IPRH Newsletter 2017

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Twenty Years of the

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and students had the opportunity to reach new publics through

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of race and the nature of the human itself.

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RESEARCH CLUSTERS, ǗǕǖǜȔǖǝ African American Community Healing Through Storytelling Nkechinyelum Chioneso 06 %,),$6 ȡ 06 %,),$& ) "/3& "0 "+1"/ Ruby Mendenhall , &,),$6 ȡ #/& + *"/& + 12!&"0 Helen Neville !2 1&,+ ) 06 %,),$6 ȡ #/& + *"/& + 12!&"0 Shardé Smith #/& + *"/& + 12!&"0

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"/* +& +$2 $"0 +! &1"/ 12/"0 Jonathan Inda 1&+ ȡ 1&+, 12!&"0

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UPCOMING EVENTS August

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Humanities Retreat

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Lecture: ISABEL HOFMEYR (African

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Literatures, University of the Witwatersrand) “A History of the Indian Ocean World in Five Objects” Part of the MillerCom Lecture Series.

Co-sponsored by the Krannert Art Museum, and CAS MillerComm.

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Humanities Without Walls “Alt Ac” Brown Bag A panel discussion with Stephanie Seawell (PhD in History; labor educator at University of Illinois Extension), Emily Laugesen (PhD in Music Theory; CoDirector of Engagement at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts), Jessica Neptune (PhD in American History, Associate Director of National Programs, Bard Prison Initiative (BPI); Director, BPI Chicago). Co-sponsored by the Graduate College.

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Speculative Futures Event Series A sesquicentenary event. Co-organized with Coordinated Science Laboratory, +! ,Ȓ0-,+0,/"! 6 ƛ& " ,# 1%" & " Chancellor for Research, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, College of Engineering, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Fiddler

++,3 1&,+ +!,4*"+1Ǿ ƛ& " ,# ,/-,/ 1" Relations, Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures, Ninth Letter, College of Fine and Applied Arts, English, History, African American Studies, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives. Learn more on page 13.

IPRH at the Pygmalion Festival: Reading by GEORGE SAUNDERS

IPRH 20th-Anniversary celebration: Lecture by EARL LEWIS (President,

Writing Otherwise: OpEd Information Session with Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages and Literatures) and Antoinette Burton (Director, IPRH)

Presented by Ninth Letter and the Carr Creative Writers Lecture Series, and co-sponsored by English and KCPA.

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Films of the Revolution / Revolutionary Films First screening in a series. Part of “Ten Days that Shook the World / Ten Days that Shake the Campus” events.

Co-sponsored by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the department of Comparative and World Literature. Curated by Lilya Kaganovsky. See - $" ǖǘ #,/ #2)) )&01&+$ ,# ! 1"0 +! Ɯ)*0ǽ

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Peformance/Talk: JUPITER STRING QUARTET “Radical Transformations in

IPRH at the Chicago Humanities Festival: TIM PAUKETAT (Anthropology) “Ancient Faith and the Fall of Cahokia.” Cosponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival and the Poetry Foundation. See page 12 for more information.

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Undergraduate Inside Scoop: MARK STEINBERG (History) IPRH at the Chicago Humanities Festival: MARK STEINBERG (History) “The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap.” Cosponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival and the Art Institute of Chicago. See page 12 for more information.

José Ángel N. Earl Lewis

Ocean Vuong

Jupiter String Quartet

December

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January

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IPRH Now: 2nd Annual Work-In

30 Bio-Humanities Symposium Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

IPRH Reads: Illegal (University of Illinois Press, 2014) with author José Ángel N.

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Undergraduate Inside Scoop: José Ángel N. (Author). Co-sponsored

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A sesquicentenary event. Co-sponsored by Center for Advanced Study. Part of the “The Research University at 150” Conference, running April 10–12. See page 13 for more information.

by La Casa Cultural Latina.

February

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Creative Writers Showcase: NAFISSA THOMPSON-SPIRES (English)

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Brown Bag Workshop: ANNE TRUBEK (Founder/Director, Belt Publishing),

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Undergraduate Inside Scoop: OCEAN VUONG Co-sponsored by Asian American Studies.

May

Bio-Humanities Interchange Timothy Ingold (Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen) and Thomas Lemke (Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt). Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Brown Bag Workshop: ANNE TRUBEK (Founder/Director, Belt Publishing),

sponsored by the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and CAS MillerComm.

Bio-Humanities Undergraduate Research Symposium Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Part of Undergraduate Research Week.

“Giving up Tenure: Who Does That?” Cosponsored by the Graduate College.

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The Odyssey Project Student Presentations Part of Undergraduate Research Week.

“Writing For The Public” Co-sponsored by the Graduate College.

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Public Humanities Symposium

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IPRH Prizes for Research Ceremony and Reception

For full event information, please visit iprh.illinois.edu.

Peformance/Talk: STEPHEN TAYLOR (Music). “ Art in the Age of Information”

March

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“‘Marvelous Fabrications’: Interrogating Robots from the Middle Ages to the Present” with Ben Grosser (Art + Design), Amy LaViers (Mechanical Engineering), and Elly R. Truitt (History, Bryn Mawr College)

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