2015-09-23 - A wonderful collaboration took place on September 21, 2015, at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign-Urbana.  The UIUC Program in Jewish Culture and Society teamed up with the Krannert Art Museum (and benefactor Lorelei Rosenthal) to screen the dramatic, at times funny but always poignant, Jewish-themed 2015 BBC...

2015-08-20 - We are delighted to announce that Sayed Kashua, an Israeli writer of Palestinian descent and a singular presence in the world of literature and culture has agreed to stay at the University of Illinois for three more years as a visiting clinical professor. Sayed has been in residence this academic year thanks to the generous support of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and we are very...

2012-09-06 - Historians have long been interested in patterns of human movement. Throughout history, people have had to move to survive, either through regular circuits that bring them to communities and resources or through occasional, long-distance migrations, in search of new ways of life. "Russia in Motion: Cultures of Human Mobility Since 1850", edited by two Illinois professors, explores human mobility...