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🎬 GSC Film Screening featuring “Lulu en el Jardín” by Jose Luis Benavides 🗓️ Wednesday, November 4, 2026
⏰ 12:00 - 1:30 PM
📍 UIC Latino Cultural Center, Lecture Center B2, 803 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
🆓 Free and Open to the Public 🥗 Refreshments Provided
♿️ The Latino Cultural Center is wheelchair accessible. For accommodations or questions, please email: Igbtqa@uic.edu

🍃 Join us for “LuLu en el Jardín,” an experimental documentary film that details Jose Luis Benavides’s mother’s journey migrating from Mexico City to the West Side of Chicago during her adolescence in the 1970s. The film specifically explores her struggles with identity, the challenges of migration, and her subsequent forced institutionalization by her family at the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center after she came out as a lesbian.

🦋 A discussion with the filmmaker, Jose Luis Benavides (UIC Alumnus, CADA MFA; and current Assistant Professor at Idaho State University), will be part of the screening.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️This program is part of the Gender and Sexuality Center’s “Queer & Trans Latine Liberation” theme in honor of the Latino Cultural Center’s 50th anniversary.

🎉 Campus Co-Sponsors: College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts @uic_cada; Gender and Women’s Studies @uicgws; Institute for the Humanities @uichumanities; Latin American and Latino Studies @lalsatuic; Queer & Trans Studies Working Group; Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center @uiclcc; and UIC Heritage Garden @uicheritagegarden. ✨Community Sponsor: Latine Film Gang @latinefilmgang taken in UIC Latino Cultural Center by @uichumanities

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Join university press acquisitions editors Raina Polivka (University of California Press) and Mariah Schaefer (University of Illinois Press), and published UIC faculty members Adam Goodman and Darius Bost for a discussion of strategies and tips to successfully craft your manuscript, pitch and work with a publisher, and promote your first book. The panel will be moderated by UI Press Director Michelle Sybert.

Pre-registration is requested. Submit your registration with any questions for the panelists ahead of time on the Institute for the Humanities website and indicate on the form if you’ll need to join us remotely. The Zoom link will be provided shortly before the program date.

Co-sponsored by the UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. Flyer for What I Wish I Knew Before I Published My First Book. October 14, 12:00-1:00PM. Institute for the Humanities, 1007 W. Harrison St., Suite 153, Chicago IL, 60607. by @uichumanities

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Mark your calendars!
📢 From UT Austin to UIC:
A Convening for Critical Gender, Race, and Ethnic Studies 📢

🗓️ Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
⏰ Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm
📍 Location: Institute for the Humanities,
Behavioral Sciences Building (BSB) 153,
🧭 Address: 1007 W Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607
🎟️ Registration is required at go.uic.edu/UTAustintoUIC

Come hear from and engage with UT Austin colleagues, Professors Karma Chávez and Iván Chaar López, faculty in what was until recently, the Department of Mexican-American and Latina/o Studies, as we talk about how to sustain and expand Critical Gender, Race and Ethnic Studies and interdisciplinarity at UIC. This is for faculty, students and staff working in any/all interdisciplinary units on campus.

🍴A light lunch will be provided. 🍴

Karma R. Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas - Austin. She is author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (University of Illinois Press, 2013); Palestine on the Air (University of Illinois Press, 2019); and The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (University of Washington Press, 2021). She is a co-founder of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at UT Austin and president of the AAUP Chapter.

Iván Chaar López is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and the Principal Investigator of the Border Tech Lab (BTL) at the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching examine the history and politics of computing and information infrastructures.

CART will be transcribing the conversation, and the Institute for the Humanities is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral bathrooms.

Co-Sponsors: Black Studies; Criminology; Law, and Justice; Global Asian Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies; the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change; the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy; Institute for the Humanities

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📚GSC Book Talk featuring…Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions by José A. de la Garza Valenzuela 🌈📖

📆 When: Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
⏰ Time: 3:00PM-4:30PM
📍Where: UIC Richard J. Daley Library, Room 1-470 (801 S. Morgan St. Chicago, IL 60607)

❗Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

💬 In this talk, José A. de la Garza Valenzuela (Assistant Professor in the Department of Latina/o Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) traces the legal and literary histories of the new legal grammars of U.S Citizenship in an introduction to his recently published book, Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions. Analyzing a legal corpus narrowly codifying sex and gender against a gay Chicanx literary tradition challenging the terms on which queer and Chicanx political movements sought what he terms “brown citizenship,” Dr. de la Garza Valenzuela interrogates the “lawful fictions” through which we have and continue to understand being a citizen at each other’s expense.

