IPRH Fall Reception and Open House
7:00 – 9:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall

NEH Summer Stipend application deadline, 5:00 p.m.
Application guidelines can be found here

IPRH Film Series – The Truman Show
5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62

Faculty Grant/Fellowship Workshop
4:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
Participants: Dianne Harris, Christine Catanzarite, Nancy Abelmann (Associate Vice Chancellor for Research), Lori Williamson (Institutional Advancement)
This event is open to all U of I faculty.

Graduate Student Grant/Fellowship Workshop
5:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
Participants: Dianne Harris, Christine Catanzarite, Deborah Richie (Graduate College), Ken Vickery (Director of External Fellowships, Graduate College)
This event is co-sponsored by the IPRH and the Graduate College; open to all U of I graduate students.

Roundtable: Conceptualizing/Theorizing Catastrophe
Co-sponsored by the IPRH and the Department of History
4:00 p.m., 307 Greg Hall
Participants: Spencer Weart (History of Physics, American Institute of Physics), Paula Treichler (Institute of Communications Research, U of I), Gillen Wood (English, U of I), Peter Fritzsche (History, U of I), Mark Micale (History, U of I)

Irit Rogoff (Professor of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London)
7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
GeoCultures – Circuits of Arts and Globalizations
Moderator - Terri Weissman (Art History)
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IPRH Film Series – A Face in the Crowd
5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62

Johanna Drucker (Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)
Co-sponsored by the IPRH and the Illinois Informatics Institute
7:30 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
Format and Function: The legacy of the book in the design of information spaces
Reception following lecture
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Panel Discussion: Virtual Worlds: The Business and Recreation of Gaming Culture
4:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
Panelists: Guy Garnett (Music/Illinois Informatics Institute, U of I), Kevin Hamilton (Art and Design, U of I), Lisa Nakamura (Asian American Studies/Institute of Communications Research, U of I)
Moderator: Mimi Thuy Nguyen (Asian American Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies, U of I)
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IPRH Film Series – The Great Dictator
5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62

Mary Beth Rose (Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago)
4:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
The Dead Mother Plot: The Family and Authority in Early Modern Texts
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Julie Cruikshank (Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in America’s Far Northwest
This lecture is part of the series “Climate Change and the Humanities”
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IPRH Film Series – Brazil, followed by gallery conversation in conjunction with the Krannert Art Museum exhibit Under Control
5:30 p.m., Krannert Art Museum, Room 62

IPRH Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowship application deadline, 5:00 p.m.
Application guidelines and forms can be found elsewhere on this site.

Andrew Light (Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Director of the Center for Global Ethics, George Mason University)
7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center
Ethics and Climate Change
This lecture is part of the series “Climate Change and the Humanities”
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Carolyn Merchant (Professor of Environmental History, University of California, Berkeley)
7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
Melting Ice: Climate Change and the Humanities
This lecture is part of the series “Climate Change and the Humanities”
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Anne Enke (Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Co-sponsored by the IPRH and Gender and Women’s Studies
5:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
Carded at the Door: Contested Space and the Consolidation of the Feminist Subject
Reception following lecture
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Robert Nixon (Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
Slow Violence and the Drama Deficit of Climate Change
This lecture is part of the series “Climate Change and the Humanities”
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Deadline for requests for IPRH co-sponsorship support, 5:00 p.m.
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Jake Kosek (Associate Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley)
7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
The Natures of the Beast: On Honeybees and the Biopolitics of Terror
This lecture is part of the series “Climate Change and the Humanities”
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IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities application/nomination deadline, 5:00 p.m.
Application guidelines can be found here. The awards will be announced at a reception in April (date and time to be announced).

Richard White (Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University)
7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
The Spatial Turn: The Parameters of Digital History
Reception following lecture
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