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Second annual “Reel Queer Film Festival” opens April 1
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The second annual “Reel Queer Film Festival” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kicks off with “Trembling Before G-d,” a movie exploring the ways Orthodox Jews reconcile their love of Judaism with biblical prohibitions against homosexuality. “Trembling” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. April 1 (Tuesday) in 100 Gregory Hall, 810 […]
University of Virginia scholar named dean of library school
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – John M. Unsworth has been named the new dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His appointment was approved today by the Board of Trustees at its meeting in Rockford, Ill. Currently an associate professor of English and the director of the […]
Women and Gender History symposium to run March 13-15
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The fourth annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History begins Thursday (March 13) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It will run through Saturday (March 15). The symposium kicks off with a keynote address by Ann Laura Stoler, a history professor at the University of Michigan. Stoler’s talk, titled “Habits […]
Panel discussion on geopolitics of Europe set for March 18
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A panel discussion on the geopolitics of Europe, prompted by current world events, will be held March 18 (Tuesday) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The discussion, titled “Old Europe/New Europe: A Panel on the Geopolitics of the Current Moment,” will begin at 4 p.m. in the Illinois Program for Research […]
Analyst Kevin Phillips to speak at Cline Symposium March 17-18
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Kevin Phillips, a well-known political and economic analyst, media commentator and author, will be the special guest at the 2003 Cline Symposium March 17 and 18 (Monday and Tuesday) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The topic for this year’s symposium is “Private Markets, Public Order and Human Welfare.” All of […]
Asian American Awareness Month kicks off Wednesday
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Asian American Awareness Month at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kicks off Wednesday (Feb. 26) with a film and presentation by Nisha Ganatra, the Indian American director-actress of the award-winning film “Chutney Popcorn.” The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Krannert Art […]
MacArthur Foundation funds three-year $1.35 million grant to ACDIS
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Reductions in the world’s arsenals of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction are the ultimate goals of a new program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The university’s Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security […]
Conference to explore links between sports, democracy
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A conference exploring the links between sports and democracy in America will be held Feb. 28 to March 2 (Friday through Sunday) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is the inaugural event of the university’s new Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society and is free and open to the […]
Freeman Foundation renews grant funding Asian Educational Media Service
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a grant of $525,000 to support its academic outreach services to schools and colleges over the next three years. The grant from the Freeman Foundation will fund the center’s Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS), which […]
Book censorship is focus of library exhibit
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – What do Madonna and the Bible have in common? What about the French poet Charles Baudelaire and the boxing legend Muhammad Ali? They all have been victims of censorship. As a new exhibit at the University of Illinois Rare Book and Special Collections (RBSC) Library demonstrates, nothing is immune from the censors’ […]
Recent past president of ALA to head Mortenson Center
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Barbara J. Ford, a recent past president of the American Library Association (ALA), has been selected to direct the C. Walter and Gerda B. Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently assistant commissioner for central library services at the Chicago Public Library, Ford will be […]
‘Magnificent’ gift enhances family resiliency program
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Chancellor Nancy Cantor has announced a $11.5 million gift from Doris and Jay Christopher and The Pampered Chef Ltd. to support the Family Resiliency Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The gift provides funds for a new building, a maintenance endowment, and an endowed chair. “This magnificent gift reflects the […]