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Friday, September 20, 2024
- All dayVisiting Artist Ruby QueVisiting Artist Ruby Que will be on campus from September 2 – October 16, 2024.Ruby Que will give an artist talk on Wednesday, September 25 from noon–1 p.m. at University Galleries. The talk is free and open to the public.
- All dayLeaders of Social Change RegistrationThe Leaders of Social Change (LOSC) Institute is a social justice leadership experience designed to give students an opportunity to examine the concept of leadership at the intersection of power, oppression, justice, and social change. During this six-week leadership experience, participants can expect to:identify at least two ways to work toward social change this semester discover at least two of their top leadership talents as it relates to their leadership identity engage with one person who is currently practicing one way to work toward social change. Time Commitment: The LOSC institute is a six-week leadership experience and will require a time commitment of approximately 2 – 3 hours per week. Program Dates: LOSC is offered in the fall semester. The program will begin October 4, 2024 and end November 8, 2024. Program Cost: There is no cost to students for participating in LOSC program. Program Delivery: Participants can choose to attend weekly required sessions in-person or online. In-person sessions are held Fridays, 12 – 1:30 p.m. in the Student Involvement Center Conference Room (Bone Student Center 227). Online sessions are held Fridays, 9:30-11:00a.m. and 3-4:30 p.m. via Zoom. Participant Qualifications: The LOSC program is open to any Illinois State University student. Participants must remain in good academic and disciplinary standing. Program Registration: The Leaders of Social Change Registration Form is now open. Participants are encouraged to sign up by Friday, September 27, 2024.Hosted by: Dean of Students Office, Leadership Education and DevelopmentOnline Location: https://forms.illinoisstate.edu/forms/loscinstituteAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10419931
- All daySERC General MeetingCome join SERC this week for a safe space to learn about rape culture and its significance in our lives. We are actively educating ourselves and the community about topics in rape culture that are present in many parts of our society. We aim to create a culture of consent while advocating students to feel safe, heard, and seen. Hosted by: Health Promotion and Wellness, Students Ending Rape CultureAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10399282
- All dayIllinois State University Men's Tennis vs 7th Annual Redbird InvitationalIllinois State University Men's Tennis vs 7th Annual Redbird Invitational
- 8:00 AM8hHomecoming 2024 campus decorating contestCampus offices and departments can register through September 17 to promote Redbird pride and show off Homecoming spirit! Entrants will be judged on their use of the 2024 Homecoming theme, school spirit, Illinois State University’s name and/or images, and the impact of the decorations throughout the week. Judging will be Friday, September 20.Visit the Homecoming website for a complete list of events.
- 8:00 AM9hPEP: DuPage County Action Team MeetingsThe DuPage Action Team meets on the third Friday of the month at 10 a.m.Children’s Advocacy Center 422 County Farm RoadWheaton, IL 60187
- 10:00 AM2hResource center Grand Reopening Drop-In EventDrop in to the updated WGSS Resource Center in Rachel Cooper Hall, room 234 on September 20, 2024. Coffee and donuts will be provided for students and faculty meeting with our office staff and seeing our new space!Hosted by: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10483837
- 10:00 AM5hFall Graduate Student Writing BootcampWhile creating a daily writing habit can be a good long term strategy to accomplish your writing goals, sometimes there's nothing better than setting aside an entire day to push through a large chunk of work. The Graduate School will provide lunch and snacks, you provide the commitment to progressing on your thesis, dissertation, capstone, or other writing project. Please register separately for each day you plan to attend to help us plan food counts. This event is open to graduate students in all programs. Hosted by: Graduate SchoolAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10229016
- 10:00 AM6hFix It FridayGet your clothes mended! Stop by on one of our scheduled dates with an article of clothing or other textiles in need of a basic fix. We offer quick repairs such as mending a hole or sewing on a button. Our volunteers will repair it on the spot for free! We can help your favorite clothes last longer!Hosted by: Fix It Friday, Office Of SustainabilityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10223303
- 10:00 AM6hThe Share ShopGrab what you need at the Share Shop! The ISU Share Shop is a free resource-sharing store. Students can shop for a variety of FREE items such as clothing, shoes, accessories, small household items, textbooks, and more.Hosted by: Office Of SustainabilityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10223595
