http://illinois.edu/calendar/list/2806 A list of events hosted or sponsored by the campus-wide initiative "Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices." http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28562123 Workshop http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28562123 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT The Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia is open to all scholars with research interests in the Russian, East European and Eurasian region for eight weeks during the summer months from June 10 until August 2. The SRL provides scholars access to the resources of the University of Illinois Slavic collection within a flexible time frame where scholars have the opportunity to seek advice and research support from the librarians of the Slavic Reference Service (SRS). http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28624464 Institute http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28624464 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT Languages taught include Arabic, Pashto, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, and Wolof. To learn more about SILMW: http://silmw.linguistics.uiuc.edu http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28555094 other http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28555094 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:30:00 CDT The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies , Center for African Studies, CIBER, Center for Global Studies, European Union Center and REEEC is pleased to host the 5th Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World in summer 2013 (June 10 - August 3, 2013). SILMW 2013 is offering intensive courses in a variety of Muslim world languages, including Arabic, Pashto, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, and Wolof. http://silmw.linguistics.illinois.edu/ http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/27548115 Special Event http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/27548115 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:00:00 CDT The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies , Center for African Studies, CIBER, Center for Global Studies, European Union Center and REEEC is pleased to host the 5th Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World in summer 2013 (June 10 - August 3, 2013). SILMW 2013 is offering intensive courses in a variety of Muslim world languages, including Arabic, Pashto, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, and Wolof. SILMW provides a unique opportunity to explore the languages and cultures of the Muslim World and interact with experts in this region. In addition to classroom instruction, SILMW will offer a variety of extracurricular activities designed to enhance classroom instruction, provide additional channels for language contact and practice, and expose learners to the traditions of the Muslim World communities. These extracurricular activities include research forums, picnics, conversation tables, cooking classes, music & dance performances, movie screenings, field trips, lectures and other cultural activities. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/29042494 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/29042494 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:00:00 CDT Professor Retish is the author of Russia''s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922 (Cambridge UP, 2008) and co-editor of the journal Revolutionary Russia. In this lecture he will draw on his current book project funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, American Philosophical Foundation and NCEEER. Tentatively entitled ''In the Courts of Revolution: Vengeance, Legality, and Citizenship in the Rural Soviet Courtroom, 1917-1939,'' this research examines how rural Soviet citizens engaged local legal organs, such as the people''s courts, from the 1917 Communist revolution until the eve of World War II to reveal a vibrant legal culture among Soviet peasants. Professor Retish will pursue this research during his stay at SRL. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/27516233 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/27516233 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:30:00 CDT Have fun with karaoke and board games http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/29042495 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/29042495 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:00:00 CDT In most histories of the Soviet Union the story of the Gulag ends shortly after Stalin''s death. Yet the legacies of the Gulag in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union endured, being particularly vivid and problematic in the Arctic city of Vorkuta, built in the 1930s and 1940s by prisoners in one of the Soviet Union''s largest and most notorious prison camp complexes. This talk, taken from Alan Barenberg''s forthcoming book, Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta (Yale UP, 2014) will examine how the Gulag shaped life in the Soviet Union after Stalin''s death. Professor Barenberg''s current research interests include the comparative history of forced labor and the economic integration of Central Asia into the Russian/Soviet empires. He participates at SRL with a new project tentatively entitled ''Empire of Cotton: Cotton as an Imperial Commodity in Late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.'' http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/27293611 Outreach http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/27293611 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 14:30:00 CDT The Spanish Story Time program consists of storytelling, live music and art. It is presented bilingually in Spanish/English. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28616837 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28616837 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:30:00 CDT Once again, the Goethe-Institut Chicago, in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank and the French Consulate, is organizing a conference about current trends and issues pertaining to European and German economics. This year''s conference will take place from July 17 '' 19, 2013 at the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago. The event is made possible by a generous grant from the Federal Republic of Germany. This international conference will bring together world class academics, economic experts and diplomatic representatives to discuss the current economic situation in Europe, its global ramifications, and possible solutions to critical issues. Among the speakers are Dr. Henning Meyer (LSE), Professor Mark Blyth (Brown University), and Valerie Rouxel-Laxton, (EEAS Washington), just to name a few. The goal of the conference is to provide vital background information to American teachers of French, German, Social Studies, and Economics so that they are well prepared to explain the European phenomenon to their students. Registration ends on June 28, 2013.The full program and registration is available here. