Jean-Philippe Mathy, Department of French, UIUC Marcus Keller, Department of French, UIUC Emanuel Rota, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, UIUC

Professor Khaled Adham, Department of Architectural Engineering, United Arab Emirates University

Clarence (Chip) Sheffield, History of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology

Pat Mora

John Troutman, Louisiana State University, Lafayette

University of Illinois professors Ted Underwood, Diane Harris, Donna Cox, and Mara Wade

Jerry Davila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History

Professor Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University

Michael Rothberg (Illinois), Brett Kaplan (Illinois), Judith Halberstam (USC), Marianne Hirsch (Columbia) and Karen Engle (UT Austin)

Plenary talk: Paula Winke, Michigan State University, and current President of MwALT: "Issues in large-scale placement testing: Why placement tests often just don't work and why more innovative tests seem so scary"

Katerina Linos, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley

Plenary talk: Paula Winke, Michigan State University, and current President of MwALT: "Issues in large-scale placement testing: Why placement tests often just don't work and why more innovative tests seem so scary"

Professor Marilyn O'Hara Ruiz, Department of Pathobiology Director, GIS and Spatial Analysis Laboratory

Argelina Fuigueiredo. Professora do Instituto de Estudios Sociais e Politicos da Universidades Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (IESP_UERJ)

Lori Bier

Prof. Susan Garnsey, UIUC Psychology

Carol Zemel

Political Pundit Paul Green

John J. Dobbins, University of Virginia

Pushpendra Rana, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography

Graham Paul (Consul General, France) and Christian Brecht (Consul General, Germany)

Carlos Azzoni. Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting. University of Sao Paulo. Lemann Distinguished Visitor Fall12

Dr. Kristina Hagstrom Stahl, Stockholm National School of Dramatic Arts

Dr. Stefanos Katsikas (Director MGS UIUC) and Joo Vale de Almeida the European Union Ambassador to the United States (joining by phone at approximately 10:30)

Professor Ryan Shosted

Michael Schreffler, Chair and Associate Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University

Speakers Bio

Keynote lecture at 9:15 a.m., by Javier Moscoso, Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), "Broken Promises: Resentment, Monomania and Modernity"

Professor Elisabeth Waghall Nivre, Stockholm University

Elisabeth Wghll Nivre, Stockholm University

Professor Petra Kuppinger, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Monmouth College

Petra Kuppinger, Sociology/Anthropology, Monmouth College

Joseph Love, Professor Emeritus, History. Former director Lemann Institute

Professor Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town

Teresa Serra, Researcher at the Center for Agro-Food Economy and Development

Dr. Sandra Ruiz

David Mares, Institute of the Americas Chair for Inter-American Affairs. Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Professor, Political Science, University of California, San Diego

Prof. Andrew Wedel, University of Arizona

Professor Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis

Johnpaul Jones, FAIA

Professor Elabbas Benmamoun, Director, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics; Professor, Department of Linguistics

Lilya Kaganovsky, Associate Professor in Comparative & World Literature at Illinois

Sibelan Forrester

Sibelan Forrester, Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Swarthmore College

Eric J. Garcia

Eszter Szalczer, Department of Theatre and English,University at Albany

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

Keynote speakers: Reem Bassiouney, Associate Prof of Arabic Linguistics, Georgetown University; Professor Abbas Benmamoun, UIUC; Usama Soltan, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Middlebury

Drs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College

Dr. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University

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

Professor Young Keun Ko (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University)

Keynote speakers: Reem Bassiouney, Associate Prof of Arabic Linguistics, Georgetown University; Professor Abbas Benmamoun, UIUC; Usama Soltan, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Middlebury

Drs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College