Rethinking Agency, Freedom, and the Anthropocene in the Environmental Humanities: A Dialogue
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On November 18, 2025, Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and John Levi Barnard (English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) engaged in a dialogue on “Environmental Humanities” as part of the Modern Critical Theory (MCT) lecture series.Their dialogue responded to a culture that often treats environmental knowledge as abundant yet environmental action as elusive. Over the evening, the two speakers explored related yet distinct trajectories: Rhee examined the intellectual challenges the Anthropocene brings to historical study, while...
Technocracy Conference
March 5 & 6, 2026
As the technocratic class extends its grip over governance, with ever increasing power held in the hands of the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amaz
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Siqi Tong
Siqi Tong is a PhD student in Musicology. Her research spans musical exchanges between China and the West in the 20th and 21st centuries, the modernization of Chinese traditional music, Chinese...
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Nathalie Martinez
Nathalie Martinez (she/her/ella) is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her interdisciplinary research interests are centered in...
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Spring 2025 Event Archive
David Roediger, "Education of an Ordinary White," Unit Spring Symposium on March 27.
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Camellia Paul
Camellia Paul is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her MA degree in Comparative Literature from...
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Alex Kaiser (Sociology)
Unit for Criticism SCT Fellow, Summer 2025
Nestled amongst the Finger Lakes in upstate New York, the summer session of the School of Criticism & Theory (SCT)