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Unknown Chinese artists, Canton Harbor and Factories with Foreign Flags
Conference

Global 1776: Imperial Worlds in Upheaval

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Handwritten notes featuring a sketch of a frog from Letter from Humberto Maturana to Heinz von Foerster, undated. Heinz von Foerster papers, 1921-2005, 2015, 2018. 11/6/26, Box 22. University of Illinois Archives, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.

Science on Tap: What Frogs and Octopuses Know (That ChatGPT Doesn't)

Featuring
Won Jeon
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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America's Scientific Revolutionaries
Public Lecture

Cultivating Ethnobotanical Knowledge Across Time and Space: A Conversation with Alejandro de Ávila and Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan

Featuring
Dr. Alejandro de Ávila, Dr. Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan
3:00 PM MST
Nathan Sowry - Turning the Power Cover
Lunch at the Library

Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures

Featuring
Nathan Sowry
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
Richard Bell Book Cover
Public Lecture

The American Revolution and the Fate of the World: An Electrifying Global History of a not-so War

Featuring
Richard Bell
5:30 p.m. ET
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Museum Program

Transcribing The Revolutionary City

6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. ET
Emilee N.K. Robbins
David Center for the American Revolution Seminar

Memoir of Elizabeth Munro Fisher: A Loyalist Mother

Featuring
Emilee N.K. Robbins
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Nobody Men Cover
David Center for the American Revolution Lecture

Nobody Men: Neutrality, Loyalties, and Family in the American Revolution

Featuring
Travis Glasson
1:30 PM ET
engraving of black and white hand holding civil rights bill
Conference

Black Declarations of Independence: Before and After 1776

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Publishing Salon: Library Materials Selection

Featuring
Dana Giusti, Semyon Khokhlov, David Gary
5:30–7:00 p.m.
Natasha McEnroe SAL
Public Lecture

‘A Traveller from an Antique Land’: Treasures from the Society of Antiquaries of London

Featuring
Natasha McEnroe
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. ET
Bruno Seraphin ILF (Photo, Title, Date)
Indigenous Learning Forum

Indigenous Fire: Stewardship, Sovereignty, and Crisis Response in Karuk Country

Featuring
Bruno Seraphin, Vikki Preston, Chook Chook Hillman
3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET