calendar of events
august
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August 21, 2017 - August 6, 2018: Sousa and Tsar Nicholas II's Birthday: An Unexpected Tour Adventure. More information available here.
August 24-December 22: Krannert Art Museum exhibit "Propositions on Revolution (Slogans for a Future)". More information available here. August 29: First day of History Now! course, taught by Professors Mark Steinberg and Jessica Greenberg. More information available here. August 31: Krannert Art Museum Opening Night Reception of "Propositions on Revolution (Slogans for a Future)". More information available here. |
september |
September 1-30: Library Exhibition on 1917, posted in the North-South Corridor of the Main Library. More information available here.
September 6: Opening Gala, featuring CAS/MillerComm Speaker Vijay Prashad. More information available here. September 14: Films of the Revolution / Revolutionary Film Opening Night Screening. Spurlock Auditorium. Film: Battleship Potemkin / Bronenosets Potemkin (dir. Eisenstein, USSR, 1925) More information available here. September 18: Revolutionary Poetry Slam. More information available here. September 21: “Universal Prostitution and Concrete Abstraction: Labour and the Biopolitics of 19th-Century Abstract Painting” talk by Jaleh Mansoor, Associate Professor of Art History, University of British Columbia, at the Krannert Art Museum Exhibition. More information available here. September 22: Gallery Conversation with the curator and UIUC faculty on "Propositions on Revolution (Slogans for a Future)" at the Krannert Art Museum Exhibition. More information available here. September 29: Films of the Revolution / Revolutionary Film Screening. 101 Armory. Film: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty / Padenie dinastii Romanovykh (dir. Shub, USSR, 1927) More information available here. |
october |
October 12, 2017 - September 3, 2018: "From Russia with Love:" John Garvey's Russian Folk Orchestra. More information available here.
October 19-21 and October 26-29: Performances of the play "Travesties" at the Colwell Playhouse. More information available here. October 20: Films of the Revolution / Revolutionary Film Screening. 101 Armory. Film: The Commissar / Komissar (dir. Askoldov, USSR, 1967) More information available here. |
november |
November 2-3: Fall Symposium, featuring a Keynote Address by Boris Kolonitskii and two sessions. More information available here.
November 7: Films of the Revolution / Revolutionary Film Final Night Screening. Art Theater in downtown Champaign. Film: I am Cuba / Soy Kuba / Ia Kuba (dir. Kolotozov, Cuba-USSR, 1964) More information available here. Cancelled: November 10: Artist’s Talk by Coco Fusco, at the Krannert Art Museum Exhibition "Propositions on Revolution (Slogans for a Future)". More information available here. |
december |
December 13: Black Square Opera Workshop. More information available here.
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april 2018 |
April 5: Music of the Revolution Concert
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