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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 […]
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 […]
Guide to children’s books makes gift-giving easier
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Books make great gifts for kids – no doubt about it. But, as anyone who has ever shopped for a child’s book knows, the problem comes in deciding which shiny, fun, appealing – and even important – book would be good for any given child. With some 5,000 new children’s trade books published […]
Illinois professor to talk, perform at Chicago Humanities festival
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Evelyne Accad, a poet, musician-songwriter, author and professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will talk and perform several original works at the Chicago Humanities Festival XIII. Theme of the festival is “Brains & Beauty.” Accad’s performance, part of Series 9: “In the Spotlight,” is scheduled for 6 to […]
Prize-winning professor to speak about writing in Chicago, on campus
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Richard Powers, a prize-winning fiction writer and professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will deliver two humanities talks in November, one in Chicago, the other on the Urbana campus. On Nov. 9 (Saturday), Powers, Swanlund Professor of English and Professor at the Center for Advanced Study, will speak […]