Friday, September 16, 2022, 10AM-5PM209 Illini Union Unpublished America is a Trowbridge symposium that brings together ongoing research projects exploring the hidden archives of American literary history. Our participants will be engaging in a lively discussion of the epistemology of the

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The Imperfect Saxophone: Not Just a Clown’s Instrument

Monday, December 13, 2021 – Friday, December 9, 2022, All Day, 240 Harding Band Building, Champaign, IL. This recurring exhibit, hosted by The Sousa Archives, examines America’s complicated relationship with the saxophone during the “saxophone craze” (between the years 1900

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Gwendolyn Brooks’ Birthday Open House

Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, 346 Main Library, Urbana, IL. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library invites you to a lunchtime open house to show some new catalogued items from the Gwendolyn Brooks collection (in honor

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The 29th Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ 29) “Preparing for Post-Covid Japanese Language Education: Leveraging What We Learned”

Saturday, May 21, 2022 – Sunday, May 22, 2022, All Day, Zoom. The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at UIUC are excited to announce the 29th Conference of the Central

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Acquired Taste Celebration

Saturday, May 21, 2022, 7:00 pm, Siebel Center for Design, Champaign, IL. Members, friends, and art lovers are invited by The Krannert Art Museum Council to celebrate the museum’s collections, as well as to encourage its growth, at this celebration at

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Faculty Freedom Today: A Presentation by Matthew W. Finkin

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, Zoom. Join Matthew W. Finkin as he speaks on the challenges to academic freedom from outside and inside the university, controversy surrounding academic departments issuing political statements, offensive speech in the

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AIDS in East Central Illinois: The Response and Those Lost

Saturday, June 11, 2022, 1:30 pm, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, Urbana, IL. This special presentation is being held in conjunction with Spurlock Museum’s Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt Panels from Central Illinois exhibit. This presentation will showcase some experts sharing

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Guided Tour of Sewn in Memory with Mike Benner

Sunday, June 5, 2022, 1:30 pm, Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum, Urbana IL. Join Mike Benner, the Executive Director of GCAP (Greater Community AIDS Project of East Central Illinois), as he guides a tour through Spurlock Museum’s Sewn in Memory: AIDS Quilt

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