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Fall 2020

Fall 2020 / UIC Lectures

Art as Research // Research for Art

March 29, 2021

In his talk, geared specifically for the Interdisciplinary Colloquium, artist and scholar Dylan Miner will discuss his own artistic practice and the research methodologies that he employs within his artmaking…

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Fall 2020 / UIC Lectures

Strengthening Interdisciplinary Collaborations Through Indigenous and Humanist Voices

March 29, 2021

Arola explores the possibilities and perils of bringing indigenous perspectives to interdisciplinary work. She tells her story as a rhetorician, humanist, and Anishinaabekwe involved in an NSF Convergence Research project.…

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Fall 2020 / UIC Lectures

Educational Professionalism within the Fifth Estate: Networks of Influence within Social Media and Education

March 29, 2021

Dr. Kaitlin Torphy will discuss an emergent phenomenon, social media in education. The novel coronavirus has caused large shifts in work, school, and life. Today, virtual engagement is not only…

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Fall 2020 / UIC Lectures

Brokering Power and Access: Case Studies of Gender and Seed Systems

March 29, 2021

Seed systems often fail smallholder farmers and particularly the marginalized groups within, such as women or individuals of lower social status. Access and availability to preferred varieties and seed can…

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Eating Together, Social Tension, and the Question of Equality in Western India

March 29, 2021

Modern questions about the past are often much more tangled than they first appear. For example, when Hindu devotional (bhakti) traditions began revering formerly marginalized people—women, low castes, and Dalits—were…

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