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Events for April 2012

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  1. Week of April 1, 2012

    1. Tuesday, April 3, 2012

      1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmShikha Lakhanpal, PhD Student, Department of Geography
        Landscape of Renewable Energy in India
        Lucy Ellis Lounge: Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana
      2. 4:00 pmSpeaker: Professor Bo Lawergren; Performing Artist: Tomoko Sugawara
        CAS/MillerComm 2012 The Eurasian Angular Harp: Crossing Cultures Ancient to Modern
        Knight Auditorium; Spurlock Museum; 600 S. Gregory; Urbana, IL 61801 (UIUC)
      3. 4:00 pmBo Lawergren Professor Emeritus of Physics, Hunter College; Tomoko Sugawara Performing Artist
        The Eurasian Angular Harp: Crossing Cultures Andcient to Modern
        Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street; Urbana

    2. Thursday, April 5, 2012

      1. All DayConference: The Presence of 'America' in India: Where and How Does 'America' Appear and What Are The Effects?
        TBA

    3. Friday, April 6, 2012

      1. All DayConference: The Presence of 'America' in India: Where and How Does 'America' Appear and What Are The Effects?
        TBA
      2. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmSymposium: Heritage, Community, and Landscape Conservation in India
        The Gallery, Temple Buell Hall, 611 Loredo Taft Drive Champaign
      3. 7:00 pmRahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University
        India Studies Lecture- "Backwards into the Future: Reflections on Conservation in India"
        Plym Auditoirum, Temple Buell Hall, 611 Loredo Taft Drive Champaign,

    4. Saturday, April 7, 2012

      1. All DayConference: The Presence of 'America' in India: Where and How Does 'America' Appear and What Are The Effects?
        TBA

  2. Week of April 8, 2012

    1. Sunday, April 8, 2012

      1. All DayConference: The Presence of 'America' in India: Where and How Does 'America' Appear and What Are The Effects?
        TBA

    2. Monday, April 9, 2012

      1. 3:00 pmProfessors Scott Althaus, TImur Kuran, Milan Svolik, Jose Cheibub, and Hadi Esfahani
        2012 Cline Symposium: Looking Back at the Arab Spring, Why it Happened, Why it Matters Today, and What's Coming Next
        119 Material Science Engineering Building, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Campus
      2. 7:30 pmKeynote Speaker: Professor Timur Kuran
        2012 Cline Symposium: Religious Obstacles to Democratization in the Middle East: Past and Present
        Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Campus

    3. Tuesday, April 10, 2012

      1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPrasanta Kalita, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
        CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture
      2. 1:30 pmBeyazit Akman, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Illinois State University
        Ottomanism, Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism:The Image of the Ottoman Turks and Islam in the Western Discourse from Late Renaissance to the Post-9/11 Era
        Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB, Urbana

  3. Week of April 15, 2012

    1. Tuesday, April 17, 2012

      1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDavid O'Brien, Associate Professor, Art History Program
        "Eugene Delacroix's Changing Vision of North Africa"
        Lucy Ellis Lounge: Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana

    2. Thursday, April 19, 2012

      1.  See links above.
        "The Nongovernmental Impulse: Negotiating Theory and Practice in the Global Governance of Care"
        Levis Faculty Center; 919 W. Illinois St.; Urbana

    3. Friday, April 20, 2012

      1.  See links above.
        "The Nongovernmental Impulse: Negotiating Theory and Practice in the Global Governance of Care"
        Levis Faculty Center; 919 W. Illinois St.; Urbana

    4. Saturday, April 21, 2012

      1. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmAngela Williams
        Middle East Story Time
        Megan's Reading Room; Urbana Free Library; 210 W. Green St.,; Urbana, IL

  4. Week of April 22, 2012

    1. Tuesday, April 24, 2012

      1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Pantelis Lekkas
        Nationalism qua Modernization: The Greek War of Independence
        Lucy Ellis Lounge (FLB 1080)

    2. Thursday, April 26, 2012

      1.  Bonnie Honig; Eyal Weizman; Saba Mahmood
        Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, and the Coming of "Spring"
        I Hotel & Conference Center; 1900 S.First Street; Champaign, Illinois
      2. 12:00 pmProfessor David Haberman, Indiana University
        "Faces on the Trees: Exploring the Environmental Implications of Tree Worship in India"
        213 Gregory Hall

    3. Friday, April 27, 2012

      1.  Bonnie Honig; Eyal Weizman; Saba Mahmood
        Beyond Utopia? Art, Theory, and the Coming of "Spring"
        I Hotel & Conference Center; 1900 S.First Street; Champaign, Illinois
      2. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmTurkish Studies Symposium: "Turkish Transnational Television -- Reshaping of Diaspora Identities in Europe and the Rise of a Regional Cultural Hegemon"

  5. Week of April 29, 2012

    1. Monday, April 30, 2012

      1. 7:00 pmPersian Cultural Association presents "A Separation"
        Animal Sciences Lab; Room 150; 1207 West Gregory Drive: Urbana, IL 61801