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28616838 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28616838 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:00:00 CDT http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28616839 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28616839 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:30:00 CDT http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28561706 study abroad http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28561706 Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:00:00 CDT Interested in studying abroad? Stop by the Study Abroad Fair!Learn about study abroad programs located around the world and take a peek at your options to study during the winter, summer, semester, and academic year terms. Information on financial aid and the many study abroad scholarships that are offered will be available too. Studying abroad is an opportunity to everyone, despite your major, financial or ethnic background, or future career. Find our how it can fit into who YOU are at the fair!See you there!www.studyabroad.illinois.edu http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/29046589 conference http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/29046589 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:30:00 CDT Information Technology and Africa: Practices, Potentials and Challenges" will feature leading figures in online education from the continent: Atieno Adala African Virtual University, a large scale provider of online math and engineering programs; Yetunde Folajimi, from Ibadan University, a computer scientist who specialized in creating games for development education; and Laura Czerniewicz, University of Cape Town, a leading specialist on open learning and open access, as well as U of scholars. The visitors will be in dialog with U of I faculty involved in online education programs such as Coursera as well as take part in critical analyses of future directions for online education. More details and full program to come. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/27540485 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/27540485 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:00:00 CDT http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28625017 Lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28625017 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:00:00 CDT Moshe Halbertal is the Gruss Professor at NYU Law School and Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, and a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1989, and from 1988-1992 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Moshe Halbertal served as a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of the books "Idolatry" (co authored with Avishai Margalit) and "People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority," both published by Harvard University Press. He is as well the author of "Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Tradition and Its Philosophical Implications," published by Princeton university Press. He is as well the author of the books "Interpretative Revolutions in the Making," and "Between Torah and Wisdom: R. Menachem ha-Meiri and The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence," both published in Hebrew by Magnes Press. His latest book published in Hebrew is "By Way of Truth: Nahmanides and the Creation of Tradition." Marjorie Hall Thulin (1910-2009) graduated from the University of Illinois in 1931. She enjoyed a successful career in advertising. She also published poetry and children's literature, and edited a book on the history of Glencoe, Ill., where she was a longtime resident and active community member. Mrs. Thulin's desire for students to understand how religion grows and functions in a complex society, especially Christianity in American society, led her to endow a fund that makes it possible for an internationally known scholar of religion and contemporary culture to be resident on the Champaign-Urbana campus for several days each academic year. One of the main duties of the Marjorie Hall Thulin Scholar of Religion and Contemporary Culture is to deliver the annual Thulin lecture, which is a major public event on campus. In 2009 Mrs. Thulin's friends and admirers at the university established in her honor two new undergraduate awards: the Marjorie Hall Thulin Prize for Excellence in the Study of Religion and the Marjorie Hall Thulin Scholarships for Study Abroad and for Student Research in Religion. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/19873669 study abroad http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/19873669 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 08:30:00 CDT Studying abroad really IS for everyone! Stop by theStudy Abroad Officeto talk to a Peer Advisor about your options to study abroad next year, or visit ourwebsiteand follow Steps 1-3 on finding and applying for study abroad.We're open all summer if you need help deciding.Apply directly online via your favorite program's brochure page by the end of the day today! You have until midnight (we'll accept paper materials through the end of the day Monday!) http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28617797 Brown Bag lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28617797 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:00:00 CDT http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28617932 Brown Bag lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28617932 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:00:00 CDT http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28546641 campus-wide lecture http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/28546641 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 08:30:00 CDT Check back for more information. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/29047411 conference http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2806/29047411 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:00:00 CDT Professor Deborah Br'utigam is one of the U.S.' leading scholars on China in Africa and the author of the highly acclaimed book, "The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa." Her talk will focus on the impact of Chinese aid and investment in Africa and assess whether China's presence on the continent is a threat to U.S. interests.