Week of  , to  ,

1. Friday, November 2, 2012

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   3.  Dr. Caren Kaplan, Professor of American Studies and, affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Cinema & Technocultural Studies at the University of California at Davis
      "Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of 'Genuine Knowledge'"
      TBA
   4. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   5. All DayKeynote speakers: Reem Bassiouney, Associate Prof of Arabic Linguistics, Georgetown University; Professor Abbas Benmamoun, UIUC; Usama Soltan, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Middlebury
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics
      Friday, Nov. 2 - Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana; Saturday, Nov. 3, Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   6. All DayDrs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics (ISSL)
   7. 9:00 amDr. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University
      Lecture: 'Religion and Identity in Egyptian Public Discourse'
      Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room; 919 W. Illinois St.
   8. 12:00 pm

      Glenda Garelli, Adjunct Lecturer of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago

      
      EUC Lecture Series: The Mobility of Politics: A Tunisian Revolution in the European Union. Three Mediterranean Postcards
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   9. 12:00 pmClaudia Lennhoff, Executive Director of Champaign County Healthcare Consumers
      Friday Forum: The Future of the Universal Healthcare Debate
      Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign
   10. 2:00 pmCENTER FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES -- Blood of the Sun: Reading and Conversation with Salgado Maranhao and Alexis Levitin
       Literatures and Languages Library, 200 South Main Library
   11. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmProfessor Young Keun Ko (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University)
       LINGUISTICS--Professor Young Keun Ko (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University): "Standardization of the Korean language and writing system: A proposal for North-east Asian language-culture union"
       4080A Foreign Languages Building
   12. 7:00 pmTzu Ching Potluck
       Lounge & Kitchen