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SPANISH, ITALIAN AND PORTUGUESE; LINGUISTICS -- Maria Biezma, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "Hidden conditionals in Spanish"
Feb 11, 2010 | 4:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES -- Russian Table (every Thursday during spring semester)
Feb 11, 2010 - Apr 29, 2010 | 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)

COMPARATIVE AND WORLD LITERATURE -- Janet Wasko, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon: "The Death of Hollywood"
Feb 12, 2010 | 4:00 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table (Spring Semester on Fridays: Feb.12, 19, 26, March 5, 12, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30)
Feb 12, 2010 - Apr 30, 2010 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi San)

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table (Spring Semester: Feb. 16, 22; March 1, 9, 15, 30; April 5, 13, 19, 27; May 3)
Feb 16, 2010 - May 3, 2010 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
EALC Library, 2050 Foreign Languages Building

LINGUISTICS -- Modern Greek Conversation Table "Logos" (every second Tuesday during spring semester)
Feb 16, 2010 - Apr 27, 2010 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)

CENTER FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES; SCHOOL OF LITERATURES, CULTURES AND LINGUISTICS -- Workshop by Lynn Visson, retired UN staff interpreter: "Terminology and Procedures"
Feb 19, 2010 - Feb 21, 2010
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

SCHOOL OF LITERATURES, CULTURES AND LINGUISTICS; COMPARATIVE AND WORLD LITERATURE; SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES; SPANISH, ITALIAN & PORTUGUESE -- "Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s"
Feb 19, 2010 | 9:30 am - 6:15 pm
Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

CLASSICS -- Professor David Konstan, Department of the Classics, Brown University: "Before Forgiveness: Classical Antiquity, Early Christianity... and Beyond"
Feb 19, 2010 | 2:00 pm
Music Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

CENTER FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES; SCHOOL OF LITERATURES, CULTURES AND LINGUISTICS -- Lynn Visson, retired UN staff interpreter: "The Work and Life of a Conference Interpreter at the UN"
Feb 19, 2010 | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

SPANISH, ITALIAN & PORTUGUESE -- SIP Professional Workshop on Graduate Student Publishing, Part I (Part II to be held on March 1)
Feb 22, 2010 | 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

FRENCH -- Philippe Forest, author: "Dix propositions pour en finir avec l'autofiction"
Feb 23, 2010 | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
2090B Foreign Languages Building

SLATE -- SLATE LECTURE SERIES 2009-2010 - Professor Mabel L. Rice, Child Language Doctoral Program. University of Kansas: "Childrens second language acquisition with or without language impairments: Strengths, limitations, and developmental trajectories"
Feb 25, 2010 | 5:30 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

Slavic Graduate Student Association -- First Annual Graduate Student Conference
Feb 27, 2010 | 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

SPANISH, ITALIAN & PORTUGUESE -- SIP Professional Workshop on Graduate Student Publishing (Part II)
Mar 1, 2010 | 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES -- FG Lecture - Barbara Hahn (Vanderbilt University) : "Kafka's Wife and the Children of Bruno Schulz"
Mar 2, 2010 | 4:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

CLASSICS -- Shannan Stewart, Department of the Classics, UIUC: "Hellenization: an Archaeological Giraffe's Neck"
Mar 7, 2010 | 3:00 pm
62 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody, Champaign

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES; RELIGION; SCHOOL OF LITERATURES, CULTURES AND LINGUISTICS-- International Symposium: "Rethinking the Boundaries Between Religion and Culture in Premodern Japan: Religious Practitioners, Aristocrats, and the Transformation of Japanese Literatures"
Mar 18, 2010 - Mar 19, 2010
Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

CLASSICS -- Stephen Harrison, "Ovid's Poetic Career"
Mar 18, 2010 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES -- "Representing Transnationalism: Germanic Languages and Cultures in Global Perspective"
Mar 29, 2010
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EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Lecture by Professor Edward Rhoads: "The Chinese educational mission to the U.S."
Apr 7, 2010 | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

RELIGION -- Marjorie Hall Thulin Lecture on Religion and Contemporary Culture - Dr. Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford: "How an Adequate Notion of Human Flourishing Challenges Economics"
Apr 7, 2010 | 8:00 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

CLASSICS -- Professor Nancy T. de Grummond, Classics, Florida State University: "How to Bury a Scythian King"
Apr 11, 2010 | 3:00 pm
62 Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody, Champaign

COMPARATIVE AND WORLD LITERATURE; SCHOOL OF LITERATURES, CULTURES AND LINGUISTICS; SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES -- CAS/MillerComm2010 Lecture, by Stig Fredrikson, Foreign News Commentator, Aktuellt News Program, Swedish Television: "From Our Correspondent in Moscow: Reporting on Solzhenitsyn, the Kremlin and the KGB"
Apr 15, 2010 | 4:00 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana

RELIGION -- International Symposium on Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others
Apr 16, 2010 - Apr 17, 2010
I-Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign

FRENCH -- Department of French Awards Ceremony
Apr 16, 2010 | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Colonial Room, Illini Union

CLASSICS -- International Conference on "Religion and Ritual in Flavian Epic"
Apr 23, 2010 - Apr 25, 2010
Room 209, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana

RELIGION -- Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy and Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University: "A Hindu Perspective on Religious Diversity and on the Metaphysics of the Self"
Apr 27, 2010 | 4:00 pm
2090B Foreign Languages Building

RELIGION -- Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi, Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy and Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University: "Reading ecological responses through religious traditions: challenges"
Apr 28, 2010 | 4:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

RELIGION -- Work in Progress Series talk by Professor Andy Orta, UIUC Department of Anthropology: "Vulgar citizenship: local Christianity and the repertoires of neoliberalism"
Apr 30, 2010 | 12:00 pm
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

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