Week of  , to  ,

1. Friday, April 27, 2012

   1.  Bonnie Honig; Eyal Weizman; Saba Mahmood
      Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, and the Coming of "Spring"
      I Hotel & Conference Center; 1900 S.First Street; Champaign, Illinois
   2. All Day

      Ambassador to the United States Marina Kaljurand (Estonia)

      Ambassador to the United States Zygimantas Pavilionis (Lithuania)

      Ambassador to the United States Andrejs Pildegovics (Latvia)

      Benjamin Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Speechwriting to the President of the USA

      Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, The White House

      Dick Durbin, U.S. Senator from the State of Illinois

      Vjaceslavs Dombrovskis, Member of Latvia’s Parliament

      
      The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty Years
      

      750 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL (map of conference sites)
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Michael T. Green
      Biochemistry Seminar: Dr. Michael T. Green, Penn State University, "Understanding C-H bond activation in heme proteins: the role of thiolate ligation in cytochrome P450"
      B102 CLSL
   4. 12:00 pmIan Dobbins, Washington University in St. Louis
      Cognitive brownbag: Ian Dobbins, Washington University in St. Louis
      819 Psychology
   5. 1:30 pmFirst Year Graduate Student Presentations
      Developmental Brown Bag -- First Year Graduate Student Presentations
      819 Psychology
   6. 2:00 pmAmy Oh
      CLASSICS - Amy Oh, "Vigilantius and Jerome"
      Room 4080A, Foreign Languages Building
   7. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmTurkish Studies Symposium: "Turkish Transnational Television -- Reshaping of Diaspora Identities in Europe and the Rise of a Regional Cultural Hegemon"
   8. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

      Omar Al-Ghazzi, University of Pennsylvania
      Beyazit Akman, Illinois State University – Dept. of English
      Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics — Communications Dept.
      Dima Issa, University of Balamand
      
      

      
      Turkish Studies Symposium: Turkish Transnational Television - Reshaping of Diaspora Identities in Europe and the Rise of a Regional Cultural Hegemon
      

      Music Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (map)
   9. 2:30 pm - 4:00 pmBrian Quick, Faculty Member, Department of Communication
      Dept of Communication Colloquium Series-Brian Quick
      Music Room Levis Faculty Center
   10. 3:00 pmDonald Sawyer, Visiting Lemann Professor at Harvard
       Lecture: Saving South America's Ecosystem Functions
       101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   11. 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmEconometrics Seminar-Daniel Wilhelm (Chicago Booth)
       215 David Kinley Hall
   12. 4:00 pm   Analytical Chemistry SeminarDr. Bryan Pivovar, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, "The Use of Extended Surface Catalysts in Fuel Cells"
       116 RAL
   13. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmKorean Conversation Table
       Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi San)