PREVIOUS EVENTS HOSTED/CO-SPONSORED BY GLOBAL UTOPIAS
Reading Group (Meeting 1): Utopia
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 3:00-5:00 PM
111 Gregory Hall
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"Beethoven, Thomas Mann, and Utopia: The Mystery of Opus 111"
A performance and lecture by William Kinderman
with discussion led by Harry Liebersohn
October 14th, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Foellinger Great Hall
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Reading Group (Meeting 2): Queer Utopias
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:00-5:00 PM
111 Gregory Hall
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Carol Symes (Annual Associate Professor Lecture), “Everyman His Own Historian: The First Chroniclers of the First Crusade”
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:00-5:00 pm (311 Gregory Hall)
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Reading Group (meeting 3): Race, Slavery, and Utopia in the Americas
Wednesday November 19, 2014 3:00-5:00 PM
111 Gregory Hall
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Songs That Made History: Anthems and Broadsides that Empowered America's Social Movements
A performance work by Charlie King
Thursday, December 11, 2014
3:30-5:00pm
Gregory Hall, Room 319
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Reading Group (meeting 4)
Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000).
Wednesday January 28, 2015 3:00-5:00 PM
313 Gregory Hall
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Reading Group (meeting 5): Religion, Secularism, and Utopia
Wednesday February 25, 2015 3:00-5:00 PM
313 Gregory Hall
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Reading Group (meeting 6): Science Fiction and Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Wednesday April 29, 2015 8:00PM
Location: home of Mark Steinberg
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Gilberto Gil: Critical Reading, Critical Listening
Monday, March 30th, 4:00PM-5:45PM
Location: 215 Gregory Hall
Readings: Paulina L. Alberto, "When Rio Was Black: Soul Music, National Culture, and the Politics of Racial Comparison in 1970s Brazil" Hispanic American Historical Review 89 no: 1 (2009): 3-40; Christopher Dunn, "Tropicália, Counterculture, and the Diasporic Imagination in Brazil." ; Larry Rother, "Gilberto Gil Hears the Future, Some Rights Reserved" New York Times (March 11, 2007); Julian Dibbell, "We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin" Wired November 2004
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A Book in Common discussion
“High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing” (2013), edited by Audrey Petty.
Wednesday, August 26
3:00-5:00PM, Illini Union, Room 210, General Lounge
Discussion leaders: Katherine Oberdeck (History) and Ruby Mendenhall (Sociology and African American Studies)
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A Workshop on Quantitative Methods for the Historian
Professor Claire Lemercier
Friday, September 6th, 12:00PM
Location: 307 Gregory Hall
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The Fall 2015 History Department Lecture
A Different History Manifesto: Micro-History in the Digital Age
Professor Claire Lemercier
Wednesday, September 16th, 3:30PM-5:00PM
Location: 319 Gregory Hall
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Reading Group (meeting 1): The Utopian Impulse and Everyday Practice
Wednesday September 30, 2015, 3:30PM-5:00PM
Location: 329 Gregory Hall
All faculty, graduate students, and guests are welcome.
Text: Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces, by Davina Cooper.
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Patrick Burke (Washington University), “Rock, Race, and Revolution in the 1960s”
Friday, October 9, 2015, 3:30-5:00PM – Gregory Hall Room 319
Part of the CHI project on “Music, Utopia, and the Global 1960s”
Co-Sponsored by the School of Music
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A Film Screening of "Agrarian Utopia" with an introduction by Professor Matthew S. Winters (Political Science)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 7:00PM, Spurlock Auditorium
Sponsored by AsiaLENS and Asian Education Media Service
More information available here
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Annual Associate Professor Lecture
James Brennan, "Adult Literacy, Liberation, and 'the Guidelines' in Socialist Tanzania, 1970-1975"
Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 3:00-4:30pm
Gregory Hall, Room 329
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Meeting of Global Utopias Reading Group; Topic: World Music
Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 3:30-5:00PM, 329 Gregory Hall
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A Screening of "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"
To be followed by a panel discussion/Q&A
Monday, November 2, 2015, 7:30 PM, Art Theatre (downtown Champaign)
Tickets: $5
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Meeting of Global Utopias Reading Group, Topic: Black Panthers as Utopian Practice
Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 3:30-5:00PM, 329 Gregory Hall
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Visiting scholar lecture: Roberto Zaugg (Section d'histoire, Université de Lausanne),
"Making Memory in a German Family: The Autobiographical Writings of the Oettingers, 1680s - 1930s"
Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 3:30 - 5:00 pm (1090 Lincoln Hall)
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Global Utopias Reading Group “Consumption, Coercion and Utopia”
Discussion leader: Clare Crowston
Wednesday, January 27, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm (325 Gregory Hall)
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Global Utopias Reading Group: Industrial Utopias
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm (325 Gregory Hall)
Discussion organizer: Katherine Oberdeck
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History Soapbox
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 7:00 pm. 1092 Lincoln Hall
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Utopian Songwriting: Music, Modernity, Nation and Politics in 1960s Brazil
Friday, April 8, 2016, 8pm.
