Richard Akresh

Laura Rosulek, University of Montana

Professor Prabal Dutta - Univ. of Michigan

Steven Zipperstein

Shikha Lakhanpal, PhD Student, Department of Geography

Rahul Keswani

Ashlee Nicole Ford Versypt

Craig Brabec, Analytics Division Manager, Caterpillar

Stella Offner

Speaker: Professor Bo Lawergren; Performing Artist: Tomoko Sugawara

Bo Lawergren Professor Emeritus of Physics, Hunter College; Tomoko Sugawara Performing Artist

Mindy Jensen, University of Illinois

Frank C. Keil -- Yale University

Prof. Angela Creese, Educational Linguistics and Deputy Director of MOSAIC Centre for Multilingualism, University of Birmingham, UK

Halleh Ghorashi, PaVEM Chair in Management of Diversity and Integration, Department of Organization Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Nioka Chisholm

Adam S. Hollinger

Ms. Amy Larson

Carolina Sternberg, Ph.D. Candidate. Department of Geography

Walter Melbane

Thomas Easton, the Asia business editor of The Economist

Hongyu Zhao, Yale University

Deborah Poole, Anthropology, John Hopkins University

Professor Maria Polinsky, Harvard University

Dr. Avital Tidhar, Israel Institute for Biological Research

Jeff Karpicke, Purdue University

Donna Buchanan, Associate Professor of Musicology, UIUC

Alejandro Lleras (University of Illinois)

Ryan McConnell, UIUC

Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University

Aminda O'Hare, University of Illinois

F. Daniel Hidalgo

Eleni Manolaraki, Assistant Professor of Classics, Department of World Languages, University of South Florida

Professors Scott Althaus, TImur Kuran, Milan Svolik, Jose Cheibub, and Hadi Esfahani

Prof. Sylvie Garneau-Tsodekova, University of Michigan

Keynote Speaker: Professor Timur Kuran

Professor Timur Kuran

Prasanta Kalita, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Beyazit Akman, Department of English, Illinois State University

Beyazit Akman, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Illinois State University

Jason R. Finley

Alyson Brooks

Laila Amine, Postdoctoral Research Associate, African-American Studies

Laila Amine, Postdoctoral Research Associate, African-American Studies, U. of I.

Angela Walden/Emily Dworkin

Angela Walden/Emily Dworkin

Mary Wolters

Simona Buetti, University of Illinois

Professor Joanna Hearne, University of Missouri, Department of English

Angela Walden/Emily Dworkin

Ms. Caitlin Deane

Kate Grim-Feinberg, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology

Dr. Douglas Weibel

Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University

Dr. Ken Jarrell, Queen's University

Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau

Professor Martin Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, "'Because I Am a Citizen': Religion and the Common Good in Today's America"

Robert Norton (University of Notre Dame) Brigitta Wagner (Indiana University) Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois) Stephanie Hilger (University of Illinois) Brad Prager (University of Missouri) Ben Robinson (Indiana University) Stefani Engelstein (University of Missouri) Sara Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago).A number of guest discussants from each institution and from other universities (including Washington University, Case Western Reserve, and the University of Illinois-Chicago) also will attend.

Dr. Eduardo Perozo

Audrey Kittredge, University of Illinois

LAURA MATTHEW, Assistant Professor of History, Marquette University

Laura Matthew, Assistant Professor of History, Marquette University

Elizabeth Frankenberg, Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Duke University

Amanda Rose (University of Missouri)

Adrian Favell, Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris

Dr. Maria Xanthou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

David Prytherch, Miami University, Oxford, OhioJosep Vicent Boira, Universitat de Valncia, Valncia, Spain

Xiaoming Xi, Educational Testing Service

Robert Norton (University of Notre Dame) Brigitta Wagner (Indiana University) Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois) Stephanie Hilger (University of Illinois) Brad Prager (University of Missouri) Ben Robinson (Indiana University) Stefani Engelstein (University of Missouri) Sara Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago).A number of guest discussants from each institution and from other universities (including Washington University, Case Western Reserve, and the University of Illinois-Chicago) also will attend.

