Week of  , to  ,

1. Friday, April 27, 2012

   1. 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)
   2. All DayChristie Clinic Illinois Marathon
   3. 8:30 amGrad College deadline for MS thesis deposit for May Graduation
   4. 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)
   5. 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
   6. 7:30 pmParadises Lost
      Krannert Center, Tryon Festival Theatre
   7. 7:30 pmPilobolus
      Krannert Center, Colwell Playhouse
   8. 7:30 pmUI Concert Jazz Band
      Krannert Center, Studio Theatre