At the Iron Post in downtown Urbana. With comments by Mark Steinberg and Marc Hertzman (History) and Mike Silvers (Music).
http://marceloboccato.com/utopianproject
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Graduate Student Curriculum Development Workshop.
Saturday, April 9, 2016 10:30-2:30 (407 Illini Union).
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Spring Department Lecture / Annual Friends of History Lecture
Amy Chazkel. “The History of Nightfall: The View from a South Atlantic City”
Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 3:00-5:00, 213 Gregory Hall
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Researching and Writing about Elusive Subjects
A workshop with Amy Chazkel and Craig Koslofsky
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 10-11:30am. (162 Education Building).
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Global Utopias Reading Group: Nature, Labor, Science, and Utopia
Reading: Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene, by McKenzie Wark
Discussion organizer: Kristin Romberg
Wednesday, April 20, 3:30-5:00pm (325 Gregory Hall)
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Professional Development Workshop for K-12 Teachers
Saturday, April 30, 9:00-5:00 (210 Illini Union)
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A Book in Common: Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution by Behrooz Ghamari
Discussion leaders: Antoinette Burton and Behrooz Ghamari
Wednesday, August 31, 3:00-5:00pm (210 Illini Union / General Lounge)
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 3:00-5:00 PM
111 Gregory Hall
----
"Beethoven, Thomas Mann, and Utopia: The Mystery of Opus 111"
A performance and lecture by William Kinderman
with discussion led by Harry Liebersohn
October 14th, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Foellinger Great Hall
---
Reading Group (Meeting 2): Queer Utopias
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:00-5:00 PM
111 Gregory Hall
---
Carol Symes (Annual Associate Professor Lecture), “Everyman His Own Historian: The First Chroniclers of the First Crusade”
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:00-5:00 pm (311 Gregory Hall)
---
Reading Group (meeting 3): Race, Slavery, and Utopia in the Americas
Wednesday November 19, 2014 3:00-5:00 PM
111 Gregory Hall
---
Songs That Made History: Anthems and Broadsides that Empowered America's Social Movements
A performance work by Charlie King
Thursday, December 11, 2014
3:30-5:00pm
Gregory Hall, Room 319
---
Reading Group (meeting 4)
Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press, 2000).
Wednesday January 28, 2015 3:00-5:00 PM
313 Gregory Hall
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Reading Group (meeting 5): Religion, Secularism, and Utopia
Wednesday February 25, 2015 3:00-5:00 PM
313 Gregory Hall
---
Reading Group (meeting 6): Science Fiction and Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Wednesday April 29, 2015 8:00PM
Location: home of Mark Steinberg
---
Gilberto Gil: Critical Reading, Critical Listening
Monday, March 30th, 4:00PM-5:45PM
Location: 215 Gregory Hall
Readings: Paulina L. Alberto, "When Rio Was Black: Soul Music, National Culture, and the Politics of Racial Comparison in 1970s Brazil" Hispanic American Historical Review 89 no: 1 (2009): 3-40; Christopher Dunn, "Tropicália, Counterculture, and the Diasporic Imagination in Brazil." ; Larry Rother, "Gilberto Gil Hears the Future, Some Rights Reserved" New York Times (March 11, 2007); Julian Dibbell, "We Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin" Wired November 2004
---
A Book in Common discussion
“High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing” (2013), edited by Audrey Petty.
