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Sharon Holland’s Lecture on Queer Theory

Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm, Zoom. Join Dr. Holland (American Studies, UNC – Chapel Hill) as she lectures on Queer Theory as part of the Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series Fall 2021. Recommended readings for the event can

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Therí Pickens’ Lecture on Disability Studies

Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm, Zoom. Join Professor Therí Pickens (English, Bates College) as she lectures on Disability Studies as part of the Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series Fall 2021. Recommended readings for the event are

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Curtis Marez’s Lecture on Critical Race Theory

Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm, Zoom. Join Professor Curtis Marez (Ethnic Studies, UC-San Diego) as he lectures on Critical Race Theory as part of the Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series Fall 2021. Find the recommended readings for

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Hal Fischer Photographs: Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics

Thursday, August 26, 2021 – Wednesday, December 22, 2021, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Krannert Art Museum, Main Level, Contemporary Gallery. Visit the Contemporary Gallery at the Krannert Art Museum to view Hal Fischer’s (a UIUC Alum) photographic series that

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A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing

Thursday, August 26, 2021 – Saturday, February 26, 2022, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, Krannert Art Museum, Main Level, East Gallery. Come to the Krannert Art Museum to view this recurring exhibit featuring the famed American artist Louise Fishman’s abstract

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CLACS Lecture Series. “Unforgetting Empire: The Struggles for Memory, Migration, and the Imagination in the Americas”

Monday, November 1, 2021, 3:00pm, Zoom. Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Revolution and Remembrance, will be discussing the historical political struggle between Central America and the United States as well as touching on topics of the history

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To Survive on This Shore

Monday, September 20, 2021, 4:00 pm, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. Join Mary Statzer and Gloria Allen as they discusses with Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre about the making of their book To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews

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Legal Humanities: Samuel Moyn – “The Coming of Humane War”

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 7:30 pm, Zoom. Samuel Moyn will be discussing his new book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War with commentary from two professors from Illinois: Avital Livny (Political Science) and Patrick Keenan (Law). Moyn

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Symptom of Crisis: “Climate Change and the Virtues of Pessimism”

Thursday, September 23, 2021, 7:30 pm, Levis Faculty Center, Room 108. Roy Scranton will be lecturing at this event sponsored by the Illinois Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment with a presentation called “Climate Change and the Virtues of Pessimism.”

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A Book in Common

Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 3:30-5:30 pm, 210 Illini Union. Join the Department of History in discussing Kathryn Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropacenes or None at the department’s annual “A Book in Common” lecture event. You can find more event information

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