Jason Coronel, University of Illinois

Rosario Aguilar-Pariente

Yael Zerubavel

David O'Brien, Associate Professor, Art History Program

Olena Zhylinkova

Prof. W. Mark Saltzman, Yale University

Mary Wolters

Alejandro Lleras, University of Illinois

Alejandro Lleras

Dr. Renan Goetz, Professor of Economics, Universitat de Girona, Spain

Professor Haris Vikalo-Univ. of Texas at Austin

See links above.

Rosario Montoya

Yaejoon Kwon

Dr. Max Dow, University College Cork

Tong Zhang, Rutgers

Dr. Joanne Chory

Andrei Levkin

Professor Adrienne Lo, U of I Anthropology

See links above.

Dr. Roger Beachy

Wookyoung Jung, University of Illinois

Joe Robinson (Educational Psychology Department, University of Illinois)

Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania

Angela Williams

Professor Susan Rotroff, Washington University

Brion Woroch, University of Illinois

Dr. Tadhg Begley

Zhou Chunya, artist

Scott Althaus and Xinyuan Dai

Pantelis Lekkas (Onassis Foundation Senior Visiting Scholar & Associate Professor of Political Science, Panteion University)

Dr. Pantelis Lekkas

Prof. Ian Fleming

Mary Wolters

Richard Yao, University of Illinois

Matthew Burk

Professor Saswati Sarkar - University of Pennsylvania

Her Excellency, Marina Kaljurand, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Estonia to the United States

Jim Tusty, Producer of The Singing Revolution Carol Leff, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Bonnie Honig; Eyal Weizman; Saba Mahmood

Ambassador to the United States Marina Kaljurand (Estonia)Ambassador to the United States 'ygimantas Pavilionis (Lithuania)Ambassador to the United States Andrejs Pildegovi?s (Latvia)Benjamin Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Speechwriting to the President of the USAElizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, The White HouseDick Durbin, U.S. Senator from the State of IllinoisVja?eslavs Dombrovskis, Member of Latvia's Parliament

Professor David Haberman, Indiana University

David Haberman, Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University and Interim Head of the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana

Thomas Swensen, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in American Indian Studies

Dr. Phil Kym

Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University

Professor Makoto Fujita

Dr. Usha Goswami -- Cambridge University, England

Dr. Kenneth Nealson, University of Southern California

Bonnie Honig; Eyal Weizman; Saba Mahmood

Ambassador to the United States Marina Kaljurand (Estonia)Ambassador to the United States 'ygimantas Pavilionis (Lithuania)Ambassador to the United States Andrejs Pildegovi?s (Latvia)Benjamin Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Speechwriting to the President of the USAElizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, The White HouseDick Durbin, U.S. Senator from the State of IllinoisVja?eslavs Dombrovskis, Member of Latvia's Parliament

Dr. Michael T. Green

Ian Dobbins, Washington University in St. Louis

First Year Graduate Student Presentations

Amy Oh

Omar Al-Ghazzi,University of Pennsylvania Beyazit Akman, Illinois State University ' Dept. of English MyriaGeorgiou,London School of Economics ' Communications Dept. Dima Issa, University of Balamand

Brian Quick, Faculty Member, Department of Communication

Donald Sawyer, Visiting Lemann Professor at Harvard

Ambassador to the United States Marina Kaljurand (Estonia)Ambassador to the United States 'ygimantas Pavilionis (Lithuania)Ambassador to the United States Andrejs Pildegovi?s (Latvia)Benjamin Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, Speechwriting to the President of the USAElizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, The White HouseDick Durbin, U.S. Senator from the State of IllinoisVja?eslavs Dombrovskis, Member of Latvia's Parliament

Chih-Mao Huang

Psych 494 Students' Presentations

Jorge Bravo

Manuel Glave, GRADE, Peru

John Tobin

Naomi Nagy, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto

Mary Wolters

Farzad Farnoud (Hassanzadeh) - UIUC

Lourdes Onederra, Writer (Universidad del Pais Vasco/Real Academia de la Lengua Vasca)

Invited speakers: Prof. Mirjam Broersma (Max Planck Institute) and Prof. Jerry Packard (U of I Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Dr. Michael McInerney, Oklahoma University

Gary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University

Gary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University

Mona Taylor

Dr. Ella Chan