Wednesday, August 26
3:00-5:00PM, Illini Union, Room 210, General Lounge
Discussion leaders: Katherine Oberdeck (History) and Ruby Mendenhall (Sociology and African American Studies)
--
A Workshop on Quantitative Methods for the Historian
Professor Claire Lemercier
Friday, September 6th, 12:00PM
Location: 307 Gregory Hall
---
The Fall 2015 History Department Lecture
A Different History Manifesto: Micro-History in the Digital Age
Professor Claire Lemercier
Wednesday, September 16th, 3:30PM-5:00PM
Location: 319 Gregory Hall
---
Reading Group (meeting 1): The Utopian Impulse and Everyday Practice
Wednesday September 30, 2015, 3:30PM-5:00PM
Location: 329 Gregory Hall
All faculty, graduate students, and guests are welcome.
Text: Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces, by Davina Cooper.
---
Patrick Burke (Washington University), “Rock, Race, and Revolution in the 1960s”
Friday, October 9, 2015, 3:30-5:00PM – Gregory Hall Room 319
Part of the CHI project on “Music, Utopia, and the Global 1960s”
Co-Sponsored by the School of Music
---
A Film Screening of "Agrarian Utopia" with an introduction by Professor Matthew S. Winters (Political Science)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 7:00PM, Spurlock Auditorium
Sponsored by AsiaLENS and Asian Education Media Service
More information available here
---
Annual Associate Professor Lecture
James Brennan, "Adult Literacy, Liberation, and 'the Guidelines' in Socialist Tanzania, 1970-1975"
Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 3:00-4:30pm
Gregory Hall, Room 329
---
Meeting of Global Utopias Reading Group; Topic: World Music
Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 3:30-5:00PM, 329 Gregory Hall
---
A Screening of "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"
To be followed by a panel discussion/Q&A
Monday, November 2, 2015, 7:30 PM, Art Theatre (downtown Champaign)
Tickets: $5
---
Meeting of Global Utopias Reading Group, Topic: Black Panthers as Utopian Practice
Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 3:30-5:00PM, 329 Gregory Hall
---
Visiting scholar lecture: Roberto Zaugg (Section d'histoire, Université de Lausanne),
"Making Memory in a German Family: The Autobiographical Writings of the Oettingers, 1680s - 1930s"
Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 3:30 - 5:00 pm (1090 Lincoln Hall)
---
Global Utopias Reading Group “Consumption, Coercion and Utopia”
Discussion leader: Clare Crowston
Wednesday, January 27, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm (325 Gregory Hall)
---
Global Utopias Reading Group: Industrial Utopias
Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm (325 Gregory Hall)
Discussion organizer: Katherine Oberdeck
---
History Soapbox
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 7:00 pm. 1092 Lincoln Hall
---
Utopian Songwriting: Music, Modernity, Nation and Politics in 1960s Brazil
Friday, April 8, 2016, 8pm.
At the Iron Post in downtown Urbana. With comments by Mark Steinberg and Marc Hertzman (History) and Mike Silvers (Music).
http://marceloboccato.com/utopianproject
---
Graduate Student Curriculum Development Workshop.
Saturday, April 9, 2016 10:30-2:30 (407 Illini Union).
---
Spring Department Lecture / Annual Friends of History Lecture
Amy Chazkel. “The History of Nightfall: The View from a South Atlantic City”
Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 3:00-5:00, 213 Gregory Hall
---
Researching and Writing about Elusive Subjects
A workshop with Amy Chazkel and Craig Koslofsky
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 10-11:30am. (162 Education Building).
---
Global Utopias Reading Group: Nature, Labor, Science, and Utopia
Reading: Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene, by McKenzie Wark
Discussion organizer: Kristin Romberg
Wednesday, April 20, 3:30-5:00pm (325 Gregory Hall)
---
Professional Development Workshop for K-12 Teachers
Saturday, April 30, 9:00-5:00 (210 Illini Union)
---
A Book in Common: Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution by Behrooz Ghamari
Discussion leaders: Antoinette Burton and Behrooz Ghamari
Wednesday, August 31, 3:00-5:00pm (210 Illini Union / General Lounge)