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Events for December 2012

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  1. Week of December 2, 2012

    1. Monday, December 3, 2012

      1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFlorencia Henshaw, UIUC
        SIP Colloquium -- Florencia Henshaw, UIUC: "Catch my Errors if you Can: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Peer Editing in the Foreign Language Classroom"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

    2. Tuesday, December 4, 2012

      1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmProf. Stefanos Katsikas
        MODERN GREEK STUDIES -- Prof. Stefanos Katsikas: "Islam and the Shariah Law in the Making of Modern Greece (1832-1923"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
      2. 5:00 pmHamza Mahmood, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University
        RELIGION -- Hamza Mahmood, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University: "Communal Ideology and Genealogy in the Quran"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

    3. Wednesday, December 5, 2012

      1. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
        2050 Foreign Languages Building
      2. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRussian Conversation Table
        Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union
      3. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmLinguistics Languages Program Film Series -- "El Greco" (Greece, 2007)
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

    4. Thursday, December 6, 2012

      1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPhD candidate Adriana Molina Munoz
        Linguistics Seminar Series -- Ph.D. candidate Adriana Molina Munoz: "PF-Compounds in Sanskrit and the Architecture of Grammar"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
      2. 5:00 pmShankar Nair, PhD candidate, Harvard University
        RELIGION -- Shankar Nair, PhD candidate, Harvard University: "Sufism as Medium and Method of Translation'Mughal Translations of Hindu Texts Reconsidered"
        Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
      3. 5:00 pmCristina Vatulescu, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
        SLAVIC -- Cristina Vatulescu, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University: "A Secret Police Cinematic Ars Poetica: Reenactment (1960) and its Files"
        1060 Lincoln Hall, 702 South Wright Street, Urbana

    5. Friday, December 7, 2012

      1. 2:00 pmCraig Williams, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
        CLASSIC -- (RESCHEDULED) Craig Williams, Brooklyn College (CUNY): "Animals, Love, and Kinship: Some Greco-Roman and Native American Narratives"
        Levis Center, Music Room 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
      2. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
        Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)

  2. Week of December 9, 2012

    1. Monday, December 10, 2012

      1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmAlina Khasanova, Ph.D. candidate
        Linguistics Seminar -- Alina Khasanova, Ph.D. candidate: "Invariance in speech through acoustic cue co-variation in American English stops"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

    2. Wednesday, December 12, 2012

      1. 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmLINGUISTICS - Annual Holiday Celebration
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

    3. Thursday, December 13, 2012

      1. 2:00 pmDeborah Boedeker, Brown University
        CLASSICS -- Deborah Boedeker, Brown University: "Overhead Iambics: Listening to Hipponax"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge (1080 Foreign Languages Building)
      2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmModern Greek Studies'Conversation Table in Modern Greek
        Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
      3. 5:00 pmRana Makati, University of Oregon, and Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago
        RELIGION--Rana Makati, University of Oregon, and Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago: "Saints, Scholars and the Frontier: the Creation of an Islamic Sacred Landscape"
        Reading Room, 1st floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

    4. Friday, December 14, 2012

      1. 2:00 pmDaniel Abosso, U. of I.
        CLASSICS -- Daniel Abosso, U. of I.: "Reading 'Genesis' with Claudius Marius Victor'"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana
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