🦋 This program is part of the Gender and Sexuality Center’s “Queer and Trans Latine Liberation” Theme in honor of the UIC Latino Cultural Center’s 50th Anniversary.

🫂 The UIC Richard J. Daley Library is wheelchair accessible.
For accommodations or questions, please email: lgbtqa@uic.edu

📣 Co-sponsored by @uic_cada, @uicgws, @uichumanities, @lalsatuic, Queer & Trans Studies Working Group, and the @uiclcc. taken in Richard J. Daley Library, UIC by @uichumanities

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Join us for the Humanities and Cultural Crawl at the BSB, tomorrow 9/30 from 12PM to 2PM !! See you there! taken in UIC Behavioral Sciences Building by @uichumanities

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Join us for our Faculty Fellow Lecture Series on Tuesday, October 6, from 4:00-5:30PM!

Francesco Marullo is Associate Professor at the UIC School of Architecture. His research interrogates the relations between space, labor, and production through the multiple forms of the architectural project—from words to drawings, from abstraction to construction.

Not all architecture wants us to feel at home. Marullo’s lecture asks when making domestic intimacy strange can produce critical distance—and when it merely entertains. It begins with a 1931 conversation between Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin about dwelling after the bourgeois interior. Benjamin found an answer in traceless surfaces of glass and steel, and the tabula rasa of the concrete frame. Brecht turned to the nomadic guest, whose presence unsettles habitual relations to objects and space. Following Brecht’s theatrical method of estrangement, the lecture moves to Chicago, the distant metropolis where his plays exposed capitalism’s effects on everyday life. There, the steel frame converted openness into speculation, experimental glass houses marketed mobility, and residential hotels organized transient dwelling within fireproof concrete structures. These architectures define estrangement not as novelty or discomfort, but as a project of distance: making the spatial and economic conventions of dwelling perceptible, questionable, and open to transformation.

Contact huminst@uic.edu to request accessibility accommodations.

Image credit: Bertolt Brecht, “Im Dickicht der Städte,” cover of the first edition, 1927. © Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin. Courtesy of the Bertolt Brecht Archiv. Flyer for the Faculty Fellow Lecture Series. Francesco Marullo, Associate Professor, School of Architecture. Making a Little Go a Long Way: The Architecture of Estrangement. October 6, 2026. 4:00-5:30PM. Institute for the Humanities, Behavioral Sciences Building, 1007 W. Harrison St., Ste 153. The cover of Bertolt Brecht’s book, Im Dickicht der Städte, which features various city buildings in black and white. by @uichumanities

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El prox jueves! Next week! by @uichumanities

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We’re bringing the lively debate about the Odyssey – the book AND Nolan’s film adaptation – to campus. A panel including scholars of race in the ancient Mediterranean, Greek myth in modern popular culture, Renaissance narrative, and Nolan’s filmography, will open with a discussion of the film’s choices and its impact on modern popular culture. Come join the conversation!

Featuring:
Najee Olya, Classical Studies, College of William and Mary (and UIC alumnus!)
Nick Davis, English, Northwestern University
Krishni Burns, Classics and Mediterranean Studies, UIC
Raphael Magarik, English, UIC

Co-sponsored by the UIC Institute for the Humanities, Departments of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, Black Studies, and Moving Image Arts.

Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 3:30-5:00PM at the Institute for the Humanities Flyer for “Let’s Talk About The Odyssey!” September 22, 2026, 3:30-5:00PM. Institute for the Humanities, Behavioral Sciences Building, 1007 W. Harrison St., Ste 153. Website: go.uic.edu/TheOdyssey. Contact: huminst@uic.edu. A fragment of a Grecian urn in the silhouette of a horse. by @uichumanities

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