- 11:00 AM1hGuided Meditation at the GalleriesSomatic bodyworker Cortenay Crosson will lead a guided meditation in Rafael Soldi's exhibition A moon, a peephole, an explosion, or a flashing memory. The meditation will be followed by a discussion of Rafael Soldi's artworks. Registration is required. A moon, a peephole, an explosion, or a flashing memory features photographs, a handwritten text installation, and an EKG made from 2009 through 2023. Informed by the artist’s queer, Peruvian identity, the selected works reflect on the possibilities of language, memory, and imagining. In Soldi’s words, he “probes states of in-betweenness—especially as it occurs across tongues—providing nuanced insight into immigrant identity while also offering a rich metaphor for queer experience.” The exhibition title is excerpted from one of Soldi’s own texts, which appeared on the cover of his Imagined Futures book. In the text, the artist addresses The Sun Will Set in the Same Place, a photograph featured in this exhibition. Soldi grew up in Peru and moved to the United States as a teenager, first to the east coast and then to the west coast. When he saw the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean in Seattle, 15 years after regularly seeing the same sight as a child in Peru, he was struck by a wave of nostalgia and a desire to reconcile his feelings about his home country. He then made the black-and-white photograph of what appears to be a brilliant, radiating orb. He writes, “I liked the ambiguity of this image too… it’s like being blinded by the sun, or it could be an eclipse or a black hole or a camera shutter or a moon or an explosion or a flashing memory or a peephole.” Special Collections at Milner Library recently acquired Soldi’s Imagined Futures book, and it will be on view in the exhibition. Imagined Futures comprises 36 tiny, black-and-white self-portraits made in photo booths. Rather than making silly faces with friends or posing for an identification photo, Soldi was repeatedly photographed alone and with his eyes closed. In his words, the project marks his “persistent attempt at acknowledging the grief surrounding the futures abandoned after immigrating from his homeland and the social violence enacted on queer bodies.” Soldi extended the project to other queer, male-identifying, Latinx immigrants for Entre Hermanos. He collaborated with social worker Joel Aguirre to facilitate a conversation about how the participants “perceived their future as young people in their countries of origin,” how that perception may have changed, and how they could “reimagine their futures and pasts today.” Following the discussion, each participant could make their own self-portrait in a photo booth while being guided through a meditation exercise. The resulting photographs are presented in color and at a significantly larger scale than Soldi’s self-portraits. For mouth to mouth, Soldi explores fluidity between two languages, Spanish and English, one that was slipping away and one that he was learning. The installation features dozens of handwritten words presented in individual frames: poema, problema, home, body, historia, histeria, memoria. Soldi said that the errors and mistranslations “yielded a directory of invented terms, a collection of tiny unintended poems.” Meanwhile Shards—which brings together poetry, astronomy, history, and language—is titled after one of Jay Hopler’s poems. Soldi etched four glass panels with a single word each: mother, boy, soft, and tongue. The words can form a variety of combinations and evoke a range of feelings depending on the background of the viewer. Behind each word is a black-and-white photograph depicting the stars over his mother on the night Soldi was born. The artist visited the observatory in Lima, Peru, to create the images. Marcapasos, an EKG displayed as an artist’s book, demonstrates another form of language. The EKG recorded the electrical activities in Soldi’s heart when he was eleven years old. The artist writes, “I was moved by finding this ‘written record of my own heart as a child, at a time when I was aware of my queerness and my difference but had no language for it.”Hosted by: University GalleriesAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10253091
- 11:00 AM1h 30mCreative Technologies Collective: First MeetingCome Join us for our first Creative Technologies Collective Meeting! We will be talking about what the CTC will be doing during the year, and we will also be talking about our first few ideas to start making merchandise for our School! We will have teams for: Graphic Design and Art and Marketing/Social Media. Hosted by: Creative Technologies CollectiveAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10488132
- 11:00 AM2hIllinois State University Volleyball at FAUIllinois State University Volleyball at FAU Streaming Video: https://fausports.com/watch/?Live=2265&type=Live
- 11:00 AM5hDigital Scholarship DayJoin Milner Library for a day of kickoff events for Illinois State’s digital scholarship programming! Start your day with Donuts and DH, learning about campus labs and services that support digital scholarship, tour spaces across campus in a lab crawl, and then settle in for a keynote lecture given by David De Roure, Academic Director of Digital Scholarship and Professor of e-Research, Oxford University.“David De Roure is Academic Director of the Digital Scholarship @ Oxford initiative and Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre, an institute of the Department of Engineering Science. He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he is Technical Director of the Centre for Practice and Research in Science and Music (PRiSM), and a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. David’s personal research is at the intersection of music, math, machines and AI, empowering the creative human in music composition and performance.This event is sponsored by the Harold K. Sage Foundation, the Illinois State University Foundation Fund, and Research and Sponsored Programs.
- 12:00 PM1h 30mDifficult Conversation, “Hot Moments,” and Disruptive Behaviors: Part 2 Responding to the ChallengesLearn strategies that will help you intervene in challenging situations and disruptive behaviors in your classrooms. Whether you teach controversial topics or not, “hot moments” could happen in any classroom. Knowing strategies to de-escalate tense situations would help you and your students work through tough issues and create shared understanding. You’ll get a chance to practice the strategies with colleagues in this interactive workshop. Registration is required.Intended Audience: Faculty and Course Instructors, Staff.
- 12:30 PM2h 30mVolunteer Opportunity - Ecology Action CenterJoin us as we stencil neighborhood storm drains and distribute important information with door hangers to help raise awareness for a cleaner environment! Transportation is provided! For check in please meet us at the Center for Civic Engagement (300 W. North Street, across from CVS) at 12:30pm Use this link to complete the mandatory EAC waiver for this event: https://ecologyactioncenter.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/ecologyactioncenter/projectList.jsp?query.project.id=272Hosted by: Center for Civic EngagementAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10249476
- 3:00 PM1hChemistry Seminar: Joy AlendeJoy Alende, a master’s student from Illinois State University Department of Chemistry, will present a seminar titled “Total Synthesis of (+)- and (-) Daphnillonin B” at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, September 20, 2024 in Julian Hall, room 225. Refreshments will be served prior to the seminar in Julian Hall, room 224.
- 3:00 PM2hCAST Connections Low Ropes EventCAST Connections is hosting an event at the Low Ropes course at the Redbird Adventure Center on September 20 from 3-5 pm. This is a team building exercise, and will not require us to be high in the air while participating in this event.If you have questions or concerns, please contact jmunn@ilstu.edu. If you are a student in the College of Applied Sciences and Technology, and interested please RSVP at the following link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=OphfCGkLcEK3HRBpUHa6_iUV6xqe5S1DqUsRu3NzvwZUNTBNWlo5M1kyUUlMSkNXRjM5N05TWTFaMy4u
- 3:30 PM2hIllinois State University Volleyball vs StetsonIllinois State University Volleyball vs Stetson TV: FloSports ($) Streaming Video: https://www.flovolleyball.tv/collections/12652625-2024-owls-paradise-classic?view=live-and-upcoming&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=multiple&utm_content=collection&utm_campaign=662765fauinvite&contract_id=0063m00000oinbkaau&coverage_id=12652612
- 4:00 PM45mChapter Meeting IThis is the SVA's first meeting of the school year- we want to use this time to introduce the executive board members, elaborate on our purpose and goal of the organization, talk about future events, and chat with all of the members! Food and drinks will be provided.Hosted by: Student Veterans of America at Illinois State UniversityAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10459088
- 5:30 PM1hAlcoholics AnonymousFridays, 5:30-6:30 pmThis meeting is for college students and young adults; it moves beyond alcohol and also invites individuals who are concerned about their use of other substances. This is an open meeting, with the meeting type rotating each week of the month. The location is adjacent to the campus, just north of Bowling and Billiards Center.
- 5:30 PM1hAlcoholics AnonymousFridays, 5:30-6:30 pmThis meeting is for college students and young adults; it moves beyond alcohol and also invites individuals who are concerned about their use of other substances. This is an open meeting, with the meeting type rotating each week of the month. The location is adjacent to the campus, just north of Bowling and Billiards Center.
- 6:30 PM2hInternational Neighbors Night (INN)Join us for Join us at 6:30pm at Wittenberg Lutheran Center for warm food and good fellowship! Open to all students and families, especially those who are international students! The INN (International Neighbors' Night) occurs each month, so check back on our page as more meal nights are planned and please come whenever you are available! This year, Wittenberg is partnering with Bridges International to be stewards of God's goodness for as many students as possible.Hosted by: Bridges International, Cru, Wittenberg Lutheran Student OrganizationAdditional Information can be found at: https://redbirdlife.illinoisstate.edu/event/10228668